Mouth-watering 400m hurdles showdown on the Diamond League plus a stacked males’s 800m on the French Riviera
Karsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin and Alison dos Santos go face to face within the 400m hurdles on the Diamond League in Monaco on Friday (July 12).
The assembly, which is broadcast by BBC within the UK, is the primary time the three males have met for the reason that Diamond League remaining final yr.
Will they arrive near Warholm’s world document of 45.94 set in Tokyo in 2021? If not, perhaps Warholm’s assembly document of 46.51 set final yr.
The Monaco occasion in fact follows scorching on the heels of the Paris Diamond League 5 days earlier when there have been world information from Yaroslava Mahuchikh within the excessive bounce and Religion Kipyegon within the 1500m.
Three of the highest 4 from the quick males’s 800m on the Paris Diamond League final week – Djamel Sedjati, Gabriel Tuel and Aaron Cheminingwa – tackle the world champion Marco Arop of Canada and world bronze medallist Ben Pattison of Britain on the Monaco occasion, plus US champion Bryce Hoppel.
Kenyan champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi is the principle identify lacking from an different power-packed two-lap line-up. May we see one other 1:41 efficiency?
Contemporary from her UK 200m victory, Dina Asher-Smith faces her coaching associate and world indoor champion Julien Alfred over 100m in Monaco. One other member of Asher-Smith’s squad, Rhasidat Adeleke, runs the 400m in opposition to US champion Kendall Ellis.
Dina Asher-Smith wins (Getty)
Noah Lyles has dropped out of the 200m to give attention to coaching in america, however the line-up nonetheless has Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, Tarsis Orogot of Uganda and Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic.
The lads’s dash hurdles sees Grant Holloway of america taking over Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica, French star Sasha Zhoya, Trey Cunningham of the US and European champion Lorenzo Simonelli of Italy.
Within the middle-distance races Jakob Ingebrigtsen runs the 1500m in opposition to Yared Nuguse of america, Timothy Cheruiyot of Kenya, Oli Hoare of Australia, Niels Laros of Netherlands and fellow Norwegian Narve Gilje Nordas.
British champion Neil Gourley and Elliot Giles additionally run.
Jess Hull (Getty)
The hardly ever run ladies’s 2000m options in-form Jess Hull simply days after her 3:50.83 Oceania 1500m document behind Religion Kipyegon’s world document in Paris. Additionally within the discipline are Melissa Courtney Bryant of Britain, Georgia Griffith of Australia, European 1500m champion Ciara Mageean of Eire and Edinah Jebitok of Kenya. The world document of 5:21.56 is held by Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi set in Zagreb in 2021.
Given the form she is in, Hull ought to actually beat the Oceania document of 5:37.71 held by Benita Willis-Johnson since 2003.
European 5000m champion Nadia Battocletti and American Weini Kelati face Aynadis Mebratu of Ethiopia amongst others within the ladies’s 5000m, with Brit Hannah Nuttall additionally within the combine and Katie Snowden on pacing duties.
Molly Caudery (Getty)
Molly Caudery, Britain’s world indoor champion, faces an enormous pre-Olympic check as she takes on Katie Moon of america, Alysha Newman of Canada, Nina Kennedy of Australia and European champion Angelica Moser of Switzerland within the pole vault.
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