Armand Duplantis and Letsile Tebogo headline a raft of Olympic champions who will descend on Lausanne for the primary Diamond League assembly for the reason that finish of the Paris Video games. Some 18 present Olympic or world champions will likely be current within the Swiss metropolis for Thursday’s meet, coming simply 12 days after the final of the observe and subject motion on the Stade de France. Duplantis defended his gold in France’s nationwide stadium and improved his personal world report to six.25 metres.
In Lausanne, the Swede will participate in a Metropolis Occasion held on an esplanade bordering Lac Leman — higher recognized in English as Lake Geneva — on Wednesday, 24 hours earlier than the principle fare on the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise.
Duplantis will likely be up towards American Sam Kendricks, the silver medallist in Paris, and likewise Renaud Lavillenie, the 2012 Olympic champion and former world report holder who did not qualify for what would have been his residence Video games.
“It is the one pole vault occasion subsequent to a lake,” Duplantis mentioned.
“I like to have it scenic, enjoyable, extra like a present. It fits us nicely. I jumped 6.10m in Lausanne final time and have felt nicely rested since Paris.
“I feel there are nonetheless some good jumps in my legs,” mentioned the US-born Swede, who left Paris the day after the occasion for a “much-needed trip with my girlfriend to sit back as a lot as I might”.
Tebogo v Kerley
Botswana’s Tebogo will race the 200m on Thursday, the occasion he received in Paris when he outstripped a Covid-hit Noah Lyles.
The American, a three-time world champion within the distance and the 100m winner within the French capital, has referred to as time on his season.
Tebogo will likely be up towards Fred Kerley, the triple world champion (100m and relay) and 100m bronze medallist in Paris, and his US teammate Erriyon Knighton.
The 21-year-old Botswanan raced to victory in an African report of 19.46sec, a time that took him to fifth on the all-time record.
He additionally turned the primary African to win the Olympic 200m metres. The lads’s 800m race on this eleventh stage of the Diamond League circuit additionally guarantees to be a thriller.
4 males within the Olympic remaining dipped underneath the 1min 42sec mark for the primary time ever.
And 4 of the highest 5 finishers from the Video games will run in Lausanne: Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, the third quickest man in historical past, Olympic silver medallist and world champion Marco Arop of Canada, and the fourth and fifth-placed finishers in Paris, American Bryce Hoppel and Spain’s Mohamed Attaoui.
Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen will bid to place the frustration of his 1500m outing on the Paris Video games behind him when takes on a powerful subject in Switzerland.
American Cole Hocker progressed to an upset victory in Paris, outsprinting world champion Josh Kerr of Britain, American Yared Nuguse and Ingebrigtsen.
The Norwegian completed fourth, left ruing an insanely quick opening 400m that left him weak to a late assault.
Ingebrigtsen did, nonetheless, rebound to win the Olympic 5,000m title and now has a right away likelihood of redemption over the shorter distance, with Hocker additionally listed.
There may be additionally a high-quality subject assembled within the girls’s excessive bounce, Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh up towards Australia’s Paris silver and bronze medallists Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson.
Mahuchikh set a brand new world report of two.10m on the Paris Diamond League meet and whereas not reaching those self same heights on the Olympics, appears in unbeatable type.
Femke Bol is one other athlete on present, competing within the 400m hurdles, during which she received bronze in Paris behind record-setting Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Anna Cockrell.
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