Lots of the world’s high athletes are headed to Silesia, Poland on Sunday, Aug. 25 to proceed combating to qualify for the Diamond League Closing going down in Brussels on Sept. 13 and 14, together with Canada’s Moh Ahmed, who narrowly missed the rostrum within the males’s 10,000m occasion on the Paris 2024 Olympics just some weeks in the past, and fell close to the top of the 5,000m remaining, dashing any hopes of an Olympic medal.
Ahmed will race the three,000m, a change from his standard 5,000m and 10,000m occasions. Norway’s 5,000m Olympic champion, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, may also be within the 3,000m, alongside Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Ronald Kwemoi of Kenya and bronze medallist Grant Fisher of the U.S., who’s Ahmed’s former teammate at Bowerman Monitor Membership in Eugene, Ore.
2023 world champion and Olympic silver medallist Josh Kerr of Nice Britain and Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse of the U.S. will be part of Hocker and Ingebrigtsen once more at Zürich Diamond League on Sept. 5, reuniting the Olympic quad that gave the world probably the most epic (and quickest) Olympic 1,500m remaining in historical past. The 4 males will battle for a Diamond League title and USD $30,000 in prize cash.
Olympic 3,000m steeplechase finalist Jean-Simon Desgagnés will compete in that occasion, recent off his Thirteenth-place end within the Olympic remaining two weeks in the past.
Canada’s personal Olympic silver medallist, Marco Arop, will face off in opposition to Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya for the second time in three days, after being denied the win once more in Lausanne. Wanyonyi held off the Canadian, clocking a blistering 1:41.11 to run a brand new world lead, Diamond League File and one other new private finest (after operating a PB within the Olympic remaining). Arop ran his second-fastest 800m ever, to clock 1:41.72.
Group Netherland’s 2023 world champion Femke Bol, recent off her fourth straight Lausanne Diamond League win and a brand new meet file of 52.25, will go head-to-head with Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell of the U.S. for the primary time since Paris. Bol is looking for redemption after a disappointing third-place end at Paris 2024.
Karsten Warholm will compete within the males’s 400m hurdles, combating to re-establish his dominance within the occasion after settling for silver in Paris.
Two-time Olympic, world indoor and world out of doors champion Mondo Duplantis will compete once more in Silesia; Sweden’s pole vault star is recent off a brand new world file of 6.25 m from Paris and a Diamond League win in Lausanne on Thursday, the place he demolished the sphere by 23 cm and jumped to a brand new meet file of 6.15m.
You’ll be able to catch the entire motion reside on Sunday on cbcsports.ca, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. For extra data on the Silesia Diamond League schedule, click on right here.
