What’s extra thrilling than one Diamond League? Two! Lower than 72 hours since a few of the finest took to the observe in Lausanne, the present continues in Poland on Sunday. James Rhodes previews the lads’s 800m, the place all eyes might be on the clock.
The Olympics are over and for a lot of now a distant reminiscence. Nevertheless, the observe season continues at tempo. On Thursday, many raced for the primary time since Paris. Lausanne offered a mixture of post-Olympic heroics and hangovers. If the fields within the Stade Pontaise had been good, Silesia feels one step above. Many faces return for a second race of the week, and lots extra fly to the Polish metropolis to affix them. One race of specific curiosity would be the males’s 800m.
World Document? Take Two
Not because the days of David Rudisha has the speak earlier than a males’s 800m been about the potential for a World Document. 1:40.91. A efficiency so groundbreaking twelve years in the past it was onerous to see folks getting shut. How rapidly issues change.
Paris (DL). Monaco. Paris (Olympics). Lausanne. 4 races, every quicker than the one earlier than.
In Lausanne, Olympic Champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi moved one step nearer. He now sits joint second on the all-time record, alongside Wilson Kipketer. Solely Rudisha’s three World Data are quicker.
Wanyonyi has one other go in Poland. He’ll be joined by many who joined him in Lausanne, together with the closest contender Marco Arop. The Canadian completed simply 0.01s behind in Paris (1:41.20) and second in Lausanne (1:41.72). Six of the eight Olympic finalists might be there, together with sub-1:42 runners Bryce Hoppel and Gabriel Tual, plus Mohammed Attoui.
Let’s not overlook, Hoppel ran 1:41.67 on the Olympics, a time that moved him to being the seventh quickest man in historical past. But, such was the standard of the race, he solely completed fourth. Nobody has ever run that quick and completed that far down the sphere earlier than.
It’s wonderful to see Max Burgin on the entry record too. He improved his PB to 1:43.50 in Paris. After years of alternatives cruelly rescinded by harm, it’s nice to see Max match and wholesome. Hopefully he has a great two laps in what’s simply the second Diamond League of his profession.
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World Indoor medallists, and present street mile World Document holder, Hobbs Kessler has been added to the sphere.
Djamel Sedjati is a notable withdrawal after beforehand being on the entry record. Ben Pattison can also be not competing.
British Curiosity Elsewhere
Georgia Bell returns to the 1500m after ending second over 800m on the Lausanne Diamond League. The Olympic bronze medallist might go in as one of many favourites, following the withdrawal of beforehand introduced Jess Hull. Hull received silver in Paris.
Revee Walcott-Nolan and Melissa Courtney-Bryant additionally compete. Olympic fourth-placer Diribe Welteji, who moved to fourteenth on the 3000m all-time record in Lausanne, will seemingly function.
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Additionally on the programme is a girls’s 1000m, with Jemma Reekie within the discipline. She is going to race, amongst others, Mary Moraa, 2019 World Champion Halimah Nakaayi, Commonwealth Video games medallist Abbey Caldwell and Nia Akins.
A very sturdy males’s 3000m discipline has been assembled, starring Jakob Ingebrigtsen and a few of the quickest Africans in current historical past. Maybe one eye might be on Daniel Komen’s longstanding (and seen-to-be-impossible-to-break) World Document.
Ethiopian trio Yomif Kejelcha, Selemon Barega, Berihu Aregaewi are entered, alongside Kenyan 5000m silver medallist Ronald Kwemoi and Grant Fisher of the US. Canadian Mo Ahmed, who completed fourth in Paris over 25 laps, runs too. George Mills is the only British entrant.
The three Paris medallists; Soufiane El Bakkali, Kenneth Rooks and Abraham Kibiwot headline the lads’s 3000m steeplechase, Rooks in his Diamond League debut.
Different Occasions
Males: 100m, 200m, 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, pole vault, excessive soar, hammer throw, shot put.
Ladies: 100m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles, triple soar, javelin, hammer throw.
The Silesia Diamond League might be proven on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon between 15:00 and 17:00.
