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Silesia Diamond League preview: Canada’s Moh Ahmed to race 3,000m

Lots of the world’s prime athletes are headed to Silesia, Poland on Sunday, Aug. 25 to proceed combating to qualify for the Diamond League Last happening 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 normal 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 Observe Membership in Eugene, Ore.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen Lausanne Diamond League 2024
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) wins the boys’s 1500m in a time of three:27.83 at Athletissima, the Wanda Diamond League occasion in Lausanne, Switzerland on 22 Aug 2024. Picture: Diamond League AG for Diamond League AG

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 essentially 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 Report 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.

Marco Arop
Marco Arop wins silver within the males’s 800m remaining at Paris 2024. Picture: Nick Iwanyshyn

Group Netherland’s 2023 world champion Femke Bol, recent off her fourth straight Lausanne Diamond League win and a brand new meet report 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 searching 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 report 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 report of 6.15m.

Jean-Simon Desgagnés
Jean-Simon Desgagnés within the remaining of the boys’s 3,000m steeplechase at Paris 2024. Picture: Nick Iwanyshyn

You possibly can catch the entire motion stay on Sunday on cbcsports.ca, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. For extra info on the Silesia Diamond League schedule, click on right here


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