After bowing out of the Olympic girls’s shot put last a month in the past in Paris, Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S., discovered redemption on Friday night on the Diamond League Remaining in Brussels. Mitton had the one throw over 20 metres within the third spherical of the competitors, profitable her first Diamond League title and securing an automated qualification spot for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Sarah Mitton is the 2024 Diamond League winner within the girls’s Shot Put! 💎🇧🇪#AllianzMemorialvanDamme #GetReadyForTheBest #WandaDiamondLeague #BrusselsDL pic.twitter.com/PS71ewzRpV
— Allianz Memorial Van Damme (@MVDbrussels) September 13, 2024
Mitton’s finest throw of 20.25 metres made historical past in Brussels as she grew to become the primary Canadian girl to win a Diamond League title in a area occasion. She joins London 2012 bronze medallist Dylan Armstrong as the one Canadian throwers to win a Diamond League title within the shot put occasion.
The final Canadian girl to win a Diamond League title was 100m hurdler Priscilla Lopes-Schliep within the inaugural Diamond League season in 2010.
The 28-year-old entered final month’s Olympic Video games ranked second on the earth. Because the reigning indoor world champion and out of doors world championship silver medallist, she was closely favoured to finish up on the rostrum. It wasn’t meant to be, as she slipped out of the throwing circle on her three makes an attempt, finally fouling out.
SARAH MITTON GETS IT DONE 🇨🇦
The Canadian fouls in her unbelievable last try, however her earlier throw of 20.25m clinched the Diamond League title 🏆 pic.twitter.com/DL4A5lf0iL
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) September 13, 2024
This consequence within the Diamond League Remaining in opposition to the highest throwers on the earth is redeeming for Mitton and a optimistic option to finish her 2024 season heading into subsequent yr. Her private better of 20.86m, set earlier this yr, stands because the Canadian file.
