With the Diamond League Last in Brussels simply over every week away, time is ticking for world-class athletes trying to safe their spot within the competitors. The Zurich Diamond League marks the final probability for athletes to qualify for the ultimate (they should be within the high six for discipline occasions, high eight for 100m to 800m and high 10 for distances of 1,500m and above). The 14th Diamond League assembly of the 2024 observe season will happen in Zurich on Thursday, Sept. 5.
Two of Canada’s Olympians are set to tackle the world stage: Canadian report holder and Olympic bronze medallist Alysha Newman will compete within the ladies’s pole vault going down on Wednesday to kick off the assembly. The London, Ont., native’s season’s finest and nationwide report soar of 4.85m ties her for a 3rd place seeding–she is ranked fourth within the league general, and wishes to carry off rivals from bumping her down the listing to make sure her spot within the last.
Quebec’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot will likely be competing within the males’s pre-program 3,000m (not a Diamond League occasion). The 1,500m Olympic semi-finalist from Paris has proven dominance over the atypical 3,000m distance, having damaged the Canadian report on the Paris Diamond League in July. His report of seven:35.73 was damaged once more in late August by Moh Ahmed, who clocked 7:31.96 on the Silesia Diamond League.
Males’s 1,500m Olympic rematch
A well-awaited rematch between the lads’s 1,500m Olympic podium–Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse–with Norwegian star and world chief Jakob Ingebrigtsen is ready to be the principle occasion of the night in Switzerland. An enormous upset in Paris left gold-medal favorite off the rostrum completely, however Ingebrigtsen re-established his dominance since then, beating Hocker by greater than two seconds on the Lausanne Diamond League and smashing the three,000m world report on the Silesia Diamond League simply three days later. The showdown between the highest 4 athletes on the planet is to not be missed.
Girls’s 100m showdown
World champion and TV sequence Dash star Sha’Carri Richardson will likely be in search of redemption towards Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia, after Alfred made historical past by taking house her nation’s first-ever Olympic gold by edging out Richardson in Paris.
Males’s 110m hurdles conflict
Crew USA’s Olympic champion Grant Holloway is getting back from his first defeat of the season by Olympic bronze medallist Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica on the Lausanne Diamond League. The 110m hurdles duo will likely be going through off once more in Zurich.
Duplantis versus Warholm 100m twin
Sweden’s pole vault king Mondo Duplantis will observe via on his twin towards world report hurdler Karsten Warholm of Norway in a 100m dash. The problem will happen on Wednesday, Sept. 4, the night earlier than the principle Diamond League occasion.
“I’m not saying I’m going to kick Karsten’s butt, however I feel I’ll give him a superb run for his cash,” Duplantis stated in a YouTube video. Warholm stated he has extra at stake on this race, as a result of his occasion entails extra sprinting than the pole vault. Warholm’s finest over 100m is 10.49 seconds, a time he set in 2017. Duplantis clocked 10.57 seconds in his final 12 months of highschool, in 2018. Each athletes consider they’re sooner now than they have been six or seven years in the past.
You possibly can observe outcomes from the occasion right here or catch the entire motion stay on Thursday on cbcsports.ca, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. For extra data on the Zurich Diamond League schedule, click on right here.
