The Dutch Olympic bronze and world silver medallist has been in stellar form since breaking the longest-standing 400m world indoor record last February. The 400m hurdles should be another Femke Bol show after her dominant win in Oslo. The two haven’t raced since the world indoors in Torun where the Brit took revenge for her Commonwealth Games defeat to the Kenyan star. She skipped Paris, where Keely Hodgkinson dashed to victory. She opened her outdoor season in Botswana, winning the 400m before crossing the line first in the 800m at the Diamond League stop in Rabat.
Keely Hodgkinson up against Mary Moraa in the 800m rematch, and eyes on Femke Bol in the 400m hurdlesįresh from winning the National Championships in Nairobi over the weekend, Kenya’s in-form Commonwealth champion Mary Moraa returns to the circuit seeking her second win over the women’s two-lap race. Great Britain star Laviai Nielsen promoting healthy lifestyles for positive change: “I think movement is such an important aspect of everyday life".Joshua Cheptegei: What motivates an athlete who has won almost everything?.Jacob Kiplimo, the Ugandan world half-marathon record holder who lost to Kejelcha in a photo-finish in the men’s race at the Bislett Games, will also line up for the 5000m. The Olympic and world gold medallist is the favourite in a race that also features Ethiopian’s Oslo winner Yomif Kejelcha and Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega. Uganda’s Cheptegei will compete in only his second race this season after a fourth place finish in Florence. The meet organisers will be hoping for another stunning night of action like in Paris when Faith Kipyegon set her second world record in the women's 5000m and Lamecha Girma broke the mark in the men's 3000m steeplechase. His 3:27.95 run in Oslo has cataputled him into sixcth plaxe on the all-time list.Īnd he will have first-rate competitors pushing him to the finish line in Kenya’s 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruiyot, and reigning world gold medallist Jake Wightman. The world record has stood since 1998 and the Norwegian star is the only one of the current crop of runners who has come close to breaking it.
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2023 Diamond League season: Full list of disciplines and results for each World Athletics track and field top tier eventĪthletes to watch at the 2023 Atheltissima in Lausanne Eyes on record chasers Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Joshua CheptegeiĬan we expect a world record in the men’s 1500m? That will be the big question when Ingebrigsten lines up for another chase of Hicham El Guerrouj’s 3:26.00 mark.Bislett Games 2023: Warholm and Ingebrigtsen shine in front of home fans at Oslo Diamond League – as it happened.World shot put record holder Ryan Crouser and Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra are the headliners. The field events are also worth keeping an eye on.
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The 100m hurdles will pit Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn against world champion Tobi Amusan, while sprint star Marie-Jose Ta Lou is the favourite to win her third race in the Diamond League Series this season. World record holder and Olympic champion Joshua Cheptegei is the top pick in the men’s 5000m, and Beatrice Chepkoech, world record holder in the women's 3000m women’s steeplechase is hoping to break the 9-minute mark for the first time in nearly a year.Ĥ00m hurdles ace Femke Bol returns to the track just days after a fast 400m at the European Team Championships in Silesia. Expect to see some very quick races and impressive times, possibly even world records.Īfter ‘one of the greatest nights in athletics’ at the Diamond League event in Paris, where two world records and a world best were set on June 9, Jakob Ingebrigtsen returns to chase the fastest time ever in the 1500m. We will see the return of the Wavelight technology which will be used to help runners surpass their limits.
The focus in Lausanne will be on the middle and distance running events. The sixth meet of the Diamond League athletics series takes place on Friday, June 30 with an impressive list of big names led by Olympic and world gold medallists on parade at the 2023 Athletissima.
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