The Galician Adrian BenEuropean champion of the 800-meter indoor track, will face the Norwegian 1,500 in Silesia (Poland), on July 16, Jakob Ingebrigtsencollector of medals and records, in a competition in which he also Fernando Carro in 3,000 obstacles; the swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and the Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas.
Adrian Ben park 800 meters and climb to 1,500where the usual Mohamed Katir and Mario García Romo, reserved for the next two tests in Monaco and London, will be absent.
The athlete from Viveiro, with the best distance mark of 3:34.35, will face a good list of runners of a very high level, starting with Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who this year, outdoors, has already won three times in the Liga de Diamante in Rabat, Oslo and Lausanne and on June 9 in Paris he also achieved the world record for two miles with 7:54.10.
He NorwegianOlympic and European champion 1,500, has the best mark at the distance of 3:27.95, a record that, below the 3:30 barrier, has three other athletes in Silesia: the French Azzedine Habz (3:29.26 ), Kenyan Abel Kipsang (3:29.56) and Australian Stewart McSweyn (3:29.51).
Fernando Carro, continental runner-up in Berlin 2018, is looking for a ticket to the World Cup in Budapest (Hungary) in August. The man from Madrid will run in his third race of 3,000 obstacles on the current Diamond League circuit. In the first, in Paris, he was eleventh with 8:17.06, and in the second, in Stockholm, twelfth with 8:39.74.
The main favorite to win Silesia is the Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkaliwhich has two wins in two races held this year outdoors in Rabat and Stockholm.
Another star who will compete in this Diamond League is the Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, current Olympic, world and European champion, who came in with a season’s best score of 6.12. Of his nine rivals, only one, the American KC Lightfoot, cleared the six-meter barrier (6.07).
the brazilian athlete Alison Dos Santos, world champion and third fastest man in history in the 400m hurdles, will reappear in Silesia five months after tearing the meniscus in his right knee. He will do it in the 400 smooth, where the South African will become the world record holder Wayde Van Niekerk (43.03) and the runner from Zambia Muzala Samukonga (43.91).
The list of stars in Silesia completes it Yulimar Rojascurrent Olympic triple jump champion, who will be looking for his fourth win of the season a month before the World Cup in Budapest.
Venezuelan athlete, Cuban student Ivan Pedrosodebuted the season on June 11 in Madrid, in the final of the Spanish Club Championship, with a jump of 14.96.
Four days later, on June 15, at the Bislett Games in Oslo, within the Diamond League, Yulimar Rojas won his test with a jump of 14.91, a mark he far surpassed at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador with 15.16.
Source: La Verdad
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