Three Olympic sprint champions are running today in Ostrava

Three Olympic sprint champions will run this afternoon in the Golden Spikean athletics meeting that takes place in Ostrava (Czech Republic) and is part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold.

The Italian Marcel Jacobs and the Canadian Andre DeGrassethe current Olympic champions of 100m and 200m respectively, will face each other in the short distance.

Jacobs, 29, has a personal best of 9.8 seconds achieved at the Tokyo Olympics and De Grasse has a personal best of 9.89 seconds.

The race, which will be held at Ostrava’s Municipal Stadium from 6:10 pm, will have two more runners with a mark of less than 10 seconds: the 4x100m world bronzes Ryem Forde and Reece Prescod.

Later, at 7:30 pm, De Grasse will also run in the 200m race, where he will face his compatriot Jerome Blakein British Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and in Jamaican Andrew Hudson.

On the other hand, in the 400m race, the Olympic distance champion Steven Gardinerfrom the Bahamas, will face the indoor world champion Alexander Doomfrom Belgium.

Excluding several races where he had to retire due to injury, Gardiner has not lost in the 400m since the 2017 World Athletics Championships, where he was runner-up.

Duplantis returns after world record

A year after setting a world record with a height of 6.12 meters, Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis returned to Ostrava to continue improving his record.

The Swedish pole vaulter was unbeaten in any competition this year, where he was indoor world champion in Glasgow and set a new world record with 6.24 metres.

More races

The women’s sprints will have Ewa Swoboda and the Italian Zainab Dossosilver and bronze in the 60m at the Glasgow Indoor World Cup, against the Swiss European 200m champion Mujinga Kambundji and the double African Games sprint champion Gina Bass

In the women’s 100 meters hurdles, the European champion Pia Skrzyszowska face the European leader of the season Ditaji Kambundjiwhile the world silver medalist Natalia Kaczmarek She is the biggest favorite in the women’s 400 meters.

Besides, Djamel Sejati and Ben Pattison, world silver and bronze medalists, will compete in the 800 meters. And in the women’s 1,500 meters, the Ethiopian trio Tigist Girma, Netsanet Desta and Axumawit Embaye They face the Irish Ciara Magean.

See Ostrava’s Golden Spikes live

Ostrava Golden Spike schedule

• 17:45 – Opening ceremony
• 18:00 – High jump (men)
• 18:05 – Shot put (men)
• 18:10 – 100m (men)
• 18:20 – 1500 m (women)
• 18:30 – 400 m (women)
• 18:40 – 400 m (men)
• 18:52 – 100m hurdles (women)
• 19:05 – Javalina (male)
• 19:10 – 100m (women)
• 19:20 – 800m (men)
• 19:30 – 200m (men)
• 19:45 – 1500m (men)
• 20:00 – closing ceremony