At least eighteen Olympic and world champions will be present in Lausanne (Switzerland) this Thursday, August 22, to compete in the 49th edition of the Atletissima, the prestigious athletics meeting that is part of the Diamond League.
In the men’s 200m, the new Botswana Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo will be the main attraction of a race that will also be run by Americans Fred Kerley (bronze in 100m in Paris) and Errion Knighton.
The men’s 400m will bring together the entire Paris Games podium, along with the American Quincy Hall (gold), the British Matthew Hudson-Smith (silver) and Zambian Muzala Samukonga.
The men’s 800m event is one of the most anticipated as it will feature four of the five best in the final Games. To the Kenyan Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi He will be joined by the Canadian Olympic and world runner-up Marco Aropthe American Bryce Hoppel and spanish Mohamed Attaoui.
The men’s middle distance will be completed in the 1500m event, which will have a Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen against the new Olympic champion in the distance, the American Cole Hocker.
The men’s long jump will see the reunion of the double Greek Olympian Miltiadis Tentoglou including jamaican Wayne Pinnockthe Italian Mattia Furlani and the swiss Simon Ehammerrespectively second, third and fourth at the Paris Games.
On the women’s side, the 100m hurdles race, featuring the Puerto Rican, stood out Jasmine Camacho-QuinnOlympic champion in Tokyo, along with the Jamaican and current world champion Danielle Williamsthe Frenchwoman and silver medalist in Paris Cyréna Samba-Mayela and switzerland Ditaji Kambundji.
Also expected is the hotly contested women’s 800m race, where the Kenyan will go Mary Moraabronze in Paris, against the American Athing Mu and the British Jemma Reekie.
Other numbers announced by the organization but not yet confirmed are the British sprinters Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smithlike Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smithall specialists in 100m dashes. A German presence is also expected Yemisi Ogunleye and the New Zealander Maddison-Lee Weschenew Olympic weight champion and runner-up respectively.
The tests will take place on Thursday, August 22, starting at 6:20 pm at the Olympic Stadium in La Pontaise, in front of around 13,000 spectators. The day before, on Wednesday the 21st, fans will see pole vaulting’s great figure, the Swede Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantiswhich will compete in an open and free event in the Plaza de la Navegación, on the shores of Lake Geneva.
The complete event program can be found here.
Source: La Verdad
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