This afternoon, starting at 6 pm, a new edition of Golden Gala Pietro Menneathe prestigious athletics meeting that is part of the Wanda Diamond League.
The list includes athletes registered for the event eight Olympic champions of the recent Paris Games, will compete for a place in the League grand final to be held on September 13 and 14 in Brussels.
The first Olympic champion to come out of the stadium was the Jamaican Stone Redwho will seek gold in the discus throw against Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna and Slovenian Kristjan Ceh.
At 8:15 pm, the triple Olympic champion Ryan Crouser He will try to maintain his dominance in the shot put against his eternal rival Joe Kovacs. Immediately after, the Australian By Kennedy will repeat her rivalry with New Zealander Eliza McCartney in the pole vault.
From 9:15 pm, the new Olympic champion Masai Russell She will face Bahamian Devynne Charlton in the 100 meter hurdles.
A few minutes later the women’s 3,000 meter hurdles event will be held, where the Spaniards will Irene Sánchez-Escribano have to face the Bahraini Winfred Yavigold at the Paris Games.
In the women’s long jump, the Spaniards Fatima Diame will be looking to bounce back from his disappointment in Paris against the American champion Tara Davis-Woodhall.
For his part, the Navarrese Asier Martinez He will take to the track at 9:55 pm to compete in the 110-meter hurdles event, which does not count in the Diamond League.
The highlight of the day will come at 10:37 pm, when the triple Kenyan Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon compete in the 1,500m race, a distance for which he holds the world record with a time of 3 minutes and 49.04 seconds.
The Gala will close with the men’s 100 meters race, where the new sensation of athletics, Botswana Letsile Tebogowill show all his speed against a roster of top athletes that includes Jamaican Ackeem Blake, Italian Marcell Jacobs, Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala and Americans Fred Kerley and Christian Coleman.
The event was broadcast in several territories on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel. In Spain, it can be found on Movistar+.
Source: La Verdad
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