Brussels Diamond League finals: 5 noteworthy occasions

Saint Lucia’s sprint queen Julien Alfred, her American opponent Sha’Carri Richardson and Olympic males’s 200m champ Letsile Tebogo heading a panoply of celebrities from the Paris Games at Friday and Saturday’s Diamond League finals in Brussels.

The satisfy is the 14th and last one on the right track and area’s elite circuit and comes simply a month after completion of the Olympics.

AFP Sport checks out 5 noteworthy occasions of a congested line-up that includes no much less than 82 medal victors from the Paris Games.

Women’s 100m

Sha’Carri Richardson overcame Julien Alfred in Zurich, turning the outcome of the Olympic last when the American won silver behind the sprinter from Saint Lucia by simply five-hundredths.

Richardson, that was additionally component of the United States gold medal-winning 4x100m relay group in Paris, created a total race in Zurich, upgrading Alfred at the line.

“I don’t want to use the word revenge,” Alfred claimed Wednesday of her face-off with the American.

“I never run against anyone, I do it for myself and just want to finish the season in style. For the same reason, I’m not focused on times either.

” I am anticipating most likely to Saint Lucia, simply to commemorate with my nation.”

Men’s pole vault

Conditions were far from perfect for Armand Duplantis at a wet and cold Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, combined with the fact he felt ” trashed” after beating 400m hurdles world champion Karsten Warholm in an exhibition 100m sprint.

After improving his own world record to 6.26m at Silesia last month, the question is whether the stars can align for the US-born Swede for a potential 11th tilt at bettering that mark once more this season.

” I constantly claim, post vaulters, we require to treasure him. He presses the entire sporting activity and obtains a great deal of interest to it,” American Sam Hendricks, perennial second placer, said of Duplantis.

Men’s 200m

Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo made light work of the damp conditions in Switzerland, producing a devastating finish to clock an outstanding 19.55sec for victory ahead of three strong Americans in Kenny Bednarek, Erriyon Knighton and Fred Kerley.

Tebogo, still just 21, has had an amazing season by anyone’s count, rebounding from the death of his mother in May to dominate the 200m, bagging Botswana’s first-ever Olympic gold in the discipline whilst also winning silver behind the absent Noah Lyles in the 100m.

While not content with his curve running in Zurich, Tebogo said it would be a different approach in Brussels.

Running a total race, like in the Olympics, ” is something I will certainly do at the Diamond League last since there is still extra inside me”, he vowed.

“It is everything about taking dangers. Without dangers there is no incentives, so I am taking all the dangers that I have actually obtained.”

Women’s 1500m

Faith Kipyegon made history at the Paris Games when she became the first woman to win three consecutive Olympic 1,500m gold medals, crossing the line in a new Olympic record of 3min 51.29sec.

The 30-year-old, a three-time world champion and world record holder, also took silver in the 5,000m.

Her one appearance since her Paris antics was a victory in Rome and it would take a brave person to bet against the Kenyan once again topping the podium in Brussels.

Men’s 1500m

Brussels, like Zurich, will throw up a near-repeat of the Paris Olympics final.

Americans Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse won in Paris and Zurich respectively.

Olympic silver medallist and reigning world champion Josh Kerr of Britain, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot were all also present in Zurich.

” I assume Brussels will certainly be enjoyable,” claimed Ingebrigtsen after his 2nd area in Switzerland.

Hocker, Nuguse and Cheruiyot will certainly all get on the begin line in Brussels, in addition to Britain’s brand-new roadway mile globe document owner Elliot Giles, while Kerr rests it out.

Schedule

Friday, September 13

Men: 100m, 400m, 1500m, 5,000 m, 110m difficulties, post safe, lengthy dive, discus toss

Women: 100m, 400m, 800m, 3,000 m steeplechase, high dive, three-way dive, discus toss, fired put

Saturday, September 14

Men: 200m, 800m, 3,000 m steeplechase, 400m difficulties, high dive, three-way dive, javelin, shot placed

Women: 200m, 1500m, 5,000 m, 100m difficulties, 400m difficulties, post safe, lengthy dive, javelin

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