The 1500m world file holder will take goal at bettering her file in Italy on Friday, whereas Tebogo takes on Kerley within the males’s 100m
Religion Kipyegon is about to compete within the 1500m on the 13th Diamond League of the season on Friday (Aug 30), marking her return to the assembly the place she first set a world file within the occasion.
Nonetheless, this 12 months the assembly strikes again to its conventional location in Rome after being held in Florence final 12 months – the place Kipyegon broke the world file.
The Kenyan middle-distance star just lately claimed her third consecutive 1500m title in Paris, clocking 3:51.29 – simply two seconds off her world file of three:49.04 set earlier this 12 months on the Paris Diamond League.
Australia’s Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull can even be a part of the lineup, whereas Olympic 10,000m silver medallist Nadia Battocletti will check herself over the shorter distance in entrance of a house crowd.
Nice Britain’s Revee Walcott-Nolan can also be set to compete after reaching a private finest of three:58.08 within the Olympic semi-final, the place she broke the four-minute barrier for the primary time.
Fred Kerley will return to the circuit after claiming victory within the males’s 100m in Silesia on Sunday (August 25). With the last-minute withdrawal of Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, who additionally pulled out in Silesia, Kerley’s foremost man to beat shall be 200m Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo.
Letsile Tebogo (Getty)
Tebogo is recent off a win within the 200m at Lausanne the place Kerley completed third. This time, each athletes will compete over the shorter distance, although Tebogo is understood to favour the 200m after his sixth place within the Olympic 100m ultimate.
Tebogo says: “I haven’t put a goal to the time (in Rome) as a result of the Olympics are completed and I’m nonetheless celebrating my gold medal, however I’ll give it my finest shot. With Fred [Kerley] there I feel it’ll be a quick time.
“Noah [Lyles] has modified the game. I didn’t change something, I simply got here in and gained the gold medal, however he has been very constant all through the years. I feel after being constant additionally I’d say I may very well be the face of athletics.”
The showdown can even characteristic African record-holder Ferdinand Omanyala and Marcell Jacobs, who shall be making his return to the stadium the place he clinched European gold.
The lads’s 5000m will see a number of of the main finishers from the Olympic ultimate take the beginning line. World chief Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia and Olympic silver medallist Ronald Kwemoi of Kenya will race alongside Dominic Lobalu, Mo Ahmed and Yomif Kejelcha.
Daryll Neita and Mujinga Kambundji (Getty)
In the meantime, Daryll Neita is among the many British stars in motion as she joins coaching accomplice Amy Hunt within the ladies’s 200m. The pair will face European champion Mujinga Kambundji from Switzerland and Olympic bronze medallist, USA’s Brittany Brown.
Charlie Dobson will go within the males’s 400m whereas Lina Nielsen competes within the ladies’s 400m hurdles.
Within the area occasions, USA’s Ryan Crouser will try to interrupt the five-year-old assembly file of 21.97m with a PB of 23.56m. Nonetheless, he faces a robust problem from fellow American Joe Kovacs, who just lately defeated Crouser to win in Silesia.
Leonardo Fabbri, who was fifth in Paris, will look to impress in entrance of his residence followers whereas Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell additionally joins the line-up.
Ryan Crouser (Getty)
Crouser’s consideration gained’t be restricted to the shot put as he can even be keeping track of the discus occasion, as he coaches Jamaica’s Roje Stona, who gained gold in Paris with an Olympic file (70.0m). Nonetheless, world file holder Mykolas Alekna from Lithuania shall be his greatest competitors.
“Within the latter half of my profession, teaching Roje has stored me engaged and brings me a brand new degree of pleasure,” says Stona’s coach, Crouser.
“Shot put and discus range within the execution of the approach, however a whole lot of the coaching and preparation could be very related such because the psychological facet of stepping on the monitor and understanding you’ve got ready to the perfect of your potential. Explaining that to him has solidified my confidence in myself.
“I’ll say that teaching is much more traumatic than being an athlete. It’s far more simpler for me to step out on the Olympic stage and compete than it’s to be making ready another person and to be within the stands.”
Tara Davis-Woodhall (Getty)
American gold medallist Tara Davis-Woodhall enters the ladies’s lengthy bounce as favorite, dealing with robust competitors from Germany’s Malaika Mihambo and fellow American Jasmine Moore, who each secured podium finishes in Paris.
Reflecting on her life a number of years in the past, Davis-Woodhall says: “Again in 2020 and 2021 I wasn’t keen on what I used to be doing in my life, I had some unhealthy habits, and I gave myself the ultimatum of, you give this life one probability and also you both take it otherwise you don’t.
“I made a decision to placed on the boots and begin marching and ever since then I’ve modified my outlook on life. I really feel like I’m right here for a purpose and no matter that purpose is I’m going to indicate my smile and present the enjoyment of life.”
After taking the win in Silesia, European champion Gianmarco Tamberi will carry out again at residence within the males’s excessive bounce. He’ll face 2022 world indoor champion Woo Sanghyeok and Italy’s Stefano Sottile.
The assembly shall be reside for UK viewers on BBC at 8pm on Friday August 30.
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