Extra Diamond League conferences to complete off an exhilarating 2024 season

The Paris 2024 Olympics might have come to an finish–however the 2024 observe season is way from over. There are nonetheless 4 Diamond League conferences between now and the Diamond League ultimate in Brussels on Sept. 13, the primary as early as subsequent Thursday, Aug. 22 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Regardless of a really lengthy season, many athletes are eager to proceed the momentum set in movement in Paris–or to hunt redemption if they didn’t obtain their Olympic targets.

The Lausanne assembly will see one other match-up between newly-minted Olympic 1,500m champion Cole Hocker and Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen following Hocker’s shocker of a win in Paris, the place he knocked Ingebrigtsen off the rostrum utterly.

Staff USA’s Athing Mu will probably be eager to re-establish her dominance within the 800m, after a crash at U.S. Olympic trials saved her from defending her Olympic title. (Newly-crowned Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson won’t be competing.)

Canada’s personal Olympic 800m silver medallist, Marco Arop, will as soon as once more face off towards Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya. Arop ran 1:41.20 in Paris and is the fittest he has ever been, so this may undoubtedly be one other very shut race.

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Marco Arop wins silver within the males’s 800m ultimate at Paris 2024. Photograph: Nick Iwanyshyn

Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse will be part of Hocker and Ingebrigtsen once more in Zürich on Sept. 5, reuniting the Olympic quad that gave the world probably the most epic (and quickest) Olympic 1,500m ultimate in historical past. The 4 males will battle for a Diamond League title and USD $30,000 in prize cash.

Contemporary off a world file in Paris, the Olympic and world champion pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis is losing no time returning to competitors; will yet one more world file be on his radar in Switzerland?

Right here’s a take a look at the remainder of the 2024 Diamond League assembly schedule:

MEETING COUNTRY DATE
Lausanne SUI twenty second August 2024
Silesia POL twenty fifth August 2024
Rome ITA thirtieth August 2024
Zurich SUI fifth September 2024
Brussels BEL thirteenth – 14th September 2024