The Diamond League Remaining, the final top-level monitor and discipline meet of 2022, boasts the busiest single day of competitors this yr, world data and undefeated seasons on the road in addition to spots at subsequent yr’s world championships at stake.
Competitors in Zurich, Switzerland airs reside on Peacock on Wednesday (11:30 am ET) and Thursday (1 pm). CNBC airs a five-hour broadcast of highlights Saturday at midday.
The headliners: world champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (100m), Religion Kipyegon (1500m) and Noah Lyles (200m) are both the second- or third-fastest performers in historical past of their occasions, are every arguably having one of the best season of their careers and will inch nearer to a world report.
Mondo Duplantis (pole vault), Ryan Crouser (shot places), Yulimar Rojas (triple leap) and Tobi Amusan (100m hurdles) might enhance their very own world data. Shericka Jacksonwho gained 100m silver and 200m gold at July’s world championships, is entered to race each occasions over a 90-minute span on Thursday.
All the aforementioned athletes have byes into subsequent summer time’s world championships in Budapest as reigning world champions. Diamond League Remaining winners additionally earn byes into worlds, offered they aren’t from the identical nation because the reigning world champions.
Listed below are the Zurich entry lists. This is the schedule of occasions (all occasions Japanese):
Wednesday
10:55 am — Girls’s, Males’s Shot Places
11:30 — Girls’s Pole Vault
11:35 — Girls’s 5000m
12 pm — Males’s Excessive Bounce
1:10 — Males’s 5000m
Thursday
11:35 am — Girls’s, Males’s Triple Jumps
11:55 — Girls’s Excessive Bounce
12:15 pm — Girls’s, Males’s Discuses
1:04 — Girls’s 400m
1:15 — Males’s 400m
1:25 — Girls’s 100m Hurdles
1:33 — Girls’s 3000m Steeplechase
1:40 — Males’s Pole Vault
1:52 — Males’s 110m Hurdles
1:59 — Girls’s 1500m
2 — Girls’s, Males’s Lengthy Jumps
2:10 – Males’s 1500m
2:20 — Girls’s, Males’s Javelins
2:23 — Girls’s 100m
2:31 — Males’s 3000m Steeplechase
2:49 — Males’s 100m
2:59 — Girls’s 400m Hurdles
3:09 — Males’s 400m Hurdles
3:19 — Girls’s 800m
3:31 — Males’s 800m
3:42 — Girls’s 200m
3:52 — Males’s 200m
Listed below are 5 occasions to look at on Thursday (statistics by way of Tilastopaja.org and World Athletics):
Girls’s 100m Hurdles — 1:25 pm ET
This has arguably been one of the best yr within the occasion’s historical past, although it has been overshadowed at occasions by the dominance of Sydney McLaughlin within the 400m hurdles and Fraser-Pryce and Jackson within the 100m and 200m. Nigerian Tobi Amusan broke the world report on the world championships (12.12 seconds). Olympic gold medals Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico then beat Amusan two weeks in the past. American Keni Harrison, an Olympic and world silver medalist and the previous world report holder, is the third girl to interrupt 12.30 this yr. All three are within the Zurich discipline, together with world silver medalist Britany Anderson of Jamaica and 2019 World champion Nia Ali.
Males’s Pole Vault — 1:40 pm ET
Duplantis improved the world report by one centimeter on 5 events for the reason that begin of 2020, however his first defeat of 2022 got here in Brussels final week. Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines was the person to finish Duplantis’ bid for the second undefeated championship season for a male pole vaulter within the final 50 years. Obiena is not within the Zurich discipline, however there may be nonetheless intrigue. Duplantis might be on world report watch, and American Chris Nilsen can earn a world championships berth if he can upset the Swede.
Girls’s 1500m — 1:59 pm ET
Kipyegon ran the second-fastest girls’s 1500m in historical past in her final outing in Monaco on Aug. 10. American Allie Wilson, the lead pacer in Monaco who took Kipyegon to 800 meters in 2:01.64 (almost three seconds forward of world report tempo), is within the Zurich discipline. As are world silver and bronze medalists Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia and Laura Muir of Nice Britain, who weren’t in Monaco.
Girls’s 100m — 2:23 pm ET
Fraser-Pryce’s bid for her first full, undefeated 100m season was denied by Jackson in Brussels final week (by one hundredth). Fraser-Pryce’s unprecedented streak of 4 consecutive sub-10.70 performances additionally snapped. She will get Jackson once more right here, assuming Jackson sticks to racing each the 100m and 200m in Zurich. Sha’Carri Richardson, Aleia Hobbs and TeeTee Terrythe three quickest People over the past six years, will clinch a world championships spot with an upset win over the Jamaicans.
Males’s 200m — 3:52 pm ET
The meet finale options all three world championships medalists — People Lyles, Kenny Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton — and the Olympic champion — Canadian Andre De Grasse. Lyles, after breaking Michael Johnson‘s American report on the world championships (19.31), has spoken about chasing Usain Bolt‘s world report of 19.19. Lyles has been persistently spectacular this summer time, clocking 19.67, 19.62, 19.31, 19.46 and 19.56. Not even Bolt broke 19.50 a number of occasions in a single yr. This might be Lyles’ most vital 200m till subsequent summer time’s worlds.
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