Barshim eyes victory in Lausanne

Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim will go up towards his joint Olympic gold medallist Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy on the Lausanne Diamond League assembly on Friday. Barshim, who gained the Monaco Diamond League two weeks in the past, will as soon as once more be the person to beat on the Stade de la Pontaise.
The three-time world champion wants just a few extra factors if he’s to qualify for the season-ending ultimate in Zurich subsequent month. In Lausanne, he’ll go up towards standings chief Django Lovett of Canada and fellow world medallists Woo Sanghyeok and Andriy Protsenko. Barshim cleared 2.30 in Monaco and shall be aiming to proceed his successful journey, that features third consecutive world title in Eugene.
Tamberi, the reigning Diamond League champion, seems to be hitting his stride, having claimed his second European Championships gold medal in Munich earlier this month. The Italian nonetheless has work to do within the Diamond League, nonetheless. He’s at the moment third within the qualification standings, and can look to select up his first win of the season in Lausanne.

India’s Chopra returns to motion on Friday
It has been an emotional summer season for Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra, who stormed to the silver medal on the World Atheltics Championships in Eugene earlier than harm compelled him to sit down out the Commonwealth Video games a month later.
Unable to defend his title in Birmingham, Chopra will little question be chomping on the bit when he returns to motion in Lausanne. After narrowly lacking out to Anderson Peters in Stockholm earlier this season, the Indian will need to decide up his first ever Diamond League win, and in doing so be part of Peters, Jakub Vadlejch and Julian Weber on the entry lists for the ultimate in Zurich.
In the meantime, the stacked fields in Lausanne characteristic 12 recently-crowned particular person world champions, the identical variety of particular person Olympic gold medallists from Tokyo and 9 champions from final yr’s Diamond League.
There’s unimaginable high quality, together with Jakob Ingebrigtsen – contemporary from one other European 1,500m and 5,000m double – towards Timothy Cheruiyot, Abel Kipsang and Oliver Hoare within the shorter occasion, and Sifan Hassan towards Ejgayehu Taye, Laura Muir and Konstanze Klosterhalfen within the 3,000m.
The boys’s 200m guarantees to be great, between the Individuals Noah Lyles, double World champion, Erriyon Knighton, junior World file holder within the 100 meters and Michael Norman, World champion within the 400m. Lyles ran in 19”31 on the earlier Worlds in Eugene (USA), 0”12 from Usain Bolt’s World file. Star of the European Championships in Munich with three gold medals to her identify, the Dutch Femke Bol will mild up the ladies’s 400m hurdles for a unbelievable duel towards American Dalilah Mohamed, World champion in 2019.