Published on : 25/07/2022 – 20:02Modified : 25/07/2022 – 20:00
Paris (AFP) – Ten athletes recently crowned world champions, including Sydney McLaughlin, who shattered his world record in the 400m hurdles at the Worlds in Eugene (United States), will compete in the Diamond League meeting in Monaco on August 10, announced Tuesday the ‘organization.
American Sydney McLaughlin will return to Monaco, three years following winning there in 2019 in 53 sec 32, then the best world performance of the year. Since then, the American has dominated the discipline unchallenged.
The presence of Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, crowned world champion in the 100m for the 5th time in Eugene, and American Grant Holloway, now double world champion in the 110m hurdles, had already been announced by the Monegasque organizers.
At 35, Fraser-Pryce dominated the 100m final in 10 sec 67 at the Worlds, confirming her status as the fastest woman of the season and her exceptional longevity. She will find on the race-queen her compatriot Shericka Jackson, her runner-up at the Worlds.
Another sprinter who struck the spirits in Eugene is announced at the foot of the Rock: the American Noah Lyles, who retained his world title in a stratospheric 200 m in 19 sec 31 (wind: +0.4 m/s), at twelve hundredths of Jamaican legend Usain Bolt’s record (19.19).
The Kazakh of Kenyan origin Norah Jeruto, who became world champion in the 3,000m steeplechase last Wednesday in 8 min 53 sec 02, the 3rd best time in history, will also be part of the Monegasque party, as well as the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, who regained the world title five years following that of 2017.
The competitions will not be outdone during the meeting, baptized Herculis, with the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, who capped a third consecutive planetary crown in the triple jump with 15.47 m, sixth performance of all time, the Qatari Mutaz Barshim, who flew over the height at the Worlds for a third title in a row, the American Katie Nageotte, world champion in the pole vault, and the Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber, who retained her world title in the javelin.
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