The third leg of the Diamond League 2023 is all set to take place on June 2, 2023, with the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Florence, Italy.
The 2023 Diamond League is the fourteenth season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The competition is a revision to the top-level athletics series since the Diamond League foundation in 2010. The number of Diamond Discipline events is 32, and the dual-meet final format was due to be replaced by a single final, which would have reduced the number of meetings to 14. Each meeting will host a number of Diamond Discipline events and some of these events will not be broadcast. Many promising athletes are set to take part in this mega athletics event. Let us take a close look at some of the big names.
American sprinter Fredrick Lee Kerley began his career by competing in the 400 metres before switching to the 100 metres and 200 metres in 2020. He has won numerous medals at the World Championships in the 400-metre run and the 4×400-metre relay, including a gold medal for the relay in 2019 and a bronze for the individual. The 2022 edition saw 100 million gold claimed by Kerley. He will again return to the field in 2023. He will be one of the athletes to watch out for in the Diamond League.
Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala Omurwa competes in the 60, 100, and 200-metre distances. With victories in the 100 m at the Commonwealth Games and the African Championships in Athletics in 2022, he claimed his first international titles. Omanyala set the African record and is currently the ninth-fastest man in the event’s history after finishing in 9.77 seconds on September 18, 2021, in Nairobi. In the 60 m, he also holds the national record for Kenya. Omanyala won the African 100-metre championship in June 2022, but he was defeated in the semifinals of the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in July. There is a sharp rivalry between him and Fred Kerley and already the verbal competition has started. He will be one of the prime athletes who will be under the radar.
Femke Bol, a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the 400-meter hurdles and 400-meter event. With a current European record time of 52.03 seconds, she won bronze in the 400 m hurdles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the third-fastest woman in history and the first Dutch athlete to win a medal in the competition. Bol also won the silver medal at the 2022 World Championships and won the 2022 European Championship. In the 400 m, she won the 2022 World Indoor Silver Medal, the 2022 European Championship, two consecutive European Indoor Championship titles in 2021 and 2023, and the world indoor record with a time of 49.26 seconds set on February 19, 2023, in Apeldoorn. At the Diamond League 2023, Femke will be one of the main contenders of the gold medal.
Kathryn Moon, an American athlete who specialises in pole vaulting. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the 2022 World Athletics Championships, and the 2022 World Indoor Championships, she won gold medals. Moon won a silver medal at the 2019 Pan American Games. She will be one of the athletes to watch out for in Diamond League.
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Track and field athlete from the United States Valarie Carolyn Allman, who specialist in the discus throw. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she took home the gold medal. Allman became the first American woman to win a discus throw medal at a world championship when she won bronze at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. She currently holds the event record for North America.
Stanley Grant Holloway is an American hurdler and sprinter. He won the 110-metre hurdles silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the 2019 and 2022 World Championships, and the second-fastest time in history with a time of 12.81 seconds, which he recorded on June 26, 2021, at the U.S. Olympic Trials. With a time of 7.29 seconds set on February 24, 2021, in Madrid, Spain, Holloway holds both the indoor world record and the title of 2022 World Indoor Champion in the 60-metre hurdles.
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