Ingebrigtsen, Camacho Quinn, Crouser, Bol and Ta Lou ready to light up Athletissima in Lausanne

Twenty Olympic and world champions will take part at this year’s edition of Athletissima at the Pontaise Stadium in Lausanne. Great performances are expected in middle-distance and hurdles races. The 1500m clash between Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Lamecha Girma, the women’s 100m hurdles head-to-head battle between Jasmine Camacho Quinn and Tobi Amusan, the men’s shot put with world record holder Ryan Crouser and Tom Walsh, the women’s 400 metres hurdles with European record holder Femke Bol, the women’s high jump with world seasonal leaders Yaroslava Mahuchik and Nicola Olyslagers and the women’s 100 metres with African record holder Marie Josée Ta Lou are the highlights of this year’s edition of Athletissima.

Men’s 1500 metres: 

Olympic 1500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen will go head-to-head against Olympic and world 3000 metres steeplechase silver medallist Lamecha Girma in the 1500 metres. It will be their first ever clash in any discipline. 

Both middle distance runners wrote the history of middle distance running at the Wanda Diamond League in Paris breaking world records in the 2 miles and in the 3000 metres steeplechase respectively. 

Ingebrigten clocked 7:54.10 in the 2 miles to improve Daniel Komen’s world all-times best. Ingebrigtsen went on to break the European record in the 1500 metres with 3:27.95 at the Bislett Games in Oslo. The Norwegian star will chase Hicham El Guerrouj’s 25-year-old world record of 3:26.00 set at the Golden Gala in Rome. 

Jakob Ingebrigtsen: “I have 100% more left in me. I just have to keep focused on each race ahead in the build-up to the World Championships in Budapest”. 

Ingebrigtsen is chasing his second consecutive win in Lausanne. In last year’s edition the Norwegian star set a world seasonal best of 3:29.05. He improved this time to 3:29.02 in the Wanda Diamond League in Zurich a few weeks later. In his previous two editions he finished second in the 1500 metres in 3:30.16 in 2019 and won the 3000 metres in 7:33.06 in 2021.  

Ingebrigtsen is already one of the greatest middle distance runners of all time at the age of 22. He won the Olympic gold medal in the 1500 metres, the gold in the 5000 metres and the silver in the 1500 metres at the World Championships in Eugene, the double European outdoor gold medals in the 1500 and 5000 metres at the past two editions in Berlin 2018 and Munich 2022 and five European Indoor gold medals.

Girma broke Saif Saeed Shaheen’s world record in the…