The Wanda Diamond League continues after the national championships with the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska in Chorzow, dedicated to the memory of Sydney 2000 hammer throw Olympic champion, who died in tragic circumstances in 2009.
Armand Duplantis, Ryan Crouser, Yulimar Rojas, Wayde Van Niekerk and Tobi Amusan are the five world record holders set to be in action at the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow. Fred Kerley and Sha’Carri Richardson will be in the spotlight in the 100 metres sprint events.
Men’s pole vault:
World record holder Armand Duplantis will return to the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow for the second consecutive year. Duplantis set a meeting record of 6.10m in last year’s edition of the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska en route to his second consecutive Diamond Trophy. He set the first world record of his career on Polish soil in Torun with 6.17m in 2020.
Duplantis improved his own world record to 6.23m in Clermont Ferrand last March and won his first five outdoor competitions in Los Angeles (5.91m), Hengelo (6.11m), Oslo (6.01m), Ostrava (6.12m) and Stockolm (6.05m). The Louisiana-raised athlete won his first European title at the age of 18 in Berlin and went on to win the Olympic title in Tokyo with 6.02m, the world indoor gold medal in Belgrade with 6.20m, the world title in Eugene with a world record of 6.21m and the European outdoor title in Munich with 6.06m.
Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kurtis Marshall will be looking to continue his great season after finishing second to Duplantis in Ostrava with 5.90m and first in Sotteville le Rouen with his PB of 5.95m.
The US trio will be formed by Christopher Nilsen, Sam Kendricks and KC Lightfoot. Nilsen set his seasonal best of 5.92 in Bydgooszcz and finished second to Duplantis in Oslo with5.91m. The Olympic and world silver medallist won the US title in Eugene with 5.91m.
Lightfoot and Kendricks will try to bounce back from their fourth place at the US Championships in Eugene with 5.81m. Lightfoot finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and cleared the 6.00 metres barrier for the first time in his career in Bergen. Kendricks won two world titles in London 2017 and Doha 2019 and made his come-back from injury by clearing 5.91m in Los Angeles.
The line-up also features Sondre Guttormsen from Norway, European Indoor gold medallist in Istanbul 2023 with 5.80m and NCAA indoor champion in Albuquerque with 6.00m, Piotr Lisek from Poland, national record holder with 6.02m and…
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