+ When and where
On June 30, the season’s eighth Diamond League competition kicks off. The gala will be decided at the classic Stockholm stadium starting at 17.40. According to the organizers, around 10,000 people are expected in the audience.
+ Tv / radio
The competition is broadcast on SVT and on SVT Play from 19.00, and on Radiosporten from the same time.
+ Hottest branches
Spear (h), Start time: 19:22
Grenadier Anderson Peters is one of the pre-favorites in this star-studded starting field. There is, among other things, the entire podium from the Olympics in Tokyo in the form of the Indian Neeraj Chopra and the Czech duo Jakub Vadlejch and Vitezslav Vesely.
High jump (d), Start time: 19.26
Ukrainian dominance is to be expected in the ladies’ high jump. The favorite Jaroslava Mahutjich is in great shape but gets competition from compatriots Iryna Gerashchenko and Yulija Levchenko, as well as the Italian Elena Vallortigara.
Pole vault (h), Start time: 19.29
The men’s pole vault is a given highlight of the schedule. Swedish world star Armand Duplantis is challenged by the American Christopher Nilsen, the Brazilian Thiago Braz and the Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie.
Long jump (d), Start time: 20.25
Swedish hope is represented by Khaddi Sagnia. However, she will face tough opposition in the form of the German star, also the Olympic winner, Malaika Mihambo. Other notable names are Nigerian Ese Brume and Ukrainian Maryna Bech-Romantjuk.
Diskus (h), Start time: 20.53
Swedish Olympic heroes Daniel Ståhl and Simon Pettersson will try to compete with Slovenian shooting star Kristjan Ceh, whom Ståhl has fought a season-long battle against. Lithuanian duo Andrius Gudzius and Mykolas Alekna hope to be able to disturb.
+ Swedish stars
The Swedish athletics elite is gathered in the capital.
The biggest star is probably Armand Duplantis. The pole vaulter is, despite fierce competition, the big favorite to take home the victory in front of the home crowd. If the weather gods are with “Mondo”, there may be talk of a new world record.
Olympic champion Daniel Ståhl is joined by compatriot Simon Pettersson in discus. In the long jump, there is Swedish coverage on both the women’s and men’s side in the form of Khaddi Sagnia and Thobias Montler.
Other meritorious Swedish names include Fanny Roos (shot put), Carl Bengtström (400 meters hurdles) and Andreas Kramer (800 meters).
+ International stars
The world’s fastest man, also known as Marcell Jacobs, will be in Stockholm. The Italian ran home Olympic gold in the 100 meters and also relay gold to his Italy during the Olympic Games in Tokyo and is a given favorite here.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn made history when she took home Puerto Rico’s first Olympic gold on the athletics side in the 100-meter hurdles a year ago. At Stockholm’s stadium, she probably expects a new victory in the rather mild competition.
Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou is the biggest in his branch. The 24-year-old dug Olympic gold in Japan and earlier this year also took home the noblest denomination at the indoor World Cup in Belgrade, before Thobias Montler. Now the duo has to make up again.
+ Need to perform
Three Swedes who have not yet been selected for this summer’s WC in Eugene and thus may be worth keeping an extra eye on are the 800 meter runner Lovisa Lindh, the pole vaulter Michaela Meijer and the javelin thrower Kim Amb.
The Diamond League gala may be the last chance for the trio to show off as national team captain Kajsa Bergqvist demands more from everyone.
– I want to see that they are on the right path towards World Cup form and they think so too, she says to TT.
+ Question mark
Sam Kendricks (pole vault), Cyrena Samba-Mayela (100 m hurdles), Nicola Olyslager (high jump), Johannes Vetter (javelin) and Lukas Weisshaidinger (discus) are some names that the organizer has previously announced will participate, but which are not listed at the start. and the participant lists.
+ Missing
At the same time as the Diamond League gala, the American and Jamaican championships are also taking place, which means that the top athletes from the USA and Jamaica are not present in Stockholm.