MARK SHEARMAN
AS the Diamond League moves
into the second half of the season,
49 Olympic and world medallists
are scheduled to be on show.
Britain’s triple European
champion Dina Asher-Smith is
set to line up over 100m.
Caterine Ibarguen, who last year
won both long jump and triple
jump Diamond League titles, is
unbeaten in the latter since 2017.
However, the Olympic champion
will have to work to claim her 37th
Diamond League win as she faces
world champion Yulimar Rojas.
Following her 2.06m clearance
in Rome, Mariya Lasitskene will be
seeking to continue her high jump
dominance.
The men’s 1500m includes
Diamond League champion
Timothy Cheruiyot, Ayanleh
Souleiman, Britain’s Jake
Wightman and Ingebrigtsen
brothers Jakob and Filip.
Britain’s Guy Learmonth,
meanwhile, races 800m.
Runner-up in Rome and
Rabat, Britain’s Andy Pozzi looks
to continue his good form in the
sprint hurdles against Pre Classic
winner Orlando Ortega, but Sergey
Shubenkov is out with injury.
In the 200m, Diamond
League champion Noah Lylesis up against Olympic silver
medallist Andre De Grasse and
world champion Ramil Guliyev.
Meanwhile world champion Justin
Gatlin takes on sub-10 men Mike
Rodgers and Filippo Tortu in the
100m.
The men’s pole vault sees
world record-holder Renaud
Lavillenie facing world champion
Sam Kendricks and European
champion Armand Duplantis.
In the 5000m, Telahun Haile
Bekele is back after his 12:52
world lead in Rome. Selemon
Barega, runner-up to him there,
together with world champion
Muktar Edris and Joshua
Cheptegei will also line up.Swiss test for stars
Britain seeks a podium finish
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EUROPEAN COMBINED EVENTS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS,
LUTSK, JULY 6-7Andre De Grasse (left): another 200m battle with Ramil Guliyev is on the cards
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JP DURANDGREAT BRITAIN placed fourth last
time in this event in 2017 and
this weekend the team includes
England champion John Lane and
Commonwealth bronze medallist
Jessica Taylor-Jemmett (below).Taylor-Jemmett, who has scored
5663 in the heptathlon this year, will
spearhead the team of four men
and four women.
Lane, who tallied 7786 to win
the national decathlon title in
Bedford this year, was sixth in the
2018 Commonwealth Games on
Australia’s Gold Coast.
Also on the team are
Commonwealth Games
representatives Ben Gregory and
Katie Stainton, plus Andrew Murphy,
Jo Rowland, Lewis Church and
Ellen Barber.
Cumulative scoring based on
each country’s top three men and
top three women will decide the
outcome and hosts Ukraine will
defend their title in the last ever
edition of these championships.resume their battle at Kingston.
Kingston & Polytechnic, fourth in
the opening clash at Chelmsford,
host the British Athletics League
division two match at the same
venue where they will be hoping tobenefit from home advantage.
Yeovil Olympiads will also be
hoping that home advantage will lift
their fortunes after finishing last in
the opening British Athletics League
division three match.BAL Premier Div after two matches: 1 Newham & Essex Beagles 15 (673.5); Birchfield
15 (661); 3 Harrow 11 (576); 4 Shaftesbury Barnet 11 (548); 5 Woodford Green with Essex
Ladies 8 (526); 6 City of Sheffield & Dearne 4 (476); 7 Cardiff 4 (446); 8 Blackheath
& Bromley 4 (437.5). BAL Div 1 after two matches: 1 Thames Valley Harriers 16
league points (772.5 match points); 2 City of Liverpool 12 (626); 3 Windsor, Slough,
Eton & Hounslow 11 (564); 4 Swansea 10 (630); 5 Sale Harriers Manchester 8 (557); 6
Bournemouth 7 (555); 7 Southampton 6 (464.5). BAL Div 2: 1 Havering 8 (325.3); 2 Glasgow
City 7 (316); 3 Crawley 6 (290.3); 4 Kingston & Polytechnic 5 (286.3); 5 Bristol & West 4
(279); 6 Notts 3 (270); 7 Chelmsford 2 (221); 8 Herne Hill 1 (177). BAL Div 3: 1 Basingstoke
& Mid Hants 8 (361); 2 Tonbridge 7 (333); 3 Trafford 6 (297.5); 4 Bedford 5 (259.5); 5 City
of Portsmouth 4 (249); 6 Rugby & Northampton 3 (223): 7 Nene Valley 2 (208); 8 Yeovil
Olympiads 1 (203). BAL Div 4: 1 Southend 8 (426); 2 Reading 7 (366); 3 Enfield & Haringey
6 (278); 4 Herts Phoenix 5 (274); 5 Croydon 4 (230).
UKWL Premier Div after one match: 1 Thames Valley Harriers 8 (235); eq2 Trafford &
Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow 6.5 (190.5); 4 Cardiff 5 (127); 5 Birchfield 4 (170); 6
Edinburgh AC 3 (169); 7 Notts 2 (147); 8 Blackheath & Bromley 1 (130). UKWL Div 1 after one
match: 1 Shaftesbury Barnet 8 (214); 2 Southampton 7 (202); 3 Wigan 6 (198.5); 4 Harrow 5
(190); 5 Woodford Green with Essex Ladies 4 (187); 6 Swansea 3 (171.5); 7 Crawley 2 (135); 8
Herts Phoenix 1 (115). UKWL Div 2 after one match: 1 Enfield & Haringey 8 (189); 2 Bristol
& West 7 (188.5); 3 Victoria Park/City of Glasgow 6 (188.5); 4 City of Sheffield & Dearne 5
(163); 5 Newham & Essex Beagles 4 (152); 6 Havering 3 (139); 7 Nene Valley 2 (120); 8 Sale
1 (67). UKWL Div 3: 1 Bedford 8 (181); 2 Marshall Milton Keynes 7 (181); 3 City of Liverpool 6
(164); 4 Reading 5 (154); 5 Herne Hill 4 (151); 6 Rugby & Northampton 3 (136); 7 Belgrave 2
(87); 8 Peterborough 1 (70).DAVID HEWITSONArmand Duplantis:
faces pole vault fight