When Mboma hits 21-22
At this rate with her times I can see there being rule changes and not to her benefit.
caster punching the air somewhere
the streets want caster vs mboma vs nyonsaba
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the streets want caster vs mboma vs nyonsaba
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
800-1500m.
Be down to Mu in the 800 and Faith/Hassan in the 1500 to try and stop them.
OGBobbyJohnson
Veteran
Yea she's attractive
jamaica bladt
Nero Christ
Sniper out now on all digital platforms brev
sorry I couldn't update the thread title for the most recent events...was busy
@TradePascalSiakam what's the next event
@TradePascalSiakam what's the next event
Final event of the year
2021 Weltklasse Zürich will begin on
Wednesday
,
September 8
and ends on
Thursday
,
September 9
Nero Christ
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races from today
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I have 0 issue with transexual and intersex people but there needs to be an intersex category or some other solution.They gotta do something about Mboma in that 200. If she gets a better start Elaine won't even be able to do nothing with her.
Mboma has most likely natural talent for sprinting but as a 18 yo, she ran the 7th fastest 400m ever and lowered her PB by 3s from March to April this year on that distance.
She probably had ran less than a dozen pro 200m events yet she beat Frayser and Thomas and got silver in the Olympics.
Her technique is subpar compared to the rest and she's out there beating the elite. It's not her fault so I'm not blaming her but if I were one of her opponents I would be jelly
African_brehda
Superstar
almost like USA stopped practicing baton exchange post 2000
I have 0 issue with transexual and intersex people but there needs to be an intersex category or some other solution.
Mboma has most likely natural talent for sprinting but as a 18 yo, she ran the 7th fastest 400m ever and lowered her PB by 3s from March to April this year on that distance.
She probably had ran less than a dozen pro 200m events yet she beat Frayser and Thomas and got silver in the Olympics.
Her technique is subpar compared to the rest and she's out there beating the elite. It's not her fault so I'm not blaming her but if I were one of her opponents I would be jelly
And she's only 18 and her technique is horrible and she's running world record times
It's unfair
Nyombasa as well
None of these folks were even running these specific events until they were banned from 800-1500
The 2021 Diamond League athletics season comes to an end this week in Switzerland at the Weltklasse Zürich, serving as the single meet for the Diamond League Final where 32 athletes will be crowned champions for the season, on Wednesday and Thursday (8–9 September).
It is the first time since the series moved to a championship final format in 2017 that the final is held in a single city, with the 2017–2019 finals having been held over two weeks in Zurich and Brussels.
Olympic champions and medallists from Tokyo 2020 will be on show in 30 of the 32 finals, with the result in each discipline on each of the two days – rather than standings over the season – deciding the winners of the Diamond Trophy.
At least 18 champions from Tokyo have been confirmed for the meet in their own event, while in six events all three Tokyo medallists will be in action. Other Tokyo gold medallists, including Selemon Barega (competing in 5000m in Zurich) and Sifan Hassan (1500m), are also due to take part in finals not corresponding to their Olympic gold medals.
Elaine Thompson-Herah (women's 1500m), Karsten Warholm (men's 400m hurdles), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (men's 5000m, men's 1500m) all return after sitting out the Brussels meet last week.
In a twist, the competitions on Wednesday will be held in a different venue from those on Thursday. The Sechseläutenplatz, a square on the eastern bank of Lake Zurich, will host "city events" in shot put, long jump, women's high jump, and for the first time in the Final, track races in the 5000m. Those finals will be run on a temporary 560m-long track.
Letzigrund Stadium, the traditional site of the Weltklasse Zürich, will hold the rest of the events on Thursday. Additionally, the 'Final 3' format will not be used, with six attempts for all finalists in the throws, long jump, and triple jump.
maican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah produced a sprinting clean-sweep in the Olympic Stadium at Tokyo 2020. The 29-year-old took gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay to eclipse her performance in Rio, where she won gold in the 100m and 200m and a silver in the 4x100m relay.
2. Andre de Grasse, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Fred Kerley look to create more history
Canada's Andre de Grasse , who won Olympic gold in the 200m and bronze in the 100m, comes into the final on a high after having won the 200m in a Continental Tour Gold meeting in Poland on Sunday.
Olympic 1500m champion Ingebrigtsen, meanwhile, will hope to be fully recovered from the fatigue that saw him miss the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels last week, as the Norwegian runs in both Wednesday's 5000m and Thursday's 1500m races.
Both men have the chance to create more history, and join an exclusive list of only seven athletes to have won two different Diamond Trophies in the same year.
Additionally, Fred Kerley – the American Olympic silver medallist over 100m who in Brussels became the first man to win Diamond League races over 100m, 200m, and 400m – will also run in both the 100m and 200m finals.
To date, only one man – USA's Noah Lyles , who won the 100m and 200m Diamond League titles in 2019 – is on that list along with six women (Allyson Felix in 2010, Carmelita Jeter in 2011, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in 2013, Shaunae Miller-Uibo in 2017, Caterine Ibargüen in 2018, and Sifan Hassan in 2019).
wrap of athletics track action as Andre de Grasse of Canada claims the 200m gold, Emmanuel Korir and Ferguson Rotich take a one-two for Kenya in the 800m and Peruth Chemutai becomes the first Ugandan woman ever to win an Olympic medal
3. Christine Mboma and Francine Niyonsaba starring in new disciplines
Switching to two different disciplines from their favoured women's 400m and 800m respectively was not easy for Namibia's Christine Mboma and Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba , who are both affected by World Athletics' regulations on female athletes with Differences in Sexual Development, or DSD.
Mboma and teammate Beatrice Masilingi were both prevented from running the 400m at Tokyo 2020 by World Athletics due to high testosterone levels, but qualified for the women's 200m final where Mboma won silver, and both will again be in action in Zurich over the shorter distance.
The Namibians will go in among the favourites with the likes of world champion Dina Asher-Smith , Jamaica's Olympic medallist Shericka Jackson , and Côte d'Ivoire legend Marie-Josée Ta Lou .
At the other end of the spectrum, Niyonsaba – the Rio 2016 silver medallist over 800 – has successfully moved up to the 5000m, in a way her South African rival Caster Semenya has not quite been able to.
The Burundian set world lead times and new national records at the Paris (3000m) and Brussels (5000m) Diamond League meets, and comes into the Final on a high.
Standing in her way is Olympic silver medallist Hellen Obiri of Kenya, although Olympic champ Hassan is not running the distance in Switzerland.
4. Record-breakers Yulimar Rojas, Karsten Warholm return
Two of the three athletes who set new world records in Tokyo are back at the Diamond League Final, with only USA's Sydney McLaughlin (women's 400m hurdles) not involved.
Yulimar Rojas , who leaped 15.67m in the women's triple jump in the Japanese capital to smash the old world record, followed that up with a 15.52m second-best legal jump of all time at the Lausanne Diamond League.
The Venezuelan has only competed in Lausanne since Tokyo, and returns to Switzerland looking for another huge mark.
Also in action will be Norway's Warholm after he skipped last week's meet in Brussels.
The only man to have run a sub-46 400m hurdles with his Tokyo 45.94 will not have Olympic silver medallist Rai Benjamin to push him this time, but still faces strong competition from Tokyo bronze medallist Alison dos Santos of Brazil and British Virgin Islands hurdler Kyron McMaster , who was fourth in Japan.
All times are local time (CEST, 2 hours ahead of UTC)
Wednesday 8 September
Sechseläutenplatz square, Zurich
4:55pm Women's shot put
4:55pm Men's shot put
5:35pm Women's 5000m
5:50pm Women's high jump
6:00pm Men's long jump
6:00pm Women's long jump
7:10pm Men's 5000m
Thursday 9 September
Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich
6:15pm Women's pole vault
6:20pm Women's discus
6:20pm Men's discus
6:40pm Women's triple jump
6:40pm Men's triple jump
7:04pm Women's 400m
7:15pm Men's 400m
7:26pm Women's 3000m steeplechase
7:46pm Women's 100m hurdles
7:58pm Men's 110m hurdles
8:06pm Women's 1500m
8:17pm Men's 1500m
8:21pm Men's pole vault
8:22pm Men's javelin
8:22pm Women's javelin
8:25pm Men's high jump
8:29pm Women's 100m
8:38pm Men's 100m
8:46pm Men's 3000m steeplechase
9:03pm Women's 800m
9:13pm Men's 800m
9:25pm Women's 400m hurdles
9:35pm Men's 400m hurdles
9:44pm Women's 200m
9:52pm Men's 200m
It is the first time since the series moved to a championship final format in 2017 that the final is held in a single city, with the 2017–2019 finals having been held over two weeks in Zurich and Brussels.
Olympic champions and medallists from Tokyo 2020 will be on show in 30 of the 32 finals, with the result in each discipline on each of the two days – rather than standings over the season – deciding the winners of the Diamond Trophy.
At least 18 champions from Tokyo have been confirmed for the meet in their own event, while in six events all three Tokyo medallists will be in action. Other Tokyo gold medallists, including Selemon Barega (competing in 5000m in Zurich) and Sifan Hassan (1500m), are also due to take part in finals not corresponding to their Olympic gold medals.
Elaine Thompson-Herah (women's 1500m), Karsten Warholm (men's 400m hurdles), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (men's 5000m, men's 1500m) all return after sitting out the Brussels meet last week.
In a twist, the competitions on Wednesday will be held in a different venue from those on Thursday. The Sechseläutenplatz, a square on the eastern bank of Lake Zurich, will host "city events" in shot put, long jump, women's high jump, and for the first time in the Final, track races in the 5000m. Those finals will be run on a temporary 560m-long track.
Letzigrund Stadium, the traditional site of the Weltklasse Zürich, will hold the rest of the events on Thursday. Additionally, the 'Final 3' format will not be used, with six attempts for all finalists in the throws, long jump, and triple jump.
maican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah produced a sprinting clean-sweep in the Olympic Stadium at Tokyo 2020. The 29-year-old took gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay to eclipse her performance in Rio, where she won gold in the 100m and 200m and a silver in the 4x100m relay.
2. Andre de Grasse, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Fred Kerley look to create more history
Canada's Andre de Grasse , who won Olympic gold in the 200m and bronze in the 100m, comes into the final on a high after having won the 200m in a Continental Tour Gold meeting in Poland on Sunday.
Olympic 1500m champion Ingebrigtsen, meanwhile, will hope to be fully recovered from the fatigue that saw him miss the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels last week, as the Norwegian runs in both Wednesday's 5000m and Thursday's 1500m races.
Both men have the chance to create more history, and join an exclusive list of only seven athletes to have won two different Diamond Trophies in the same year.
Additionally, Fred Kerley – the American Olympic silver medallist over 100m who in Brussels became the first man to win Diamond League races over 100m, 200m, and 400m – will also run in both the 100m and 200m finals.
To date, only one man – USA's Noah Lyles , who won the 100m and 200m Diamond League titles in 2019 – is on that list along with six women (Allyson Felix in 2010, Carmelita Jeter in 2011, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in 2013, Shaunae Miller-Uibo in 2017, Caterine Ibargüen in 2018, and Sifan Hassan in 2019).
wrap of athletics track action as Andre de Grasse of Canada claims the 200m gold, Emmanuel Korir and Ferguson Rotich take a one-two for Kenya in the 800m and Peruth Chemutai becomes the first Ugandan woman ever to win an Olympic medal
3. Christine Mboma and Francine Niyonsaba starring in new disciplines
Switching to two different disciplines from their favoured women's 400m and 800m respectively was not easy for Namibia's Christine Mboma and Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba , who are both affected by World Athletics' regulations on female athletes with Differences in Sexual Development, or DSD.
Mboma and teammate Beatrice Masilingi were both prevented from running the 400m at Tokyo 2020 by World Athletics due to high testosterone levels, but qualified for the women's 200m final where Mboma won silver, and both will again be in action in Zurich over the shorter distance.
The Namibians will go in among the favourites with the likes of world champion Dina Asher-Smith , Jamaica's Olympic medallist Shericka Jackson , and Côte d'Ivoire legend Marie-Josée Ta Lou .
At the other end of the spectrum, Niyonsaba – the Rio 2016 silver medallist over 800 – has successfully moved up to the 5000m, in a way her South African rival Caster Semenya has not quite been able to.
The Burundian set world lead times and new national records at the Paris (3000m) and Brussels (5000m) Diamond League meets, and comes into the Final on a high.
Standing in her way is Olympic silver medallist Hellen Obiri of Kenya, although Olympic champ Hassan is not running the distance in Switzerland.
4. Record-breakers Yulimar Rojas, Karsten Warholm return
Two of the three athletes who set new world records in Tokyo are back at the Diamond League Final, with only USA's Sydney McLaughlin (women's 400m hurdles) not involved.
Yulimar Rojas , who leaped 15.67m in the women's triple jump in the Japanese capital to smash the old world record, followed that up with a 15.52m second-best legal jump of all time at the Lausanne Diamond League.
The Venezuelan has only competed in Lausanne since Tokyo, and returns to Switzerland looking for another huge mark.
Also in action will be Norway's Warholm after he skipped last week's meet in Brussels.
The only man to have run a sub-46 400m hurdles with his Tokyo 45.94 will not have Olympic silver medallist Rai Benjamin to push him this time, but still faces strong competition from Tokyo bronze medallist Alison dos Santos of Brazil and British Virgin Islands hurdler Kyron McMaster , who was fourth in Japan.
All times are local time (CEST, 2 hours ahead of UTC)
Wednesday 8 September
Sechseläutenplatz square, Zurich
4:55pm Women's shot put
4:55pm Men's shot put
5:35pm Women's 5000m
5:50pm Women's high jump
6:00pm Men's long jump
6:00pm Women's long jump
7:10pm Men's 5000m
Thursday 9 September
Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich
6:15pm Women's pole vault
6:20pm Women's discus
6:20pm Men's discus
6:40pm Women's triple jump
6:40pm Men's triple jump
7:04pm Women's 400m
7:15pm Men's 400m
7:26pm Women's 3000m steeplechase
7:46pm Women's 100m hurdles
7:58pm Men's 110m hurdles
8:06pm Women's 1500m
8:17pm Men's 1500m
8:21pm Men's pole vault
8:22pm Men's javelin
8:22pm Women's javelin
8:25pm Men's high jump
8:29pm Women's 100m
8:38pm Men's 100m
8:46pm Men's 3000m steeplechase
9:03pm Women's 800m
9:13pm Men's 800m
9:25pm Women's 400m hurdles
9:35pm Men's 400m hurdles
9:44pm Women's 200m
9:52pm Men's 200m