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United News of India
2 days ago
- Sport
- United News of India
Cherop to be Uganda's sole participant at Silesia Diamond League
Kampala, Aug 15 (UNI) Uganda's Charity Cherop will be the country's sole representative at the IAAF Silesia Diamond League, scheduled for August 16 at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Poland. Cherop, 18, will line up in the women's 3,000m, facing a strong field that includes Kenya's three-time Olympic gold medalist Faith Kipyegon. Kipyegon has dominated the 1,500m since the 2016 Rio Olympics and last weekend set a new world record of 3:38.68 in Eugene, the United States. "I know it will not be an easy race because I will be competing against top runners who have recorded good times. But I have prepared well and I am confident of performing well," Cherop said. Athletics Uganda president Dominic Otuchet said that while Uganda has previously fielded more than two runners in Diamond League events, Cherop will be the country's sole participant this time. "Cherop has had enough time to prepare and we believe she is going to put up a good show in Poland. The race is very important for her because she has a chance to record a good time and qualify for the World Championships," Otuchet said. Cherop, who took bronze at the World U20 Championships in Peru last August, is also aiming to run a personal best and secure a berth at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo next month. So far, 22 Ugandan athletes have qualified for the Tokyo event, with Cherop yet to join that list before the qualification window closes next week. UNI/XINHUA BM
The Hindu
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
When and where to watch Lyles vs Thompson Olympic 100m rematch live at Silesia Diamond League 2025?
Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles, world pole vault record holder Mondo Duplantis, and world 100m champion Sha'Carri Richardson will headline a star-studded Kamila Skolimowska Memorial as the Diamond League returns to Silesia on Saturday (16 August). However, the most anticipated event of the meet is the rematch between Lyles and Kishane Thompson. For the first time since the Olympic 100m final in Paris, Lyles, the self-proclaimed showman, will face the 24-year-old Jamaican he narrowly defeated by just five-thousandths of a second. ALSO READ | Lyles hints at hitting Olympic form before Thompson rematch The meet signals the start of the business end of the season, with the World Athletics Championships Tokyo25 and the Diamond League Final in Zurich (27–28 August) fast approaching. Silesia Diamond League 2025 schedule: Hammer Throw Men & Women – 5:30 pm IST/ 14:00 (CEST, UTC+2) Shot Put Men – 5:35 pm IST/ 14:05 (CEST, UTC+2) High Jump Men – 6:31 pm IST/ 15:01 (CEST, UTC+2) Long Jump Women – 6:16 pm IST/ 15:46 (CEST, UTC+2) 100m Hurdles Women – Heat A – 6:50 pm IST/ 15:20 (CEST, UTC+2) 100m Hurdles Women – Heat B – 6:59 pm IST/ 15:29 – – Pole Vault Men – 7:03 pm IST/ 15:33 (CEST, UTC+2) 110m Hurdles Men – 7:10 pm IST/ 15:40 (CEST, UTC+2) 800m Women – 7:22 pm IST/ 15:52 (CEST, UTC+2) 400m Women – 7:34 pm IST/ 16:04 (CEST, UTC+2) 3000m Women – 7:46 pm IST/ 16:16 (CEST, UTC+2) 100m Hurdles Women – Final – 8:05 pm IST/ 16:35 (CEST, UTC+2) 1500m Women – 8:14 pm IST/ 16:44 (CEST, UTC+2) Javelin Throw Men – 8:23 pm IST/ 16:53 (CEST, UTC+2) 100m Men – 8:28 pm IST/ 16:58 (CEST, UTC+2) 400m Hurdles Women – 8:38 pm IST/ 17:08 (CEST, UTC+2) (CEST, UTC+2) 1500m Men – 8:48 pm IST/ 17:18 (CEST, UTC+2) 200m Women – 9:08 pm IST/ 17:32 (CEST, UTC+2) 400m Hurdles Men – 9:12 pm IST/ 17:42 (CEST, UTC+2) 100m Women – 9:23 pm IST/ 17:53 (CEST, UTC+2) Where to watch Silesia Diamond League 2025 live? The Silesia Diamond League 2025 will be available to live-stream on the Diamond League YouTube and Facebook pages.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Lyles v Thompson in re-run of Olympic 100m final in Silesia
Olympic champion Noah Lyles will renew his rivalry with Jamaica's Kishane Thompson when the pair take to the track for what promises to be a 100m race to remember at the Diamond League meet in Chorzow on Saturday. As athletes continue to fine-tune their form ahead of September's world championships in Tokyo, Lyles headlines a raft of stars from track and field on show in southwest Poland. Here, AFP Sport looks at four talking points at the 12th meeting of the 15-event Diamond League circuit at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia: - Lyles v Thompson in Paris rematch - Lyles sealed Olympic gold in the blue riband event in Paris last year by the closest of margins, pipping Thompson by just five-thousandeths of a second for victory. It remained a remarkable result for the Jamaican, who missed the cut for the 2023 world championships in Budapest. This year, however, he clocked a world-leading 9.75sec at the Jamaican trials in June, a time which puts him sixth on the all-time list. Lyles will be keen to bounce back after his surprise 100m defeat to another Jamaican, Oblique Seville, at the London Diamond League meet. The American will have to compete not just with Thompson, but also a quartet of tested US teammates in the shape of Kenny Bednarek, Christian Coleman, Lindsey Courtney and Trayvon Bromell, as well as South African Akani Simbine. There is some added spice after Lyles and Bednarek clashed in the US trials after the former won the 200m in a world lead time of 19.63sec. Bednarek accused Lyles of "unsportsmanlike" conduct after he turned his head to stare down his rival as he took the tape. - Coleman and Richardson on the card - While Coleman bids to upset Lyles, also running in the women's 100m is his partner Sha'Carri Richardson, the reigning world champion and Olympic silver medallist. Richardson found herself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons after being arrested for domestic violence after shoving Coleman at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last month. Both competed days later at the US championships in Eugene, Oregon, where Coleman, who reportedly did not press charges, said she should not have been arrested. Richardson duly apologised, saying that she held herself "accountable". The women's 100m sees the presence of Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who won a sprint double at the US trials, as well as Briton Dina Asher-Smith and the Jamaican Clayton twins, Tina and Tia. - Unstoppable Duplantis - Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis bettered his pole vault world record by a centimetre on Tuesday, clearing 6.29 metres in Budapest. It was the US-born Swede's 13th time he had set a world record as he soared over the bar at the second attempt to improve on his 6.28m from Stockholm in June. He first broke the world record in 2020 with 6.17m. It was also the 25-year-old's third record of 2025 having initially raised the bar to 6.27m in Clermont-Ferrand in February. His rivals in Poland will be hoping for a rare off-day to get anywhere near topping the podium given that at last year's Diamond League meeting in Silesia, it was none other than Duplantis who stole the headlines with a then-world record of 6.26m. - Kipyegon eyes WR, Chebet races 1500m - Kenya's Faith Kipyegon will have a tilt at a world record in the 3,000m, a non-Olympic event. Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic gold medallist over 1,500m, has an incredible track record. Her new 1,500m world record of 3:48.68 in the Eugene Diamond League was her fifth at a Diamond League met in the last three seasons. The Kenyan came up short in her specially arranged attempt in June to become the first woman to smash through the four-minute barrier, clocking 4min 06.42sec in Paris. Kipyegon's teammate Beatrice Chebet will instead race the 1,500m, her first over the distance since 2023 and her first ever time at a Diamond League. Chebet has notched up three victories over 5,000m on the circuit this season, but it remains to be seen whether she'll have the speed over the shorter distance against a field that includes Britain's Georgia Hunter Bell and Ethiopian duo Gudaf Tsegay and Diribe Welteji. lp/ea
Qatar Tribune
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Qatar Tribune
Barshim and Tamberi to be reunited at Silesia meeting in August
Diamondleague High jump legends Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim will face each other once again at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia on August 16. Tamberi and Barshim made high jump history in 2021 when they decided to share the gold medal rather than competing in a jump-off at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. That episode one of track and field's great friendship-rivalries, one which has continued to develop on the Diamond League circuit ever since The two met at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia in 2023, with Barshim coming out on top thanks to a winning jump of 2.36m. Tamberi won the following year, jumping 2.31m to claim a crucial victory on the road to his third Diamond League title. The two join fellow superstars Grant Holloway, Mondo Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen in an increasingly star-studded line-up for this year's meeting. The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in global athletics. It comprises 15 of the most prestigious events in global track and field. Athletes compete for points at the 14 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final, which will be held in Zurich on 27 and 28 August 2025.
