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Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mondo Duplantis is inaugural Ultimate Star for World Athletics Ultimate Championship
Mondo Duplantis, who on Tuesday broke the men's pole vault world record for a 13th time, has been named World Athletics' inaugural Ultimate Star ahead of next year's first World Athletics Ultimate Championship. In the role, Duplantis will be "one of a select number of key collaborators pursuing their cultural passions outside of athletics in music, fashion, art, on-screen, who will promote the new global season-ending championship," according to World Athletics. In a press release, World Athletics President Seb Coe called Duplantis "one of the megastars of our sport." 'We're always looking for new ways to make sure that the spotlight shines on athletics and the Ultimate will light up Budapest," Duplantis said in the release. "I have great memories of winning world gold two years ago (in Budapest) and remember the incredible atmosphere inside the stadium that night. It would be a dream to break the world record in front of a packed crowd next year. 'This event is set to showcase our sport like never before, and I can't wait to be a part of it.' The World Athletics Ultimate Championship is an exclusive, biennial season-ending track and field meet for even years without a World Outdoor Championships. The first edition will be in Budapest from Sept. 11-13, 2026, with 28 events total, including the senior global championship debut of the mixed-gender 4x100m relay. World Athletics announced last year that the meet will include fields of eight to 16 athletes per individual event. Those fields will be based primarily on world rankings with no limits on athletes per country. Track events will have semifinals and finals. Field events will have strictly finals. All reigning Olympic gold medalists, world champions and Diamond League season champions are guaranteed spots in their respective events. Athletes will wear national team uniforms. Duplantis was among the first 26 athletes who qualified for the Ultimate Championship by winning their events at the Paris Olympics. Simone Biles, Mondo Duplantis lead Laureus World Sports Awards winners Simone Biles became the second woman to win Laureus Athlete of the Year four times after Serena Williams. Nick Zaccardi,
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Diamond League 2025: Silesia schedule and start times
The Diamond League season rolls on with some of the world's top athletes competing in Chorzow, Poland at the Silesia meet. After nearly a month off, the World Athletics series resumes for a fast and furious finish to the campaign with four stops in the next fortnight culminating with the two-day finals in Zurich on 27 and 28 August. With the World Championships looming ever larger into view, a strong field has been assembled with American sprint stars including Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson among those on show. Fresh from breaking his own world record (again), Mondo Duplantis will hope to soar once more in the pole vault in a busy field programme. Here's everything you need to know. When is the Silesia Diamond League event? The Silesia Diamond League event, also known as the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, will take place on Saturday 16 August in Chorzow, Poland. How can I watch it? Viewers in the United Kingdom can watch the action live on BBC Two, with coverage on the channel from 3pm BST. A live stream will be available via the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website. Schedule1.05pm Men's Shot put 2.01pm Men's high jump 2.16pm Women's long jump 2.20pm Women's 100m hurdles Heat A 2.29pm Women's 100m hurdles Heat B 2.33pm Men's pole vault 2.40pm Men's 110m hurdles 2.52pm Women's 800m 3.04pm Women's 400m 3.16pm Women's 3000m 3.35pm Women's 100m hurdles final 3.44pm Women's 1500m 3.53pm Men's javelin 3.58pm Men's 100m 4.08pm Women's 400m hurdles 4.18pm Men's 1500m 4.32pm Women's 200m 4.42pm Men's 400m hurdles 4.53pm Women's 100m Full live results can be found here Diamond League 2025 venues 26 April: Xiamen, China 3 May: Shaoxing, China 16 May: Doha, Qatar 25 May: Rabat, Morocco 6 June: Rome, Italy 12 June: Oslo, Norway 15 June: Stockholm, Sweden 20 June: Paris, France 5 July: Eugene, United States 11 July: Monaco 19 July: London, United Kingdom 16 August: Chorzow, Poland 20 August: Lausanne, Switzerland 22 August: Brussels, Belgium 27-28 August: Diamond League finals (Zurich, Switzerland)
France 24
4 days ago
- Sport
- France 24
Thompson eclipses Lyles and Hodgkinson makes stellar comeback
A host of world and Olympic champions headlined by the likes of Karsten Warholm -- with an incredible performance in the 400m hurdles -- Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis, Faith Kipyegon and Femke Bol shone in hot and humid conditions in front of more than 40,000 fans in the Polish city of Chorzow. In their first meeting since Lyles won Olympic gold by just five-thousandths of a second in Paris last year, Thompson made an electric start and led from gun to tape for victory in 9.87sec. "My job is to get the job done," said Thompson. "I enjoyed competition against Noah today... nobody is perfect, but I am working on improving my strengths and improving on my weaknesses. "Paris last year was a big learning factor. I learned it is me against myself." Lyles had to be content with second in 9.90sec as the athletes fine-tune preparations for the September 13-21 world championships in Tokyo. "It makes me really excited for not only today, but also for next week and Tokyo," the American said. "The more I run, the better I am getting. I get more excited each day and it is working. I need to keep competing." There was a timely return for Hodgkinson as the 23-year-old Briton showed no sign of the lingering hamstring problems that had sidelined her for months as she clocked 1min 54.74sec, the fastest in the world this year. "I was just happy to step on the track after more than a year," Hodgkinson said. "I planned to run a fast time because I don't have five races anymore before Tokyo, I only have today and the meeting in Lausanne next week. So it had to be fast and I'm happy that it worked." Kenya's serial world record breaker Kipyegon missed out on the long-standing world record in the women's 3,000m. Six weeks after improving her own world 1,500m record in Eugene, Kipyegon clocked 8:07.04 over the non-Olympic distance, falling just short of the 8:06.11 world record set by China's Wang Junxia in 1993. "I am so happy. I wanted to run a longer distance," Kipyegon said. "It is all about Tokyo now, but Tokyo is a championship race, so anything can happen!" Blistering Warholm Warholm looked in astonishing form in the 400m hurdles after a two-month training block at home in Norway, timing a world-leading time of 46.28sec. It was the third fastest time ever run over the distance, topped only by the Norwegian's own world record of 46.28sec and American Rai Benjamin's 46.19sec. "That race was great! I had great rhythm and speed throughout," said Warholm. Dutch star Femke Bol comfortably extended her six-race win streak in the women's 400m hurdles this year with victory in 51.91sec -- another world-leading time. Duplantis, fresh from setting his 13th pole vault world record with 6.29m in Budapest on Tuesday, failed to hit those heights but secured victory in 6.10m, having failed three attempts at 6.20. World leader Melissa Jefferson-Wooden equalled Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's meet record when she clocked 10.66sec for an impressive victory in the women's 100m. World champion Sha'Carri Richardson could only finish sixth after a troubled few weeks following her arrest for a violent altercation with her partner. Jamaica's two-time world champion Shericka Jackson claimed the honours in the 200m in 22.17sec as she powers back to form. Cordell Tinch left it late, but the in-form American powered past three-time world champion Grant Holloway for a third victory this season in the 110m hurdles in 13.03sec. Olympic champion Masai Russell came out on top of a stacked field in the 100m hurdles in a Diamond League record of 12.19sec ahead of American teammate Tonea Marshall. "This win is very important to me becaue these are the women I'm going to be racing against at the world champs," said Russell. Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic edged Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser for victory in 49.18sec in the women's 400m and Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay outpaced Kenya's Beatrice Chebet for the win in the women's 1500m in 3:50.62. © 2025 AFP
The Independent
4 days ago
- Sport
- The Independent
Diamond League 2025: Silesia schedule and start times
The Diamond League season rolls on with some of the world's top athletes competing in Chorzow, Poland at the Silesia meet. After nearly a month off, the World Athletics series resumes for a fast and furious finish to the campaign with four stops in the next fortnight culminating with the two-day finals in Zurich on 27 and 28 August. With the World Championships looming ever larger into view, a strong field has been assembled with American sprint stars including Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson among those on show. Fresh from breaking his own world record (again), Mondo Duplantis will hope to soar once more in the pole vault in a busy field programme. Here's everything you need to know. When is the Silesia Diamond League event? The Silesia Diamond League event, also known as the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, will take place on Saturday 16 August in Chorzow, Poland. How can I watch it? Viewers in the United Kingdom can watch the action live on BBC Two, with coverage on the channel from 3pm BST. A live stream will be available via the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website. Schedule (all times BST) 1.05pm Men's Shot put 2.01pm Men's high jump 2.16pm Women's long jump 2.20pm Women's 100m hurdles Heat A 2.29pm Women's 100m hurdles Heat B 2.33pm Men's pole vault 2.40pm Men's 110m hurdles 2.52pm Women's 800m 3.04pm Women's 400m 3.16pm Women's 3000m 3.35pm Women's 100m hurdles final 3.44pm Women's 1500m 3.53pm Men's javelin 3.58pm Men's 100m 4.08pm Women's 400m hurdles 4.18pm Men's 1500m 4.32pm Women's 200m 4.42pm Men's 400m hurdles 4.53pm Women's 100m Full live results can be found here Diamond League 2025 venues 26 April: Xiamen, China 3 May: Shaoxing, China 16 May: Doha, Qatar 25 May: Rabat, Morocco 6 June: Rome, Italy 12 June: Oslo, Norway 15 June: Stockholm, Sweden 20 June: Paris, France 5 July: Eugene, United States 11 July: Monaco 19 July: London, United Kingdom 16 August: Chorzow, Poland 20 August: Lausanne, Switzerland 22 August: Brussels, Belgium
Toronto Star
5 days ago
- Sport
- Toronto Star
Pole vault superstar Duplantis teases 100-meter champion Lyles about post-race push by Bednarek
CHORZOW, Poland (AP) — Maybe only a track and field superstar like Mondo Duplantis could get away with such a mischievous question to Olympic 100-meter champion Noah Lyles. The pole vault world record holder wanted to know more Friday about the shove Lyles got from Kenny Bednarek after winning the 200 at United States national championships two weeks ago.
