Suzhou is internet hosting the second Diamond League of the 2024 season, occurring on April 27, 2024. This launch is asserting the boys’s excessive leap for the Suzhou assembly!
Excessive leap battle in Suzhou: World versus Olympic Champion on April 27.
Shanghai/Suzhou Diamond League publicizes that the newly-crowned world indoor excessive leap champion Hamish Kerr will tackle Mutaz Barshim in China.
New Zealander Kerr is the world chief for 2024, having cleared 2.36m to take his maiden world title in Glasgow. He may have excessive hopes of backing it up towards maybe the best of his era in Barshim.
The Qatari three-time world champion has prioritized coaching within the build-up to his Olympic protection later this 12 months. He has not competed since profitable his third Asian Video games title in October 2023 and skipped the championships the place Kerr beat a high-class area.
For Barshim, it is going to be one of many key indicators of his type as he goals to change into the primary man to win two males’s Olympic excessive leap titles.
No man in historical past has gained extra world outside titles than the three Barshim gained in succession between 2017 and 2022, in addition to a bronze in the latest championships in Budapest. Barshim: “I’m pleased to return to China to start out my new season. Final 12 months I completed my season in China on the Asian video games and it was improbable environment and help. I’ve by no means been to Suzhou however am wanting ahead to visiting and competing there and an incredible competitors.”.
Kerr, the Oceania document holder, is rapidly amassing a formidable assortment of his personal. In 2022, the 27-year-old backed up World Indoor bronze with Commonwealth Video games gold that summer season, and in 2023, he gained his first Diamond League occasion in Stockholm.
He’ll hope to shut the hole on Barshim in that respect. The 32-year-old is 3 times an total Diamond League winner and has 23 particular person occasion wins. Kerr: “I’m wanting ahead to creating my first-ever journey to China a profitable one. After leaping 2.36 at World Indoors, I do know I’m in nice form main into the assembly. I can’t wait to compete towards a number of the different greatest jumpers on this planet in entrance of what’s going to be a tremendous crowd.”
With pole vault world document holder Mondo Duplantis already introduced, the excessive leap pair will undoubtedly be in good firm in Suzhou.
