Suzhou is internet hosting the second Diamond League of the 2024 season, occurring on April 27, 2024. This launch is saying the lads’s excessive soar for the Suzhou assembly!
Excessive soar battle in Suzhou: World versus Olympic Champion on April 27.
Shanghai/Suzhou Diamond League pronounces that the newly-crowned world indoor excessive soar 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 international title in Glasgow. He could have excessive hopes of backing it up in opposition to maybe the best of his technology 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 discipline.
For Barshim, it is going to be one of many key indicators of his type as he goals to turn out to be the primary man to win two males’s Olympic excessive soar 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 joyful 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 unbelievable ambiance and assist. I’ve by no means been to Suzhou however am trying ahead to visiting and competing there and an ideal competitors.”.
Kerr, the Oceania report holder, is rapidly amassing a powerful assortment of his personal. In 2022, the 27-year-old backed up World Indoor bronze with Commonwealth Video games gold that summer time, 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 general Diamond League winner and has 23 particular person occasion wins. Kerr: “I’m trying 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 in opposition to a number of the different finest jumpers on the planet in entrance of what’s going to be a tremendous crowd.”
With pole vault world report holder Mondo Duplantis already introduced, the excessive soar pair will undoubtedly be in good firm in Suzhou.
