More stars heading to Shanghai
By Ni Yinbin |
May 13, 2010, Thursday
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MORE top athletes have confirmed their participation in the 2010 IAAF Diamond League Shanghai this month, joining Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt and Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang, the local organizer said last night, while releasing the star-studded list of participants.
A total of 30 foreign athletes, including the previously confirmed Bolt, will be at Shanghai Stadium on May 23 to participate in all 16 disciplines of the competition.
Headlining the male athletes is American 400-meter star Jeremy Wariner, a silver medalist at both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 world championships in Berlin as well as the 4x400 winner in Beijing and Berlin. He will be joined by compatriot Dwight Phillips, winner of the long jump in Berlin; Australian pole vaulter Steven Hooker, who won the event both in Beijing and Berlin; and Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen, world and Olympic champion in the javelin.
As for the women, the Jamaican army will be led by "the world's fastest woman" and world and Olympic champion Shelly Ann Fraser and Melaine Walker, the 400-meter hurdles Olympic and world champion. The Kenyan long-distance team will include 5,000-meter world champion Linet Masai and 800-meter Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo. ?
As the annually staged discipline of the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai starting this year, the 110-meter men's hurdles will undoubtedly attract the greatest attention in Liu's hometown. He will take on Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados, American David Oliver and compatriots Shi Dongpeng and Yin Jing in the absence of Cuban world and Olympic champion Dayron Robles.
China's Gong Lijiao, the bronze medalist at the Berlin worlds, will compete against world and Olympic champion Valerie Vili of New Zealand, Germany's Nadine Kleinert and Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus.?
A total of 30 foreign athletes, including the previously confirmed Bolt, will be at Shanghai Stadium on May 23 to participate in all 16 disciplines of the competition.
Headlining the male athletes is American 400-meter star Jeremy Wariner, a silver medalist at both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 world championships in Berlin as well as the 4x400 winner in Beijing and Berlin. He will be joined by compatriot Dwight Phillips, winner of the long jump in Berlin; Australian pole vaulter Steven Hooker, who won the event both in Beijing and Berlin; and Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen, world and Olympic champion in the javelin.
As for the women, the Jamaican army will be led by "the world's fastest woman" and world and Olympic champion Shelly Ann Fraser and Melaine Walker, the 400-meter hurdles Olympic and world champion. The Kenyan long-distance team will include 5,000-meter world champion Linet Masai and 800-meter Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo. ?
As the annually staged discipline of the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai starting this year, the 110-meter men's hurdles will undoubtedly attract the greatest attention in Liu's hometown. He will take on Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados, American David Oliver and compatriots Shi Dongpeng and Yin Jing in the absence of Cuban world and Olympic champion Dayron Robles.
China's Gong Lijiao, the bronze medalist at the Berlin worlds, will compete against world and Olympic champion Valerie Vili of New Zealand, Germany's Nadine Kleinert and Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus.?
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