{"id":1603,"date":"2018-04-25T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/doha-taylor-harrison-and-perkovic-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:16:19","slug":"doha-taylor-harrison-and-perkovic-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/doha-taylor-harrison-and-perkovic-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Doha: Taylor, Harrison And Perkovic Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>USA\u2019s Christian Taylor will go against Cuba\u2019s Pedro Pablo Pichardo once again in a battle that provided the greatest triple jump competition in history in the very same stadium at the 2015 Doha Diamond League. Never before had two men jumped beyond 18 metres in the same competition but Doha 2015 saw Pichardo, the 2012 World Junior Champion and the 2013 World Championship silver medalist, break the stadium record to jump 18:06, just 2cm beyond Taylor\u2019s best jump of 18:04. The re-match will provide one of the unmissable competitions of this year\u2019s Doha Diamond League.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor will start as the overwhelming favourite this year after dominating triple jump over recent years and will be looking for his fourth Doha crown. However, further challenges will come from 2008 Olympic Champion and 2007 World Champion Nelson Evora of Portugal, 2016 Olympic bronze medallist and 2016 World Indoor Champion Bin Dong of China, and 2009 World Championship bronze medalist Alexis Copello of Azerbaijan. Team Qatar\u2019s 2010 Asian Games bronze medallist Rashid Al Mannai will also line up.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>USA fans will have even more to cheer for in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles as a stellar line-up of Americans will battle it out in an enthralling competition. Leading the field is world-record holder and recently crowned 2018 World Indoor Champion, Kendra Harrison, who took her first global crown in Birmingham in March and will be looking to get her 2018 Diamond League campaign off to a winning start. However, her task will not be easy as reigning Olympic Champion and 2013 World Champion, Brianna McNeal (nee Rollins), returns to action. Also lining up are silver medallist in the 2018 World Indoor Championships and 2018 World Indoor Tour winner, Christina Manning, 2008 Olympic Champion Dawn Harper-Nelson, and Doha Diamond League meeting record holder, Jasmin Stowers.<\/div>\n<div>Fans can expect to be further amazed by Olympic and World medallists in the women\u2019s discus. Looking to add another victory to her impressive string of global titles is reigning World, Olympic, European and Diamond League Champion, Sandra Perkovic of Croatia. With a season\u2019s best of 69.13, she is also in great shape to further her own Doha Diamond League record from 2013 of 68.23. Perkovic will be up against stiff competition from 2009 World Champion Dani Stevens of Australia, who recently won her second Commonwealth Games title and finished in silver position behind Perkovic at last year\u2019s World Championships, and Cuba\u2019s Denia Caballero who beat Perkovic to win the 2015 World Championships and claimed bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<\/div>\n<div>This year\u2019s Doha Diamond League will take place on Friday 4th May from 5-9pm at Qatar Sports Club. Tickets can be bought online now https:\/\/bit.ly\/2GVnHqN. Don\u2019t miss the action and stay up to date for further athlete announcements that will be made in the build-up to the event. Make sure to stay up to date via the Diamond League website and social media channels.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A star-studded line up for the women\u2019s 100m hurdles promises a thrilling battle of the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}