{"id":1783,"date":"2018-08-14T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/zurich-top-stars-confirmed-to-compete\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T06:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:41:23","slug":"zurich-top-stars-confirmed-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/zurich-top-stars-confirmed-to-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich: Top Stars Confirmed To Compete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Fastest Man of the Year to Race in the 200m<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The world sprint giants will clash in the 200m in Zurich this year. The fastest man of the year, Noah Lyles (USA), is out to pick up a second Diamond Trophy. His opponents in Zurich will include World and European champion Ramil Guliyev (TUR) and the Swiss national record holder and European championship bronze medallist Alex Wilson. Lyles, still only 21 years old, has already clocked 19.65 this year. He has not yet qualified for the 100m final in Brussels, however. The second sprint final will be staged at the IAAF Diamond League final event in Brussels on 31 August.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><b>Shot Putters to Flex their Muscles in Zurich<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Walsh, Crouser, Hill, Romani, Haratyk, Storl, Stanek, Whiting. The entry list in the men\u2019s shot put reveals a cast of Olympic, world, and European champions and medallists. European champion Michal Haratyk (POL) will challenge world leader Tomas Walsh (NZL) and Ryan Crouser (USA). They will treat the Zurich fans to a competition on an extraordinary level.<\/div>\n<div><b>Swiss Stars in the International Programme of Events<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Athletics has been on the rise in Switzerland and has produced a number of stars who will be part of this year\u2019s international programme. Angelica MOSER (pole vault), G\u00e9raldine RUCKSTUHL (javelin throw), Benjamin GF\u00d6HLER (long jump), Alex WILSON (200m), Mujinga KAMBUNDJI (100m), Lea SPRUNGER (400m h) and Selina B\u00dcCHEL (800m) will no doubt be enjoying the legendary support of the Letzigrund Stadium fans.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many international athletics top stars have already signed up for Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich 2018. The...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}