With just three weeks to go until the 2020 Wanda Diamond League season begins in earnest, Karsten Warholm<\/b> has joined the ranks of track and field superstars who will launch their summer camapigns at Meeting Herculis.<\/p>\n
The Norwegian world champion, Diamond League champion and European record holder will line up in the 400m hurdles at the Monaco meet, organisers announced on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n
Coming just under a year after he claimed his first career Diamond Trophy with a barnstorming run in Zurich last season, it will be the first time that Warholm has competed in Monaco. <\/p>\n
"To be honest, I\u2019ve always wanted to run in Monaco because of the track," he said. "I know people have been running fast there before, and I\u2019ve been training there too. It\u2019s a nice stadium and I know I might be able to run even faster in it."<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Warholm has already made his mark this season, running a world best in the 300m hurdles at the Impossible Games Wanda Diamond League exhibition event in his home country last month. <\/p>\n Other stars recently added to the Monaco entry list include Kenyan middle distance stars Timothy Cheruiyot<\/b> and Faith Kipyegon<\/b>, US pole vault star Sam Kendricks<\/b> and Ukrainian high jumpers Yaroslava Mahuchikh<\/b> and Yuliya Levchenko<\/b>. <\/p>\n Cheruiyot will once again take on Norway’s Jakob and Filip Ingebrigtsen<\/b> in the 1500m, while Kipyegon lines up against the likes of two-time Diamond League champion Laura Muir<\/b> in the 1000m.<\/p>\n Another Brit, heptathlete Katharina Johnson-Thompson<\/b>, will take on the Ukrainians in the women’s high jump. <\/p>\n Kendricks, meanwhile, is set to go head to head with Mondo Duplantis in the men’s pole vault, in a battle which will pit the reigning Diamond League champion against the newly crowned world record holder. <\/p>\n Ivorian star Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou<\/b>, meanwhile, is set to headline in the women’s 100m a year after her victory at Herculis last summer. <\/p>\nClick here to see which other athletes have been confirmed for Monaco. <\/link>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the clock ticks down towards the first competitive Wanda Diamond League meeting 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":[522,6,21,65,690,20,676,569,624,429],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-522","tag-diamond-league","tag-herculis","tag-hurdles","tag-kjt","tag-monaco","tag-norway","tag-obiri","tag-wanda","tag-warholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","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=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}