{"id":2326,"date":"2021-05-10T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/title-holders-mihambo-and-walsh-star-in-florence\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:12:44","slug":"title-holders-mihambo-and-walsh-star-in-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/title-holders-mihambo-and-walsh-star-in-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Title holders Mihambo and Walsh star in Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World champion and reigning Diamond League champion <strong>Malaika Mihambo<\/strong> will kick off her Diamond Trophy defence in Florence on June 10th, as she faces up to a star-studded women&#8217;s long jump field at the Pietro Mennea Golden Gala.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mihambo,&nbsp; who jumped a personal best of 7.07m at the Golden Gala in Rome on her way to the Diamond Trophy in 2019, will take on six-time Diamond Trophy winner <strong>Caterine Ibarg\u00fcen<\/strong>, two-time series champion <strong>Ivana Spanovic<\/strong> and last year&#8217;s Doha Diamond League winner <strong>Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk <\/strong>in what promises to be a high-class battle of the world&#8217;s best horizontal jumpers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The superstars will also be challenged by the likes of Sweden&#8217;s <strong>Khaddi Sagnia<\/strong>, who secured two podium finishes in the Diamond League last year, and Italian star <strong>Larissa Iapichino<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is an equally tantalising line-up in the men&#8217;s shot put, as reigning Diamond League champion <strong>Tom Walsh<\/strong> takes on an impressive field which includes the Czech Republic&#8217;s <strong>Tomas Stanek<\/strong>, Florence&#8217;s own <strong>Leonardo Fabbri<\/strong> and Polish stars <strong>Michal Haratyk<\/strong> and <strong>Konrad Bukowiecki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bukowiecki in particular has fond memories of the Italian Diamond League meeting, having smashed the Golden Gala meeting record with 21.97m in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Full entry lists for the third Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season will be published <a href=\"t3:\/\/page?uid=1908\">here<\/a> in due course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With exactly one month to go until the Golden Gala in Florence, the entry lists are taking shape...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[718,6,774,282,394,51,552,118,16,136,204,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-718","tag-diamond-league","tag-florence","tag-golden-gala","tag-ibarguen","tag-long-jump","tag-mihambo","tag-rome","tag-shot-put","tag-spanovic","tag-walsh","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","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=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}