{"id":2540,"date":"2022-01-17T07:11:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/twenty-22s-for-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T07:11:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:11:22","slug":"twenty-22s-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/twenty-22s-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty 22s for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wanda Diamond League is gearing up for its 13th season this summer, with the likes of Karsten Warholm, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Mondo Duplantis looking to defend their titles and make 2022 another unforgettable year.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the New Year, we&#8217;ve gone back through the Diamond League archives to pick out 20 of the most famous 22s in the history of the series.<\/p>\n<h3>I don&#8217;t know about you&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>&#8230;but <strong>Kenny Bednarek<\/strong> was probably feeling 22 when he won the Diamond Trophy last September. That&#8217;s because he&#8230;err&#8230;was <strong>22 years old<\/strong>, his first series title coming just over a month before his 23rd birthday. Bednarek&#8217;s win in Zurich was his third of the season, after two early-season wins in Doha and Gateshead.<\/p>\n<h3>Shot put hotshots<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ryan Crouser<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ulLTM_t2Xq8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picked up his first ever Diamond Trophy <\/a>last September, a <strong>Zurich meeting record of 22.67m<\/strong> seeing him to a comfortable win in the Diamond League Final.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was success at the umpteenth attempt for the American Olympic champion, who had been repeatedly thwarted in previous Finals. In 2018, he came a disappointing third as New Zealand&#8217;s <strong>Tom Walsh<\/strong> claimed the title with a <strong>then Diamond League record of 22.60m<\/strong>. A year earlier, Crouser had been on course to win at the street event final in Brussels before compatriot <strong>Darrell Hill<\/strong> pulled out an astonishing <strong>career best of 22.44<\/strong> in the final round.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a 22-metre throw which won the very first men&#8217;s shot put title back in 2010, <strong>Reese Hoffa<\/strong> landing a then <strong>meeting record of 22.16<\/strong> to seal the Diamond Trophy in Brussels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not just the series final which has thrown up big 22s in the shot put. Three years ago at the Prefontaine Classic, Brazilian star <strong>Darlan Romani<\/strong> broke a then Diamond League record with <strong>22.61<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 692\/371\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FSCneA3wRQgg&#038;video_width=692&#038;video_height=371)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"371\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCneA3wRQgg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"692\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<h3>Sprint stars<\/h3>\n<p>There have also been some big 22s in the sprints. When <strong>Elaine Thompson-Herah <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Uhgn_PMSAs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the 100m Diamond League Final in Zurich<\/a> last September, it was her <strong>22nd individual victory<\/strong> on the Diamond League circuit. That crowned a breathtaking season for the Jamaican double Olympic champion, which had begun with a victory in <strong>22.43 at the second Gateshead meeting<\/strong> in July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A total of seven male sprinters have run the 200m in <strong>exactly 20.22 seconds <\/strong>on the Diamond League circuit, the most recent being <strong>Yancarlos Martinez<\/strong>, who finished fourth in Paris last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s 200m, meanwhile, there have been two <strong>22.22 <\/strong>performances: <strong>Shericka Jackson<\/strong> (London 2018) and <strong>Allyson Felix<\/strong>, whose second-place finish in Brussels in 2015 secured her the Diamond Trophy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three-time Diamond League champion <strong>Carmelita Jeter<\/strong>, meanwhile, is the only woman to have run exactly <strong>22.20<\/strong>, a time which sealed her victory in Monaco on the way to her second title in 2011.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Two 22s to come<\/h3>\n<p>Looking ahead, there may be more 22s to come. Both Czech javelin veteran <strong>Barbora Spotakova<\/strong> and Kenyan middle distance star <strong>Timothy Cheruiyot<\/strong> picked up their <strong>21st win<\/strong> on the Diamond League circuit last season, and both will be out to make it 22 in the summer of &#8217;22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ryan Crouser&#8217;s title-winning shot put mark to Elaine Thompson-Herah&#8217;s win...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[795,560,6,725,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-795","tag-crouser","tag-diamond-league","tag-thompson-herah","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}