{"id":2544,"date":"2022-02-01T06:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/olympic-champion-duplantis-to-kick-off-wanda-diamond-league-campaign-in-doha\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T06:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:16:31","slug":"olympic-champion-duplantis-to-kick-off-wanda-diamond-league-campaign-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/olympic-champion-duplantis-to-kick-off-wanda-diamond-league-campaign-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Champion Duplantis to kick off Wanda Diamond League campaign in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mondo Duplantis<\/strong> (SWE), Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder, will compete at the Wanda Doha Diamond League on Friday 13 May, the first meeting of the 2022 Wanda Diamond League series.<\/p>\n<p>22-year-old Duplantis, the World Championships silver medallist, has dominated the pole vault in recent years. In 2020 he set world records of 6.17m and 6.18m during the indoor season, then went on to clear 6.15m in Rome, the highest outdoor vault in history. In 2021 he achieved 14 six-metre clearances and attempted a world record height of 6.19m at 12 of his competitions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Duplantis remains motivated by his ambition to be the greatest pole vaulter of all-time, and ahead of his European title defence and opportunity to win his first senior world title this summer, the prospect of competing in the Qatari capital is an exciting one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoha is the perfect meet to kick off my outdoor campaign,\u201d said the 2021 Wanda Diamond League champion. \u201cMy training has gone really well over the winter, and although it\u2019s early season, I think the conditions in Doha will be conducive to jumping high. I cleared 5.82m at this event in 2020, so I\u2019d certainly like to go closer to 6.00m this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Al Fadhala, Qatar Athletics Federation president, said: \u201cSuccessfully delivering high profile athletics meetings such as the Wanda Doha Diamond League is important to us as we continue to demonstrate our ability to host world class sporting events in Qatar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud of what we\u2019ve achieved at this event in recent years, specifically the quality of athletes participating and the passion and commitment of our organising teams. Last year\u2019s event \u2013 where athletes recorded six world leading performances and multiple meeting and national records \u2013 was particularly special, and I\u2019m confident we can match or exceed that in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Wanda Diamond League comprises 14 meetings in total, starting with Doha at the Qatar Sports Club on 13 May and concluding with a single final across two days in Zurich (7-8 September). Each meeting will be broadcast globally in a live two-hour programme.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 calendar remains subject to change depending on the global health situation in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish pole vault star Mondo Duplantis will launch his defence of the Diamond Trophy at the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[795,6,63,412,129,641,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-795","tag-diamond-league","tag-doha","tag-duplantis","tag-pole-vault","tag-sweden","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","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=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}