{"id":2606,"date":"2022-05-05T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/de-grasse-lyles-and-kerley-line-up-in-doha-200m\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:31:00","slug":"de-grasse-lyles-and-kerley-line-up-in-doha-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/de-grasse-lyles-and-kerley-line-up-in-doha-200m\/","title":{"rendered":"De Grasse, Lyles and Kerley line up in Doha 200m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic 200m champion <strong>Andre De Grasse<\/strong> (CAN) will take on world champion <strong>Noah Lyles<\/strong> (USA) and Olympic 100m silver medallist and Diamond Trophy holder&nbsp;<strong>Fred Kerley <\/strong>(USA) in a stellar men\u2019s 200m at the Wanda Diamond League Doha on Friday 13th May.<\/p>\n<p>De Grasse, the Canadian national record holder (19.62), is a multiple Olympic and world medallist. He backed up his 200m gold in Tokyo with 100m bronze and silver in the 4 x 100m relay. At the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, he finished second in the 200m and took bronze in the 100m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo win my first Olympic gold medal last year was really special,\u201d said the 27-year-old. \u201cIn Rio 2016 and the Worlds in 2019 I felt I\u2019d come up short, in spite of consistent podium performances. I work hard and I want to be the best. Winning gold in Tokyo has given me confidence that I can deliver another championship-winning performance this summer, and I\u2019m looking forward to kicking off my season in Doha as I build towards that goal in Eugene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lyles, Olympic bronze medallist over 200m, was a double gold medallist in Doha 2019 over 200m and in the 4 x 100m relay. The former world U20 100m champion ran 9.90w (100m) and 19.86 (200m) at the PURE Athletics Global Invitational in Florida on 1 May. His 200m best of 19.50 (2019) is the fifth-fastest of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Kerley is a world gold medallist in the 4 x 400m and bronze medallist in the 400m (2019). He has demonstrated his incredible versatility already this season with a 19.80 200m clocking in mid-April, the second-fastest in the world this year to date. The 2021 Diamond League champion (100m) was exceptional last year, clocking personal best times in the 100m (9.84) and 200m (19.76).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron Brown<\/strong> (CAN), <strong>Jereem Richards<\/strong> (TTO),<strong> Filippo Tortu <\/strong>(ITA) and<strong> Femi Ogunode <\/strong>(QAT) make up the stellar 200m field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brown, alongside De Grasse, was an Olympic relay silver medallist in Tokyo and finished sixth in the 200m; Richards, 2022 world indoor champion (400m), won world 4 x 400m relay gold in 2017 and finished eighth in Tokyo (200m); Tortu was a member of Italy\u2019s Olympic gold medal-winning 4 x 100m relay team; and multiple Asian Games champion Ogunode &#8211; the Qatari national record holder (19.97) and 2014 World Indoor 60m bronze medallist &#8211; reached the 200m semi-final in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Wanda Diamond League comprises 14 meetings in total, starting with Doha at the Qatar Sports Club on 13th 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse will take on reigning 100m Wanda Diamond League champion...","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":[58,795,291,6,63,468,428,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-200m","tag-795","tag-de-grasse","tag-diamond-league","tag-doha","tag-kerley","tag-lyles","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}