{"id":2718,"date":"2022-07-19T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/thiam-squares-up-to-mahuchikh-in-brussels\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:39:11","slug":"thiam-squares-up-to-mahuchikh-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/thiam-squares-up-to-mahuchikh-in-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiam squares up to Mahuchikh in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from regaining her hepthathlon world title in Oregon this week, Belgian star Nafi Thiam can set her sights on a world class showdown with Wanda Diamond League title favourite Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the women&#8217;s high jump in Brussels later this season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thiam overcame reigning world champion Katharina Johnson-Thompson to claim her second title at the World Athletics Championships on Monday, and can now look forward to a single event battle with Mahuchikh, who is herself hoping to claim a first world title in Oregon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will be the Belgian&#8217;s first Diamond League appearance since she competed in Brussels three years ago and a chance to pick up her first win on the circuit since her long jump triumph in Birmingham in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thiam will be hoping that home advantage can help her spring a surprise against Mahuchikh, who will compete for the women&#8217;s high jump world title on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian star is out to make 2022 a year of global gongs, as she looks to add a first world title and a first Diamond League title to the world indoor gold she picked up in March.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having missed out on the title by a whisker in a dramatic final last season, she is already dominating this year&#8217;s Diamond League with victories Eugene, Rabat and Paris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam will face Ukrainian star and Diamond League title favourite...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,6,753,575,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-brussels","tag-diamond-league","tag-mahuchikh","tag-thiam","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","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=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}