{"id":2777,"date":"2022-09-01T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/kovacs-breaks-meeting-record-in-brussels-city-centre\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:28:58","slug":"kovacs-breaks-meeting-record-in-brussels-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/kovacs-breaks-meeting-record-in-brussels-city-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovacs breaks meeting record in Brussels city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Kovacs chalked up his fourth successive Wanda Diamond League win with a meeting record in Brussels on Thursday, cementing his status as firm favourite for the men&#8217;s shot put title in Zurich next week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kovacs, who had already qualified for the final after wins in Rome, Silesia and Lausanne, threw a meeting record 22.61m in the second round to cruise to victory against a strong in Brussels&#8217; city centre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-time Diamond League champion Tom Walsh came in second with a first round effort of 21.60m, which was enough to secure his place in next week&#8217;s final in Zurich.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His fellow New Zealander Jacko Gill snuck into third with 21.32m in the fifth round, before all three held their positions in the Final 3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The men&#8217;s shot put Wanda Diamond League final will take place on Zurich&#8217;s Sechsel\u00e4utenplatz on September 7th, with Kovacs and Walsh set to battle it out with reigning champion Ryan Crouser for the prestigious Diamond Trophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 500\/281\" 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%2F4wEls95dbNg%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Kovacs sets shot put meeting record in Brussels city centre - Wanda Diamond League 2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4wEls95dbNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen 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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US star Joe Kovacs broke the Allianz Memorial Van Damme meeting record at the shot put city...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131,1154],"tags":[795,22,6,18,16],"city":[1198],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-report","category-brussels","tag-795","tag-brussels","tag-diamond-league","tag-joe-kovacs","tag-shot-put","city-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18842,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/18842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}