{"id":3062,"date":"2023-06-28T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-unveils-star-studded-triple-and-long-jump-line-ups\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:52:50","slug":"monaco-unveils-star-studded-triple-and-long-jump-line-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-unveils-star-studded-triple-and-long-jump-line-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco unveils star-studded triple and long jump line-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of the horizontal jumps will be in for a treat when the Wanda Diamond League touches down on the Cote d&#8217;Azur for Herculis EBS Monaco on July 21st.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reigning Diamond League triple jump champions Andy Diaz will resume his rivalry with two-time Diamond Trophy winner Pedro Pablo Pichardo in the men&#8217;s triple jump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cuba&#8217;s Diaz broke a national record with 17.75m in Florence early this year, while Cuban-born Portuguese star Pichardo also has early points on the board after his win at the season opener in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s long jump also promises fireworks, with Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo continuing her campaign to regain the Diamond Trophy against Italy&#8217;s Larissa Iapichino and France&#8217;s Hilary Kpatcha in Florence.<\/p>\n<p>Mihambo was crowned Diamond League champion in 2019, before losing out to Serbia&#8217;s Ivana Vuleta in each of the last two seasons. Iapichino, meanwhile, is the only female long jumper with a Diamond League win under her belt this year after she beat both women in her home town of Florence earlier this month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Wanda Diamond League is the premier one-day meeting series in athletics. It comprises 14 of the most prestigious events in global track and field. Athletes compete for points at the 13 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final in Eugene on 16th-17th September.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see the 2023 calendar in full.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Pablo Pichardo and Andy Diaz will resume their rivalry in the men&#8217;s triple jump at...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,911,21,912,552,20,44,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-diamond-league","tag-diaz","tag-herculis","tag-iapichino","tag-mihambo","tag-monaco","tag-pichardo","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","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=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}