{"id":3546,"date":"2024-08-05T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/marvellous-mahuchikh-and-lyles-light-up-paris\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:12:40","slug":"marvellous-mahuchikh-and-lyles-light-up-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/marvellous-mahuchikh-and-lyles-light-up-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvellous Mahuchikh and Lyles light up Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time Wanda Diamond League champion <strong>Noah Lyles <\/strong>claimed his first ever Olympic title on the first weekend of athletics action in Paris, while reigning Diamond League champion <strong>Yaroslava Mahuchikh <\/strong>claimed gold in the women&#8217;s high jump.<\/p>\n<p>Lyles ran 9.79 in a historic 100m, edging Jamaican rival Kishane Thompson by just five thousandths of a second in a dramatic photo finish. It was a victory which saw the US star add a first Olympic gold medal to the four individual world titles and five Diamond Trophies already on his mantlepiece.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian high jumper Mahuchikh also won gold by the slimmest of margins, beating Australian rival Nicola Olyslagers on countback after clearing 2.00m. The triumph completed a neat Paris double for Mahuchikh, who broke the world record with her 2.10m jump at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in the French capital last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2021 Diamond League champion <strong>Ryan Crouser<\/strong> took gold in the men&#8217;s shot put, beating fellow American and current Diamond Trophy holder Joe Kovacs with a winning throw of 22.90m.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s 100m, St. Lucia&#8217;s <strong>Julien Alfred<\/strong> claimed her country&#8217;s first ever Olympic title with a national record of 10.72, building on the strong form which saw her take her first ever Diamond League in in Monaco last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four more reigning Diamond League champions are in action on Monday night. Sweden&#8217;s <strong>Mondo Duplantis<\/strong> is hoping to defend his title in the men&#8217;s pole vault, Great Britain&#8217;s <strong>Keely Hodgkinson<\/strong> lines up in the women&#8217;s 800m and the USA&#8217;s <strong>Valarie Allman<\/strong> is favourite in the women&#8217;s discus. Ethiopia&#8217;s <strong>Gudaf Tsegay<\/strong>, meanwhile, is eyeing 5000m glory after she broke the world record at last year&#8217;s Wanda Diamond League Final in Eugene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda Diamond League legends Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Noah Lyles were among the gold medallists...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[560,6,1076,428,753,90,192,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-crouser","tag-diamond-league","tag-lafond","tag-lyles","tag-mahuchikh","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","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=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}