{"id":639,"date":"2015-06-01T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/new-york-world-leader-jenn-suhr-ready-for-adidas-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T16:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:20:33","slug":"new-york-world-leader-jenn-suhr-ready-for-adidas-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/new-york-world-leader-jenn-suhr-ready-for-adidas-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"New York: World-Leader Jenn Suhr Ready for adidas Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning Olympic gold medalists <strong>Jenn Suhr<\/strong> and <strong>Sally Pearson<\/strong> lead the latest lineup of top athletes headed to the <strong>adidas Grand Prix<\/strong> in NYC on June 13, organizers announced today. <\/p>\n<p>Suhr, the World Indoor Record-holder and 15-time U.S. champion, has stormed back from a foot injury that forced her to withdraw from the USATF Indoor Championships this winter. At a meet near her home in upstate New York on May 24, the 33-year-old jumped 4.81 meters\/15 feet, 9.25 inches, the highest in the world so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson, the 28-year-old from Australia who was ranked #1 in the world in 2011 and 2012 in the 100-meter hurdles, is also the 2011 World Champion. She will be competing at the <strong>adidas Grand Prix<\/strong> for the first time since 2010. Also returning to NYC is <strong>Christine Ohuruogu<\/strong> of Great Britain, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist and 2012 Olympic silver medalist at 400 meters who won world titles in 2007 and 2013. <\/p>\n<p>They will join <strong>Usain Bolt<\/strong>, <strong>David Rudisha<\/strong>,<strong> Blanka<\/strong> <strong>Vla\u0161i\u0107, <\/strong>and <strong>Aje\u00e9 Wilson<\/strong> as headliners at the 11th-annual <strong>adidas Grand Prix<\/strong> on Saturday, June 13. Backstretch tickets for the event are still available at <link http:\/\/www.adidasgrandprix.com>www.adidasgrandprix.com<\/link> or by calling <strong>1-877-849-8722.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pearson, Suhr, and Ohuruogu bring the total of Olympic or World Champions at the 2015 <strong>adidas Grand Prix<\/strong> to more than 35, and the total of medalists to more than 70.<\/p>\n<p>One of those medalists, 21-year-old <strong>Pedro Pablo Pichardo<\/strong> of Cuba, is having a spectacular season, setting a National Record in each of his three competitions so far. The most recent, a leap of 18.08 meters\/59 feet, 4 inches, makes him the third-best outdoor triple jumper in history. Pichardo, the 2012 World Junior Champion, won a silver medal at the 2013 World Championships. He will face American <strong>Will Claye<\/strong>, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist who was ranked #2 in the world last year in the triple jump. Claye is also the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist and 2014 USATF Indoor Champion in the long jump.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s shot put should be another field event that produces fireworks, featuring three Americans who have been ranked #1 in the world and a fourth who owns the three longest throws in the world this year. <strong>Ryan Whiting<\/strong>, a two-time World Indoor Champion (2012, 2014) and 2013 World Championships silver medalist was ranked #1 in the world in 2013; <strong>Christian Cantwell<\/strong>, the 2009 World Champion, was ranked #1 in 2009 and 2010; and <strong>Reese Hoffa<\/strong>, the 2007 World Champion, has finished in the top spot four times: 2006, 2007, 2012, and 2014. <\/p>\n<p>They will all have to contend with <strong>Joe Kovacs,<\/strong> the 2012 Big Ten champion out of Penn State who missed making the 2012 Olympic team when he finished fourth behind the much-decorated trio but has a world-leading throw already this year of 22.35 meters\/73 feet, 4 inches, making him the #8 U.S. shot putter in history.<\/p>\n<p>Also added to the lineup are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dejen Gebremeskel<\/strong> of Ethiopia, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist at 5000 meters;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Oliver<\/strong>, the 2013 World Champion and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the 110-meter hurdles;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lolo Jones<\/strong>, the two-time World Indoor Champion in the 60-meter hurdles who competed for Team USA in the bobsled at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tianna Bartoletta<\/strong>, the 2005 World Champion in the long jump and 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4&#215;100-meter relay. Bartoletta plans to double at the <strong>adidas Grand Prix<\/strong> in the long jump and 100 meters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Champ Sally Pearson, TJ Sensation Pedro Pichardo Also Set for NYC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}