Tomorrow is the ninth Diamond League meet of the year in Glasgow, GBR. This two day meet should provide loads of excitement with some big names of Track and field showing up such as Allyson Felix, Sanya Richards-Ross, Abeba Aregawi, David Rudisha and Christian Taylor. Here's a preview of all the events taking place.
On day one First on the schedule is the men's shot put. This should be a great competition between all three Olympic medalists along with world champions and new faces. One of about four or five guys could take the top spot; David Storl, Reese Hoffa, Joe Kovacs and Tomasz Majewski. Kovacs and Storl have the top two throws in the world this year but you can never count out the likes of Hoffa and Majewski, although Majewski has not had a great season so far.
My top 3
1. Storl
2. Kovacs
3. Hoffa
Next up is the women's discus, and can anyone challenge Sandra Perkovic, she has been very dominant this year winning all four of her Diamond league events with all of them being the top 4 marks in the world this year. the only other woman over 67 meters is Dani Samuels.
Top 3
1. Perkovic
2. Dani Samuels
3. Gia Lewis-Smallwood
Men's 400 hurdles is a toss up. From what has been shown this season all for the men are running fairly close times this season. All but one member of the field has broken 49 seconds this year and none of them have gone sub-48. The two favorites are Javier Culson and Michael Tinsley based on their wins this year at other diamond league events. Not too be counted out though are two Olympic Champions Felix Sanchez and Ashton Eaton. Sanchez has been rounding into form the last couple weeks and Eaton is trying out a new event from the decathlon. Also with a faster time this year than both these men is Roxroy Cato who looks poised for a breakthrough.
Top 3
1. Tinsley
2. Culson
3. Eaton
The Men's 200 is not a Diamond league event this meet but still proves to be a good race. Some of the men slated to run include the two fastest men this year with Alonso Edwards and Warren Weir. also in the race is Wallace Spearmon who has the fastest personal best of the men and is in lane eight which is great for him because he is not a great turn runner. Also Curtis Mitchell recently won the US Championship at this distance.
Top3
1. Weir
2. Mitchell
3. Edwards
The Women's Long Jump should be a great competition. Tianna Bartoletta is the favorite with her 7.02m jump a month ago, she also has the three longest jumps this year. Behind her there are four women who could challenge based on their personal bests or seasons bests; Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Sosthene Moguenara, Funmi Jimoh, and Shara Proctor. These four ladies have all jumped with in 5cm of each other this year with the later three all boasting personal bests of 6.95m or greater. But with jumps you never know what can happen there could be a gust of wind that pushes someone to a far distance or someone can foul all of their jumps.
Top 3
1. Bartoletta
2. Johnson-Thompson
3. Proctor
The women's 1500 should be a fantastic race with the reigning World Champion Abiba Aregawi looking to redeem herself from her disappointing performance in Paris last week. Sifan Hassan who last week won in Paris in a world leading time of 3:57.00 looks to keep up that momentum, along with Helen Obiri who has the second fastest time in the world this year and finished second in Paris last week. The US has a big interest in this race with Jordan Hassay, Treneir Moser, and MOrgan Uceny all looking for fast times.
Top 3
1. Obiri
2. Hassan
3. Aregawi
The Men's 5000m looks to be a good race with some big names like Edwin Soi, Thomas Longosiwa, Bernard Lagat, Tariku Bekele, Dejen Gebremeskel, and Hagos Ghebrhiwet. If this race goes with the pace makers it should be a fast one. Lagat is looking to redeem himself after lackluster performance at Prefontaine, though he did comeback to win the US Championships.
Top 3
1. Soi
2. Gebremeskel
3. Lagat
The Women's 400m should be a thrilling race with 4 of the top 6 fastest women in the field. Francena Mccorory looks poised to run another fast time, but she has to beware of reigning Olympic Champion Sanya Richards-Ross and Novlene Williams-Mills. Also Amantle Montsho and Natasha Hastings cannot be counted out.
Top 3
1. Richards-Ross
2. Mccorory
3. Montsho
Closing day one looks to be a fast men's 100m. With a lot of big names not running, this puts Mike Rodgers as the Favorite with a seasons best time of 9.95. Richard Thompson has run faster this year 9.82 but Rodgers has been more consistent. But Yohan Blake cannot be counted out, even though he looked terrible over 200 last week he is still the tied second fastest man ever. all runners in the field have ran 10.12 or faster this year with 6 of the 9 running 10.03 or faster. This race looks to be a close finish and who knows exactly who might win, I'm putting my money on Rodgers, but who knows.
Top 3
1. Rodgers
2. Blake
3. Thompson
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