Showing posts with label Xiamen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xiamen. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 26 September 2023
CHINA 🇨🇳 TO HOST OPENING TWO EVENTS IN 2024 DIAMOND LEAGUE
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| Diamondleague.com |
The 2024 Diamond League will begin its 15-stop season with two meets in China, in Xiamen and Shanghai, in April while Brussels will stage the two-day season finale in September, organisers said on Monday.
Last year's Diamond League was also scheduled to have 15 meets but the Shanghai stop was cancelled after COVID-19 restrictions caused delays in the renovation of the venue.
Xiamen will host the opening event on April 20, a week before Shanghai returns to the calendar for the first time since 2019.
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
COLEMAN ROARS TO XIAMEN 100M TITLE
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| Reuters |
American Christian Coleman powered to victory in the men's 100 metres race at the Xiamen Diamond League as the premier one-day series returned to China for the first time in four years on Saturday after COVID disruptions.
Coleman crossed the line in 9.83 seconds to draw huge roars at the Egret Stadium in Xiamen, which replaced Shenzhen and will continue to host one of the two Diamond League meetings in the Asian nation until 2032.
He was ahead of Jamaican Kishane Thompson who clocked 9.85 seconds for silver. American 2022 world champion Fred Kerley, who failed to qualify for the final at the Budapest world championships last month, took bronze in 9.96 seconds.
Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs has barely raced since his Tokyo Olympics victory and finished seventh.
Coleman led from start to finish to equal Noah Lyles' world-leading time in 2023 and said he was encouraged to respond following his fifth-placed finish at the worlds.
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