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Oliver, Ibarguen and Barshim Seek Final Flourish Before the IAAF World Championships - IAAF

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Oliver, Ibarguen and Barshim Seek Final Flourish Before the IAAF World Championships

Published by IAAF on July 29, 2015

Stockholm’s staging of the last IAAF Diamond League meeting before the IAAF World Championships get underway in Beijing just over three weeks from now offers some of the favourites to succeed in the Chinese capital a final opportunity to lay down their markers.

For some of those athlete, such as reigning world 110m hurdles champion David Oliver, there is the additional opportunity of effectively securing a Diamond Race title ahead of the Diamond League finals in Zurich and Brussels in early September.

The 33-year-old US athlete – who won in the Swedish capital’s historic 2012 Olympic stadium two year ago –  has a five-point lead over his nearest challengers despite not having raced at the last Diamond League meeting in London last weekend. 

One of those challengers, fellow American Jason Richardson, the winner in the London 2012 Olympic Games stadium, was an early inclusion in the Stockholm field but Oliver’s task got a lot more complicated last week when the organisers of Stockholm Bauhaus Athletics signed up the other two men in closest pursuit, namely France’s Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Cuba’s Orlando Ortega, and the latter leads this year’s world lists with 12.94.



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