Australian record holder Stewart McSweyn will get a chance for revenge against Jye Edwards, who upset him at the Australian Olympic trials in April. The absence of Jakob Ingebrigtsen is a bummer, but in a way this race is more interesting now as there is less certainty about the winner.
American Kate Grace, who was 7th in the Olympic Trials final on Sunday in 1:59.17, is making a quick turnaround and will also race in Oslo. She will likely have to do that to win on Thursday as she’ll face a pair of women who ran pbs in Chorzow on June 20 in Australia’s Catriona Bisset (1:58.09 natoinal record) and Germany’s Katharina Trost (1:58.68). Halimah Nakaayi of Uganda is the world champion and entered here, but she has yet to break 2:00 in either of her 800’s this year. Can he put down a marker and send a message to the Americans in Oslo? But Andre De Grasse is the reigning World/Olympic silver medallist and has been in solid form himself, running 19.89 to finish just. The Americans have swept the Olympic medals in the men’s 200 six times, most recently in 2004, and a seventh is possible in 2021. The four fastest men in the 200 this year are all Americans, including the three 2021 Olympians in Noah Lyles, Kenny Bednarek, and Erriyon Knighton. Top Ethiopians Letesenbet Gidey and Gudaf Tsegay are absent, but Tsehay Gemechu (3rd in Ethiopian trials 10k in 30:19) and Fantu Worku (4th in Ethiopian trials 5k in 14:29) should provide formidable competition. We’ll get a better idea after Thursday’s race as she gets a rematch with Chebet and 2019 Worlds silver medalist Margaret Kipkemboi.
Is this a sign that the 31-year-old Obiri’s time at the top of the sport is fading? Or can she turn it around and take gold in Tokyo, the only major title that has eluded her? Then, at the Kenyan Olympic trials on June 17, Obiri was upset again, finishing second in the 5k behind Lilian Rengeruk (Chebet was 5th and left off the team). Instead, it was a new star, 21-year-old Kenyan Beatrice Chebet, who emerged to take the win in an impressive 8:27, Obiri fading to fourth in 8:33. Most expected two-time defending 5k world champion Hellen Obiri to notch yet another Diamond League victory when she held the lead on the back straight of the 3k at the Doha Diamond League on May 28.
He’ll face off against some of Kenya’s best in Nicholas Kimeli, Jacob Krop, and Michael Kibet, who went 1-4-5 at the Kenyan Olympic trials in the 5,000. ET)Ģ019 World Championship 10,000m silver medalist Yomif Kejelcha, who finished second in that event in the Ethiopian Olympic trials on June 8 in 26:49, has the fastest pb in the field at 7:28.00. When: Thursday, July 1 (TV window from 2-4 p.m.
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