They will be joined by eight new African Champions. The African Championships took place in Marrakech, Morroco from 10 to 14 August and among the champions travelling to Stockholm is current 800m world leader and Olympic silver medallist, Nijel Amos from Botswana, who has run 1:42.45 this year.
Another interesting name is Kenyan, Julius Yego who, last month, became Africa\u2019s first ever Diamond League winner in a field event when he won the javelin in Glasgow.\u2028\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n
Ten European Champions\u2028<\/strong> Eight African Champions<\/strong>\u2028 Ten European Champions from last week\u2019s competition in Z\u00fcrich will compete in Stockholm...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stockholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Adam Kszczot, Poland, 800 m\u2028
– Renaud Lavillenie, France, Pole Vault\u2028
– David Storl, Germany, Shot\u2028 Put
– Antti Ruuskanen, Finland, Javelin\u2028
– Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 4×100 m (100 m at DN Galan) \u2028
– Sifan Hassan, Netherlands, 1500 m
\u2028- Meraf Bahta, H\u00e4lle IF, Sweden, 5000 m (1500m at DN Galan)\u2028
– Ruth Beitia, Spain, High Jump\u2028
– Eloyse Lesueur, France, Long Jump
\u2028- Sandra Perkovic, Croatia, Discus\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n
– Nijel Amos, Botswana, 800 m\u2028
– Ayanleh Souleiman, Djibouti, 1500 m (800 m at DN Galan)\u2028
– Caleb Ndiku, Kenya, 5000 m\u2028
– Cornel Fredericks, South Africa, 400 m hurdles\u2028
– Zarck Visser, South Africa, Long Jump
\u2028- Godfrey Mokoena, South Africa, Triple Jump (Long Jump at DN Galan)\u2028
– Julius Yego, Kenya, Javelin
\u2028- Hiwot Ayalew, Ethiopia, 3000 m steeplechase
\u2028
Jonas Hedman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"