The stellar long jump filed is headed by world leading Luvo Manyonga. He faces World Champion Greg Rutherford while the Stockholm crowd will be cheering for Michel Torn\u00e9us, multi-medallist at the Europeans.<\/p>\n
Three months ago Michel Torn\u00e9us was on the verge of defending his European Indoor Title when Izmir Smaljlaj surprised everyone by securing Albania’s first ever gold medal in his last jump in Beograd.
Torn\u00e9us raised the Swedish long jump record to 8.44 last year briefly after another European Silver, behind Greg Rutherford, in Amsterdam. The British World Champion will be present in Stockholm together with Luvo Manyonga. Once a teenage-prodigy the South African has reached a new level. He, in his turn, lost the gold medal by one centimetre at the Rio Olympics. After that he has produced five competitions in the 8.46-8.65-range. <\/p>\n
"I am partly coached by Dwight Phillips and we are both sure that Manyonga is going to break Mike Powell’s world record" said Torn\u00e9us who has joined Lauren Seagrave’s group of athletes at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.<\/p>\n
The long jump in the Stockholm 1912 Olympic Stadium also features World Silver Medallist Fabrice Lapierre, Australia, South Africa’s Rushwal Samaai who jumped 8.49, behind Manyonga at the South African Nationals in March and a second Stockholmer in Andreas Otterling, Indoor European Medallist coming back from a 15 months long injury break.<\/p>\n
The discus ring features the new IAAF Diamond League format with simultaneous men\u2019s and women\u2019s competition. Olympic Champion Sandra Perkovic will be joined by Denia Caballero. The Cuban is the last woman to beat Perkovic. That happened in the World Finals of 2015.<\/p>\n
Olympic Silver Medallist M\u00e9lina Robert-Michon, last season’s world leader Yaim\u00e9 P\u00e9rez and World Bronze Medallist Nadine M\u00fcller will be present together with two male Olympic Champions, brothers Robert and Christoph Harting, World Champion Piotr Ma\u0142achowski, World Silver Medallist Philip Milanov, world leader Fedrick Dacres and two Swedes, Olympic finalist Axel H\u00e4rdstedt and Daniel St\u00e5hl who has thrown over 68 meters in three of his competitions this spring.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\nBuy your tickets to BAUHAUS-galan 18 June 2017<\/link>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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