{"id":1665,"date":"2018-05-23T20:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/2018\/05\/23\/discus-worlds-elite-assemble-at-bauhaus-galan\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T20:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:49:17","slug":"discus-worlds-elite-assemble-at-bauhaus-galan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/discus-worlds-elite-assemble-at-bauhaus-galan\/","title":{"rendered":"Discus world\u2019s elite assemble at BAUHAUS-galan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 It\u2019s going to be great, it\u2019s an extremely strong field and really inspiring to compete against the best, said Simon Pettersson, 24, who comes from the small village of Sixarby, north of Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"oneComWebmail-MsoNormal\">He is a combined events athlete who switched to discus as a 19 year-old and, with the help of coach, V\u00e9steinn Hafsteinsson, has reached the world\u2019s elite. In March, Simon threw 65.81m, which ranks 9th in the world this year and in April he beat, for the first time, his considerably more famous training partner, Daniel St\u00e5hl.<\/p>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: white; \"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; \"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; \">Fantastic start field <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>It was a high quality discus competition at BAUHAUS-galan last year, with four men over 67 metres and this year looks to be even better since all of the top three from the World Championships in London are there &#8211; Andrius Gudzius, from Lithuania, Daniel St\u00e5hl, Sweden and American, Mason Finley. In addition, is last year\u2019s winner Fedrick Dacres, Jamaica and three-time World Champion, Robert Harting \u2013 then, of course, Simon Pettersson. <\/div>\n<p class=\"oneComWebmail-MsoNormal\">\u2013 My best memory from Stockholm Olympic Stadium is from the Sweden v Finland match last year when Daniel, Axel H\u00e4rstedt and I took maximum points. Then also when I was just 12 or 13 and thought it was an incredibly large arena, Simon said, laughing. <\/p>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: white; \"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; \"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; \">34-1 in a private dual<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>Simon belongs to the same training group as the two-year older Daniel St\u00e5hl and they have competed many times. According to the statistics website, Tilastopaja, the score is 34-1 in Daniel\u2019s favour but Simon has the most recent win from a competition in USA a month ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u2013 I threw almost a metre longer and to beat such a quality thrower as Daniel is special. The first time we met was at the Swedish Championships in Bor\u00e5s 2013 when Daniel came second and I was sixth. They will meet once more at BAUHAUS-galan on Sunday 10 June.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><i>Jonas Hedman<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer he made it to the final in his first World Championships and this year he has...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1665","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\/1665","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=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}