{"id":1706,"date":"2023-07-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/2023\/07\/02\/perkovic-the-diamond-league-queen-continues-to-sparkle\/"},"modified":"2023-07-02T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T17:00:00","slug":"perkovic-the-diamond-league-queen-continues-to-sparkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/perkovic-the-diamond-league-queen-continues-to-sparkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkovi\u0107 the Diamond League queen continues to sparkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- bblive widget --><\/p>\n<div data-bblive-stream=\"Skpojaanu\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Making her 70th appearance in a Diamond League competition, Croatia\u2019s Sandra Perkovi\u0107 &#8211; the 2012 and 2016 Olympic discus champion &#8211; claimed an astonishing 46th victory with a fine 64.37m effort in the second round.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 33-year-old two-time world champion and six-time European champion followed up a second place finish in Paris and third position in Oslo with the Stockholm win, which was comfortably ahead of European bronze medalist, Jorinde van Klinke of the Netherlands (62.96m).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis victory means a lot for me &#8211; after 13 years, I am still here winning Diamond Leagues,\u201d Perkovi\u0107 exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI have all those numbers in mind because in athletics everything is about numbers. Stockholm is always special for me and I want to thank the amazing crowd because without them it wouldn&#8217;t have been possible to have so many good throws.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u00b4s too bad that I miss out on the Olympic standard by 1cm but that\u2019s for Budapest then, because this has been my last competition before the World Championships. I actually had a throw that could have been 66m, but I fell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAfter so many years on the circuit I am getting cautious about everything. So of course I had four towels in my bag and lots of magnesium. But the most important thing is to believe in yourself. It doesn&#8217;t matter what the weather is. To find that energy with the audience is important. The speaker said that the Diamond Queen is coming to the circle so I needed to show something. So I am really proud about this performance &#8211; I needed to win a Diamond League this year, because I got engaged, it only took twelve years!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Olympic champion, Valarie Allman of the USA &#8211; the recent winner in Florence and Paris, and runner-up in Oslo &#8211; surprisingly failed to register a valid throw.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bblive.bildbyran.se\/embed\/6246_Skpojaanu?bblive=nodebug\" type=\"application\/javascript\"><\/script><!-- bblive widget end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making her 70th appearance in a Diamond League competition, Croatia\u2019s Sandra Perkovi\u0107 &#8211;...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1706","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\/1706","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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}