{"id":3501,"date":"2026-03-31T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/the-17-year-old-sensation-makes-his-diamond-league-debut-in-stockholm\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:44:37","slug":"the-17-year-old-sensation-makes-his-diamond-league-debut-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/the-17-year-old-sensation-makes-his-diamond-league-debut-in-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"The 17-year old sensation makes his Diamond League debut in Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>17-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus became the youngest world champion of all time when he secured gold in the indoor 800 meters at the World Championships last weekend. Now he gets his first opportunity in the Diamond League. The American has been confirmed for BAUHAUS-galan on June 7.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve watched several races from BAUHAUS-galan online in recent years. The names that have competed there have basically been among the greatest of all time. They truly love athletics in Sweden, and I\u2019m looking forward to experiencing it. It\u2019s a dream come true for me,\u201d says Lutkenhaus.<\/p>\n\n<p>American Cooper Lutkenhaus shocked the entire athletics world when he ran 1:42.27 at the U.S. Championships last summer. It was an improvement of his own U18 world record by more than three seconds, and it earned him a spot at the World Championships in Tokyo in September. <\/p>\n\n<p>Just over half a year later, he stands as a historic world champion after his victory at the Indoor World Championships in Toru\u0144, Poland\u2014the youngest ever. Lutkenhaus has been compared to both David Rudisha and Usain Bolt, and is predicted to become one of the biggest names in athletics in the coming years. <\/p>\n\n<p>It is now confirmed that Lutkenhaus will make his Diamond League debut this summer\u2014in Stockholm, no less. He will compete at BAUHAUS-galan on June 7.  <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to give everything I have at Stockholm Stadium. It\u2019s going to be a lot of fun,\u201d says Lutkenhaus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus became the youngest world champion of all time when he secured...","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":3499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stockholm-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}