{"id":1229,"date":"2015-06-30T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/2015\/06\/30\/the-world-is-coming-to-monaco\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:41:43","slug":"the-world-is-coming-to-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/the-world-is-coming-to-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"The World is Coming to Monaco !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">Justin <b>GATLIN<\/b>, winner of the 100m during the 2014 Diamond League, is on point this year. During the IAAF Diamond League meeting of Doha, he established a new personal best of 9.74 on the 100m; this weekend during the US selections, he performed an outstanding 200m in 19.57, smashing once again his personal best, established in Monaco last year in 19.68. This year, he comes back for a certain 3<sup>rd<\/sup> victory in a row after 2014 on the 200m and 2013 on the 100m, event that he will be performing this year. Is the meeting record of 9.82 threatened?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">World champion in 2013, German Rafael <b>HOLZDEPPE<\/b> will be Renaud LAVILLENIE\u2019s greatest challenger, winner of the IAAF Diamond League in pole vault in 2014. After a thrilling competition last week in Cheboksary, they both passed 5.82m, the Frenchman winning the contest thanks to a fewer number of tries. Somehow, Holzdeppe has just set a new personal best of 5.92m in Baku.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">On the 1500m event, the two women in form those two previous years will be meeting: the Swedish Abeba <b>AREGAWI<\/b> and the American Jenny <b>SIMPSON<\/b>. With a personal best of 3:56.54 and a 2013 world title, the Swedish will nevertheless face a great challenger that is the American. Indeed, Simpson is the 2011 world champion on this event and more importantly the winner of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League with a personal best of 3:57.22, with only a 0.10s difference with the American record\u2026 World Leader in 2015 with a 3:59.31 time, Simpson as well as Netherlands\u2019 Sifan HASSAN, the European Champion, will fight to beat Herculis\u2019 meeting record of 3:56.97.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">In the women\u2019s high jump contest, Russia will be in the spotlight as the Olympic Champion Anna <b>CHICHEROVA<\/b>, the World Champion Svtelana <b>SHKOLINA<\/b> and the winner of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League Maria <b>KUCHINA<\/b> will all be coming this year. They will confront Ruth BEITIA as well as the Croatian Blanka <b>VLASIC<\/b>, back to the top of her form in 2015. Monaco\u2019s last women\u2019s high jump event in 2013 ended with a bar at 2.01m, height that these women will certainly want to beat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">To conclude, who could be better than an Olympic, World and European Champion, and winner of the IAAF Diamond League? The pitcher Sandra <b>PERKOVIC<\/b>, undefeated in 2015, will be coming this year. If ever she leads here in Monaco, she would win the Diamond League after only 5 events (under the condition that she participates to the finals). She will undoubtedly try with great effort to beat the meeting record of 69.30m, set 23 years ago already\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several world champions and winners of last year\u2019s IAAF Diamond League will be meeting in the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monaco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}