Nanjing, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The 2024 Yangtze River Delta International Track and Field Diamond Championships will be held at the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium on the 27th.
The Yangtze River Delta International Athletics Diamond Championships is the second event of the World Athletics Diamond League this season, and as an innovative exploration of international sports events jointly organized by the Yangtze River Delta region, the event was co-hosted by Shanghai and Suzhou for the first time this year. There are 7 men's and 9 women's events.
In the throwing event, the Chinese team has a total of 6 female players in three events. As the record holder, the 35-year-old Gong Lijiao and teammate Song Jiayuan will face the world's top two players in the women's shot put, Jackson of the United States and Canada's Milton, while Liu Shiying and Lu Huihui will compete in the women's javelin event, and their main opponents are the 2023 World Championships champion and runner-up in Budapest. Japan's Hazura Kitaguchi will take on Colombia's Luis Hurtado, while in the women's discus throw, Eugene's world champion Feng Bin will join Jiang Zhichao, and the two American players Tausaga and Allman, who finished in the top two places at the World Championships in Budapest, will also compete.
Two Jiangsu players, Wang Jianan and Shi Yuhao, will join forces in the men's long jump. Shi Yuhao jumped 8.43m in the 2018 Diamond League Shanghai Station, but was seriously injured in the last jump, which hit him in the ascending period. Now 25 years old, he runs and jumps double training, and re-stands in the Diamond League in his hometown, which has a different meaning for Shi Yuhao. In addition, Chinese Taipei player Lin Yutang, who jumped 8.40m at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships, will also participate.
The 100-meter trapeze battle also has Chinese athletes, and Chen Guanfeng will compete with three world champions, Blake, Coleman and Kerry. Wu Yanni, who has set a new personal best in the indoor 60m hurdles four times, will also compete in the women's 100m hurdles.
In addition, Wang Zhen will participate in the men's high jump, Hangzhou Asian Games champion Xiong Shiqi will compete in the women's long jump, Huang Bokai and Yao Jie will participate in the men's pole vault, Liu Dezhu, Xu Zhuoyi, Zhang Deshun and Xu Shuangshuang will participate in the men's 800m, men's 110m hurdles, women's 5000m and women's 3000m steeplechase.