Two weeks after winning the Monaco Diamond League title, Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim will renew his rivalry with his joint Olympic gold medallist Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy at the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne, today.
This penultimate stage of the Wanda Diamond League of 2022 will be decisive, in several disciplines, to collect the points allowing the athletes to qualify for the final on the 7th and the 8th of September in Zurich.
Barshim, who also needs a few more points to qualify for the final, will also face fellow world medallists Woo Sanghyeok and Andriy Protsenko today.
The three-time world champion jumped 2.30 for victory in Monaco and will be aiming to continue his winning journey, that includes third consecutive high jump world title in Eugene.
The stacked fields in Lausanne feature 12 recently-crowned individual world champions, the same number of individual Olympic gold medallists from Tokyo and nine champions from last year’s Diamond League.
