The reigning world champion and world number 1 this season in the 400m hurdles, Karsten Warholm<\/b> unquestionably deserves his place among the list of star attractions at the MEETING de PARIS 2019. Indeed, the Norwegian is enjoying the best season of his career, twice over breaking this season\u2019s European record (47”33 in Oslo then 47”12 in London), which was previously held by St\u00e9phane Diagana. Competing in the French capital last year, he secured 3rd place in a race dominated by his Qatari rival Abderrahman Samba<\/b> (46\u2019\u201998, Asian and Meeting record). This year, Karsten Warholm will be lining up as one of the outright favourites at the Charl\u00e9ty Stadium.<\/p>\n
An explosive women\u2019s 100m<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Elsewhere, the density of the line-up makes it very difficult to tip the potential winners. The women\u2019s 100m is shaping up to be a remake of the 2017 edition, where the Jamaican Elaine Thompson<\/b> took victory in 10\u2019\u201991 ahead of Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lo<\/b>u (10\u2019\u201998) from the Ivory Coast. The two young women have got their season off to a flying start: 10\u2019\u201973 for Elaine Thompson<\/b> on 21 June in Kingston, 10\u2019\u201993 for Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou<\/b> on 5 July in Lausanne. Strong stuff. However, the race isn\u2019t just about one duel. The Dutch athlete Dafne Schippers<\/b> (11\u2019\u201904 in Lausanne), and above all the American Teahna Daniels<\/b>, 22, American champion this season (11\u2019\u201900 on 8 June in Austin), are not in the habit of making do with a supporting role. It\u2019s set to be explosive here too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perfect timing. Positioned less than 5 weeks before the start of the 2019 Worlds in Doha (27...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}