DESTINY IN DOHA 2019
2019 DESTINY IN DOHA
2015 World 100m hurdles champion Danielle Williams is red-hot again in 2019
Stephenie Ann McPherson will do battle in the 400 Shanieka Ricketts may be ready to reach for 15 metres in the triple jump on her way to the podium
didate. Moreover, the weak recent form of South African’s charming Luvo Manyonga makes one wonder if the Jamaican can slip past the World champion into second.
MEN’S DISCUS Fedrick Dacres is the only man to beat favoured Daniel Stahl of Sweden, just one of two throwers (with Stahl) to break 70 metres. He hasn’t finished any meet lower than 3rd, and if that last result at the Diamond League final in Brussels is thrown out, the 2015 and 2019 Pan‐Am champion is safe for at least the silver.
WOMEN’S SHOT PUT A surge of big late‐season throws is worrisome for Danniel Thomas‐ Dodd who was picked for a bronze medal by Track & Field News in July. Like Dacres, she was fourth in London. Germany’s 2015 winner Chrisna Schwanitz has just thrown 19.37, but her career best is 20.27, far beyond Dodd’s new Jamaica record of 19.55 metres. A tense bale between the two outstanding throwers awaits.
1. Juan Miguel Echevarria 2. Luvo Manyonga 3. Tajay Gayle
WOMEN’S TRIPLE JUMP Shanieka Rickes put a punctuaon mark on her medal candidacy with a last‐jump 14.93‐metre personal best to defeat Venezuela’s reigning champion Yulimar Rojas and win the Diamond League final. Rojas responded a week later by scaring the 24‐year‐old world record of 15.50 metres with a massive jump of 15.41. These two tall ladies should go 1‐2 in Doha – unless reigning Olympic champion Caterine Ibarguen recovers from the foot injury she suffered at the Pan‐Am Games.
1. Daniel Stahl 2. Fedrick Dacres 3. Lukas Weisshaidinger
1. Yulimar Rojas 2. Shanieka Rickes 3. Catherine Ibarguen
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce pulls away to win the 100 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. Back from maternity hiatus, she is a rm favourite to regain the title she won four years ago.
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