{"id":2937,"date":"2025-08-08T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/salwa-eid-naser-in-400m-and-a-promising-5000m\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:00:47","slug":"salwa-eid-naser-in-400m-and-a-promising-5000m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/salwa-eid-naser-in-400m-and-a-promising-5000m\/","title":{"rendered":"Salwa Eid Naser in 400m and a promising 5000m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bahrain\u2019s Salwa Eid Naser, the third-fastest woman in history over one lap, will headline a Diamond + Plus 400m at Athletissima (with increased prize money) on 20 August. She will face, among others, the Netherlands\u2019 Lieke Klaver, currently leading the 2025 Diamond League standings.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>The Lausanne meeting organisers have almost finalised their line-up. Among the latest confirmed names, the presence of <strong>Salwa Eid Naser<\/strong> (personal best 48.14, the fastest of the 21st century), <strong>Lieke Klaver<\/strong>, and American <strong>Isabella Whittaker<\/strong>(2nd in the Diamond League ranking for the event) promises a scorching lap. <\/p>\n\n<p>The 5000 m will also be highly competitive. Switzerland\u2019s <strong>Dominic Lobalu<\/strong>, European champion over 10,000 m, will take on a formidable Ethiopian squad led by <strong>Hagos Gebrhiwet<\/strong> (second-fastest performer of all time) as well as Americans <strong>Grant Fisher<\/strong>, double Olympic bronze medallist, and <strong>Graham Blanks<\/strong>, one of the season\u2019s revelations in his debut on the professional circuit. <\/p>\n\n<p>In the men\u2019s 100 m, <strong>Courtney Lindsey<\/strong>, runner-up at the US Trials in 9.82, will challenge his compatriot <strong>Noah Lyles<\/strong> and Jamaica\u2019s <strong>Kishane Thompson<\/strong>, already announced. In the women\u2019s 200 m, American <strong>McKenzie Long<\/strong> and Dominican <strong>Marileydi Paulino<\/strong> complete an already strong line-up. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain\u2019s Salwa Eid Naser, the third-fastest woman in history over one lap, will headline a...","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lausanne-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}