{"id":2952,"date":"2025-08-12T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/27-olympic-medallists-at-athletissima-kendricks-and-karalis-in-the-pole-vault\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:59:03","slug":"27-olympic-medallists-at-athletissima-kendricks-and-karalis-in-the-pole-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/27-olympic-medallists-at-athletissima-kendricks-and-karalis-in-the-pole-vault\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Olympic medallists at Athletissima, Kendricks and Karalis in the pole vault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Twenty-seven medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will compete in the 50th edition of Athletissima in Lausanne next week, including the complete Olympic podiums in four events: the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 800m, the women\u2019s high jump, and the men\u2019s long jump. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><br\/>The event will kick off with the pole vault competition at the City Event on Tuesday, 19 August, in Ouchy (Lausanne), on the shores of Lake Geneva. Two major favourites will be there: <strong>Sam Kendricks (USA)<\/strong> and <strong>Emmanouil Karalis (GRE)<\/strong>, silver and bronze medallists respectively in Paris. <strong>Kurtis Marschall <\/strong>(AUS), <strong>Ernest John Obiena (PHI)<\/strong>, and <strong>Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)<\/strong> will also be competing. <br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Last year, Armand Duplantis set the best-ever pole vault mark achieved outside of a stadium (City Event) in Ouchy, clearing 6.15m. This year, the Swede will not be present due to other sporting commitments in Sweden. Nevertheless, the show promises to be spectacular.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Four events will be particularly in the spotlight during the main Diamond League meeting at the Stade de la Pontaise on 20 August, as they will bring together all the Olympic medallists: Men\u2019s 800m: <strong>Emmanuel Wanyonyi (KEN)<\/strong>, <strong>Marco Arop (CAN)<\/strong>, and <strong>Djamel Sedjati (ALG)<\/strong>; Women\u2019s 800m: <strong>Keely Hodgkinson (GBR)<\/strong>, <strong>Tsige Duguma (ETH)<\/strong>, and <strong>Mary Moraa (KEN)<\/strong>; Women\u2019s high jump: <strong>Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)<\/strong>, <strong>Nicola Olyslagers (AUS)<\/strong>, and <strong>Eleanor Patterson (AUS)<\/strong>; Men\u2019s long jump: <strong>Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)<\/strong>, <strong>Wayne Pinnock (JAM)<\/strong>, and <strong>Mattia Furlani (ITA).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>The men\u2019s 100m also promises to be thrilling, with Olympic champion <strong>Noah Lyles (USA)<\/strong> facing his Paris runner-up <strong>Kishane Thompson (JAM)<\/strong>, as already announced.<\/p>\n\n<p>Other Paris 2024 Olympic gold medallists present will include Masai Russell (USA) in the 100m hurdles, <strong>Haruka Kitaguchi (JPN<\/strong>) in the javelin, <strong>Marileidy Paulino (DOM)<\/strong> running the 200m, and <strong>Nafissatou Thiam (BEL, heptathlon)<\/strong>, who will compete in the high jump.<\/p>\n\n<p>Originally announced, Julien Alfred will not compete in the three Diamond League meetings in August due to injury.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Swiss stars competing<\/strong> in Lausanne will include Angelica Moser (pole vault), Ditaji Kambundji (100m hurdles), Simon Ehammer (long jump), Dominic Lobalu (5000m), Audrey Werro (800m), Jason Joseph (110m hurdles), Timoth\u00e9 Mumenthaler (100m), Marcel Hug (1500m wheelchair), and the women\u2019s 4x100m relay team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-seven medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will compete in the 50th edition of...","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2952","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\/2952","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=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}