In the Diamond League of Lausanne Tendoglou, Stefanidis, Djenko

Miltos Tedoglou at 21:35 Greek time will continue his efforts in the distance at the Diamond League of Athletics in Lausanne on Friday a few days after this year’s top performance in Europe, which he set at the European Team Championships with 8.34. The “golden” Olympic champion of Tokyo will face the Swiss Simon Ehammer (8.32 this year), the Indian Sreesankaar (8.41 this year) and the Italian Mattia Furlani (8.24 this year). The 25-year-old champion is competing in his third consecutive Diamond League after victory in Paris and third place in Oslo.

Katerina Stefanidis (21.06) will take part in the fourth meeting in a row in the pole vault series. The event’s world champion has a best performance this year of 4.55 from the series meeting in Doha. In the Swiss city, she will face American Katie Moon with 4.81 this year, Slovenia’s Tina Sutei with 4.76 this year, Australia’s Nina Kennedy with 4.77 this year, Finland’s Vilma Murto with 4.75 this year, and Britain’s Holly Bradshaw.

Finally, Elina Jengo (20.15), two days after her participation in the Ostrava meeting and the 58.83 she scored there, will also compete in Lausanne. The European javelin champion will face Norway’s Sigrid Borge, who has this year’s best performance in the world with 66.50, the “bronze” Olympic champion, Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi, with 65.09 this year, Australia’s Mackenzie Little with 64.10 this year, but also Austria’s Victoria Hudson with 64.05 this year.