For four months, Canada's elite track and field athletes have competed for a chance to become its first Diamond League champion since 2011. A late push to qualify for the Sept. 16-17 Final begins this week for Marco Arop, Aaron Brown and Andre De Grasse and Sept. 8 for Sarah Mitton.
Instead, they will run the 200 in Zurich at 3:41 p.m. ET in a field featuring five of the nine runners from the Aug. 25 world final, including Americans Noah Lyles and Erriyon Knighton .
De Grasse and Kyree King of the United States are tied for eighth in the Diamond League standings. King isn't in Zurich but could boost his point total at the last pre-Final meet on Sept. 8 in Brussels. De Grasse was sixth in last week's 200 final in Budapest in 20.14 seconds and told CBC Sports he needs to become a contender again in the 100 next season."I know my last 100 [metres] is good. It's that first 100 I gotta clean up," the Markham, Ont.
The 24-year-old from Edmonton will be one of eight 2023 world champions competing in Xiamen, site of the first Diamond League in China since 2019. In August, World Athletics announced it would replace Shenzhen on the competition calendar for the next 10 years.Canada's Marco Arop speeds to 800m gold at the worldsThe Edmonton runner captured Canada's first-ever gold medal in the 800 meters after a dominant second lap.
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