{"id":106644,"date":"2026-07-22T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/106644\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:07:25","slug":"wanyonyi-arop-to-headline-zurich-diamond-league-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/106644\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanyonyi, Arop to headline Zurich Diamond League next month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following their meet-up at the Oslo leg in early June – when Wanyonyi finished second and Arop third – the pair, who have been frontrunners in the two-lap event for the last four years. <\/p>\n

They had been expected to matchup at the recently-concluded London Diamond League last weekend, only for the Canadian to miss out with reported visa and travel issues.<\/p>\n

\"Wanyonyi,<\/a><\/p>\n

Their latest installment of a rivalry that dates back to the World Athletics Championships in Oregon in 2022, will made all the more sweeter, with star names also expected to share the track with them.<\/p>\n

Joining the two World Champions will be Algeria\u2019s Djamel Sedjati – who won silver at both the 2022 and 2025 World Championships – and Frenchman Gabriel Tual, who won the European Championship title two years ago, and has joined the ranks of the great middle-distance runners with historically fast times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeltklasse Z\u00fcrich unites the four fastest currently active 800-meter runners in history in one race,\u201d the athlete announcement read.<\/p>\n

\"Zablon<\/a><\/p>\n

For Wanyonyi, the race will provide another sharp assessment of his credentials in the event this season, where he has been uncharacteristically himself.<\/p>\n

After back-to-back runners-up finishes in Rabat and Oslo, the new 1000-meter world record rolder was a disappointing fourth at the London Diamond League, this despite looking strong with 200m to go.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

With a distraction in the form of the 2026 Commonwealth Games coming up, the 21-year-old will hope to be back in top form in 36 days time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following their meet-up at the Oslo leg in early June – when Wanyonyi finished second and Arop third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[52155,52154,52156,5279,46864,51,5282],"class_list":["post-106644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-djamel-sedjati","tag-emmanuel-wanyonyi","tag-gabriel-tual","tag-marco-arop","tag-wanda-diamond-league","tag-zurich","tag-zurich-diamond-league"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116964022464040847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}