. It will be the great duel of speed between the Swedish pole vaulter and the Norwegian 400m hurdler.
The race between Armand Duplantis and Karsten Warholm will not be official. The Diamond League meeting in Zurich on 5 September will be used as an opportunity to celebrate something special for the fans the day before.
It will be a duel between two top athletes who are friends. It’s a fun opportunity to see these competitors go head-to-head in something they don’t specialise in.
Warholm is the big name in the 400m hurdles. He set the world record of 45.94s at Tokyo 2020, when he became Olympic champion. He also has three World Championship golds and three European Championship golds. He has won the Diamond League once. He even has 400m medals, without hurdles, at World and European indoor championships. But in Paris he finished far behind Benjamin. He was second, six tenths behind the new Olympic champion. He has a personal best of 10.49 in the 100m in 2017.
