Cultural Dessert

London Athletics Meet

25 July 2023

On Sunday we were back at the London Stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London for the Diamond League London Athletics Meet. This was billed as the biggest one-day athletics meeting in the world and we were part of a crowd of 50,000 watching an impressive line-up of Olympic and World Champions from across the globe. We didn’t move from our seats for just over four hours of gripping competition. With continuously overlapping track and field events coming thick and fast there is always something to watch - often too much happening at the same time! It was great to see some familiar British athletes competing - including Dina Asher-Smith, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Hannah Cockcroft. We enjoyed a very entertaining Women’s Pole Vault competition, won by Wilma Murto of Finland. It was great to be there to see Zharnel Hughes beat the British record in the Men’s 200m set by John Regis in 1993. Femke Bol from the Netherlands looked outstanding in beating the European record for the Women's 400m Hurdles, with the third-fastest time ever. And there was an incredibly exciting finale to the afternoon as Scotland’s Jemma Reekie came from third place on the final bend to win the Women's 800m.

Labels: Sport

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