News28 Jun 2010


World season leaders Oliver and Demus head for Eugene – Samsung Diamond League

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David Oliver en route to his commanding 12.99 victory in Shanghai (© Errol Anderson)

Whether it’s the men’s 110m Hurdles or the women’s 400m Hurdles, the barrier races at next Saturday’s Prefontaine Classic - Samsung Diamond League (3 July) will be filled with some of the world’s best.

Scalding-hot David Oliver brings his world season leading 12.93 from the USA Track & Field Championships of last weekend to the Pre Classic, accompanied by the next three finishers in that race, Ryan Wilson, Ronnie Ash, and David Payne. Oliver’s winning mark is just 3/100’s off the American Record of 12.90 set four years ago.

If anyone can challenge Oliver, it may be Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados or Terrence Trammell of the U.S. Brathwaite ran a lifetime best to win gold at last summer’s Berlin World Championships, while the veteran Trammell has captured the silver medal in two Olympic Games and three World Championships, including the runner up-spot behind Brathwaite last season.

Brathwaite was third last time out at the Rome Diamond League on 10 June, while Trammell except for his run on the street track in Manchester in May has yet to open his season following his World silver medal indoors in Doha in March.

A bevy of medallists will also contest the women’s one lap hurdles race in Eugene, led by two-time World Championships silver medallist Lashinda Demus, who respectively like Oliver is the world season leader and leads her event’s Diamond Race after wins in Shanghai (53.34) and Rome (52.82 – world lead)

Demus takes on Beijing Olympic silver medallist Sheena Tosta and Berlin World bronze medallist Josanne Lucas of Trinidad. 

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