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Farah targets fifth Bupa London 10,000 title

Bupa London 10,000 Press release For immediate release: Wednesday 8th May 2013 Farah targets fifth Bupa London title Mo Farah will target his fifth straight victory at the 2013 Bupa London 10,000 road race on Bank Holiday Monday, 27 May, when he headlines an elite field containing some of Britain's finest distance runners. The double Olympic champion has been an ever-present at this 10km central London road event since it started in 2008. After finishing third in the inaugural race, he has dominated ever since, winning four in a row and notching up British records in 2009 and 2010. His winning time three years ago of 27 minutes 44 seconds remains the men's course record. Last year he chose to cruise home in a relatively modest 29:21 as he geared up for a glorious summer which climaxed at the Olympic Games last August when he won gold at 5000m and 10,000m. This year's race will give the poster boy of British distance running a chance to assess his form and fitness ahead of the IAAF World Championships in Moscow where he hopes to retain his 5000m title and add the world 10,000m crown to his growing collection of honours. Farah's main threat will come from fellow-Briton and former training partner Scott Overall. Overall was runner-up behind Farah last year in 29:26 just a couple of months before he represented Team GB over the same central London course in the Olympic marathon last August. The Blackheath and Bromley athlete finished 61st at the Games and dropped out of this year's Virgin London Marathon after 25km with a knee injury. But he was in good form earlier in the year when he retained the adidas half marathon title at Silverstone. If Overall has returned to fitness his 10km PB of 28:49 could come under threat. British international Amy Whitehead leads the women's field on her Bupa London 10,000 debut. The 34-year-old Sale Harrier was 13th in the 2013 Virgin London Marathon last month, the second Briton home behind Susan Partridge. Once a junior cross country international snapping at Paula Radcliffe's heels, Whitehead emerged from an enforced break due to injuries, motherhood and teaching to smash her marathon best at the 2011 London Marathon despite setting off from the mass start. It has been a long road back for Whitehead who was 15th at the World Cross Country Championships in 1999 before enduring three stress fractures. She quit running to start a career as an English and drama teacher and only returned to action after giving birth to her daughter, Holly, in 2009. This is her first appearance at the Bupa London 10,000 but she was third over 10km in Brighton last November when she set her PB of 33:48. Whitehead will line up against Steph Twell, another athlete who's faced injury troubles in recent years. The former world junior 1500m champion won the European junior cross country title three times between 2006 and 2008. She was also a member of Britain's Beijing 2008 Olympic team, but a fractured ankle in 2011 and a further foot injury in June last year ended her hopes of competing at London 2012. Twell will make her Bupa London 10,000 debut just 24 hours after competing in the Westminster Mile. The Scot has a 10km road PB of 32:35 so should be considered a real contender for the women's title. Alongside the elites will be teams of up to six runners from UK clubs competing for places in the UK 10km championship race, with the cumulative times of the first three finishers counting towards the team prize. Behind them all will be some 10,000 fun runners, celebrities and charity fund raisers looking for lifetime bests and personal satisfaction on the roads where the world's best marathon runners raced for Olympic glory just 10 months ago. - ends -

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Jeter sets up Olympic re-match Fraser-Pryce in Shanghai DL

Samsung Diamond League Shanghai

 -5 May 2013-

           Jeter sets up Olympic re-match with Fraser-Pryce

Carmelita Jeter will take on Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in a re-run of the Olympic 100m final at the 2013 Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 18 May.

The world 100m champion was second behind Jamaica's double Olympic champion at the London 2012 Games last August and will be looking for revenge when the two clash again in what promises to be one of the highlights of the second meeting on the IAAF's 2013 Diamond League calendar.

Jeter also clinched a 200m bronze medal in London before famously anchoring the USA women's team to a world record-breaking win in the 4x100m relay final. Jeter blazed down the home straight in the London Olympic Stadium to stop the clock at 40.82 seconds, smashing the 27-year-old relay record by more than half a minute.

The 33-year-old will compete in Shanghai for the sixth time looking for her third win here after making her first appearance in 2007. She has twice broken 11 seconds at this meeting, including in 2009 when she clocked 10.64 to become the second fastest woman in history.

The American joins the star-studded 2013 roster along with two other reigning world champions unveiled today by organisers for the meeting in less than two weeks' time. Jeter's US compatriot Jesse Williams will compete in the men's high jump against Olympic bronze medallists Robbie Grabarz of Britain and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim, while Asbel Kiprop will take on his Kenyan teammate Silas Kiplagat over 1500m.

Williams won the world high jump title in Daegu two years ago but could only finish ninth in the Olympic final where Grabarz and Barshim tied for third with Derek Drouin of Canada. The American returns to Shanghai for the first time since 2010 hoping for his first win here, while Grabarz and Barshim will be among the 11 men aiming to stop him on their Shanghai debuts.

Both have been in fine form since the Games – Grabarz followed up his Olympic medal by breaking the British record in Lausanne last August, while Barshim set an Asian record at the same meeting with a leap of 2.39m and went on to break the Asian indoor record earlier this year.

Like Jeter and Williams, Kiprop is no stranger to Shanghai. The Kenyan will be looking to make it third time lucky after finishing second on his two previous visits in 2010 and 2011.

Two years ago he went on from finishing second here to add the world 1500m title to his 2008 Olympic crown, but he could only finish 12th in the London 2012 final last August when Kiplagat was seventh.

That was something of a disappointment for the pair who took gold and silver in the Daegu final. They will begin their build-up to this summer's Moscow World Championships against a field packed with African talent.

The 2013 Shanghai Diamond League meeting will include 16 events: nine for men (200m, 400m, 1500m, 110m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase, high jump, long jump, discus throw, javelin throw), and seven for women (100m, 800m, 5000m, 400m hurdles, pole vault , triple jump , shot put).

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Three Olympic champions to shine at Shanghai Diamond League

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Three Olympic champions to shine at Shanghai Diamond League

26 April 2013

Three more Olympic gold medallists and one world champion have been added to the star-studded roster for the 2013 Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 18 May. Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, British long jumper Greg Rutherford, and Ethiopian distance legend Meseret Defar have joined the entry lists for the second meeting in the IAAF's 2013 Diamond League calendar, while world sprint hurdles champion Jason Richardson has been lined up to face Olympic champion and world record holder Aries Merritt.

Fraser-Pryce retained her Olympic 100m crown in London last August and was second over 200m before picking up another Olympic silver for Jamaica in the 4x100m relay. She returns to Shanghai for the first time since 2010 hoping for a winning start to her 2013 campaign when she aims to regain the world 100m title she claimed in 2009.

The 26-year-old became the fourth fastest woman ever when she set a new Caribbean and Central American record of 10.70 seconds at the Jamaican championships last June while she also lowered her 200m best to 22.09 in the London Olympic final. Earlier this year she made a successful start to indoor competition, setting a new 60m personal best of 7.04.

Defar also took her second Olympic title at London 2012 when she regained the 5000m gold she'd won eight years earlier at the Athens Olympic Games. An emotional Defar outsprinted her compatriot and defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba in a dramatic Olympic final to repeated her victory from 2004.

The 29-year-old Ethiopian will defend an unbeaten record in Shanghai having won over 5000m at the meeting in 2005 and 2007. A former world record holder at the distance outdoors, she currently holds world indoor records for 3000m, two miles and 5000m, and she has won five world titles indoors and out during her illustrious career.

Rutherford will be chasing his first world title in Moscow after the 26-year-old Briton enjoyed a dream season in 2012. He broke the British record in early May to top the world lists and went to win Olympic gold on an evening of unprecedented success for the British team at London 2012.

Rutherford leapt 8.31 metres to win the Olympic title during a 45-minute period that also saw victories for Jessica Ennis in the heptathlon and Mo Farah in the 10,000m, ensuring that 4 August 2012 would forever be known as 'Super Saturday' by British fans.

Rutherford, who won a European silver medal in 2006, will compete in Shanghai for the first time as he aims to add a world title to his Olympic crown this summer.

Richardson will also have Moscow on his mind where he will defend the world 110m hurdles title against Merritt, his US team-mate who beat him to Olympic gold in London last August.

The clash between Richardson and Merritt will be one of the highlights of the Shanghai meeting and a chance for both athletes to get an early confidence boost on the road to Moscow. Richardson was third here last year en route to Olympic silver, one place ahead of Merritt in a contest won by Chinese favourite Liu Xiang.

He went on to win the Diamond League race in New York before lowering his personal best to 12.98 seconds at the US Olympic trials. A similar sub-13 time would be a welcome early season performance for the 27-year-old American.

While Richardson joins the Shanghai line-up, another world champion, Yohan Blake, has been forced to withdaw. The man who calls himself 'the beast' has a slight injury and needs to recover fully ahead of his world 100m title defence.

"I am so sorry for Shanghai, but because of a slight injury I will not be able to participate this year," said the Jamaican, who was third at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing. "Everything happens for a reason. The last time I was in your part of the world, I came third in the world juniors.

"I was so looking forward to showing you just how much I have grown and transformed since then. But I guess that will now have to wait until my next opportunity arises."

The 2013 Shanghai Diamond League meeting will include 16 events, nine for men (200m, 400m, 1500m, 110m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase, high jump, long jump, discus throw, javelin throw) and seven for women (100m, 800m, 5000m, 400m hurdles, pole vault , triple jump , shot put).

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