{"id":1898,"date":"2024-08-15T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/2024\/08\/15\/karsten-vs-mondo-world-record-holders-confirm-epic-100-meter-clash\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T07:28:00","slug":"karsten-vs-mondo-world-record-holders-confirm-epic-100-meter-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/karsten-vs-mondo-world-record-holders-confirm-epic-100-meter-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Karsten vs. Mondo: World record holders confirm epic 100-meter clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hosted in collaboration between PUMA, Red Bull and Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich, the two track stars will clash at the legendary Letzigrund Stadium on Wednesday 4 September, ahead of the Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich Diamond League meeting the following day. The event marks the culmination of a long-standing back-and-forth between the two iconic athletes, which has been simmering since July 2023.<\/p>\n

A short clip<\/a> shared on social media last summer, in which the pair discuss the prospect of racing one another, had sports fans across the globe fizzing with excitement; now that tantalising prospect is to become a reality as the two stars battle it out over the definitive sprint distance to see which one really is the fastest.<\/p>\n

Warholm is the reigning 400-meter hurdles world record holder, an Olympic gold and silver medalist and three-time world champion, whilst Duplantis is the newly-crowned double Olympic champion and has broken the pole vault world record a staggering nine times.<\/p>\n

Despite the two superstars competing in different events, their respective personal bests in the 100-meters are not so far apart. Warholm recorded 10.49 seconds back in 2017 whilst Duplantis clocked a 10.57 as a high school senior just a year later \u2013 making the contest incredibly tough to call, and all the more exciting for spectators who are set for an incredible night of action.<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on public sale at 09:00 (CET) on Thursday 15 August via weltklassezuerich.ch\/special.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fresh off the back of the Olympic Games, and after months of speculation, Karsten Warholm and...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zurich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}