As many as 42 Olympic medallists will be competing in an exciting post-London showdown. Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich, true to its reputation, will again stage competitions at Olympic levels.<\/p>\n
25 000 fans in Zurich will be cheering the athletes in 17 events on 30 August 2012. Some of the line-ups will even outshine the fields of the recent Olympic finals, with the famous squads of strong Jamaican sprinters and African runners adding to the cast of Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich. In London, their number per event had been limited to three. The provisional start lists announce as many as 15 Olympic gold medallists, and even one double Olympic Champion (Usain Bolt). Five out of the 42 medallists competing in Zurich will bring even two medals along (Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Carmelita Jeter und Vivian Cheruiyot).<\/p>\n
F\u00e9lix S\u00e1nchez: A fifth win to celebrate his 35th birthday?<\/strong> Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich at Zurich Main Station on 29 August<\/strong> Eliane \u2013 a musical highlight to conclude the evening<\/strong> Olympic Champions at Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich 2012 (as at 15 August 2012)<\/strong> Please note: Provisional start lists and timetable will be published next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich 2012 – a sell out yet again. And it will be a truly spectacular night...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In addition to Usain Bolt (JAM; 100m or 200m) and David Rudisha (KEN; 800m), the meeting\u2019s long list of top stars includes two crowd favourites: Sanya Richards-Ross (USA; 400m), and F\u00e9lix S\u00e1nchez (DOM; 400m h). Richards-Ross won five consecutive Zurich races between 2005 and 2009. This year, however, will mark her very first appearance as an Olympic Champion. S\u00e1nchez, too, was a serial winner in Zurich, dominating the 400m h races from to 2001 to 2004. Now, eight years later, the surprise Olympic Champion of London is aiming at his fifth triumph at Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich \u2013 on his 35th birthday.<\/p>\n
On the eve of the meeting at Letzigrund Stadium, the two Samsung Diamond League shot put finals will take place in the hall of Zurich Main Station. The start lists for the events are impressive, and include both Olympic Champions, Valerie Adams and Thomas Majewski, as well as current world champion David Storl.<\/p>\n
In addition to the world\u2019s athletics stars, Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich 2012 will feature a very talented music artist: Eliane, winner of the Swiss casting show \u2018Das gr\u00f6sste Schweizer Talent\u2019, will be a guest star at the meeting. She will help round off the evening with a sparkling show following the competitions.<\/p>\n
Usain Bolt (JAM; 100m and 200m)
David Rudisha (KEN; 800m)
F\u00e9lix S\u00e1nchez (DOM; 400m h)
Renaud Lavillenie (FRA; pole vault)
Christian Taylor (USA; triple jump)
Ivan Ukhov (RUS; high jump)
Tomasz Majewski (POL; shot put)
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM; 100m)
Allyson Felix (USA; 200m; will run the 100m race in Zurich)
Sanya Richards-Ross (USA; 400m)
Natalya Antyukh (RUS; 400m h; will run the 400m race in Zurich)
Yuliya, Zaripova (RUS; 3000m SC)
Brittney Reese (USA; long jump)
Valerie Adams (NZL; shot put)
Sandra Perkovic (CRO; discus throw)<\/p>\n