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Zharnel Hughes accomplished a 100m and 200m double on the British Championships in July
London Diamond League Venue: London Stadium Date: Sunday, 23 July Protection: BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site & app 13:15-16:35 BST
Noah Lyles insists Zharnel Hughes can break the British 200m report in entrance of a sell-out crowd of fifty,000 on the London Diamond League on Sunday.
Hughes, who broke his nation’s 30-year 100m report in June, mentioned he was not concentrating on the 200m mark of 19.94 seconds set by John Regis in 1993.
However reigning world 200m champion Lyles claimed that was “undoubtedly” attainable for the 28-year-old.
Studying the time Hughes would require, Lyles mentioned: “Oh, we will get that.”
“Why are you being so modest, man?” the American joked throughout Saturday’s press convention at London Stadium.
Referencing Hughes’ British 100m victory in appalling circumstances earlier this month, Lyles added: “You simply ran in a hurricane. We are able to get that [time] most undoubtedly.”
Hughes, who predicted his 9.83-second run which smashed Linford Christie’s 100m report in New York, beforehand instructed BBC Sport that he has one other goal written on his imaginative and prescient board at house – which he hopes to realize on the World Championships in Budapest subsequent month.
Sunday’s competitors at London Stadium, the primary main athletics meet to be held on the 2012 Olympic venue since 2019, represents one of many remaining alternatives for a number of the sport’s largest names to fine-tune their preparations for Budapest.
“Tomorrow is about executing my race, to not break the British report. If it comes, it comes,” mentioned Hughes, who set his 200m private better of 20.02 secs on the 2015 World Championships.
“It is one thing that is on the board and if it comes tomorrow I will be pleased.”
Lyles, planning to chase a trio of world golds within the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, believes Hughes’ 100m time – the quickest on the planet this yr – has made him a critical medal contender.
“It is one other particular person [I need] to beat,” the Olympic bronze medallist mentioned.
Asher-Smith & Hodgkinson amongst British stars aiming to impress
Dina Asher-Smith (proper) competed towards Shericka Jackson over 200m in Monaco on Friday
An thrilling ladies’s 100m race will see Dina Asher-Smith, the 2019 200m world champion, and fellow Briton Daryll Neita check themselves towards a world-class area.
Jamaican Shericka Jackson, American Sha’Carri Richardson and Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast, the three quickest ladies on the planet this yr, be a part of them in London.
World 200m champion Jackson got here out on high over the longer dash distance in Monaco on Friday evening, clocking 21.86 secs as Asher-Smith ran a season-best 22.23 secs for third. Richardson, in the meantime, has suffered only one defeat all season.
Having damaged the British report in Paris final month Keely Hodgkinson will intention to ship a memorable finale to the day’s motion as she continues to construct in the direction of her bid for world 800m gold.
The 21-year-old, who has misplaced simply as soon as this yr, will likely be joined by Jemma Reekie and Katie Snowden within the two-lap race, whereas Neil Gourley, Elliot Giles, George Mills and Matthew Stonier contest a high quality males’s 1500m line-up.
Elsewhere, European indoor champion Jazmin Sawyers and former heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson will compete in a ladies’s lengthy bounce that includes a number of main medallists.
There isn’t any scarcity of massive names throughout the schedule, with London Marathon winner Sifan Hassan (ladies’s 5,000m), 400m world record-holder Wayde van Niekerk, world 110m hurdles champion Grant Holloway, and Olympic pole vault champion Katie Moon amongst these additionally in motion.
British stars similar to Hannah Cockroft, Sammi Kinghorn, David Weir and Sophie Hahn will participate in 5 Para-athletics occasions to be held earlier than the principle Diamond League programme begins.
Comply with stay protection of Sunday’s London Diamond League on BBC One, iPlayer and on-line from 13:15 BST.
