DOHA, QATAR – Kamloops, BC\u2019s Dylan Armstrong finished first today in Doha, Qatar at the 2011 Diamond League Opener.\u00a0 The reigning Commonwealth Games champ placed first with a throw of 21.38-metres in the men\u2019s shot put earning him 4 points and the early lead in the race to the Diamond.<\/p>\n
Americans Reese Hoffa and Ryan Whiting placed second and third respectively with throws of 21.27 and 21.23-metres.<\/p>\n
The next scheduled shot put competition as part of the Diamond League is set for May 26 in Rome, Italy.<\/p>\n
Elmore places 9th in the 1500m<\/p>\n
Malindi Elmore of Kelowna, BC finished 9th in the women\u2019s 1500-metres clocking in at 4:11.79. Winning the race, and setting a new World Leading time of 4:03.00 was Anna Mishchenko of Ukraine.\u00a0 Second went to Kenya\u2019s Irene Jelagat in 4:04.89 and Siham Hilali of Morocco finished third in 4:05.18.<\/p>\n
CBC Broadcast tomorrow<\/p>\n
CBC will broadcast and stream action from the Doha Diamond League tomorrow, Saturday May 7, from 14:00-16:00ET.<\/p>\n
More on the Diamond League<\/p>\n
Each Diamond League discipline is contested in 7 of 14 Diamond League competitions where the top 3 finishers (per discipline\/per competition) receive points.\u00a0 In the final competition points are doubled. The winner at the end of the diamond race will be named the season\u2019s top athlete and receives a diamond trophy and cash prize of $40,000 USD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DOHA, QATAR – Kamloops, BC\u2019s Dylan Armstrong finished first today in Doha, Qatar at the 2011 Diamond League Opener.\u00a0 The reigning Commonwealth Games champ placed first with a throw of 21.38-metres in the men\u2019s shot put earning him 4 points and the early lead in the race to the Diamond. Americans Reese Hoffa and Ryan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}