The Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis comes together with the Olympic silver medalist from Tokyo, Chris Nielsen, USA, and the double world champion Sam Kendricks, USA.
- The gala is my obvious genre rep before the World Cup in Eugene.
I love competing in front of the magical audience at the Stadium, says Duplantis in a press release.
We pole vaulters love to compete in Stockholm with the fantastic reception we get from audiences and organizers, announces the double world champion Kendricks and the Olympic silver medalist Nielsen.
It will be an intense athletics summer with the World Championships in Eugene on July 15 and the European Championships in Munich a month later.
The last competition before the World Cup in the USA
The Bauhaus gala is the last competition before the Swedish World Cup travelers leave for the USA to recharge for the World Cup.
In discus, the Olympic champion Daniel Ståhl meets the entire world elite.
Including the Swedish Olympic silver medalist Simon Pettersson.
In addition, the bronze medalist, Lukas Weisshaidinger, Austria, and the young world runner-up Kristjan Ceh, Slovenia.
- It will be fun to show myself to the home crowd at the Stadium as an Olympic gold medalist.
I hope for a large audience support so that I can throw even further, says Ståhl.
Another world star has given the go-ahead for the gala next year.
The reigning Olympic, world and European champion in long jump, Malaika Mihambo.
Malaika, which this year has been named Germany's sportswoman for the third year in a row, an achievement that only a former woman has succeeded in (Steffi Graf 1986-1989).
She gets to meet Sweden's long jump star, Khaddi Sagnia, who finished second in the Diamond League final in Zurich three months ago.
World Cup silver medalist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, Ukraine, will also attend the gala.
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Armand Duplantis won the first Diamond League final.
Photo: TT