Canceled Diamond League galas in China can make up for the Swedish pole vault star Armand Duplanti's participation in the Swedish Championships in athletics in August.
Instead, the Kamila Skolmowska Memorial competition has been upgraded to Diamond League status.
And Duplantis will take part in Śląski Stadium on August 6.
- I have heard a lot about the competition, and it feels like the opportunity to experience it on your own has finally come, says Armand Duplantis.
The day after the gala, the seventh of August, the men's pole vault will be decided at the Swedish Championships in Norrköping.
A championship that was planned for that weekend so that it would not clash with any Diamond League gala.
"Can not control"
- As recently as Monday, I talked to his agent, and then they could neither say yes nor no to the question of whether he would participate in the Swedish Championships.
But now I heard that he agreed to this in Poland, so now I actually do not know.
Of course it would be possible to jump in Poland on Saturday, and here on Sunday.
But we as organizers can not control it, says Krister Hultberg, project manager for the Swedish Athletics Championships, to SVT Sport.
Preliminarily, Duplantis will also jump at the Diamond League gala in Monaco on the tenth of June.
The Swedish Athletics Championships will be decided in Norrköping between the fifth and seventh of August, with about 700 participants.