Canadian shot put file holder Sarah Mitton scored a second-place end at the Diamond League monitor and discipline occasion in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday.
The Brooklyn, N.S., native’s finest throw of 19.98 metres was simply behind the successful distance of 20.00m by American rival, Chase Jackson.
Mitton, the ladies’s shot put world No. 2, positioned second in Suzhou, China a month in the past, third in Marrakech, Morocco on May 19 and fourth in Xiamen, China, to open Diamond League marketing campaign.
Three different Canadians had been in motion in Stockholm on Sunday, however just one was in an official Diamond League occasion. Jean-Simon Desgagnés, of Saint-Ferreol-les-Neiges, Que., completed with a season’s finest time within the males’s 3,000m steeplechase. His time of eight minutes 15.95 seconds was additionally ok for an eighth-place outcome.
WATCH | Desgagnés finishes eighth in Stockholm:
Jean-Simon Desgagnés of Saint-Ferreol-les-Neiges, Que., completed seventh with a season’s finest time of 8:15.95 within the 3000-metre steeplechase race in Stockholm on Sunday.
In non-Diamond League factors occasions, Quebec City’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot completed the lads’s 1,500m in three minutes 34.95 seconds, for a seventh-place outcome, whereas sprinter Jerome Blake, of Kelowna, B.C., completed third (10.44 seconds) within the nationwide males’s 100m.
Diamond League calendar
- Paris — July 7
- Monaco — July 12
- London — July 20
- Lausanne, Switzerland — Aug. 22
- Silesia, Poland — Aug. 25
- Rome — Aug. 30
- Zurich — Sept. 5
- Brussels (DL Final) — Sept. 13-14