Diamond League: Qatar’s Abderrahman, Olympic silver medalist Benjamin top draw
DOHA: Qatar’s World Championships bronze medallist Abderrahman Samba and Olympic and world 400m hurdles silver medallist Rai Benjamin (USA) and will line up in the 400m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League here on May 13.
Twenty-four-year-old Benjamin, an Olympic and world 4 x 400m relay gold medallist, finished runner-up to Norwegian superstar Karsten Warholm at the Tokyo Games last year.
In an incredible race, his time of 46.17 – an American national record – was inside the previous world record which Warholm obliterated when winning gold (45.94).
He opened his season with a third-place finish over 200m (20.01) at the USATF Golden Games, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Series meeting, on 16 April.
“This is a huge year for me with the World Champs in Eugene,” said Benjamin.
