{"id":2058,"date":"2025-05-17T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2025-05-17T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:30:02","slug":"star-studded-hurdles-lineup-in-rome-with-tinch-roberts-simonelli-and-zhoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/star-studded-hurdles-lineup-in-rome-with-tinch-roberts-simonelli-and-zhoya\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-studded hurdles lineup in Rome with Tinch, Roberts, Simonelli and Zhoya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More champions are set to compete at the <strong>Golden Gala Pietro Mennea<\/strong> in <strong>Rome<\/strong>. With just 20 days to go until the event on Friday, June 6 at the Stadio Olimpico, a star-studded lineup in the 110-meter hurdles has been confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competing in Rome will be the current world leader of the season, Cordell <strong>Tinch<\/strong> (USA), who starred in the first two legs of the Wanda Diamond League in China, winning in Xiamen with a time of 13.06 and delivering an extraordinary 12.87 in Keqiao\u2014making him the fourth-fastest man in history, just seven hundredths of a second off Aries Merritt\u2019s 2012 world record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the field is one of the most successful hurdlers of the past two years, Olympic silver and reigning world bronze medallist Daniel <strong>Roberts<\/strong> (USA), who set a personal best of 12.96 last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rome is ready to light up for local hero Lorenzo <strong>Simonelli<\/strong> (Italy), who claimed the gold medal at the 2024 European Championships at the Stadio Olimpico with a national record of 13.05. This season, he narrowly missed the podium at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing (finishing fourth), following his silver in the previous edition in Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lineup also includes Frenchman Sasha <strong>Zhoya<\/strong>, 2024 Diamond League champion, who recently improved his personal best to 13.06 in Miramar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this level of talent, the Golden Gala record in the 110-meter hurdles\u201413.01, shared by American Allen Johnson (1999) and Jamaican Omar McLeod (2021)\u2014could be broken, and it\u2019s not unrealistic to dream of Rome\u2019s first-ever sub-13 performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, at the Italian leg of the Wanda Diamond League, the world season leader, the Olympic...","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":2056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rome-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}