Canada's Sarah Mitton scores second in Diamond League shot put

Let’s send Bet Guide perhaps going for a world record. In the 5000, there was just this speculation of of why did she skip world Cross? She’s done it historically. She’s very competent over cross country. That’s a lovely opportunity. But we haven’t seen Guide compete since she lost to Helena Berry at the New York Marathon in the autumn. And it you can never write off these women guide is fantastic over 5000 metres and her runs would have been world records if it wasn’t for the likes of Faith Kibye Gone and of course Kuda Sigo. With that 14 minutes in Pre it’s it’s you just start to wonder if you’re going to bother going all the way to China. So first action on the track mentioned it’s a very very busy evening here and we are into the women’s shot put which features the Olympic champion Gongli Jiao and the top three, the whole podium from Budapest, they’re all here. Sarah Mitten who’s had a brilliant winter taking the world indoor title in Glasgow to back up the silver medal from Budapest last summer and opens up here with a very, very respectable 1986 for the Canadian. So our final three in the women’s shot put looks like this. Chase Jackson, double world champion Sarah Mitten, the silver medallist in Budapest and not the Chinese throwaway we were expecting Gongli Jhao having an off day by her very high standards. So it’s sung Jia Yuan who takes her place in the final three, completed an undefeated indoor season. She suffered a first defeat of Olympic year last week in Xiamen, started a competition well about 1986 and think she’ll be happy with the 2nd place at the moment. To the likes of Chase Jackson. Sixth round effort there for Mitten that’s going to improve on her 1986, Jackson’s mark 1990 here in the sixth round, Mitten 1917. Those two stay in one and two with one athlete left to throw. And that one athlete is Song from China. Great crowd by the way. Really enthusiastic crowd here. Song just explaining a wonderful opportunity in front of a home crowd. I think she’s just porting out her mum and her coach. Not sure if that’s the same person or two different people, but lovely pictures there of these athletes and it is a wonderful opportunity for the Chinese athletes. They’re so competitive on the global stage, but to welcome the world’s best to a home competition like this, it’s just wonderful for them. And important when we look at things like the World Athletics rankings and that as a method to qualify, to have a truly global calendar. It’s so important for a lot of nations. Jackson, then the winner with just over 20 metres, 20/03, mitten in second song ahead of Gong Gongli, Olympic champion.