How to watch the Brussels Diamond League
Mo Farah and Brigid Kosgei will run their one-hour world record attempts Friday afternoon
Some of the world’s best athletes are set to compete in Brussels on Friday for the next stop on the 2020 Diamond League calendar. In addition to one-hour world record attempts from Mo Farah, Brigid Kosgei, Sifan Hassan and many other runners, former 800m national champion Linsdey Butterworth will run the 1,000m as the lone Canadian competing in Belgium. The action starts on Friday evening in Brussels (12:48 ET), and it is not an event you will want to miss (and luckily you don’t have to).
"For me it was mentally something I was not used to – to run 16km on the track, but @Mo_Farah enjoys that,” says Belgium's @BashirAbdi7 about training ahead of tomorrow's one-hour record assault at #BrusselsDL.
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What to watch
The women’s one-hour race is one of the day’s first events, starting at 1:11 p.m. ET. Hassan, the Dutch world record-holder in the mile and 5K and world champion in the 1,500m and 10,000m, is one of the headliners for this race along with Kosgei, the marathon world record-holder. They will line up with 10 other women, all shooting to break the one-hour world record of 18.517K, which was set by Dire Tune of Ethiopia in 2008. Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen will race the men’s 1,500m, which is set for 2:23 ET. He will be looking to lower his recent PB and Norwegian national record of 3:28.68, which he set in Monaco in August.
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Not long after Ingebrigtsen and the 1,500m field leave the track, Butterworth will toe the start line for the 1,000m. Earlier in 2020, she posted a 2:37.85 at an indoor 1,000m race, just off the national indoor record of 2:37.04. The women’s outdoor 1,000m record is 2:34.14, which was actually set at the same meet in Brussels way back in 2002 by Diane Cummins. Butterworth has run one race this summer — an 800m in Quebec, which she won in 2:01.91. She will be racing Olympic 1,500m champion, Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, who is fresh off an African 1,000m record that she set in Monaco and has her sights set on the world record of 2:28.98, which was set in Brussels in 1996 by Russian athlete Svetlana Masterkova.
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Finally, the men’s one-hour race will wrap the night up. Farah will race 12 other men, including Belgium’s Bashir Abdi. The men will be running to break the record of 21.285K in one hour, set by Haile Gebrselassie 13 years ago.
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How to watch
CBC Sports has streamed the Diamond League online for free all summer, and the Brussels event is no different. The event will be live on the CBC site’s sports player starting just before 1 p.m. ET. The full event schedule is below.
