Monaco Diaries: Herculis News

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HERCULIS NEWS

MONACO (MON): Diamond League meet Herculis supports COCO in order to help provide good quality education to children in developing countries. COCO is a charity working in remote regions of the developing world with local communities to promote children’s education by combatting poverty and other factors which can impede education. The Herculis prize raised 4200 euro went towards one of COCO’s Schools for Life project, a secondary school called Kindimba in rural Southern Tanzania.

MONACO (MON): World champion Caterine Ibarguen will be the top favorite of women triple at Herculis meet on Friday. She will face improved Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela, Olympic winner Olga Rypakova, Jamaican Kimberly Williams and top Europeans headed by European champion Patricia Mamona and European list leader Paraskevi Papahristou. In women javelin Czech Barbora Spotakova will have a chance for revenge after Amsterdam against gold medalist Tatsiana Khaladovich. Overseas opposition will be Australian Kathryn Mitchell and South African Sunette Viljoen.

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