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These Are Marileidy Paulino’s Rivals in the Diamond League Final

From Diario Libre · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Dominican runner Marileidy Paulino enters the Brussels 400-meter Diamond League final as the points leader with 40 points.
  • Jamaica’s Nickisha Pryce has 35 points and the Czech Republic’s Lurdes Gloria Manuel has 27, while seven runners will challenge Paulino in the final.
  • Paulino seeks to reclaim the title after winning three straight Diamond Trophies from 2022 through 2024 and finishing behind Salwa Eid Naser in 2025.

Marileidy Paulino arrives at Saturday’s Diamond League 400-meter final as the clear favorite, with a fourth crown in her sights. But the Dominican star will not have an open track in Brussels: seven runners have enough credentials to challenge her.

Paulino leads the circuit standings with 40 points. Jamaica’s Nickisha Pryce follows with 35, while the Czech Republic’s Lurdes Gloria Manuel has 27. The championship, however, will be decided in a single race, making the final a very different test from the regular season.

The runner known as the “Gazelle of Nizao” is trying to recover the crown she lost last year to Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser. Paulino had won the Diamond Trophy for three consecutive seasons, from 2022 through 2024, before failing to finish first in 2025.

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Originally published by Diario Libre in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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