Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League Event by Event Preview

The renowned Weltklasse Zurich is set to make waves as the premier Wanda Diamond League gathering subsequent to the World Championships in Budapest. As the anticipation builds, athletes are gearing up for one of the final opportunities to amass points in hopes of qualifying for the Diamond League Final in Eugene. The iconic Letzigrund Stadium will be graced by the prowess of fourteen world champions. In a spectacular showcase, the women’s 100 metres hurdles and the women’s triple jump events are slated to feature the complete podium lineup from the World Championships in Budapest. Further amplifying the excitement, the Weltklasse Zurich is destined to be a full house, with all 25,000 tickets already snapped up by eager fans in advance.

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Men’s 200 metres: 

Noah Lyles will be seeking his fourth win on the fast Letzigrund track. The US sprint star won in the 100m in 9.98 in 2019 and in the 200m in 19.67 in 2018 and in 19.52 in 2022 improving the meeting record previously held by Usain Bolt. 

Lyles won two gold medals in the 100 metres in a world seasonal best of 9.83 and in the 200 metres in 19.52 at the World Championships in Budapest. He broke Michael Johnson’s US record clocking 19.31 at the World Championships in Eugene in 2022. 

Lyles will renew his rivalry against his compatriot Erriyon Knighton and Zharnel Hughes. Knighton won two world consecutive medals (bronze in Eugene 2022 in 19.80 and silver in Budapest 2023 in 19.75). The former American Football player broke Bolt’s world under 20 record with 19.84 at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene and finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 19.93 at the age of 17. 

Hughes won the European gold medal in Munich 2022 in the 200 metres and the world bronze medal in the 100m in 9.88 in Budapest 2023, where he also finished fourth in the 200 metres in 20.02. The British sprinter coached by Glenn Mills won the national title in Manchester in a wind-assisted 19.77 and finished third at the Wanda Diamond League in London in 19.73 missing Pietro Mennea’s European record by one hundredth of a second.  

Kenny Bednarek returns to the Letzigrund track where he won the Diamond League final in 2021 in 19.70 a few weeks after winning the Olympic silver medal in a PB of 19.68. Bednarek also won the world silver medal in 19.77 in Eugene 2022 and finished fifth in the world final in 20.07 in Budapest 2023. 

André De Grasse won the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in a Canadian record of 19.62 and a total of ten global medals (six at the Olympic Games and four at the World Championships). De Grasse finished sixth in the 200 metres at the World Championships in Budapest in his seasonal best of 20.14. De Grasse will face his compatriot Aaron Brown, who finished sixth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and won the gold medal in the 4x100 relay in Eugene. Brown set his PB of 19.95 in Lausanne. 

Alexander Ogando from Dominican Republic reached two consecutive world titles finishing fifth in Eugene in 19.93 and seventh in Budapest in 20.23. 

The Swiss fans will support William Reais, who won two national titles in the 100m and 200m at the National Championships in Bellinzona. 

Men’s 400 metres hurdles: 

Karsten Warholm from Norway will go head to head against Kyron McMaster from British Virgin Island and Alison Dos Santos from Brazil in the men’s 400 metres hurdles at the Weltklasse Zurich in a re-match of the World Championships in Budapest

The three hurdlers have dominated this event in recent years and pushed this discipline to a new level. 

Warholm won the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo setting the world record with a sensational 45.94. The Norwegian athlete came back from injury last August by winning his second European gold medal in Munich in 47.12. He improved the Diamond League record twice this year to 46.52 in Oslo and 46.51 in Monaco. At the World Championships in Budapest Warholm won his third world title in 46.89. The Norwegian athlete won two Diamond League Finals in Zurich in 2019 with 46.92 and in 2021 in 47.35. 

McMaster finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in a national record of 47.08. This year the hurdler from British Virgin Islands set the second fastest time of his career with 47.26 in Banska Bystrika and won the world silver medal in Budapest in 47.34. He won two Diamond League finals in 2017 and 2018. 

Dos Santos claimed both the world title in Eugene in 46.29 and the Diamond League Trophy in Zurich in 46.98. The Brazilian hurdler made a successful return from a knee injury with a third place over the 400 metres flat distance in 44.73 in Chorzow and finished second to Warholm in 47.66 in Monaco in his first 400 metres hurdles race of the season. At the World Championships in Budapest he finished fifth in 48.10. 

Roshawn Clarke from Jamaica will make his debut in the Diamond League after finishing fourth at the World Championships in 48.07. The nineteen-year-old Jamaican athlete set the world under 20 record with 47.34 in the World Championships semifinal. 

The best US hurdlers in the field are CJ Allen and Trevor Bassitt. Allen improved his PB to 47.58 in Oslo and won in Paris in 47.92 but he did not reach the final at the World Championships in Budapest. Bassitt won the world silver medal in Eugene 2022 with 47.39 and finished sixth in the world final in Budapest in 48.22 after improving his PB to 47.38 in the semifinal. 

Wilfried Happio from France finished fourth at the World Championships in 47.41 missing Stephane Diagana’s national record by two hundredths of a second and won the silver medal at the European Championships in Munich behind Warholm.  

Men’s pole vault: 

Armand Duplantis will chase his third consecutive win at the Weltklasse Zurich in the Letzigrund Stadium. The Swedish athlete clinched two Diamond League titles in 2021 with 6.06m and in 2022 with 6.07m setting the meeting record both times. Duplantis improved his own world record to 6.22 in Clermont Ferrand last March and cleared the six metres barrier six times this year in Hengelo (6.11m), Oslo (6.01m), Ostrava (6.12m), Stockolm (6.05m) Chorzow (6.01m) and at the World Championships in Budapest, where he won his second consecutive world gold medal with 6.10m. 

Duplantis lost the only competition of the season in the Monaco Diamond League meeting where he had to settle with fourth place with 5.72m, his first placing outside the top 3 since the Lausanne Diamond League meeting in August 2021. 

Four more 6 metres vaulters – Christopher Nilsen, Sam Kendricks, KC Lightfoot and Ernest John Obiena will spur Duplantis to a big height. 

Ernest John Obiena became the first athlete from the Philippines to reach the podium at the World Championships in Eugene when he won the bronze medal in Eugene with 5.94m and reached the world podium again in Budapest by finishing second with 6.00m. Obiena also won the Asian title in Bangkok with 5,91m. He finished second in Monaco with 5.82m and third in Ostrava with 5.90m and Oslo with 5.81m.  

Nilsen won the US title in Eugene with 5.91m and in the Monaco Diamond League meeting with 5.92m and finished second to Duplantis in Oslo with 5.91m. The US pole vaulter won two silver medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with 5.97m and at the World Championships in Eugene with 5.94m and shared the bronze medal with Australia’s Kurtis Marshall at the World Championships in Budapest with his seasonal best of 5.95m. 

Marshall, two-time Commonwealth Games champion in 2018 and 2022, performed well this year clearing 5.90m in Ostrava, 5.95m in Sotteville les Rouen and 5.82 in Monaco. 

Lightfoot, who won the NCAA indoor title in 2021, improved the US outdoor record to 6.07m in Nashville and jumped again 6.00m in Bergen and 5.90m in Turku, but he shared fourth place Sam Kendricks with the same height 5.81m at the US Championships in Eugene.    

Two-time world champion Kendricks returned to his best form by clearing 5.91m twice in Los Angeles and at the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska in Chorzow. Kendricks won three times in Zurich in 2016 (5.90m), 2017 (5.87m) and 2019 (5.93m). 

The other top names in the field are Thibaut Collet from France, fifth at the World Championships in Budapest with his PB of 5.90m, Zach McWorther from the USA, second at this year’s US Championships in Eugene with 5.86m, Ben Broeders, Belgian record holder with 5.85m and seventh at the World Championships in Budapest with 5.75m, and Ersu Sasma from Turkey, eighth at the World Championships in Eugene with 5.80m.  

Women’s 100 metres: 

Fresh world 100 champion Sha’Carri Richardson will go head-to-head against Daryll Neita, Mujinga Kambundji and Elaine Thompson Herah. 

Richardson won two Diamond League races in Doha and Chorzow in 10.76 and improved her PB to 10.71 in the heats of the US Championships in Eugene before winning the final in 10.82. The US star went on to win her first world title in Budapest setting the championships record with 10.65. 

Neita won two bronze medals in the 100 metres at the Commonwealth Games in Birmiingham and at the European Championships in Munich last year. The British sprinter dipped under the 11 seconds barrier three times in Savona with 10.97, in Oslo with 10.98 and London with 10.96 and clocked in the semifinal in 11.01 at the World Championships in Budapest. 

Elaine Thompson Herah will try to return to her best shape after a tough season. Thompson Herah won the 100 and in the 200 metres in two consecutive editions of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2021 and set the second fastest time in history with 10.54 at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in 2021. This year she set a seasonal best of 11.06 at the Jamaican Trials in Kingston and ran the 4x100 relay heats at the World Championships in Budapest. In her previous appearances at the Weltklasse meeting Thompson Herah won twice in the 200 metres in 21.85 in 2016 and in the 100 metres in 10.65 in 2021. 

The line-up also features US sprinters Twanisha Terry, who clocked 10.99 in two Diamond League meetings in Chorzow and London and won the gold medal in the 4x100 relay in 41.03 at the World Championships in Budapest, Tamara Clarke, who finished fourth at the US Championships in 11.03 after clocking 10.98 in the semifinal, Natasha Morrison, who finished third at the Jamaican Championships in Kingston in 10.98 and clocked 11.03 at the World Championships in Budapest, Zoe Hobbs from New Zealand, who set the Oceanian record with 10.97 this year and clocked 11.02 at the World Championships in Budapest, and Shashalee Forbes, second at the Jamaican Championships in 10.96. 

Swiss fans will cheer on Mujinga Kambundji, who won three gold medals in the 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade 2022 in 6.96 and at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul 2023 in 7.00 and in the 200 metres at the European Championships in Munich. Her training was hampered by a foot injury during the spring season, but she came back by winning the Swiss Championships in Bellinzona in 11.05 and clocked a seasonal best of 11.04 in the semifinal of the World Championships in Budapest. 

Women’s 200 metres: 

Shericka Jackson won her world title in the 200 metres in Budapest setting the second fastest time in history with 21.41. Jackson missed Florence Griffith Joyner’s world record by just eight hundredths of a second. Jackson also won two world silver medals in the 100 metres in 10.72 and in the 4x100 relay in 41.21. This year Jackson also improved her PB to 10.65 in the 100 metres at the Jamaican Trials in Kingston and won two Diamond League races in the 200 metres in Rabat in 21.98 and in Monaco in 21.86. 

Last year the Jamaican 29-year-old sprint star claimed the first world gold medal of her career in Eugene in 21.45 and went on to clinch the Diamond League final in Zurich in 21.80. 

Jackson will go head-to-head against Gabby Thomas, Olympic bronze medallist in Tokyo in 21.87 and world silver medallist in 21.81. The US sprinter won the National Championships title in the 200 metres improving her PB to 21.60. 

Daryll Neita will double up in the 100 and 200 metres. The British sprinter won the national title in 22.25 in Manchester and  finished fifth at the World Championships in Budapest in her lifetime best of 22.16. 

Men’s 1500 metres:

Jakob Ingebrigtsen will line up against the best middle-distance runners in a re-match of the World Championships in Budapest. 

Ingebrigtsen finished second in the 1500m and won his second consecutive world gold medal in the 5000 metres in Budapest following his triumph in Eugene in 2022. The Norwegian star won the Olympic gold medal in the 1500 metres in Tokyo in 2021 and the gold medals in the 1500 and 5000 metres at the past two editions of the European Championships in Berlin 2018 and Munich 2022. The Norwegian middle-distance runner won the 1500 metres at last year’s edition of the Diamond League final in Zurich setting a world seasonal best of 3:29.02. He improved his European record twice at this year’s edition of the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo with 3:27.95 and Chorzow in 3:27.14 and won two more races in Rabat in 3:32.59 and Lausanne in 3:28.72. 

Ingebrigtsen will try to avenge against Josh Kerr, who won the 1500m world gold medal in Budapest beating the Norwegian athlete in a thrilling final sprint. Kerr also won the Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo. Kerr will renew his rivalry against his compatriot Neil Gourley, who broke the British indoor record with 3:32.48 and won the European indoor silver medal in Istanbul

The line-up features a total of nine athletes, who have a PB under the 3.30 barrier, including 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruiyot, US record holder Yared Nuguse and 5000 metres European record holder Mohamed Katir. 

The best Kenyan runners in the line-up are Abel Kipsang, world indoor bronze in Belgrade, and finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 in 3:29.56 and at the World Championships in Budapest with 3:29.89, and 19-year-old Reynold Cheruyiot, world under 20 champion in Cali 2022.  

Nuguse improved North American records in the 1500 metres outdoors with 3:29.02 in Oslo and in the mile with 3:47.38 at the Millrose Games and in the 3000m with 7:28.24 in Boston. 

Katir won the world bronze medal in the 1500m in 3:29.90 in Eugene, the world silver medal in the 5000 metres in Budapest  and the European silver in the 5000m in Munich. In all these three races he was beaten by Ingebrigtsen. 

At this year’s edition of the Diamond League the Spanish athlete won the 5000 metres at the Golden Gala in Florence in 12:52.08 and broke Ingebrigtsen’s European record in the 5000m in Monaco with 12.45.01 and finished second behind the Norwegian athlete in Oslo in 3:29.89 narrowly missing his Spanish record by 13 hundredths of a second.  

Swiss fans will cheer on Tom Elmer, who won the national title in Bellinzona in the 1500 metres in 3:36.84 last July. 

Women’s 3000 metres steeplechase: 

World champion Winfred Multile Yavi from Barhein will face world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech, Jackline Chepkoech and Faith Cherotich, Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai from Uganda, Zerfe Wondemagegn from Ethiopia, Alice Finot from France and  Marusa Mismas Zrimsek from Slovenia. 

Yavi won the world gold medal in Budapest setting the fifth fastest time in history with 8:54.29 after finishing fourth in the previous two editions in Doha 2019 and Eugene 2022. 

Beatrice Chepkoech has returned to her best form winning the world silver medal in Budapest in 8:58.98. Chepkoech won the Lausanne Diamond League race in 9:05.98, the Kenyan Trials in Nairobi in 9:09.43 and finished second at the Diamond League meeting in London with 9:04.34. 

Faith Cherotich won the world under 20 title in Cali 2022 and the world bronze medal at the World Championships in Budapest. 

Jackline Chepkoech won the world under 20 gold medal in Nairobi 2021, the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022 and two Diamond League races in Brussels 2022 with 9:02.43 and in London in 2023 in her PB of 8:57.35.

The Ethiopian challenge is led by Zerfe Wondemagegn, third  in 9:04.61 at the Golden Gala in Florence in and fourth at the World Championships in Budapest in 9:05.51, and Lomi Muleta, fifh at the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne in 9:15.35. 

The other top names in the line-up are Luiza Gega from Albania, European championships in Munich, Alice Finot from France, fifth at the World Championships in Budapest in a  national record of 9:06.15, and USA’s Courtney Wayment, NCAA champion in 2022 and third at the National Championships in Eugene. 

Men’s 5000 metres: 

Newly crowned 3000 metres steeplechase world record holder Lamecha Girma from Ethiopia will clash against Yomif Kejelcha.

Girma set two world record in the 3000 metres indoors with 7:23.81 in Liévin and in the 3000 metres steeplechase with 7:52.11 in Paris. He also improved his PB in the 1500 metres with 3:29.51 in Lausanne. The Ehiopian athlete won silver medals in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 and at the World Championships in Eugene 2022. 

Kejelcha finished second in the 5000m at the Golden Gala in Florence in 12:52.12 and won at the Bislett Games in Oslo in 12:41.73 moving up to sixth in the world all-time list. 

The other top name to watch is Louis Grijalva from Guatemala, who finished fourth in the 5000 metres in the past two editions of the World Championships in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023. 

The best US athlete in the field is Grant Fisher, fourth in the 10000 metres at the World Championships in Eugene and national record holder with 12:46.96 in the 5000m in Brussels last year. 

The line-up also features Dominic Lobalu and Joan Raess, who competed in the Diamond League Final on Sechselautenplatz in Zurich. Lobalu, who  was born in Sud Sudan and is based in Switzerland, made his breakthrough last year when he won the 3000m in Stockolm in 7:29.48 and finished second in the Diamond League final in the 5000m in Zurich. 

Raess set Swiss indoor records in the 3000m clocking 7:35.24 in New York and 13;07.95 in the 5000m in Boston.

Men’s high jump: 

Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi will clash again in front of the 25000 spectators at the Letzigrund Stadium. Barshim and Tamberi shared the Olympic gold medal at 2.37m in Tokyo 2021. Both are crowd favourites and a guarantee of a great atmosphere. 

Tamberi won the past two editions of the Wanda Diamond League clearing the same height of 2.34m in 2021 at the Letzigrund Stadium and in 2022 in the City Event held on Sechselautenplatz. The Italian star started the season with a win at the European Team Championships in Chorzow with 2.29m and a second place with 2.34m at the Kamila Skolimowska in the same venue. At the World Championships in Budapest Tamberi completed the Grand Slam of big international titles by winning the world outdoor gold medal with a world leading mark of 2.36m. 

Barshim beat Tamberi in Chorzow with 2.36m and finished second in London with 2.33m. The Qatari star won three consecutive world titles in London 2017 (2.35m), Doha (2.37m) and Eugene (2.37m) and the world bronze medal in Budapest with 2.33m. He claimed two victories in Zurich in 2015 (2.32m) and 2017 (2.35m).

Sanghyeok Woo won the world indoor title in Belgrade with 2.34m and finished second to Barshim at the World Championships in Eugene with 2.35m. This year the South Korean jumper finished second in two Diamond League meetings in Doha with 2.27m and Florence with 2.30m and won the gold medal at the Asian Championships in Bangkok with 2.28m. 

The other top names to watch are Louis Enrique Zayas from Cuba and Tobias Potye, who placed fourth and fifth at the World Championships in Budapest with the same height of 2.33m, Hamish Kerr from New Zealand, world indoor bronze medallist in Belgrade 2022 with 2.31m and winner at the Diamond League in Stockolm this year, Shelby McEwen, seventh at the World Championships in Budapest with 2.29m, and Brandon Starc, Commonwealth Games champion and fifth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Ryoichi Akamatsu, who cleared 2.30m this year and finished eighth at the World Championships in Budapest. 

Swiss fans will cheer on Loic Gasch, who won the world indoor silver medal in Belgrade with 2.31m and set a national record of 2.33m in Lausanne in 2021. Gasch will compete for the last time in his career in front of his home fans before ending his career. 

Spectators will have the best view of the high jump competition in the standing room section of the Sudkurve of the Ltzigrund Stadium. 

Women’s 100 metres hurdles: 

The women’s 100 metres hurdles has always been one of the highlights of the Weltklasse Zurich. 

Fresh world champion Danielle Williams from Jamaica will face Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho Quinn, Olympic silver medallist Kendra Harrison and US champion Nia Ali. 

Williams won her second world gold medal in Budapest in a seasonal best of 12.43 eight years after her first triumph in Beijing 2019. The Jamaican hurdler set her seasonal best of 12.32 at the Wanda Diamond League in London in 2019.  

Camacho Quinn won the Olympic gold medal in 12.37 after improving the national record to 12.26 in the semifinal. In the past two editions of the World Championships the Puerto Rican hurdler won bronze in Eugene in a wind-assisted 12.23 and silver in Budapest in 12.44. She won two Diamond League races this year in Doha in 12.48 and Lausanne with 12.40 and the Continental Tour Gold race in Ostrava in 12.42. Last year she finished fourth in last year’s edition of the Weltlasse Zurich in 12.49. 

Harrison finished second to Camacho Quinn in the Olympic final in Tokyo and third at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 in 12.46 after clocking the second fastest time in her career with 12.24 in the heats. This year the former world record holder finished second to Nia Ali at the US Championships in Eugene in 12.42 and in the most recent Diamond League meetings in Chorzow in 12.35 and Monaco in 12.31. 

Ali, world champion in Doha 2019, won the US title in Eugene in 12.35 and the Monaco Diamond League in her PB of 12.30 beating Harrison. 

Swiss fans will support local star Ditaji Kambundji, who recently won the European Under 23 gold medal in Espoo in 12.68. Kambundji also won two bronze medals at the European Championships in Munich 2022 and at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul 2023 in the 60 metres hurdles. This year she also improved the Swiss and European under 23 record with 12.47 at the Citius meeting in her home city Bern and finished seventh at the World Championships in Budapest in 12.70 after clocking 12.50 in the semifinal. 

Devynne Charlton from the Bahamas also performed well at the World Championships final in Budapest in 12.52 after clocking 12.44 in the heats and 12.49 in the semifinal. 

The line-up also features Alaysha Johnson and Tia Jones, third and fourth at the Monaco Diamond League with the 12.39, Pia Skryszowska from Poland, European outdoor champion in Munich 2022 in 12.53. 

Women’s triple jump: 

Yulimar Rojas will be seeking her third win at the Zurich Letzigrund Stadium after claiming two Diamond League Trophies in Zurich with 15.48m in 2021 and 15.28m in 2022. Rojas clinched her third consecutive world in Budapest with a sixth-round jump with 15.08m. 

Rojas will renew her rivalry against Ukraine’s Maryna Beck Romanchuk, who won the silver medal after leading until the penultimate round with 15.00m. The Ukrainian jumper also won the world indoor silver medal in Belgrade and the European outdoor title in Munich with her lifetime best of 15.02m. 

The Zurich competition reunites the top six of the World Championships: Leyanis Perez Hernandez from Cuba, (world bronze medallist with 14.98m), Thea Lafond from Dominica (fifth with a national record of 14.90m), Liadagmis Povea (sixth with 14.87m). 

The line-up is completed by three more world finalists in Budapest: Italian jumpers Daryia Derkach (eighth with 14.36m) and Ottavia Cestonaro (tenth with 14.05m) amd Kerurah Orji (ninth in Budapest)

Men’s long jump: 

Olympic, world and European champion Miltiadis Tentoglou from Greece will take on European decathlon silver medallist and world long jump bronze medallist Simon Ehammer from Switzerland and Carey McLeod and Tajay Gayle from Jamaica 

Tentoglou completed his “Grand Slam” by winning the world outdoor gold medal in Budapest with a world seasonal best of 8.52m after claiming the world silver medal in Eugene, the European gold medal in Munich with 8.52m and last year’s Diamond League Final in Zurich with 8.42m. This year the Greek jumper won the European indoor gold medal with 8.30m, the Diamond League meeting in Paris Charlety with 8.13m and the European Team Championships with 8.34m in Chorzow. 

Gayle and McLeod will renew their Jamaican rivalry after finishing third and fourth with the same mark of 8.27m at the World Championships in Budapest. 

Ehammer became the first Swiss male athlete to win a Wanda Diamond League competition when he triumphed at the Bislett Games in Oslo with 8.32m Ehammer set a Swiss record and a world all-time best performance  of 8.45m at the Hypo Meeting in Goetzis in 2022. He won the world bronze medal in the long jump with 8.16m in Eugene. 

Mattia Furlani will compete for the third time in his career in the Wanda Diamond League. Furlani won the European Under 18 titles in the long jump with 8.04m and in the high jump with 2.15m and the European under 20 gold medal with 8.23m in Jerusalem. The Italian 18-year-old jumper jumped a wind-assisted 8.44m in Savona and won his first Continental Tour Gold meeting in Hengelo con 8.24m. 

The line-up is completed by Sreeshankar from India, Asian Championships gold medallist with 8.37m and national champion with his PB of 8.41, William Williams, national indoor champion with 8.20m in Albuquerque, Jarrion Lawson, fourth at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016, Christopher Mitrevski from Australia, seventh at the World Championships in Budapest. 

Men’s javelin throw: 

India’s Neeraj Chopra will be seeking his second consecutive win in Zurich one year after claiming his first Diamond League Trophy with 88.44m. Chopra has become the first Indian athlete in history to win a world title in Budapest, where he set a seasonal best of 88.17m. 

Chopra will take on Jakub Vadlejch, world bronze medallist in Budapest with 86.67m and world seasonal leader with 89.51m, Julian Weber from Germany, European champion in Munich 2022 and fourth at the World Championships in Budapest, Anderson Peters from Grenada, double world champion in Doha 2019 and Eugene 2022, Oliver Helander from Finland, seventh at the World Championships in Budapest. 

Women’s 800 metres: 

Raevyn Rogers, fourth at the World Championships in Budapest, will lead a field that features three world more finalists in Budapest: Nia Akins, sixth 

In 1’57”73, Adelle Tracey from Jamaica, seventh in 1:58.41, 2019 world champion Halimah Nakaay from Uganda, eighth in 1’59”18. 

Laura Muir, Olympic silver medalist and double European champion in the 1500m, will step down in distance to run the 800 metres where she holds a PB of 1:56.73. Muir set the British record in the mile with 4:15.24 in Monaco this year. 

The other names to watch are Natoya Goule from Jamaica, eighth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 and national record holder with 1:56.16 in Monaco in 2016, Catriona Bisset from Australia, Oceanian record holder with 1:57.78 in London last July, Swiss 800 metres specialists Lore Hoffman, fourth at the European Championships in Munich 2022, and Audrey Werro, European under 20 champion in Jerusalem 2023 and world under 20 silver medallist in Cali 2022. 

Men’s 110 metres hurdles: 

Jason Joseph from Switzerland leads the line-up in the men’s 110 metres hurdles. Joseph improved his Swiss record to 13.10 at the Diamond League meeting in Florence last June and equalled this time in Madrid one month later. Joseph won the European Indoor title in Istanbul in the 60 metres hurdles with 7.41 and finished seventh in the World Championships final in Budapest in 13.28. 

Joseph will go head-to-head against Sasha Zhoya, who won the world under 20 title in Nairobi in a world under 20 record of 12.72, the European under 23 title in Espoo in 13.31 and finished sixth in the World Championships final in 13.26. 

The other top names are Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli from Italy, European under 23 silver medallist in Espoo in 13.36 after improving his PB to 13.33 in the semifinal, Enrique Llopis from Spain, European under 23 bronze medallist in Tallin 2021, Eric Edwards from the USA, second at the NCAA Championships in 2022, and Damian Czykier from Poland, fourth at the World Championships in Eugene. 

Men’s 400 metres: 

Havard Bengdal Ingvaldsen from Norway will be the favourite in the men’s 400 metres. The 20-year-old Norwegian made his breakthrogh at the Bislett Games in Oslo when he smashed his PB to 44.86 in June. Ingvaldsen won the European under 23 Championships in Espoo in 45.13 and improved his lifetime best to an impressive 44.39 in the heats of the World Championships in Budapest before finishing sixth in 45.08. 

Ingvaldsen will renew his rivalry agaisnt Lionel Spitz, who won the European Under 23 silver medal in Espoo in 45.27 and reached the final at the European Championships in Munich last year. The line-up will features Ricky Petrucciani from Swìtzerland, European silver medallist in Munich, Italian record holder Davide Re, who set his seasonal best with 45.07 to reach the semifinal at the World Championships in Budapest, Olympic 4x400 relay silver medallist, and Dylan Borlée from Belgium, world bronze medallist with the 4x400 relay in Doha 2019 and Eugene 2022 

Women’s 4x100 relay:

Switzerland will take on the Netherland, Australia, Portugal and Australia in the women’s 4x100 relay, which returns in the programme of the Weltklasse Zurich for the first time since 2019.