Silesia Diamond League: Comprehensive Event-by-Event Preview

The Wanda Diamond League heads to Silesia this Sunday, August 25, promising an electrifying showcase at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial meeting. An impressive roster of 52 Paris Olympic Games medalists, including world record holders, is set to captivate a sold-out crowd exceeding 30,000 enthusiastic fans. Stay tuned for our detailed event-by-event preview of what promises to be a thrilling installment of the Silesia Diamond League.

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Men's Pole Vault:

Armand Mondo Duplantis will compete for the third consecutive year at the Memorial Skolimowska following his wins at this meeting in 2022 with 6.10m and in 2023 with 6.01m.  Duplantis broke the world record for the ninth time in his career when he won his second consecutive Olympic gold medal in Paris with 6.25m. The Swede became the second pole vaulter to win two consecutive Olympic  gold medals in the pole vault following the double achieved by USA’s Bob Richards in Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956.

The Swede has now cleared six metres or higher 88 times. Last Wednesday he won the City Event in Lausanne with a meeting record of 6.15m.

Duplantis Is one of the most successful athletes in Diamond League history. With a fourth consecutive win in Brussels next week Duplantis would make another step towards Renaud Lavillenie’s record of seven titles.

Sam Kendricks won two silver medals at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 5.90m and at the Olympic Games in Paris with 5.95m, finished first in the Olympic Trials with 5.92m and second in the Lausanne City Event with 5.92m. Kendricks cleared 5.91m in last year’s edition of the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska.

Emmanouil Karalis won the European silver medal at the European Championships in Rome with 5.87m and two bronze medals at the World indoor Championships in Glasgow with 5.85m and at the Olympic Games in Paris with 5.90m and improved his Greek record to 5.93m at the National Championships. This year he performed very well on Polish soil clearing 5.92m at the Memorial Irena Szewinska in Bydgoszcz.

Christopher Nilsen also produced good results when he competed in Polish meetings in recent years. Nilsen cleared 5.92m in Bydgoszcz in 2021 and 2023 and 5.81 in Chorzow in 2023. The US vaulter won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 with 5.97m and two medals at the World Championships (silver in Eugene 2022 with 5.94m and bronze in Budapest 2023 with 5.95m). Nilsen finished second at the US Trials with 5.87m in Eugene last June.

Ernest John Obiena from the Philippines set a seasonal best of 5.97m in Bydgoszcz, finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris with 5.90m and third in Lausanne with 5.82m. Obiena reached the podium at the past two editions of the World Championships winning bronze in Eugene with 5.94m and silver in Budapest with 6.00m.

KC Lightfoot, US  outdoor record holder with 6.07m, did not qualify for the Olympic Games but performed well in other meetings this summer by clearing 5.82m in Oslo, 5.80m in Stockolm and 5.87m in Memphis.

Renaud Lavillenie, Olympic champion in London 2012 and former world record holder with 6.16m, set a seasonal best of 5.72m in Lausanne.

Thibaut Collet from France finished fifth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 with 5.90m and improved his PB to 5.95m this year. The Frenchman will aim to bounce back from the disappointment at the Olympic Games where he did not get through to the final.

The other athletes to watch are Piotr Lisek from Poland, national record holder with 6.02m and three-time world outdoor medallist, Kurtis Marshall, world bronze medallist in Budapest 2023 with 5.95m and two-time Commonwealth Games champion in 2018 and 2022.

Men’s 800 metres:

The line-up features six of the eight finalists the Olympic final in the 800 metres. The world record set by David Rudisha with 1:40.91 at the 2012 London Olympic Games could be under threat.

Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi will be aiming to improve Rudisha’s world record.

Three days ago Wanyoniy won in Lausanne in 1:41.11 moving up to second in the world all-time list.  The Kenyan athlete missed Rudisha’s world record by 0.20.

Wanyoniy became the youngest athlete in history to win the Olympic gold medal in the 800 metres. The Kenyan 20-year-old athlete will resume his rivalry against Canada’s Marco Arop, who won the Olympic silver medal in a North American record of 1:41.20 in a very close finish. Arop won the world gold medal in Budapest 2023 ahead of Wanyonyi.

Bryce Hoppel also enjoyed a great 2024 season. The US athlete won the world indoor gold medal in 1:44.92 in Glasgow and the US Trials final in 1:42.77 before finishing fourth in the Olympic final in Paris in a US record of 1:41.67.

Gabriel Tual from France improved Pierre Ambroise Bosse’s French record clocking 1:41.61 at the Diamond League meeting in Paris. Tual finished third in the Monaco Diamond League meeting in 1:42.10 and sixth in the Olympic final in Paris in 1:42.14.

Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Wycliffe Kinymal finished fifth in the Diamond League meeting in Paris in a lifetime best of 1:42.08 and reached the semifinal at the 2024 Olympic Games. Kinyamal won seven Diamond League races in his career.

Spain’s Mohamed Attaoui broke the national record in Monaco in 1:42.04 and finished fifth in the Olympic final in 1:42.08.

Men’s 3000 metres:

Jakob Ingebrigtsen set the European 1500 metres record clocking 3:27.14 at last year’s edition of the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska in front of 30000 spectators. Ingebrigtsen improved this time to 3:26.73 at the Monaco Diamond League meeting this year.

Ingebrigtsen returns to Chorzow to run the 3000 metres. He has already secured a spot in the 1500m for the Diamond League final in Brussels thanks to his wins in Oslo and Monaco. The Norwegian star is aiming to qualify in the 3000 metres with a first win over the longer distance in Silesia. He made history at last year’s Diamond League Final in Eugene, where he won both the 1500 and the 3000 metres, becoming one of the few athletes in history to win over both distances in the same year.

Ingebrigtsen won two Olympic gold medals in the 1500 metres in Tokyo 2021 and in the 5000 metres in Paris 2024 and two world gold medals in the 5000m in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023. He won the 1500m and the 5000 metres European gold medals in Berlin 2018, Munich 2022 and Rome 2024 and claimed a total of eleven European outdoor, indoor and cross country titles over various distances.

Ingebrigtsen will face Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega, Olympic champion in the 10000m in Tokyo 2021, Berihu Aregawi, Olympic silver medal in the 10000m in Paris 2024 in a lifetime best of 26:43.44, Yomif Kejelcha, world silver medallist in the 10000m in Doha 2019, and Grant Fisher, double Olympic bronze medallist in the 5000m and 10000m in Paris 2024.

Men’s 100 metres:

Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson from Jamaica will line up against two-time Olympic medallist Fred Kerley from the USA, 2021 Olympic gold medallist Marcell Lamont from Italy, 2024 world indoor silver medallist Christian Coleman, Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala and Jamaican sprinters Rohan Watson and Ackeem Blake.

Thompson won the Jamaican Trials in Kingston in a world seasonal list of 9.77 before claiming the Olympic silver medal in 9.79 five thousandths of a second behind Noah Lyles in Paris in a very close photo-finish. Watson won the Jamaican Trials in 2023 in 9.91 and the world bronze medal in the 4x100 relay in Budapest. Blake finished third at the Jamaican Trials in 9.92 and fifth at the London Diamond League in 9.97.

Kerley won the Olympic silver medal in Tokyo 2021 in 9.84, the bronze medal in Paris in 9.81 and the world title in 9.86 in Eugene 2022.

Coleman won the Diamond League final in Eugene in 9.83 in 2023. The US sprinter finished second in the 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, but he did not take part in the Olympic Games after finishing fourth at the US Trials.

Jacobs won two Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in a European record of 9.80 and in the 4x100 relay. This year the Italian sprinter claimed his second consecutive European title in Rome in 10.02, the Continentall Tour Gold meeting in Turku in 9.92 and finished fifth in the Olympic final in Paris in 9.85 setting the third fastest time in his career. Jacobs will face his compatriot Chitru Ali, who won the European silver medal in Rome and improved his PB to 9.96 in Turku becoming the second Italian 100m sprinter to break the 10 seconds barrier.

Omanyala won the Kenyan Trials title in 9.79 in Nairobi and reached the semifinal at the Olympic Games in Paris in 10.08.

Men’s 200 metres:

Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo will go head to head against double Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek in a race that features four of the top five finishers of the Olympic final in Paris.

Tebogo improved his African record by 0.04 to 19.46 in Paris becoming the first Botswanan athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. The double world 100m under 20 champion also finished sixth in the 100 metres final improving his PB to 9.86 and won the silver medal in the 4x400 metres relay improving the African record to 2:54.53. He will chase the fourth Diamond League win of his career after his wins in the 200 metres in Lausanne in 20.01 in 2023 and in 19.64 in 2024 and in Monaco in 19.87 in 2024.

Bednarek won his second consecutive Olympic 200 metres silver medal in 19.62 in Paris. The US sprinter claimed two wins in the Diamond League in Doha in 19.67 and in Eugene in 19.89 and finished second at the US Trials in the 100m in 9.87 and in the 200m in 19.59 during a successful season.

Knighton won two world medals finishing third in Eugene 2022 in 19.80 and second in Budapest 2023 in 19.75 and finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 in 19.93 and in Paris 2024 in 19.99.

Alexander Ogando finished fifth in the 200m at the World Championships in Eugene 2022 with 19.93 and at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 in 20.02.

The line-up also features Joseph Fahnbulleh from Liberia, two-time Olympic finalist in the 200m, Kyree King, fifth in the US Trials final in 19.90, 2021 Olympic 4x100 relay champion Eseosa Desalu from Italy, who improved his PB to 20.08 in La Chaux de Fonds and clocked 20.37 in the semifinal in the Paris Olympic Games in Paris, and Shawn Maswangani from South Africa, who won the Olympic silver medal in rge 4x100 relay in 37.57 and set a PB of 19.99 in the 200m.

Men’s 110 metres hurdles:

Olympic champion Grant Holloway will resume his rivalry against Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell, who won the Olympic silver medal with 13.09. Broadbell beat Holloway by 0.04 in Lausanne on Thursday in 13.10.

Holloway won his first Olympic gold medal in the men’s 110 metres hurdles in 12.99 in Paris. Holloway broke the world indoor record with 7.27 at the US Indoor Championships before claiming his second world indoor title in Glasgow. He improved his PB to 12.86 missing Aries Merrit’s world record by 0.06. Holloway won two Diamond League races this season in Eugene in 13.03 and in Monaco in 13.01.

The Olympic podium is completed by Daniel Roberts, who  finished third at the US Trials setting the third fastest time in the world this year with his lifetime best of 12.96.

Lorenzo Simonelli won the European gold medal in Rome improving his Italian record to 13.05 and finished second to Holloway in 13.07 at the Monaco Diamond League last July. The Italian record holder clocked 13.26 in Lausanne.

Cordell Tinch set the fourth fastest time in the world with 13.03 at the US Trials in Eugene, but he did not qualify for the Olympic Games after finishing fourth at the US Trials. Tinch improved Grant Holloway’s NCAA record with 12.96 last year and set PBs of 2.21m in the long jump and 8.18 in the long jump.

European under 23 champion Sasha Zhoya from France won the first Diamond League race of his career in Paris Charlety equalling his PB with 13.15.

Orlando Bennett from Jamaica finished second at the National Trials 13.19 and seventh in the Olympic final in Paris in 13.34 after improving his PB to 13.09 in the semifinal.

Jakub Szymansky from Poland broke the national indoor record in the 60 metres hurdles with 7.47 in Dusseldorf. Szymansky won the European indoor silver medal in Istanbul 2023 and finished fifth at the World indoor Championships in Glasgow 2024.

Women’s 100 metres:

European champion Dina Asher Smith will aim to win her second consecutive win in the Diamond League after claiming a victory in Lausanne in 10.87. The British sprinter won her second European gold medal in Rome in 10.96. She will resume her rivalry against US Tamari Davis, who finished second in Lausanne in 10.97.

Daryll Neita from Great Britain won the silver medal in the 200 metres and the gold medal in the 4x100 relay at the European Championships in Rome. Neita also finished fourth in the 100 metres in 10.92 and fifth in the 200 metres at the Olympic Games in Paris. She won two Diamond League races in the 200m in Suzhou and in the 100m in Doha.

The Polish crowd will cheer on Ewa Swoboda, who won two silver medals at the World Indoor Championships in the 60 metres in 7.00 and at the European Championships in the 100 metres in Rome in 11.03.

Three-time world medallist Marie Josée Ta Lou from Ivory Coast dipped under the 11 seconds barrier twice with 10.91 in Kingston and 10.87 in the heats of the Olympic Games in Paris before getting injured in the final. She showed that she has recovered from the injury when she finished fourth in Lausanne in 11.07.

The line-up also features Jamaican sprinters Tia Clayton, second at the National Trials in Kingston in 10.86, Natasha Morrison, sixth at the 2023 Diamond League final in Eugene in 10.85, Gina Bass Bittaye from Gambia, who set a PB of 10.93 and won her first Diamond League race in Stockolm in 11.15, Patrizia Van der Weken from Luxembourg, fourth at the European Championships in Rome and winner at the Diamond League meeting in Paris in 11.06 into a headwind of -2.0 m/s.

Men’s shot put:

Three-time Olympic champion Ryan Crouser will go head-to-head against Olympic silver and bronze medallists Joe Kovacs and Rajindra Campbell from Jamaica and European gold medallist Leonardo Fabbri in a men’s shot put showdown.

Crouser won the Olympic gold medal in Paris with 22.90m in a rainy day becoming the first shot putter to win three Olympic gold medals. The US shot put star won two world gold medals in Eugene 2022 with 22.94m and in Budapest 2023 with 23.51m and set the world record with 23.56 in Los Angeles in 2023.

Kovacs won his Olympic silver medal in Paris with 22.15m beating Rajindra Campbell on countback and set the world seasonal best with 23.13m at the Eugene Diamond League last May. Kovacs also two world outdoor gold medals in Beijing 2015 and Doha 2019.

Campbell won the silver medal becoming the first Jamaican athlete to win a medal in a throwing event at the Olympic Games. The Jamaican shot putter set a national record of 22.22m in Madrid last year.

Fabbri won the European gold medal in Rome with 22.45m and improved Alessandro Andrei’s Italian record with 22.95m. He threw over the 22 metres barrier in 12 consecutive competitions this year before finishing fifth in the Olympic final in Paris with 21.70m. Fabbri won the second Diamond League competition of his career in London with 22.52m.

The other athletes to watch are USA’s Payton Otterdahl and Nigeria’s Cornell Chukwebuka Enekwechi, who finished fourth and sixth in the Olympic final with 22.03m and 21.42m respectively. Otterdahl finished third at both the US Trials with 22.26m and at the London Diamond League meeting with 22.13m. Enekwechi finished third at the Diamond League in Eugene with a seasonal best of 21.91m.

The line-up features US shot putters Jordan Geist, second at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava with 22.09m and fourth at the Olympic Trials with 21.79m, Roger Steen, sixth at the US Trials with 21.51m, Jacko Gill from New Zealand, sixth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 with 21.78m and seventh at the Olympic Games in Paris with 21.15m, Mychal Haratyk from Poland, two-time European champion in 2018 and 2022 and European silver medallist in Rome 2024 with 20.94m, Konrad Bukowiecki from Poland, European silver medallist in Berlin 2018, and Markus Thomsen from Norway, eighth at the European Championships in Rome 2024.

Women’s 400 metres hurdles:

World and European champion Femke Bol will return to the Menorial Kamila Skolimowska. The Dutch athlete has a fond memory of the Silesia meeting, where she set a former meeting record over the 400 metres flat distance with 49.75 in 2022. Bol will continue her bid for a fourth consecutive Diamond League title. She has won 20 individual 400m hurdles races in the Diamond League circuit over the past four years, including three competitions in Stockolm (53.07), London (51.30 Diamond League record) and Lausanne (52.25 meeting record). This year she became the second woman in history to break the 51 seconds barrier with a European record of 50.95 in La Chaux de Fonds and won three Olympic medals (gold in the mixed 4x400 relay, silver in the women’s 4x400 relay and bronze in the 400 metres hurdles).

Anna Cockrell finished second at the US Olympic Trials in 52.64 and won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Paris behind Sydney McLaughlin in 51.87 becoming the fourth woman in history to break the 52 seconds.

Rushell Clayton from Jamaica won the National Trials in Kingston in 52.51 and finished fifth at the Olympic Games in Paris in 52.68. She claimed two Diamond League races in Marrakesh in 53.98 and Oslo in 54.02.

Shamier Little, world silver medal in Budapest 2023, finished fourth at the US Olympic Trials in 52.98 but she bounced back by winning two Olympic gold medals in the women’s 4x400 relay and in the mixed 4x400 relay. Little set a seasonal best of 52.78 at the London Diamond League meeting.

The other top names are Janieve Russell, gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022 and fourth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, Andrenette Knight, fourth at the Diamond League meeting in London in 53.69, Shiann Salmon from Jamaica, sixth in the Olympic final in Paris in 53.29, Dalilah Muhammad, world champion in Doha 2019 with a world record of 52.16 and Olympic silver medallist in 51.58 in Tokyo 2021, Anna Ryzhikova from the Ukraine, fifth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 in a PB of 52.96.

Women’s 100 metres hurdles:

The women’s 100 metres hurdles will reunite the entire podium of the Paris Olympic Games with Masai Russell (gold), Cyrena Samba Mayela (silver) and Jasmine Camacho Quinn (bronze).

Masai Russell won the US Trials final in a lifetime best of 12.25 and went on to win the Olympic gold medal in 12.33 in Paris.

Camacho Quinn returns to Chorzow where she won at the Memorial Kusocinski in 12.42 in 2023. The Puerto Rican hurdler won two Olympic medals, finishing first in Tokyo 2021 in 12.37 and third in Paris in 12.36. She won her third Diamond League race of the season in Lausanne in 12.35.

Samba Mayela, who trains with Camacho Quinn under the guidance of Irish coach John Coghlan, won the only French athletics medal at the Olympic Games in Paris in 12.34.

Samba Mayela claimed the world indoor silver medal in Glasgow in the 60 metres hurdles in 7.74, the European gold medal in Rome with 12.31. She won her first Diamond League race in Eugene last May in 12.52.

Nadine Visser, two-time European indoor champion in 2019 and 2021, improved her PB to 12.36 in La Chaux de Fonds last July and finished fifth in the Olympic final in 12.43.

Pia Skryszowska from Poland won the world indoor bronze medal in Glasgow in the 60 metres hurdles in 7.79, the European bronze medal in Rome 2024 in 12.42 and improved her PB to 12.37 in La Chaux de Fonds. 

Ackera Nugent won the world under 20 gold medal in Nairobi 2021 and the Jamaican Trials in Kingston with her PB of 12.28.

Kendra Harrison, Olympic silver medallist in Tokyo 2021 and former world record holder, did not qualify for the Olympic Games after finishing sixth at the US Trials in 12.39.

The line-up also features Nia Ali, world champion in Doha 2019, Alaysha Johnson, second at the US Trials in 12.31, and Grace Stark, who won the NCAA title in Eugene and finished fifth in the Olympic final in Paris in 12.43 and third in Lausanne in 12.38.

Women’s 400 metres:

Olympic and world champion Marileidy Paulino from Dominican Republic will be seeking her fifth Diamond League win of the season when she takes on European champion Natalia Kaczmarek from Poland and Rhasidat Adeleke from Ireland.

Paulino won the Olympic gold medal in Paris in 48.17 improving Marie José Pérec’s Olympic record. She has claimed four Diamond League races this season in Xiamen (50.08), Suzhou (50.89), Oslo (49.30) and Paris Charlety (49.20).

Kaczmarek won the European gold medal in Rome in 48.98 breaking the Polish record set by Irena Szweszinska, who won the Olympic gold medal with 49.28 in Montreal 1976. Kaczmarek improved her record by 0.08 to 48.90 at the London Diamond League meeting and won the Olympic silver medal in 48.98 in Paris in a great race, where all finalists broke the 50 seconds and the three medallists ran under the 49 seconds. Kaczmarek became the first woman in 39 years to break the 49 second barrier three times in a season.

Adeleke won the gold medal in the 4x400 mixed relay, two silver medals in the 400 metres in Rome in 49.07 and in the women’s 4x400 relay. The Irish athlete finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris in 49.28, narrowly missing a medal for the second consecutive year after her fourth at the World Championships in Budapest.

Another European medallist in the field is Lieke Klaver from the Netherlands, who finished third in 50.08 at the European Championships in Rome in 50.08 and first in the 4x400 relay. Klaver won the gold medal with the 4x400 mixed relay and the silver medal with the women’s 4x400 relay. Klaver finished second with 49.81 at last year’s edition of the Memorial Skolimowska and improved her PB to 49.58 at the Diamond League meeting in London last July. 

Selwa Naser from Barhein won the world title in 48.14 in Doha and the Olympic silver medal in 48.53. 

The only US athlete lining up is Alexis Holmes, who finished sixth in her PB of 49.77 and won the gold medal in the 4x400 relay at the Olympic Games in Paris. 

The other sub-50 seconds performers in the field are Sada Williams from Barbados, two-time world bronze medallist in Eugene 2022 in 49.75 and in Budapest 2023 in 49.60 and seventh in the Olympic final in Paris 2024 in 49.83, Henriette Jaeger from Norway, who improved her PB to 49.85 in La Chaux de Fonds and finished eighth in the Olympic final in Paris in 49.96, and Laviai Nielsen from Great Britain, who finished fifth at the London Diamond League meeting in London breaking the 50 seconds barrier for the first time with 49.87 and Olympic bronze medallist in the women’s 4x400 relay and in the mixed 4x400 relay.

Men’s 400 metres hurdles:

World record holder Karsten Warholm will compete at the Kamila Skolimowska for the first time in his career. Warholm will be aiming to bounce back from his disappointment for his Olympic silver medal in Paris, when he resumes his Diamond League campaign in Chorzow.

Warholm, who won the Diamond Trophy in Zurich in 2019 and 2021, is still seeking his first Diamond League win of the season after finishing second to Alison Dos Santos in Oslo in 46.70 and Raj Benjamin in Monaco in 46.73. Warholm won his third consecutive European title in 46.98 in Rome and the Olympic silver in 47.06 in Paris in 2024. Warholm will compete for the first time in his career at the Memorial Skolimowska.

Warholm will compete against Rasmus Magi from Estonia, Clement Ducos from France and Roshawn Clarke from Jamaica.

Magi reached three Olympic finals in 2016, 2021 and 2024 and finished fourth at the European Championships in Rome in 48.13. The Estonian athlete set a seasonal best of 47.95 when he finished second at the Paris Diamond League in Paris.

Ducos made his breakthrough at the Olympic Games when he improved his PB three times. The Frenchman clocked 47.69 in the heat,47.85 in the semifinal and 47.76 in the final, where he finished fourth.

Clarke set the world under 20 record with 47.34 in the semifinal of the World Championships in Budapest in 48.07. The Jamaican hurdler set a seasonal best of 47.63 at the London Diamond League meeting last July. The other Jamaican hurdler is Jaheel Hyde, world under 20 champion in 2016 and sixth in 48.03 at the World Championships in Eugene 2022.

Abderhaman Samba won the world bronze medal in Doha 2019 and reached two Olympic finals finishing fifth in 47.08 in Tokyo 2021 and sixth in Paris 2024 in 47.98.

The line-up will feature Berke Akcam from Turkey, world under 20 champion in Nairobi 2021 and fifth at the European Championships in Rome in 48.17, Matheus Lima from Brazil, who set PBs of 44.52 in the 400 metres and 48.31 in the 400 metres hurdles this year, and Vit Muller from Czechia, who improved his PB to 48.41 this year.

Men’s high jump:

Olympic champions Hamish Kerr, Shelby McEwen and  Gianmarco Tamberi will face off once again in the men’s high jump at the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska in Chorzow. 

Kerr enjoyed a dream season winning the world indoor title in Glasgow with 2.36m and the Olympic gold medal with 2.36m beating McEwen in the jump-off. The “flyng Kiwi”, as Kerr is known to athletics fans, also won three Diamond League competitions in Suzhou (2.31m), Monaco (2.33m) and London (2.30m).

McEwen won the world indoor silver medal in Glasgow with 2.28m and the Diamond League competition with 2.27m in Xiamen.

Tamberi won the European gold medal in Rome with 2.37m last June but he finished 11th with 2.22m in the Olympic final a few hours after being hospitalized with kidney stones. Tamberi won the world gold medal with 2.36m in Budapest 2023 and two consecutive editions of the Diamond League in Zurich in 2021 and 2022.

Italy’s Stefano Sottile finished fourth at the Olympic Games with 2.31m in Paris losing to Mutaz Barshim on countback.

Sanghyeok Woo from South Korea won the world indoor gold medal in Belgrade 2022 with 2.34m and the Diamond League Trophy in Eugene with 2.33m last year.

Women’s triple jump:

Leyanis Perez Hernandez will chase her fourth Diamond League win this season after her victories in Eugene with 14.73m, in Stockolm with 14.67m and in Monaco with 14.96m. The Cuban triple jumper won the world bronze medal in Budapest with 14.95m and finished fifth with 14.62m at the Olympic Games in Paris.

Perez Hernandez will take on Jamaica’s Shanieka Ricketts and Jasmine Moore. Ricketts won the Olympic silver medal in Paris with 14.87m and two world silver medals in Doha 2019 and Eugene 2022. Ricketts improved her PB to 15.03m at the 2023 Diamond League in Eugene.

Moore won bronze medals in both the long jump (6.96m) and triple jump (14.67m) at the Olympic Games in Paris. Moore holds PBs of 15.12m in the triple jump and 7.03m in the long jump.

The line-up also features Liadagmis Povea from Cuba, fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris with 14.64m, Ackelia Smith from Jamaica, NCAA champion in the long jump with 6.79m and in the triple jump with 14.52m, Ilionis Guillaume from France, European bronze medallist in Rome 2024, Daryia Derkach, European indoor silver medallist in Istanbul 2023 and eighth in the Olympic final in Paris, Saly Sarr, African champion in 2024. 

Men’s 3000 metres steeplechase:

Soufiane El Bakkali from Morocco won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s 3000 metres steeplechase in 8:06.05 in Paris becoming the second man to successfully defend the 3000m steeplechase title after Finland’s Volmari Iso Hollo last achieved this feat at the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936.

El Bakkali will resume his rivalry against USA’s Kenneth Rooks, who won a surprising Olympic silver medal, and Olympic bronze medallist Abraham Kibiwott from Kenya.

The other top names are Ethiopia’s Samuel Firewu, sixth in the Olympic final in Paris and winner in the Diamond League meeting in Doha in 8:07.25, Mohamed Jhinaoui from Tunisia, fourth in the Olympic final in 8:07.73.

Women’s 1500 metres:

Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji is seeking her second Diamond League win this season three days after finishing first in the 3000m in Lausanne in 8:21,10.

Welteji will take on Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Bell, who finished second behind world champion Mary Moraa in the 800m in Lausanne in 1:58.53.

The line-up also features Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu, who finished fourth in the 1500 metres at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 and won the fourth Diamond League race of her career in Doha in the 1500m in 4:00.42 in Doha, Susan Ejore from Kenya, sixth in the 1500m at the Olympic Games in 3:56.07 in Paris and Linden Hall, sixth in the Olympic final in the 1500 metres in Tokyo 2021 in 3:59.01.

Women’s javelin throw:

Maria Andrejczyk from Poland, Olympic silver medallist in Tokyo and eighth in the Olympic final in Paris after setting a seasonal best of 65.52m in the qualifying round, will take on Ane Van Dyk from South Africa and Nikola Ogrodnikova from Czechia, who won the silver and bronze medal respectively in Paris, Austria’s Victoria Hudson from Austria, European champion in Rome, and Colombia’s Flor Ruiz Hurtado, world silver medallist in Budapest 2023 with 65.47m and fifth in the Olympic final in Paris.

Men’s hammer throw:

World and Olympic champion Ethan Katzberg will go head to head against Polish stars Pawel Fajdek and Wojech Nowicki, Bence Halasz and Mykhaylo Kokhan.

Katzberg made his breakthrough last year when he won the world gold medal in Budapest with 81.25m. The Canadian thrower improved his PB to 84.38m at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi a few months before winning the Olympic gold medal in Paris with 84.12m.

Nowicki won the Olympic gold in Tokyo with 82.52m and the world silver medal in Budapest with 81.02m and his third European gold medal in Rome with 80.95m.

Fajdek won five world gold medals, three European medals and the Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo 2021.

Kokhan won two bronze medals at the European Championships in Rome with 80.18m and at the Olympic Games in Paris.

Halasz won the European silver medal in Rome 2024 with 80.49m, the Olympic silver medal in Paris 2024 with 79.97m and two world bronze medal in Doha 2019 and Budapest 2023.

Women’s hammer throw:

Olympic silver medallist Annette Echikunwoke will take on 2022 world champion Brooke Andersen, Janee’Kassanavoid, two-time world medallist (bronze in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023), Sara Fantini from Italy, European gold medallist in Rome 2024 with a seasonal best of 74.18m and two-time world finalist in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023, and Hanna Skydan from Azerbaijan, fourth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and seventh at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 with 73.69m.

Andersen set the world seasonal best with 79.92 in Tucson, but she registered three fouls at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene. Kassanavoid also did not qualify for the Olympic Games after finishing sixth at the US Trials.

Hammer throw competitions will not be Diamond League scoring disciplines but they will be special events at this meeting because they are dedicated to late hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska, who won the Olympic gold medal in Sydney 2000 and passed away in tragic circumstances in 2009.