Xiamen Diamond League 2025 Preview: World-Class Stars Ready to Open the Season

The 2025 Wanda Diamond League kicks off this Saturday, April 26, at Egret Stadium in Xiamen, setting the stage for a blockbuster start to the outdoor track and field season. The opening meet boasts an all-star cast including world and Olympic champions Armand Duplantis, Grant Holloway, Faith Kipyegon, Karsten Warholm, Yaroslava Mahuchik, and Letsile Tebogo. With world records, title defenses, and rivalries in play, Xiamen is primed to deliver fireworks from the very first gun.

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Men’s pole vault: 

Armand Duplantis has a fond memory of Xiamen. He broke the world pole vault record by clearing 6.24m in last year’s edition of the meeting. It was the earliest world record ever to be broken in a Diamond League season and the first of three world records set by Duplantis in 2024. He followed it up with 6.25m at the Olympic Games in Paris, where he won his second consecutive gold medal, and 6.26m at the Diamond League meeting in Chorzow. He crowned last year’s season by winning his fourth Wanda Diamond League Trophy in Brussels. During the 2025 winter season Duplantis improved his world record by one cm to 6.27m in Clermont Ferrand a few weeks before winning his third consecutive world indoor gold medal with 6.15m on Chinese soil in Nanjing. He is aiming to get off to a winning start as he is chasing his fifth consecutive Diamond League Trophy in 2025.

Duplantis will go up against Emmanouil Karalis and Sam Kendricks in a re-match between the three medallists of the Olympic Games.

Karalis won the Olympic bronze medal in Paris with 5.90m and the European silver medal in Rome with 5.87m in 2024. This year the Greek vaulter won the European indoor gold medal in Apeldoorn with 5.90m and the world indoor silver medal in Nanjing improving his PB to 6.05m.

Kendricks won the Olympic medal silver in Paris 2024  and the world indoor bronze in Nanjing 2025 with 5.90m. Karalis and Kendricks cleared 6.00m in Chorzow when Duplantis broke he world record. In that competition three vaulters cleared 6.00m in the same meeting.

Menno Vloon from the Netherlands shared the gold medal with Karalis at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn with 5.90m and finished fourth with 5.80m at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing.

The star-studded line-up features Sondre Guttormsen from Norway, European indoor bronze medallist in Apeldoorn with 5.90m, Ernest John Obiena from the Philippines and Kurtis Marshall from Australia, who won silver and bronze medals respectively at the World Championships in Budapest 2023, Ersu Sasma from Turkey , European bronze medalist in Rome 2024 with 5.82m and fifth at the Olympic Games in Paris with 5.85m, Ben Broeders from Belgium, seventh at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 with 5.75m, and China’s Huang Bokai, seventh at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 with 5.80m.

Men’s 110 metres hurdles:

Three-time 110 metres hurdles world champion Grant Holloway will target the Xiamen meeting record of 12.96 set by Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment at the inaugural edition of the Xiamen meeting in 2023, when the US hurdler finished third in 13.12. Holloway clocked the second fastest time in his career with 12.86 at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene and went on to win his first Olympic gold medal in 12.99. He claimed four Diamond League wins in Eugene (13.03), Monaco (13.01), Chorzow (13.04) and Zurich (12.99). He has clinched ten Diamond League races in the past three seasons. He is bidding to win his second Diamond League title after claiming the win in Zurich in 2022.

During the 2025 indoor season Holloway extended his winning streak to 72 consecutive victories by claiming his third consecutive world indoor title in Nanjing in 7.42. With his victory in the Chinese city Holloway has become only the second athlete to win three world indoor titles in the 60 metres hurdles following in the footsteps of his compatriot Allen Johnson, who won gold in 1995, 2003 and 2004.

Holloway will renew his rivalry against Hansle Parchment, who won the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in 13.04 beating his US rival. Parchment also beat Holloway in the Diamond League final in Eugene in 2023 in 12.93.

Grant Holloway: “We all know sub-13 is my nickname, so I want to continue just that tradition of running sub-13s. I know it’s April, I know it’s early, but I always try to get in that shape early and then try to maintain that as long as possible. If I start the season off at 13.2 or 13.1, the goal is to just to keep dropping. So as long as there are signs of consistency, I’m going to be fine. But I know that it’s going to be another world-class field at both Chinese meetings”.

The line-up will feature Daniel Roberts, who won world bronze in Budapest 2023 and Olympic silver in Paris 2024, Freddie Crittenden, fourth at the World Championships in Budapest and sixth in the Olympic final in Paris, and Cordell Tinch, fourth at the US Olympic Trials in 13.03. Roberts and Crittenden dipped under the 13 seconds barrier improving their PBs to 12.93 and 12.96 at the US Trials last year.

The only European hurdler in the line-up is Enrique Llopis from Spain, who won the European silver medal in Rome and finished fourth at both the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow and at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024. Llopis equalled the Spanish indoor record in the 60 metres hurdles clocking 7.48 at the World Indoor Tour meeting in Madrid.

Chinese fans will cheer on Jiunxi Liu, who won the world indoor bronze medal in Nanjing 2025 in the 60 metres hurdles with 7.55 and improved his PB to 7.47, and Xu Zhuoyi, second at the 2023 Asian Championships.

The line-up also features Japanese hurdlers Shunshuke Izumiya, fifth in the 110 metres at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and fourth in the long jump at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025, and Rachid Muratake, fifth at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Women’s 1000 metres:

Three-time Olympic gold medallist, four-time world champion and world record holder Faith Kipyegon will line-up in the 1000 metres in Xiamen. Kipyegon is aiming to break Svetlana Masterkova’s 1000 metres world record of 2:28.98 set in 1996. Kipyegon set her 1000m of 2:29.15 in the Monaco Diamond League meeting in 2020. Kipyegon set four world records in the past two Diamond League seasons (3:49.11 in the 1500m in Florence, 14:05.20 in the 5000m in Paris and 4:07.64 in the mile in Monaco in 2023 and 3:49.04 in Paris in 2024).

She has set her sights on a record-equalling sixth Wanda Diamond League title. The Kenyan middle distance legend won her third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 1500 metres in Paris and her fifth consecutive Diamond League title in Brussels last September. She needs one more Diamond League title to equal Sandra Elkasevic’s record and become the joint most successful athlete in Diamond League history.

Kipyegon will face Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma and Habitam Alemu, Shafiqa Maloney from St. Vincent and Grenadine and Natoya Goule Toppin from Jamaica.

Duguma won the world indoor title in Glasgow and the Olympic silver medal in Paris in 2024 in a PB of 1:57.15. She set her indoor seasonal best of 1:59.02 in Liévin and finished sixth at the World indoor Championships in Nanjing.

Alemu finished sixth in the 800m Olympic final in Tokyo 2021 and reached four world indoor finals (sixth in Portland 2016, fourth in Birmingham 2018, seventh in Belgrade 2022 and fifth in Glasgow 2024).

Maloney finished fourth in the 800m Olympic final  in 1:57.66 in Paris 2024. She won the 800 metres at the Millrose Games in New York in 1:59.07 last February.

Goule Toppin finished fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade 2022 and won two Diamond League races in Brussels 2021 in 1:58.09 and in Monaco 2022 in 1:56.98. She finished third at the Diamond League final in Eugene in 1:55.96 in 2023.

Women’s 5000 metres:

Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet will face 5000 metres world record holder Gudaf Tsegay in the women’s 5000 metres.

Chebet won two Olympic gold medals in the 5000 and 10000 metres in Paris 2024 and set the 10000m world record with 28:54.14 in Eugene last year. The Kenyan athlete won two consecutive world cross country titles in 2023 and 2024, two Diamond League titles in the 5000 in Zurich in 2022 and 2024 and reached the podium at the World Championships in the 5000m finishing second in Eugene 2022 and third in Budapest 2023.

Tsegay returns to Xiamen where she won the 1500 metres at last year’s edition of this meeting setting the third fastest time in history with 3:50.30. The Ethiopian athlete won the world indoor gold medal in the 1500m in 3:54.86 and two world titles in the 5000m in Eugene 2022 and in the 10000m in Budapest 2023. She set two world records in the 5000m with 14:00.21 at the 2023 Diamond League final in Eugene and in the 1500m indoors with 3:53.09 in Liévin in 2021.

Freweyni Hailu from Ethiopia has also a fond memory of China. She won the world indoor gold medal in the 3000 metres in 8:37.21 in Nanjing last March claiming her second title following her title in the 1500m in Glasgow 2024. Hailu set a world indoor lead of 8:19.98 in the 3000 metres in Liévin.

Birke Haylom from Ethiopia set a national under 20 record of 3:53.22 at last year’s edition of the Xiamen Diamond League meeting. This year Haylom improved the world under 20 indoor record in the 3000m with 8:25.37 in Liévin and finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in the 3000 metres in Nanjing.

The line-up also features Marta Alemayo, world under 20 cross country champion in Belgrade 2024 and world under 20 bronze medal in the 3000 metres in Lima in 2024, Sembo Almayew, world under 20 champion in Lima and fifth at the Olympic Games in the 3000 metres steeplechase, Hirut Meshesha, world indoor bronze medallist in the 1500m in Belgrade 2022, Likina Amebaw, who set a seasonal best of 8:24.29 in the 3000 metres in Oslo in 2024, Ayal Dagnachew, who set a PB of 14:36.86 in the 5000 metres in Suzhou last year, and Georgia Griffith from Australia, who finished fourth in the 1500m at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025 and set a national record of 8:24.20 in the 3000m in Oslo in 2024.

Men’s 300 metres hurdles:

The men’s 300m hurdles will be held for the first time in a Diamond League meeting after this discipline was approved by World Athletics Council last March.

Norwegian star Karsten Warholm will start his 2025 season with back-to-back appearances in the two Diamond League meetings in Xiamen and Shanghai. He will compete in China for the first time in his career.

Warholm is bidding to win the Diamond League Trophy for the third time in his career after claiming two wins in Zurich in 2019 and 2021. His biggest goal is to defend his world title in Tokyo next September two years after his win in Budapest 2023 in 46.89. He won the Olympic final in Tokyo 2021 setting the world record of 45.94 and finished second in Paris 2024 in 47.06.

Karsten Warholm: “I am really looking forward to racing in front of my Chinese fans”.

Warholm will take on Kyron McMaster from British Virgin Islands, world silver medallist in Budapest 2023 in 47.34 and two-time Olympic finalist in Tokyo 2021 (fourth in 47.08) and in Paris 2021 (fifth in 47.79). McMaster won two editions of the Diamond League final in Zurich in 2017 and 2018.

The line-up will also feature CJ Allen, who won his first Diamond League competition in Paris in 47.92 and set a PB of 47.58 in Oslo in 2023, Carl Bengstrom from Sweden, bronze medallist at the World Indoor Championships in the 400 metres in Belgrade 2022 and in the 400 metres hurdles at the European Championships in Rome in 47.94, Matheus Lima from Brazil, who set PBs of 48.12 in the 400 metres hurdles at the Diamond League in Chorzow in 2024 and  in the 400m with 44.52, Berke Akcam from Turkey, world under 20 champion in Nairobi 2021 and fifth at the European Championships in Rome 2024 in 48.17, Gerald Drummond from Costarica, winner at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene in 2024 in 48.56, Xie Zhiyu from China, third at the Asian Championships in 2023.

Men’s 100 metres:

Olympic 200 metres champion Letsile Tebogo will launch his Diamond League campaign with two 100 metres races in Xiamen and Shanghai. Tebogo won the Olympic gold medal in the 200 metres improving his African record by 0.04 to 19.46 and five Diamond League races (four in the 200 metres in Monaco in 19.87, Lausanne in 19.64, Chorzow in 19.83 and Zurich in 19.55 and one in the 100m in Rome in 9.87). He improved his 100m PB to 9.86 in the Olympic final in Paris. He is bidding to win his first Diamond League Trophy after finishing second to Kenny Bednarek in the 200m in last September’s final in Brussels. He received the World Athlete of the Year Award last year.

Tebogo will go up against Akani Simbine from South Africa, Christian Coleman from the USA, Ferdinand Omanyala from Kenya and Jeremiah Azu from Great Britain.

Simbine won his first international medal at a major championship when he finished third at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing last March in the 60 metres in 6.53. He reached his third consecutive Olympic final finishing fourth in Paris improving his PB to 9.82. Simbine is aiming to win his second Diamond League race on Chinese soil after claiming a victory in Suzhou in 10.01. He started his outdoor season with a win at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Gaborone in a world lead of 9.90.

Jeremiah Azu won two gold medals this year at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn and at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing with a European lead of 6.49.

Kennedy won the world indoor silver medal in Nanjing in 6.50. The 21-year-old won the 200m at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Melbourne in 20.26 and finished second in the 100m at the Australian Championships in Perth in 10.01.

Coleman returns to Xiamen where he won the 100m in the first edition of this meeting in 2023 in 9.83. He went on to win the Diamond League Final in Eugene with the same time. Coleman won the world 100 metres gold medal in Doha 2019 and two world indoor titles in Birmingham 2018 and Glasgow 2024. He opened his 2025 season with a third place in the 100m in 10.06 and a win with the 4x100 relay in 37.90 in Gainesville.

Omanyala set the African record of 9.77 in Nairobi in 2021. The Kenyan sprinter finished second to Simbine in 10.00 at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Gaborone on 12 April.

The other top athletes in the line-up are Emmanuel  Eseme from Cameroon, sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow in the 60 metres and winner in two Diamond League in Marrakesh and Stockolm, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown from Japan, sixth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023, Rohan Watson, Jamaican champion in 9.91 and world bronze medallist in the 4x100 relay in Budapest 2023, and China’s Xie Zhenye, who set a PB of 9.97 and won the Olympic bronze medal in the 4x100 relay.

Women’s high Jump:

Olympic, world and European champion Yaroslava Mahuchik has a fond memory of the Xiamen meeting, as she won the women’s high jump in the inaugural edition in 2023 with 2.03m. Mahuchik improved Stefka Kostadinova’s world record to 2.10m in Paris, won the European title in Rome with 2.01m, the Olympic gold medal in Paris with 2.00m beating Nicola Olyslagers on countback after a thrilling final and her third Diamond League title in Brussels with 1.97m during a successful 2023 season. She returns to China one month after the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, where she finished third with 1.95m in a competition affected by an issue on her ankle.

Yaroslava Mahuchik: "It’s going well! I’ve been jumping well since the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing. I know that there will be great competitors in the field in Xiamen with the Australian girls It will be an incredible atmosphere and I want to get a good result. I’m looking forward to starting my season.”

Mahuchik will go head-to-head against Australian high jumpers Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson in a re-match of the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025. Olyslagers won her second consecutive world indoor gold medal in Nanjing 2025 with 1.97m and the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Olyslagers claimed the Australian Championships in Perth with a seasonal best of 2.01m.

Patterson finished second to her compatriot Olyslagers with 1.97m on countback in Nanjing with 1.97m and at the Australian Championships in Perth. Patterson won the world outdoor title in Eugene 2022 with 2.02m and finished second at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest with 1.99m and third at the Olympic Games in Paris with 1.95m.

Germany will be represented by Christina Honsel, sixth at the Olympic Games in Paris and fourth both the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow 2024 and at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn 2025, and Imke Onnen, sixth at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn.

The other top contenders are Morgan Lake from Great Britain, fourth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 with 1.97m and fifth at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Ella Junnila from Finland, third at the European Indoor Championships in Torun 2021 and fifth at the European Championships in Rome 2024, and Yulia Levchenko from Ukraine, world outdoor silver medallist in London 2017.

Women’s 200 metres:

Shericka Jackson from Jamaica will face Mujinga Kambundji from Switzerland.

Jackson won two world gold medals in the 200 metres in Eugene 2022 in 21.45 and Budapest 2023 in 21.41 setting the second fastest time in history. The Jamaican sprinter is a three-time Diamond League winner (200m in 2022,100m and 200m in 2023). Last year she was sidelined by an injury a few weeks before the Olympic Games in Paris, but she has come back this year with 7.14 in the outdoor 60 metres and 36.13 in the 300m in Miramar.

Kambundj won the European indoor silver medal in Apeldoorn in 7.02 and her second World indoor gold medal in Nanjing in 7.04 in the 60 metres last March, two European gold medals in the 200 metres in Munich 2022 and Rome 2024.

Anavia Battle set the early-season world lead in the 100 metres with 10.98 at the Tom Jones Memorial in Gainesville. The other US sprinters in the line-up are Tamara Clark, sixth in the 200m at the World Championships in Eugene 2022, Jenna Prandini, world champion in Eugene 2022 and Olympic silver medallist with the 4x100 relay in Tokyo 2021, and Twanisha Terry, gold medallist in the 4x100 at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Women’s 100 metres hurdles:

Devynne Charlton from the Bahamas won her second consecutive world indoor gold medal in Nanjing 2025 in 7.72. She set the world indoor record with 7.65 in Madrid and finished fourth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and sixth at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Charlton will face two-time world champion Danielle Williams from Jamaica, USA’s Grace Stark, Poland’s Pia Skryszowska and world record holder Tobi Amusan from Nigeria.

Williams won her first world gold medal in Beijing in 2015 and repeated her feat by claiming her second world title eight years later in Budapest. She opened her 2025 season with a second place in the 100 metres hurdles in 12.70 and a win in the 100 metres in 11.54 at the Grand Slam Track meeting in Kingston.

Stark won the 2024 NCAA outdoor title in Eugene in 12.47 and finished fifth at both the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris in 12.43 and the 2025 World Indoor Championships in Nanjing in the 60 metres hurdles in 7.74.

Pia Skrzyszowka won the European indoor bronze medal in Apeldoorn 2025 in 7.83, two European outdoor medals (gold in Munich 2022 in 12.53 and bronze in Rome 2024 in 12.42) and finished third in Glasgow 2024 in 7.79 and fourth in 7.74 in Nanjing 2025 in 7.74.

Amusan won the world outdoor gold medal in Eugene 2022 in a wind-assisted 12.06 after setting the world record of 12.12 in the semifinal.

The line-up also features USA’s Nia Ali, world champion in Doha 2019 and two-time world indoor gold medallist, Tonea Marshall, fifth at the US Olympic Trials in 12.38 in Eugene 2024, Marlone Fourie from South Africa, who set the national record of 12.49 in Hengelo 2024 and a seasonal best of 12.69 in Johannesburg in 2025, and Yanni Wu from China, second at the World Universiy Games in Chengdu 2023.

Men’s 400 metres:

The top athlete in the men’s 400 metres field is Grenada’s Kirani James, who is fourth in the World Athletics Ranking. James completed a full set of medals at the Olympic Games (gold in London 2012, silver in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and bronze in Tokyo 2021) and at the World Championships 2021 (gold in Daegu 2011, bronze in Beijing 2015, silver in Eugene 2022). He claimed three Diamond League titles in 2011, 2022 and 2023. James finished fifth in the Olympic final in Paris in 43.87 and second in the Diamond League final in Brussels last year.

The fastest athlete in the line-up this is Chris Bailey, who clocked 44.34 at the Track Grand Slam meeting in Kingston. Bailey set the world indoor lead with 44.70 in Fayetteville last February and won the world indoor gold medal with 45.08. He finished sixth in the 400 metres with 44.58 and won the gold medal with the 4x400 relay wit 2:54.43 at the Olympic Games in Paris.

The line-up features Bayapo Ndori and Busang Collen Kebinatshipi, two members of the Botswanan team, who won the silver medal in the 4x400 relay at the Olympic Games in Paris with an African record of 2:54.43. Ndori set the second fastest time in the world this year with 44.35 in Gaborone and won in 44.59 beating Tebogo. Kebinatshipi set seasonal best times of 44.90 in the 400m in Francistown and 20.13 in the 200m in Gaborone.

Alexander Doom from Belgium makes his come-back from injury which sidelined from the indoor season. Doom won two world indoor gold medals in the 400m in a PB of 45.25 and in the 4x400 relay in Glasgow and two European outdoor titles in the 400m with 44.15 and in the 4x400 relay in Rome in 2024. He also claimed his first Diamond League win in Marrakesh in 44.51 last year.

Edvard Ingvaldsen from Norway is the other top European athlete in the field. Ingvaldsen won the European under 23 title in Espoo 2023 and finished sixth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 in 45.08 after improving the national record to 44.39 in the heats.

The entry list also features Vernon Norwood, gold medallist with the 4x400 at the past two editions of the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024 and at the World Championships in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023, Lythe Pillay from South Africa, who won the world under 20 title in Cali 2022 and set a seasonal best of 44.97, and Chinese 18-year-old talent Alixier Wumaeier, who set a national record of 45.79 last year. 

 Men’s 3000 metres steeplechase:

Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali claimed two consecutive Olympic gold medals in Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024 and two world titles in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023 in the 3000 metres steeplechase. The Moroccan steeplechaser has claimed ten Diamond League races in her career since 2022. He won the Diamond Trophy in Zurich in 2022 in 8:07:67, but his three-year winning streak came to an end when he had to settle with a second place behind Kenya’s Amos Serem in the Diamond League final in Brussels in September 2024. El Bakkali has a good memory of China, where he won in September 2023 in the first edition of the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen in 8:10.23.

The other global medallist in the field is Kenya’s Abraham Kibiwot, who finished third at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Kenya will be also represented by Simon Kiprop Koech, who won two Diamond League races in Monaco in 8:04.19 and in Eugene in 8:06.26 and finished seventh at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

The line-up also features Samuel Firewu from Ethiopia, winner at the Diamond League meeting in Doha with 8:07.25 and sixth in the Olympic final in Paris in 8:08.87 in 2024, Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui from Tunisia, fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris in a national record of 8:07.73.

Women’s discus throw:

Double Olympic champion Valarie Allman from the USA will go head to head against 2022 world champion Feng Bin from China and double Olympic champion Sandra Elkasevic  from Croatia.

Allman set the best performance in the world since 1989 with 73.52m in Ramona on 12 April. The US discus thrower won two Olympic gold medals in Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024 and four back-to-back Diamond League Trophies from 2021 to 2024. The US discus thrower claimed 13 wins in individual Diamond League meetings. She has a fond memory of China as she won two consecutive Diamond League competitions on Chinese soil in Xiamen with a meeting record of 69.80m and Suzhou in 2024. With another triumph in the circuit this year Allman would equal shot put legend Valerie Adams’ tally of five Diamond Trophies, becoming the joint-second most successful athlete in Diamond League history behind Croatian discus thrower Sandra Elkasevic and Colombian triple jumper Caterine Ibarguen.

Feng Bin won the world title in Eugene 2022 with her PB of 69.12m and the Olympic silver medal in Paris 2024 with 67.51m. She is aiming to win for the second time in her career in Xiamen after her win in the first edition in 2023 with 67.41m.

Elkasevic won two Olympic gold medals in London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016, two world titles in Moscow 2013 and London 2017, seven consecutive European gold medals from 2010 to 2024 and seven Diamond Trophies in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Cuba’s Yaimé Perez, world champion in Doha 2019 and Olympic bronze medallist in Tokyo 2021, set a PB of 73.09m in 2024 and a seasonal best of 66.96m in Ramona on 12 April.

The other global medallist in the field is USA’s Laulauga Tausaga, world champion in Budapest 2023 and second in the world seasonal list with her PB of 70.72m set in Ramona.

The line-up also features Jorinde Van Klinken from the Netherlands, double European silver medallist in the discus throw and shot put in Rome 2024 and fourth in the discus throw at the World Championships in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023, Marike Steinacker from Germany, fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris with 65.37m, Vanessa Kamga from Sweden, fifth at the Olympic Games in Paris and winner at the European Winter Throwing Cup in Nicosia, and Daisy Osakue from Italy, eighth in the Olympic final in Paris and national record holder with 64.57m.

Women’s shot put:

Double world champion Chase Jackson will go up against Sarah Mitton, double world champion Gong Lijao from China and European indoor and outdoor champion Jessica Schilder from Netherlands.

Jackson won two world outdoor gold medals in Eugene 2022 with 20.49 and in Budapest 2023 with 20.43m, three world indoor medals (silver with 20.21m and two bronze medals in Glasgow 2024 with 19.67m and Nanjing 2025 with 20.06m) and a Diamond League title in Eugene 2023 with a US record of 20.76m.

Mitton claimed two back-to-back world indoor gold medals in Glasgow 2024 with 20.22m and in Nanjng 2025 with 20.48m, the world outdoor silver medal in Budapest 2023 with 20.08m and the Diamond League Final in Brussels 2024 with 20.25m.

Schilder won two back-to-back European outdoor gold medals in Munich 2022 with 20.24m and Rome 2024 with 18.77 and the European indoor title in Apeldoorn 2025 with a national record of 20.69m.

Gong Lijao won the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo 2021 with 20.58m, two world outdoor titles in London 2017 and Doha 2019 and three consecutive editions of the Diamond League Final in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

The line-up features Maddison Lee Wesche from New Zealand, Olympic silver medallist in Paris 2024 with 19.86m, Song Jiayuan from China, Olympic bronze medallist in Paris 2024, Fanny Roos from Sweden, fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025, Jessica Inchude from Portugal, sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing.

Men’s long jump:

Olympic silver medallist Wayne Pinnock from Jamaica will take on his compatriot Tajay Gayle, Bulgaria’s Bozhidar Saraboyukov, Australia’s Liam Adcock, China’s Zhang Minqkun in the men’s long jump.

Pinnock won three silver medals at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 with a PB of 8.50m, at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 with 8.36m and at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025 with 8.29m, the NCAA indoor title with 8.40m and the Diamond League Trophy in Zurich with 8.18m.

His compatriot Tajay Gayle won two world medals (gold in Doha 2019 with his PB of 8.69m and bronze in Budapest 2023 with 8.27m).

Sarabouykov won the European indoor gold medal in Apeldoorn 2025 with 8.13m and the European under 20 silver medal in Jerusalem 2023 with a PB of 8.22m.

Adcock won the world indoor bronze medal in Nanjing 2025 with 8.28m.

The other athletes to watch are Marquis Dendy, world indoor champion in Portland 2016, Zhang Mingkun, seventh at the Olympic Games in Paris and Asian champion.