Preview: Prefontaine Classic - Eugene Diamond League

Thursday, 03 July 2025

The 50th edition of the Prefontaine Classic—one of the world’s premier track and field meetings—returns to Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday, July 5, showcasing unparalleled star power. With 17 Olympic champions and five full podium rematches from the Paris 2024 Games, the meet will feature nearly 300 athletes from more than 40 countries. Armand Duplantis, Beatrice Chebet, Gudaf Tsegay, and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone are among the world record holders returning to the venue where they’ve made history.

Men’s pole vault:

Armand Mondo Duplantis has a fond memory of Hayward Field, where he set two of the 12 world records of his career. Duplantis won his first world outdoor gold medal in Eugene in July 2022 setting the fifth world record of his career with 6.22. He added one cm to 6.23 at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic, which served as the Diamond League Final. Duplantis has set five more world records since then, including the 6.25m vault to win the Olympic title in Paris. He set the current world record of 6.28m at the Diamond League meeting in Stockolm last June. This year he also won in Xiamen with 5.92m, Keqiao with 6.11m, Oslo with 6.15m and Ostrava with 6.13m. He has won every Diamond League Final over the past four years.

Duplantis will take on Sam Kendricks, Olympic silver medallist in Paris 2024 and winner at the Prefontaine Classic in 2017 and 2018, Renaud Lavillenie from France, seven-time Diamond League champion and four-time winner at the Prefontaine Classic in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, KC Lightfoot, US record holder with 6.07m, Ersu Sasma from Turkey, fifth at the Olympic Games in Paris with 5.85m and national record holder with 5.90m, Austin Miller, who improved his PB to 5.91m this year.

Women’s 1500 metres:

Three-time 1500m Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon will attempt to win for the seventh time at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in the women’s 1500 metres. Kipyegon has remained undefeated in the 1500m since June 2021.

Kipyegon set the world record in the 1500m clocking 3:49.04 at the Paris Diamond League meeting last year. She also broke the world record over the mile distance with 4:07.64 in Monaco in 2023. She won three world titles over 1500m in London 2017, Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023 and one 5000m world title in 2023 and two world silver medals in 2015 and 2019. She claimed six Diamond League Ttophies, including at the Finals held at Hayward Field in 2023, when she set the meeting record of 3:50.72, and set four world records in the last two Diamond League seasons.

This year Kipyegon won the 1000m at the Xiamen Diamond League meeting in 2:29.21 and 4:06.42 in the mile at the Breaking 4 exhibition event in Paris in her attempt to become the first woman in history to break the 4 minute barrier. The Kenyan athlete ran more than one second faster than her official world record of 4:07.64, but her performance did not count as an official time.

Kipyegon will be joined Australia’s Jessica Hull and Great Britain’s Georgia Bell Hunter in a re-match between the three Olympic medallists in Paris.

Hull, a former Oregon Duck, broke the 2000m world record in Monaco with 5:19.70 and the Oceanian record of 3:50.83 in the 1500m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris before winning the Olympic silver medal in Paris.

Bell Hunter won silver at the European Championships in Rome and bronze medals at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 and at the World indoor Championships in Nanjing in 2025.

The line-up also features Diribe Welteji, world silver medallist in Budapest 2023 in 3:55.69, Freweyni Hailu, double world indoor champion in the 1500m in Glasgow 2024 and in the 3000m in Nanjing 2025, USA’s Nikki Hiltz, US Olympic Trials champion and world indoor silver medallist in 2024, and Sarah Healy, European indoor champion in the 3000m in Apeldoorn and winner at the Diamond League in Rome in the 1500m.

Women’s 5000 metres:

Beatrice Chebet will line up in the 5000 metres one year after breaking the world record in the 10000 metres on the Hayward Field Track clocking 28:54.14. The Kenyan star went on to win two Olympic gold medals in the 5000 and 10000 metres at the Olympic Games in Paris before claiming her second Diamond League title in the 5000m in Brussels last September. Chebet won two 5000m races this year in Xiamen in 14:27.12 and in Rome in 14:03.69 and the 3000m in Rabat in 8:11.56.

Chebet will go head-to-head against Gudaf Tsegay, who has a good memory of Hayward Field, as she won the world title in Eugene in 2022 and set a world record of 14:00.21 at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic, which served as the Diamond League Final. Tsegay won the world indoor gold medal in the 1500m in Nanjing in 3:54.86.

The top four ranked 5000 metres in the world will line up in Eugene. Chebet and Tsegay will be joined by Ethiopian stars Medina Eisa, two-time world under 20 champion in the 5000m in 2022 and 2024, Tsigie Gebrselama, winner in the Prefontaine Classic in the 5000m in 14:18.76, and Ejgayehu Taye, world bronze medallist in the 10000 metres in Budapest 2023.

Bowerman Mile:

US Cole Hocker, Olympic 1500 metres champion in a PB of 3:27.65, will line up against his compatriot Grant Fisher, Olympic bronze medallist in the 10000m and 3000m world indoor record holder with 7:22.91 and world road mile champion Hobbs Kessler in the Bowerman Mile, the traditional race named after Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of Nike and coach of Steve Prefontaine. Local fans hope for a first US win at the Bowerman Mile since 2006.

Azzedine Habz from France is chasing his second consecutive Diamond League win following his victory in Paris in a world seasonal lead of 3:27.49 in front of his home fans. Habz set a national indoor record with 3:47.56 in New York.

The star-studded line-up also features 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruiyot from Kenya, second in the 1500m at the Diamond League meeting in Rome in 3:29.75 this year and two-time winner of the Bowerman Mile in 2018 and 2019, 2022 world under 20 champion Reyold Cheruiyot, winner in the 5000m in Doha and second in the 1500m in Rabat, world under 20 silver medallist Cameron Myers from Australia, second in the mile in Oslo with 3:48.87 and fourth in Ostrava in the 1500m in 3:29.80, Niels Laros from the Netherlands, sixth at the Olympic Games in Paris in the 1500m and winner in the 5000m at the European Team Championships in Madrid last weekend.

Women’s 100 metres:

Reigning Olympic and Diamond League champion Julien Alfred will go head-to-head against Sha’Carri Richardson and Melissa Jefferson Wooden in a re-match between the three Paris 2024 Olympic medallists.

Alfred won the Olympic gold medal in a national record of 10.72 becoming Santa Lucia’s first Olympic champion. Alfred returned to the track three days after her Olympic title to win the silver medal in the 200 metres in 22.08. The Caribbean sprinter crowned a successful 2024 season with a win in the Wanda Diamond League final in Brussels in 10.88. Alfred started the 2025 season with a world lead of 21.88 in the 200m in Gainesvlle and back-to-back wins in Oslo in 10.89 and in Stockolm in a meeting record of 10.75. She won all seven of her races.

Richardson won two US titles in Eugene in 2023 in 10.82 and in 2024 in 10.71 and claimed the win at the Prefontaine Classic in 2024 in 10.83. Richardson won two world gold medals in Budapest 2023 in a PB of 10.65 and in the 4x100 relay and the Olympic silver medal in Paris in 10.87. She finished fourth in 11.47 at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Tokyo in her only 100m race of the season.

Jefferson Wooden won the Olympic bronze medal in Paris in 10.92 and joined Richardson in the US team, who won the Olympic gold medal in the 4x100 relay in 41.78. Jefferson Wooden won three Grand Slam Track races this year in Kingston in 11.11, in Miami in 10.75 and Philadelphia in a world lead of 10.73.

The Jamaican challenge is led by twins Tia and Tina Clayton. Tia won two Diamond League races in Chorzow in 10.83 in 2024 and in Doha in 10.92. Tina won the final of the Jamaican Trials in 10.81 last week.

Marie Josée Ta Lou, three-time world finalist, showed her good form recently setting her seasonal best of 10.92 in Ostrava and finished second in Oslo and third in Stockolm in 11.00. Dina Asher Smith, European champion in Rome 2024, finished second in Stockolm in a seasonal best of 10.93.

The line-up also features Favour Ofili from Nigeria, sixth in the 200m in Paris and national record holder with 21.96, and Maia McCoy from Liberia, second at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat in 11.08.

Men’s 400 metres hurdles:

Raj Benjamin will compete for the fifth time at the Prefontaine Classic. The four-time Olympic medallist has a fond memory of competing at Hayward Field. He set a stadium record of 47.02 when he won the NCAA title in 2018. One year later he won the Prefontaine Classic in his first year as a professional athlete setting the meeting record of 47.16. He won at the Olympic Trials in Eugene in 2021 setting a PB of 46.83. The following year he won the world silver medal in 46.89 at Hayward Field. The most recent time Benjamin competed at the Prefontaine Classic was in September 2023, when he won the Diamond League Final in a meeting record of 46.39. He won the 2024 US Trials in Eugene with 46.46 and clocked the same time when he won the Olympic gold medal in Paris. Benjamin is a four-time Olympic medallist. He also won the gold medal in the 4x400 relay in Paris, silver in the 400m hurdles and gold in the 4x400 relay in Tokyo 2021. He also won five world medals and every US title since 2019. This year Benjamin finished second in the 300 metres hurdles with 33.22 and won two Diamond League races in the 400m hurdles in Stockolm with 46.54 and in Paris in 46.93 setting meeting record both times.

Benjamin will go head-to-head against Alison Dos Santos from Brazil, who won the world gold medal in Eugene 2022 setting a South American record of 46.29. Dos Santos won two Olympic bronze medals in Tokyo 2021 with 46.72 and Paris 2024 with 47.28. The Brazilian hurdler won three Grand Slam Track races in Kingston in 47.61, in Miramar in 47.97 and Philadelphia in 48.11 and finished second to Benjamin at the Diamond League meeting in Stockolm in a seasonal best of 46.68.

Abderrahamane Samba from Qatar, third at the World Championships in Dohda 2019 and fifth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 with 47.12, returned to his best form at this year’s Diamond League meeting in Paris where he finished second to Benjamin in 47.09.

Ezekiel Nethaniel from Nigeria will compete for the first time in the Diamond League after winning the NCAA title in a PB of 47.49. Nethaniel finished second at the NCAA indoor Championships and set the 400m African indoor record with 47.74.

The line-up also features Trevor Bassitt, world bronze medallist in Eugene 2022 and third at this year’s Diamond League meeting in Paris in 48.14, Malik James King, Jamaican record holder in 2024 with a PB of 47.42, Alessandro Sibilio from Italy, European silver medallist with a national record of 47.50 in Rome 2024 and winner at this year’s Diamond League meeting in Doha in 49.32, and Jamaica’s Assinie Wilson, second at the Jamaican Championships in 48.42.

Men’s 200 metres:

Letsile Tebogo from Botswana will go head-to-head against USA’s Kenny Bednarek in a re-match of the men’s 200 metres Olympic final.

Tebogo won the Olympic 200 metres final in the African record of 19.46 earning the first ever Olympic gold medal for Botswana. Tebogo reached the podium at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest winning silver in the 100m in 9.88 and bronze in the 200m in 19.81. He won the 200 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Doha in a seasonal best of 20.10.

Bednarek claimed 100 and 200 metres double wins at three consecutive Grand Slam Track meetings in Kingston (10.07 and 20.07), in Miami (wind-assisted 9.79 and a world lead of 19.84) and in Philadelphia (9.86 and 19.95). The US sprinter won two consecutive Olympic silver medals in the 200 metres in Tokyo 2021 in 19.68 and in Paris 2024 in 19.62 and world silver in Eugene 2022 in 19.77. He ran his five fastest times in the 200 metres in 2024 and three of his top 10 times at Hayward Field. He finished second at the 2024 US Olympic Trials behind Noah Lyles setting a PB 19.59 and won his second consecutive Diamond League title in Brussels in 19.67 beating Tebogo.

Tebogo won five of his seven head-to-head clashes against Bednarek.

Tebogo and Bednarek will be joined by Courtney Lindsey, first in Rabat in 20.04 and second to Tebogo in Doha in 20.11, Alexander Ogando, fifth at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 with 20.02 and national record holder with 19.86 in Miami this year, Jereem Richards, winner at the Grand Slam Track meeting in Miami with 19.86, Joseph Fahnbulleh from Liberia, two-time NCAA champion in the 200m in Eugene in 2021 and 2022 and double Olympic finalist, Robert Gregory, winner at the Continental Tour in Tokyo in 20.24, and Brian Levell, Jamaican champion in 20.10 last week.

Women’s 400 metres hurdles:

Sydney McLaughlin Levrone, double Olympic gold medallist and world record holder in the women’s 400 metres hurdles, will make her debut at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene over the 400 metres flat distance in a non-Diamond League discipline. McLaughlin Levrone broke her own world record clocking 50.37 in the Olympic final in Paris becoming the first athlete to set more than four world records in the same event. She added a second gold medal with the 4x400 relay with an area record of 3:15.27. Her collection includes two more Olympic gold medals in the 400 metres hurdles in 51.46 and in the 4x400 relay in 3:16.85, three world gold medals (including one in the 400m hurdles in Eugene 2022) and one Diamond League Trophy in 2019. She set the first of her 400m hurdles world records at the 2021 US Olympic Trials and went on to break her own world record three more times at Hayward Field.

She set a PB of 48.74 at the 2023 US Outdoor Championships the last time she ran a 400 metres flat race at Hayward Field.

McLaughlin Levrone will go head-to-head against Isabella Whittaker, who won the NCAA indoor title in 49.24 last March and two back-to-back Diamond League race in Oslo in 49.58 and Stockolm in 49.78.

The other athletes to watch are Aaliyah Butler, this year’s NCAA outdoor champion in 49.26, Amber Anning from Great Britain, world indoor champion in Nanjing 2025 and third at the NCAA outdoor Championships in 2024, and Jamaica’s Dejanea Oakley, second at the Jamaican Championships in Kingston in 2025 in 50.08.

Women’s 100 metres hurdles:

Olympic champion and US record holder Masai Russell and world record holder Tobi Amusan will headline the women’s 100 metres hurdles. The line-up features the four fastest hurdlers in history.

Russell won the Olympic title in 12.33 in Paris 2024. The US hurdler broke the North American record with 12.17 at the Grand Slam Track meeting in Miami last May setting the second fastest time in the world in history, just five hundredths of a second off Amusan’s world record. She set three of her ten fastest times in Eugene.

Amusan broke her world record clocking 12.12 in the semifinal of the World Championships in Eugene 2022. The Nigerian hurdler claimed three wins at the Diamond League finals in Zurich 2021 in 12.42 and 2022 in 12.29 and in Eugene 2023 in 12.33.

Tia Jones set the third fastest time in history with 12.19 at the Grand Slam Track meeting in Miami.

The star-studded line-up also features Kendra Harrison, Olympic silver medallist in Tokyo and fourth fastest hurdler in history with 12.20, Jamaica’s Danielle Willams, who won her second world outdoor title in Budapest 2023, Ackera Nugent, Jamaican record holder with her PB of 12.24 set in Rome last year.

Men’s 100 metres:

Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson from Jamaica will line up against 2022 Diamond League champion Trayvon Bromell and British record holder Zharnel Hughes.

Thompson finished second behind Noah Lyles in 9.79 in the Olympic 100 metres final missing out the gold medal by five thousandths of a second. The Jamaican sprinter won this year’s Jamaican Championships in Kingston setting a world lead of 9.75, the fastest time since 2015. The Jamaican sprinter made his breakthrough on the international stage in 2023 when he finished second at the 2023 Diamond League meeting in Xiamen in 9.85. In his only appearance in Eugene he finished fourth in 9.87 at the 2023 Diamond League Final. He finished second to Akani Simbine in a close photo-finish in Keqiao in 9.99.

Bromell started his season with 9.91 in Clermont and won the Diamond League race in 9.84 in Rome. The US sprinter won the Diamond League final in Zurich in 2022 with 9.94 and six individual races in his career.

Hughes won the bronze medal in 9.88 in the 100 metres and finished fourth in the 200m in 20.02 at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and won the Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo behind Thompson. The British sprinter has claimed five Diamond League races since 2015. He clocked 19.55 in the straight 200m at the Atlanta City Games and a seasonal best of 10.05 at the Grand Slam Track meeting in Philadelphia.

The other sprinters to watch are Christian Coleman, 2019 world champion and winner at the Diamond League final in Eugene in 9.83 in 2023, Ackeem Blake from Jamaica, Diamond League champion in Brussels in 9.93, Jeremiah Azu from Great Britain, gold medallist in the 60 metres at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn and at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing in a PB of 6.49, Lachlan Kennedy from Australia, world indoor silver medallist in Nanjing in 6.50, Bayanda Walaza from South Africa, world under 20 champion in the 100m and 200m in Lima 2024 and winner at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Zagreb in a PB of 9.94.

Women’s long jump:

Olympic gold medallist Tara Davis Woodhall will clash against Malaika Mihambo and Jasmine Moore in a re-match of the women’s long jump final of the Olympic Games in Paris.

Davis Woodhall won the first Diamond League competition of her career at the Golden Gala in Rome with 7.02m last year a few weeks after claiming the Olympic gold medal in Paris with 7.10m. The US long jump star was unbeaten in 2024. She won the US Olympic Trials title with 7.00m in Eugene and the Continental Tour in New York with 7.14m. She is bidding to win the first Diamond League title of her career.

Mihambo has won the Diamond League title in Zurich in 2019 and eight wins in individual Diamond League meetings in her career. The 31-year-old German long jumper will compete in Eugene for the first time in her career. She won her second European outdoor gold medal in Rome with 7.22m, the second best performance of her career, and the Olympic silver medal in Paris with 6.98m. During the 2025 indoor season she set a world lead of 7.07m in Karlsruhe and won the European indoor bronze medal in Apeldoorn with 6.88m.

Olympic bronze medallist Jasmine Moore became the first US woman to reach the podium in both the long jump and the triple jump in the same edition of the Olympic Games. She made her debut in the Diamond League last season finishing third in the Finals in Brussels with 6.61m.

The line-up features Claire Bryant, world indoor champion in Nanjing 2025 with 6.96m, and Ivana Spanovic from Serbia, world outdoor champion in Budapest 2023 with 7.14m.

Men’s 400 metres:

USA’s Quincy Hall will clash against Great Britain’s Mathew Hudson Smith and Zambia’s Muzala Samukonga in a re-match between the three Paris Olympic medallists.

Hall won two Olympic titles in a lifetime best of 43.40 moving to fourth in the world all-time list and in the 4x400 relay in 2:54.43 in Paris. He also won bronze in the 400m and gold in the 4x400 relay at the World Championships in Budapest. He ran three of his ten fastest times at Hayward Field.

Samukonga set a national record of 43.74 to finish third in the Paris Olympic final. He was part of the Zambian 4x400 relay team, who set the national record with 2:59.12.

Grenada’s Kirani James, who won a full set of Olympic and world medals, claimed 20 Diamond League individual races, including four victories in Eugene in 2014 (43.97), 2015 (43.95), 2016 (44.22) and 2023 at the Diamond League final in 44.30.

The line-up will also feature Khaleb McRae and Jacory Patterson, who broke the 44 seconds barrier this year. Patterson improved his PB to 43.98 at the Grand Slam Track meeting in Miami and won the first Diamond League race of his career in Rabat in 44.37. McRae won in London (Ontario) setting a PB of 43.91.

The other names to watch are Alexander Doom from Belgium, gold medallist in the 400m and in the 4x400 relay at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow and at the European Championships in Rome in 2024, and Chris Bailey, double gold medallist in the 400m and in the 4x400 relay at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025 and winner at the Diamond League meeting in Keqiao in 44.17.

Women’s 800 metres:

Olympic silver medallist Tsige Duguma from Ethiopia will go head-to-head against 2023 world champion and last year’s Diamond League winner Mary Moora from Kenya and world indoor champion Prudence Sekgodiso from South Africa.

Duguma will compete at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene for the second time in her career after finishing eighth in 2024 in 1:58.70. The Ethiopian athlete won the world indoor gold medal in Glasgow in 2.01.90 becoming the first Ethiopian to win a world title over this distance and the Olympic silver medal in Paris improving her PB to 1:57.15.

Moraa returns to the Prefontaine Classic for the third time in her career. She set two of her fastest times in Eugene when she finished second to Hodgkinson in 1:56.71 in 2024 and fourth in 1:57.42 in 2023 when the Prefontaine Classic served as the Diamond League Final. The Kenyan athlete claimed the world outdoor gold medal in Budapest 2023 in 1:56.03 and two Diamond League titles Zurich 2022 in 1:57.63 and in 2024 in 1:56.56. She set the world record over the non-Olympic distance of 600 metres in Berlin wih 1:21.63.

Sekgodiso won the world indoor gold medal in Nanjing and set the second fastest time in the world this outdoor season with 1:57.16 in Ostrava.

Athing Mu Nikolayev, Olympic champion in Tokyo 2021, will run her first race since the Olympic Trials in Eugene where she fell to the ground. Mu won the world gold medal in 2022 and the NCAA title in the 400m in 2021 in Eugene.

The other athletes in the line-up are Shafiqua Maloney from St. Vincent and Grenadine, fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris, Anais Bourgoin from France, who improved her PB to 1:57.81 in Rabat and won at the European Team Championships in Madrid, Haimah Nakaay from Uganda, world champion in Doha 2019, Jemma Reekie from Great Britain, world indoor silver medallist in Glasgow 2024, Raevyn Rogers, Olympic bronze medallist in Tokyo 2021.

The Prefontaine Classic has always produced fast times in the women’s 800 metres. This year’s race is named in honour of Maria Mutola, who was the most successful athlete in the history of this meeting. Mutola claimed a total of 16 wins in Eugene during her career, including 12 in the 800 metres. All future 800 metres at the Prefontaine Classic will be named “Mutola 800 metres”.

Women’s 3000 metres steeplechase:

The Prefontaine Classic hosts the Olympic podium re-match between the three Olympic medallists Winfred Yavi, Peruth Chemutai and Faith Cherotich.

Yavi won the.world gold medal in Budapest 2023, the Olympic title in Paris 2024 and the Diamond Trophy in 2023. Yavy set the second fastest time in history and the Asian record with 8:44.39 in Rome Diamond League meeting missing the world record by just seven hundredths of a second. She finished second in the Diamond League meeting in Oslo in 9:02.76 on her seasonal debut.

Chemutai is a two-time Olympic medallist. The Ugandan athlete won gold in Tokyo 2021 and silver in Paris 2024. She won at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in 2024 setting a world lead and the national record with 8:55.09. She improved her Ugandan record twice to 8:53.24 in the Olympic final in Paris and 8:48.03 in Rome.

Cherotich won the world under 20 title in Cali 2022, bronze medals at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and at the Olympic Games in Paris setting a PB of 8:55.15 and the Diamond League Trophy in Brussels in 2024.

The line-up also features Alice Finot from France, European champion in Rome and fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris in a national record of 8:58.67, and Sembo Almayew from Ethiopia, world under 20 champion in Lima 2024.

Men’s shot put:

Two-time world champion Joe Kovacs will clash against European champion and world silver medallist Leonardo Fabbri, world indoor champion Tom Walsh, Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell and Payton Otterdahl.

Joe Kovacs won the Diamond League Final in Eugene in 2023 with 22.93m and at last year’s edition of the Prefontaine Classic with 23.13m, the second best mark of his career. He set the second best performance in history with 23.23m in 2022 when he won the Diamond League final in Zurich. Kovacs claimed three Diamond League titles in his career.

Fabbri set the world seasonal lead with 22.31m and won the European Team Championships in Madrid with 21.68m. The Italian shot put star claimed the Diamond League title with the Italian record of 22.98m.

Walsh won three world indoor gold medals in 2016, 2018 and 2025 and four Diamond League Trophies in 2015, 2916m, 2018 and 2019.

Campbell is aiming to win the first Diamond League competition of his career. He won the Olympic bronze medal with 22.15m and two consecutive national titles in 2023 and 2024.

Otterdahl set the second best performance in the world this season with 22.09m and won the Diamond League meeting in Rabat with 21.97m and two Continental Tour competitions in Zagreb with 21.71m and Bydgoszcz with 21.59m.

Men’s discus throw:

The men’s discus features Olympic champion Roje Stona, world champion Daniel Stahl and world record holder Mykolas Alekna. The oldest meeting record set by Ben Plucknett with 71.32m in 1983 could be under threat

Stona became the first ever Olympic champion from Jamaica in the men’s discus, when he won the final improving the Olympic record to 70.00m.

Alekna broke his own world record with 75.56m in Ramona. The Lithuanian thrower won the Olympic silver medal in Paris with 69.97m and two world medals (silver in Eugene 2022 and bronze in Budapest 2023). Alekna is aiming to avenge his recent defeat against Jamaica’s Ralford Mullings, who beat the Lithuanian thrower at the NCAA Championships in Eugene with 69.31m and won the Jamaican title in Kingston with 65.82m.

Stahl won the world gold medal in Budapest 2023 with 71.46m and the Olympic title in Tokyo 2021 with 68.90m. The Swedish thrower has claimed three Diamond League Trophies in 2016, 2019 and 2021 and 13 individual wins. He set a national record of 71.86m in 2019 and a seasonal best of 70.19m at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Turku.

Women’s discus throw:

Double Olympic champion Valarie Allman will take on two-time Olympic champion Sandra Elkasevic and world gold medallist Laulaga Tausaga Collins.

Allman won back-to-back Olympic titles in Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024. She set the US record with 73.52m in Ramona last April and won four consecutive Diamond League Trophies in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She won the last three editions of the Prefontaine Classic and set three of her best ten marks at Hayward Field.

Elkasevic earned two Olympic gold medals in London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016, five world medals (including two titles in 2013 and 2017), seven European gold medals, seven Diamond Trophies. She set a Croatian record of 71.41m in Bellinzona in 2017.

Tausaga threw to 69.49m in Budapest 2023 to become the first US woman to win a world title in the discus throw. She set a PB of 70.72m last April and set three of her best six marks at Hayward Field.

Women’s shot put:

Two-time world champion Chase Jackson leads the line-up in the women’s shot put. Jackson set the world seasonal lead and the US record with 20.95m in Rathdrum (Idaho). Jackson has achieved the best mark in the world since 2013. She won her second straight Diamond League title in Eugene in 2023 setting her previous US record with 20.76m. This season she won the Diamond League meeting in Keqiao with 20.54m and the Continental Tour meeting in Hengelo with 20.62m.

Jackson will take on Jessica Schilder, European indoor gold medallist in Apeldoorn with a national record of 20.69m and winner at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen with 20.31m and the European Team Championships in Madrid with 20.14m.

Yemisi Ogunleye from Germany won the Olympic gold medal in Paris with 20.00m. She won the German indoor title with her PB of 20.27m.

The other top athletes in the field are Sarah Mitton from Canada, world indoor champion for the second time in her career with 20.48m, Maddison Lee Wesche from New Zealand, Olympic silver medallist with her PB of 19.86m, Chinese shot putters Gong Lijao, Olympic champion in Tokyo 2021, and Jayuan Song, Olympic bronze medallist in Paris.

Men’s hammer throw:

Canada’s Ethan Katzberg won his first ever Olympic gold medal with 84.12m in Paris 2024. The Canadian thrower also claimed the world title in Budapest 2023 with 81.25m. He set the North American record of 84.38m at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi in 2024. He set a seasonal best of 82.73m in Nairobi last May and has remained unbeaten in his five competitions this year, including a win at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo with 80.19m.

Mykhaylo Kokkhan won the Olympic silver medal with 79.39m and finished fourth in Tokyo 2021. Kokhan won four national titles and set a PB of 81.66m at this year’s European Team Championships in Madrid.

Women’s hammer throw:

The women’s hammer throw line-up features four athletes who have won every global title since 2021 between them. Reigning Olympic and world champion Camryn Rogers from Canada will take on three-time Olympic champion and world record holder Anita Wlodarczyk from Poland, 2019 world champion DeAnna Price and 2022 world champion Brooke Andersen.

Rogers set a seasonal best of 78.14m in Walnut and won two Continental Tour Gold competitions in Nairobi with 77.39m and Turku with 74.39m.

Andersen set the top two marks in the world with 79.29m in Tucson and 79.24m in Lucca.