Oslo Diamond League 2026 Event by Event Preview

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The 2026 Bislett Games in Oslo promises another spectacular night of world-class athletics as seven Olympic champions and twelve world champions take center stage at one of the most historic meetings on the Diamond League circuit. The spotlight will fall on the latest chapter of the rivalry between Norwegian star Karsten Warholm and Brazil’s Alison dos Santos in the men's 400m hurdles, while Olympic champions Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Letsile Tebogo, Julien Alfred and Thea Lafond lead a stellar cast across the track and field events. Fans can also look forward to a world-class Dream Mile, a stacked men's 5000m featuring Grant Fisher and Andreas Almgren, and the Diamond League debut clash between teenage sensation Gout Gout and Olympic 200m champion Tebogo.

Men’s 400 metres hurdles: 

World record holder and 2021 Olympic champion Karsten Warholm will resume his rivalry against 2022 world Alison Dos Santos in the men’s 400 metres hurdles.

Warholm will seek revenge in front of his home fans after losing to his Brazilian rival in two back-to-back races in Diamond League on Chinese soil in Keqiao and Xiamen.

Dos Santos won the 300 metres hurdles in Keqiao on 16 Mai edging out Warholm by a very narrow margin in 33.01 to 33.05. Just eight days later Dos Santos won again in Xiamen in 46.72 (the fifth fastest time in in his career) beating Warholm, who also dipped under the 47 seconds with 46.82. Warholm has run faster than his Xiamen time on nine previous occasions.

Warholm has won six times in his career in the “home” Diamond League meeting in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. He broke Kevin Young’s 29-year-old world record in the 400 metres hurdles with 46.70 in 2021 a few weeks before winning the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in another world record of 45.94, the first sub-46 time in history. Four years later Warholm smashed his own world record in the 300 metres hurdles with 32.67 beating Dos Santos and Raj Benjamin. Dos Santos beat Warholm in Oslo in 2024 in 46.63 to 46.70.

Last weekend Dos Santos won in Stockolm in 47.11 beating his compatriot Matheus Lima, who improved his PB to 47.37 and will be also in the line-up in Oslo. This year Lima finished third behind Dos Santos and Warholm in the 300 metres hurdles in Keqiao in 33.75 and seventh in the 400 metres in a South American record of 45.71 at the World Indoor Championships in Torun.

Abderrahman Samba from Qatar won two world bronze medals in Doha 2019 in 48.03 and in Tokyo 2025 in a seasonal best of 47.06. He had a perfect 2018 season when he won six Diamond League races in Doha, Rome, Oslo, Stockolm, Paris and Lausanne.

Trevor Bassitt won the world bronze medal in Eugene in a PB of 47.39. The US hurdler equalled this time when he finished second to Ezekiel Nethaniel in a close photo-finish in College Station last Saturday.

Bassitt also dipped under the 48 seconds three times this year clocking 47.82 in Gainesville and 47.90 at the Diamond League in Xiamen.

The other athletes to look out for are Carl Bengstrom from Sweden, European bronze medallist in a national record of 47.94 in Rome 2024 and world indoor bronze medallist in the 400 metres in Berlgrade 2022, USA’s Caleb Dean, NCAA champion in 2024 in a PB of 47.23 and third at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in College Station in a seasonal best of 47.42, and Emil Agyekum from Germany, sixth in the World Championships in Tokyo in 47.98 after becoming the second fastest German hurdler in history with 47.83 behind Harald Schmidt.

Men’s 800 metres: 

Olympic and world champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi will clash against 17-year-old US rising star Cooper Lutkenhaus and Max Burgin in the men’s 800 metres.

Wanyonyi won at last year’s edition of the Bislett Games in 1:42.78. The Kenyan star went on to win his second consecutive Diamond League final in Zurich in 1:42.37 and his first world gold medal in 1:41.86. He set the second fastest time in history clocking 1:41.11 at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne a few days after winning the Olympic gold medal in 1:41.19.

Lutkenhaus won the 800m in 1:42.70 in Stockolm ahead of Marco Arop on his Diamond League debut last Sunday setting the fastest outdoor time in the world this year. The US teenager made his breakthrough in August 2025 when he finished second at the US outdoor Championships in a world under 18 record with 1:42.27 becoming the youngest male athlete ever to qualify for a senior World Championships senior team. Last March he won the gold medal in 1:44.24 at the World Indoor Championships in Torun becoming the youngest world indoor champion in history.

Max Burgin won the Diamond League race in Rabat in 1:42.98 last May beating Wanyonyi, who finished second  in 1:43.56. The British athlete finished second in 1:42.42, five hundredths of a second behind Wanyonyi, in the 2025 Diamond League final in Zurich.

Marco Arop finished second in 1:41.11 behind Lutkenhaus in Stockholm on his Diamond League debut this season. The Canadian athlete won the world gold medal in Budapest 2023 and the Olympic silver medal in Paris 2024 with a North American record of 1:41.20 and the Diamond League title in 2022.

Mohamed Attaoui from Spain finished second in Oslo last year in 1:42.90 behind Wanyonyi a few weeks before securing his first Diamond League win in Paris in 1:42.73. Attaoui set a national outdoor record of 1:42.04 at the 2025 Diamond League in Monaco. Last February Attaoui broke a 26-year-old European indoor record in the 1000 metres previously held by Wilson Kipketer, clocking 2:14.52 in Madrid. One month later the Spanish athlete won the world indoor bronze medal in Torun with 1:44.66 after setting the national indoor record with 1:44.48 in the semifinal. Last week he sliced nearly four seconds off his PB to win the 1500m in 3:31.82 at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku.

Gabriel Tual won his first Diamond League race of the season in Rome with 1:43.66 holding off Mark English and finished sixth in Stockolm in 1:43.72. The Frenchman set a French record of 1:41.61 at the Paris Diamond League moving to second on the European all-time list.

Mark English became the first Irish athlete to win a Diamond League competition in Keqiao with a meeting record of 1:43.85 and backed up this result by finishing second in Rome in 1:43.80.

The other athletes to look out for are Elliot Crestan from Belgium, world indoor silver medallist in Torun 2026 with 1:44.38 behind Lutkenhaus and national outdoor record holder with 1:42.43 at the 2024 Diamond League meeting in Paris, and Peter Bol from Australian outdoor record holder with 1:42.55 at the Monaco Diamond League meeting and fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Torun in a national indoor record of 1:45.14.

Men’s Dream Mile: 

Olympic 1500 metres bronze medallist Yared Nuguse is aiming to achieve a double win on Scandinavian soil in the prestigious Dream Mile after winning the 1500m in Stockolm in a seasonal best of 3:30.11 ahead of Cameron Myers and 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruyiot. Nuguse also claimed a close win another Diamond League in Rabat in a meeting record of 3:30.35 holding off Isaac Nader.

Myers started his Diamond League season with a second place in 3:30.32 in Stockolm in his final race as a 19-year-old before turning 20. Myers became the youngest athlete in history to win the Wanamaker Mile with 3:47.57.

Five-time Diamond League champion Timothy Cheruiyot showed his good form in the first Diamond League meetings of the season by finishing fourth in the 3000 metres in a PB of 7:27.24 in Rabat and third in the 1500 metres in 3:30.67 in Stockolm.

Isaac Nader made his breakthrough in 2025 when he won last year’s edition of the Oslo Dream Mile in a Portuguese record of 3:48.25 three months before winning the world gold medal in the 1500 metres in Tokyo. This year Nader won the world indoor silver medal in Torun and finished second in the 1500m in Rabat in 3:30.43 just eight hundredths of a second behind winner Nuguse. Nader also finished fifth in the 800 metres in Rome with a seasonal best of 1:44.28.

The other athletes to look out for are USA’s Hobbs Kessler, sixth in the 1500m in Stockolm in 3:31.76, Jake Wightman, world champion in the 1500m in Eugene 2022 and seventh in the 800m in Stockolm in 1:44.39, and Reynold Cheruyiot, world bronze medallist in the 1500m in Tokyo 2025 and second in the 3000m in the Keqiao Diamond League meeting in 7:26.11, Azeddine Habz, French record holder in the 1500m in 3:27.49 at the Paris Diamond League meeting, Robert Farken from Germany, national record holder in the 1500 metres with 3:30.80 in Rome and over the mile distance with 3:48.83 in Berlin in 2025, 2023 world bronze medallist Gilje Nordas Narve from Norway, who set a PB of 3:29.47 in Oslo 2023 and finished fifth in Stockolm in 3:31.74 on Sunday, Hakon Moe Berg, double European under 20 champion in the 1500m and 3000m in Tampere 2025, Samuel Philstrom from Sweden, national record holder with 3:30.87 in the 1500m in Rome 2025 and fourth at the 2026 World Indoor Championships in Torun in the 1500m.

Women’s 100 metres: 

Olympic 100 metres champion Julien Alfred from Santa Lucia will be aiming for her second consecutive win at the Bislett Games after winning on this track in 10.89 last year. Alfred comes into the Bislett Games in good shape after her win in the 200 metres in 21.93 ahead of world champion Melissa Jefferson Wooden in Rome. Alfred won the gold medal in the 100m in a national record of 10.72 and the silver medal in the 200m in 22.08 at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. She will run her first Diamond League 100m race since winning the Final in 10.76 last September.

Alfred will renew her rivalry against British sprinter Amy Hunt, who improved her PB to a European leading time of 10.97 breaking the 11 seconds barrier for the first time in her career. Hunt set her PB of 22.08 in the 200m semifinal of the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 before winning the silver medal in 22.14 and won the Olympic silver medal in the 4x100 relay in Paris 2024. This year she finished fifth in Keqiao in 22.52 and Rome in 22.48.

Patrizia Van der Weken from Luxembourg will also continue her campaign on Scandinavian soil after finishing third in Stockolm in a seasonal best of 11.05.

The other top names are Minke Bisschops from the Netherlands, fourth in the 100m in Stockolm in a seasonal best of 11.08, Zoe Hobbs from New Zealand, who reached her best ever result in the Diamond League by placing third in Monaco last year in 11.12, Boglarka Takacs, Hungarian record holder with 11.06 in the 100m and 7.09 in the 60m, and Julia Henriksson from Sweden, national record holder with 22.69 in the 200 metres at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Men’s 200 metres:

Gout Gout will compete for the first time in a Diamond League scoring race in a 200 metres showdown against Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo.

It will be the first of three confirmed Diamond League head-to-head clashes this year before 200 metres showdown races at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on 4 July and at Athletissima in Lausanne on 21 August.

Gout Gout won an under 23 non-Diamond League scoring 200m race at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco in 20.10 into a wind of -1.9 m/s. The Australian 18-year-old rising star improved his world under 20 record to 19.67 at the Australian Championships in Sydney last April. This time is the fastest in the world so far this year.

Tebogo made his breakthrough in 2022 when he won the gold medal in the 100m in 9.91 and silver in the 200m in 19.96 at the World Under 20 Championships in Cali. The Botswanan sprinter won silver in the 100m in 9.88 and bronze in the 200m in 19.81 at the World Championships in Budapest 2023. Tebogo won the gold medal in the 200m at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 improving his African record to 19.46. He won seven Diamond League races in the 200 metres over the past two seasons.

Sinesipho Dambile won the 200m at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi in 19.77 last April moving into second place on South Africa’s all-time list. He broke the 20-second barrier for the first time in the 200 metres semifinals of the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 with 19.97.

Jereem Richards won the world indoor title in the 400 metres in Belgrade 2020 with 45.00 and the world outdoor silver medal in the 400m in Tokyo 2025 in a national record of 43.72. Richards also claimed the 200m title at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022 in a PB of 19.80.

The other athletes to look out for are Reynier Mena from Cuba, winner at last year’s edition of the Bislett Galan in 20.20, Timothé Mumenthaler from Switzerland, European champion in Rome 2024, and Cheickna Traoré from Ivory Coast, fourth in 20.15 in Rabat on his debut in the Diamond League this year.

Men’s 5000 metres:

The line-up will feature ten athletes with a PB under 12:50 in the men’s 5000 metres and the four fastest athletes of the 2025 season: Olympic bronze medallist Grant Fisher, world 10000m bronze medallist Andreas Almgren, last year’s Bislett Games winner Nico Young and Biniam Mehary.

Almgren claimed his first ever Diamond League win last year in front of his home fans in Stockolm in 2025 in a European record of 12:44.27 and won the world bronze medal in the 10000 metres in Tokyo 2025. He became the first European athlete in history to break the 59 minutes barrier, clocking 58:41 in Valencia.

Fisher claimed two Olympic bronze medals in the 5000m in 13:15.13 and in the 10000 metres in 26:43.46 and set the current world indoor records in the 3000 metres with 7:22.91 and in the 5000m with 12:44.09 in 2025.

USA’s Nico Young won the 5000 metres at last year’s edition of the Bislett Games breaking the US outdoor record of 12:45.27 and set a PB of 3:48.72 over the mile distance at the 2026 Millrose Games in New York.

The line-up also features Isaac Kimeli from Belgium, winner at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne and world silver medallist in Tokyo in 2025, Jacob Krop from Kenya, two-time world medallist in the 5000m (silver in Eugene 2022 and bronze in Budapest 2023) and winner of three Diamond League races, Biniam Mehary from Ethiopia, winner in the 10000m at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in a PB of 26:43.82 and third at this year’s Diamond League meeting in Xiamen in 12:58.51, and Birhanu Balew from Barhein, who set Asian records of 7:29.60 in Keqiao in 2026 and 12:48.67 in the 5000 metres in Paris in 2025, Ethiopia’s Addisu Yihune, winner in the 5000 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen in 12:57.32, Dominic Lobalu from Switzerland, European champion in the 10000m in Rome 2024 and national record holder in the 5000m with 12:50.87 in Oslo 2025 and in the 3000m with 7:27.68 in London in 2024, Ishmael Kiprkirui from Kenya, fourth in the 10000m at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025, and Filip Ingebrigtsen, European champion in Amsterdam 2016 and world bronze medallist in London 2017 in the 1500m.

Women’s 400 metres: 

European under 23 champion Henriette Jaeger will clash against world indoor gold medallist Lurdes Gloria Manuel from Czechia in a re-match of last week’s race at the Rome Diamond League meeting. Jaeger won in the Italian capital in 49.60. Last year Jaeger finished second in Oslo in 49.62, won in Lausanne in 50.80 in rainy weather and improved her PB to 49.49 at the Diamond League in Zurich.

Gloria Manuel improved her PB to 50.76 to win the world indoor title in Torun. The Czech athlete finished second in Rome breaking the 50 seconds barrier for the first time in her career.

Jaeger and Manuel will be joined by Natalia Bukowiecka from Poland, European champion in Rome in 48.98 and world indoor silver medallist in Torun 2026, Lieke Klaver, bronze medallist at the European Championships in Rome 2024 and at World indoor Championships in Torun 2026, Nickisha Pryce, winner at two Diamond League races in London 2024 with her PB of 48.57 and in Keqiao in 2026 with 49.75, and Amber Anning from Great Britain, world indoor champion in Nanjing 2025 and double bronze medallist in the women’s 4x400 and in the mixed 4x400 relay at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Women’s 400 metres hurdles:

Emma Zapletalova won two back-to-back Diamond League races this year setting Slovakian records in Rabat in 52.82 and in Rome in 52.58. Zapletalova claimed the bronze medal at the World Championships in Tokyo in 53.00. She will clash against double world bronze medallist Rushell Clayton who finished third in both Rabat (53.75) and Rome (53.14). 

The other athletes to look out for are Jasmine Jones, world silver medallist in Tokyo 2025 in 52.08, Andrenette Knight, winner at the Diamond League meeting in Rome in 2025 in 53.67, Amalie Iuel from Norway, who set a PB of 54.05 in Rome and won the 4x400 at the World Relays in Gaborone in a national record of 3:20.96. 

Men’s pole vault:

Two-time world bronze medallist Kurtis Marshall will seek his second back-to-back Diamond League win on Scandinavian soil after beating Armand Duplantis with 5.90m. Duplantis lost his first pole vault competition since the Diamond League competition in Monaco 2023. The Swede will not compete in Oslo as he is preparing for his wedding to Desiré Inglander.

Marshall will clash against world indoor and outdoor silver medallist Emanouil Karalis, who is second on the world all-time list with his Greek record wit 6.17 and cleared 6.00m twice this outdoor season in Limassol and at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku.

Marshall cleared 6.00m for the first time this year in Clermont Ferrand and equalled his PB when he won the world indoor bronze medal in Torun last March. The Australian vaulter finished second in the Keqiao Diamond League  meeting with 5.80m beating Karalis last May.

Sondre Guttormsen from Norway set a Norwegian record of 6.06m this year in Rouen and is looking to achieve another 6.00m performance in front of his home fans.

The line-up will also feature Sam Kendricks, two-time world champion and winner in Oslo with 5.91m in 2019, Menno Vloon, who shared the European indoor gold medal with Karalis in Apeldoorn 2025 with 5.90m, French vaulters Baptiste Thiery, third in Stockolm with 5.80m and sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Torun 2026, seven-time Diamond League  champion and former world record holder Renaud Lavillenie, and Thibaut Collet, fifth at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 with 5.90.

Women’ s shot put:

World and European champion Jessica Schilder will seek her third Diamond League win this season. The Dutch shot putter started her campaign with a Diamond League record of 21.09m in Keqiao last May and backed up this result with a 20.89m mark in Stockolm, which improved the meeting record held by Valerie Adams since 2011 with 20.57m. Schilder won the world gold medal in Tokyo 2025 with 20.29m, two European titles in Munich 2022 with 20.24m and Rome 2024 with 18.77m, the European indoor title in Apeldoorn 2025 with 20.69m and the Diamond Leage Trophy in Zurich 2025 with 20.26m.

Schilder will face USA’s Chase Jackson, who finished second in Keqiao with 20.46m and in Stockolm with 19.91m and won at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku with a seasonal best of 20.66m.

Jackson added the world indoor gold medal in Torun 2026 with 20.14m to her collection which already includes two world outdoor titles in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023. She won two back-to-back Diamond League in 2022 and 2023 and claimed her fourth national indoor title in Staten Island with the US indoor record of 20.44m.

The other stand-out names are Canada’s Sarah Mitton, two-time world indoor champion in Glasgow 2024 and third at this year’s Diamond League meeting with a seasonal best of 20.42m, Germany’s Yemisi Ogunleye, Olympic champion in Paris 2024 with 20.00m and German indoor champion this year with a PB of 20.37m, Fanny Roos from Sweden, fifth at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 and European indoor silver medallist in Torun 2021, USA’s Jaida Ross, NCAA champion and fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, and Danniell Thomas Dodd from Jamaica, world silver medallist in Doha 2019.

Men’s triple jump:

Two-time world indoor champion Andy Diaz from Italy opened his outdoor season with a winning mark of 17.59m at the Diamond League meeting in Rome. Diaz produced two almost identical jumps, a 17.58m mark on his second attempt taking off 35 cm before the board and a 17.59m mark on his fifth attempt giving away 62 cm at the take-off board. With the Rome win the Italian triple jumper claimed his third win in Rome following his wins in 2023 and 2024 becoming the second Italian athlete to win three times at the Golden Gala after 3000m steeplechase specialist Alessandro Lambruschini in 1988, 1993 and 1996.

Diaz will renew his rivalry against Jordan Scott from Jamaica and Yasser Tricki from Algeria in a competition that reunites the entire podium of the World Indoor Championships in Torun. Scott leapt to 17.33m to win the silver medal in Torun and set a world seasonal lead of 17.66m in Caguas (Puerto Rico). In the most recent two competitions the Jamaican jumper won in Kosice with 17.44m and finished second in Rome with 17.33.

Tricki won the world indoor bronze medal with 17.30m in Torun and set a seasonal best of 17.35m at the World Indoor Tour meeting in Liévin. Tricki won his first Diamond League competition in Oslo with 17.24m in 2021.

World champion Pedro Pablo Pichardo will make his seasonal debut. The Portuguese jumper won his second world outdoor gold medal in Tokyo last September with 17.91m adding this title to his collection that includes gold medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 with 17.98m, at the World Championships in Eugene 2022 with 17.91m, the European outdoor title with 17.50m in Munich 2022 and three Diamond League titles in 2018, 2021 and 2024.

The other athletes to watch are Lazaro Martinez from Cuba, two-time world outdoor medallist (silver in Budapest 2023 with 17.41m and bronze in Tokyo 2025 with 17.49m), Jaydon Hibbert from Jamaica, who won the world under 20 title in 2022 with 17.25m, set the world under 20 record with 17.75m and broke a 41-year-old NCAA outdoor record with 17.87m and finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris wit 17.61m.

Women’s triple jump: 

World champion Leyanis Perez Hernandez from Cuba will go head-to-head against Olympic champion Thea Lafond from Dominica. 

Perez won the world gold medal in Tokyo 2025 with 14.94m beating Yulimar Rojas and defended her world indoor title in Torun 2026 with 14.95m one year after her win in Nanjing 2025. The Cuban jumper claimed back-to-back Diamond League titles in 2024 and 2025.

Lafond won the world indoor title in Glasgow with 15.01m and the Olympic title with 15.02m. She started 2026 on a high note with her outdoor seasonal best of 14.84m in Caguas and two wins on Italian soil in Savona with 14.49m and Lucca with 14.71m. 

The other athletes to look out for are Sally Sarr from Senegal, world indoor bonze medallist in Torun with 14.70m and African champion in Accra with a wind-assisted 14.79m in 2026, Liadagmis Povea from Cuba, fourth at both the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 with 14.64m and at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 with 14.72m, Davisleidy Velazco from Cuba, who set a seasonal best of 14.85m in Caguas last May, and Ackelia Smith from Jamaica, NCAA champion in 2024 in the long jump and triple jump and seventh at the Olympic Games in Paris, and Maja Askag, world under 20 champion in the long jump and in the triple jump.

Women’s javelin throw:

China’s 18-year-old Yan Ziyi is looking to continue her great season after setting the second best performance in history in the women’s javelin throw with 71.74m at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen on home soil. Yan Ziyi trails Barbora Spotakova’s world record of 72.28m by just 54 cm. She smashed her world under 20 record by six metres. The Asian athlete holds the top eight under 20 marks in history.

Yan Ziyi will take on Juleisy Angulo from Ecuador, who will compete for the first time since her surpising world gold medal in Tokyo 2025 with 65.12m.

Elina Tzengko from Greece won the Diamond League final in Zurich with 64.57m and claimed two more wins  in the circuit in Shanghai with 64.90m and Rabat (64.60m). She won the European title in Munich 2022 completing a continental treble by securing  European under 20, under 23 and senior levels.

 Adriana Vilagos from Serbia won the first senior medal when she finished second at the European Championships in Munich at the age of 18 becoming the youngest ever European medallist in a throwing event.

The other top athletes to watch are Flor Ruiz Hurtado from Colombia, world silver medallist in Budapest with 65.47m, 2024 Olympic bronze medallist Nikola Ogrodnikova from Czechia, who made her come-back from maternity leave after giving birth to her child in May 2025, Sigrid Borge from Norway, who set a PB of 66.50m in Halle in 2023, Marie Therese Obst from Norway, European bronze medallist in Rome 2024 with a PB of 63.50m, and Aneta Sietina from Latvia, world silver medallist in Tokyo 2025.

Women’s 3000 metres:

Ethiopia’s Likina Amebaw will clash against Freweyni Hailu in the women’s 3000 metres. Amebaw won the 5000 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Rome with a world lead of 14:18.41 this year leading a historic Ethiopian sweep of the top-seven positions. She finished second in the 3000 metres in Oslo in a PB of 8:24.29 in 2024 and in the 5000m in Brussels with 14:31.51 and third in the 3000 metres with 8:41.06 at the Diamond League final last year.

Hailu won the 1500 metres in Rabat in 3:58.25 and finished third in the 5000m in a PB of 14:18.94 in Rome. She won two world indoor titles in the 1500m in Glasgow 2024 and in the 3000 metres in Nanjng 2025.

Amebaw and Hailu will be joined by Aleshign Baweke, world under 20 champion and second in the 5000m in Rome in 14:18.54.

The line-up will also feature Australia’s Georgia Griffith, winner in the 3000m in Oslo in 2024 in the Oceanian record of 8:24.20 and fifth in the 5000 in a PB of 14:32.82 in London 2025, Linden Hall , sixth in the 1500m at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, Maureen Koster from the Netherlands, fourth in the 5000m at the European Championships in Rome 2024, and Hannah Nuttall from Great Britain, national indoor champion in the 3000m in 2026 and eighth in the 5000m at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025.

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