Brussels Diamond League event-by-event preview – Allianz Memorial Van Damme
Forty athletes who won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and/or the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo will line-up in Brussels this weekend. Mondo Duplantis, Valarie Allman and Emmanuel Wanyonyi are reigning world and Olympic champions, while Cole Hocker won the Olympic 1500m title and the world 5000m crown.
The star-studded line-up also includes sprinters Julien Alfred, Sha’Carri Richardson, Oblique Seville and Letsile Tebogo; steeplechase standouts Soufiane El Bakkali and Winfred Yavi; Olympic 5000m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen; and high jump champions Yaroslava Mahuchikhhh and Nicola Olyslagers.
Men’s 400 metres hurdles:
Alison dos Santos will compete for the first time as world record-holder after smashing Karsten Warholm’s mark by 0.14 with a sensational 45.80 at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich. Warholm finished second in 46.69.
Dos Santos became only the second hurdler in history to break 46 seconds. His world record in Zurich highlighted a Diamond League campaign that also featured victories in the 300m hurdles in Keqiao (33.01) and over 400m hurdles in Xiamen (46.72), Oslo (46.89) and Chorzów (46.46). He added wins in Stockholm (47.11) and at the Brazilian Championships (46.48). The Brazilian won the world title in Eugene in 2022 in 46.29, Olympic bronze medals in Tokyo and Paris, and Diamond League titles in 2022 and 2024.
Warholm won his fourth consecutive European gold medal in Birmingham smashing the championships record with 46.63. The Norwegian star won at the London Diamond League setting a meeting record of 46.61 and set a season's best of 46.52 in Chorzów. He claimed three Diamond League titles in Zurich in 2019 (46.92), 2021 (47.35) and 2025 (46.70).
Emil Agyekum broke Harald Schmid’s historic German record by three hundredths of a second at the Diamond League meeting in London and won the European silver medal in Birmingham in 47.87
Ezekiel Nathaniel finished fourth at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo in a Nigerian record of 47.11, won the NCAA title in 47.49 and claimed Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow in 48.47.
Matheus Lima from Brazil improved his PB twice to 47.37 in Stockholm and 47.26 in Chorzów. Lima finished fourth in Zurich in 47.57.
Abderahman Samba from Qatar won the world bronze medal in Tokyo behind Raj Benjamin and Alison dos Santos in 2025. This year Samba set the Asian record in the 300m hurdles in Oslo clocking 33.84 and finished fourth in Xiamen in a season's best of 47.93 and third in London in 48.10.
The top two US hurdlers in the field are Caleb Dean, third at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Budapest in 47.62 and second in Bellinzona in 47.98, and Trevor Bassitt, who improved his PB to 47.37 in College Station.
Women’s 100 metres hurdles:
Masai Russell won the 100 metres hurdles at Weltklasse Zurich in 12.09 breaking Tobi Amusan’s world record by three hundredths of a second. Russell claimed five more Diamond League races in Keqiao (12.25), Xiamen in 12.14, in Eugene in 12.24, Monaco in 12.20 and Lausanne in 12.27. The 26-year Washington DC native aims to win her first Diamond League title. She claimed the Olympic gold medal in Paris 2024 in 12.33 edging Cyrena Samba Mayela by one hundredth of a second. She has become the first woman since Yordanka Donkova to hold both the Olympic title and world record simultaneously.
Amusan has claimed three Diamond League titles in her career in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Amusan won the 100 metres hurdles race in Paris in 12.28. The Nigerian hurdler also finished first in Rabat and second in Eugene clocking the same time of 12.28 and second in Zurich behind Russell in a season's best. At the Commonwealth Games she won the bronze medal in 12.60 in Glasgow after clocking a wind-assisted 12.19 in the heats. Amusan showed her good form by winning at the Brescia Grand Prix in 12.56 into a headwind of -1.7 m/s.
Nadine Visser won the European gold medal in Birmingham in 12.67 edging Pia Skryszowska by one thousandth of a second. She set a European European lead of 12.41 in the Diamond League meeting in Paris and improved her PB to 12.34 in Zurich.
Devynne Charlton from the Bahamas won her third world indoor gold medal equalling her world indoor record with 7.65. The Bahamian hurdler finished second to Russell in Keqiao in 12.38, third in Xiamen in national record of 12.37 and fourth in Paris in 12.58.
Pia Skryszowska from Poland won the silver medal at the European Championships in Birmingham in 12.67 and set a Polish indoor record in the 60 metres hurdles with 7.73. She finished third in Chorzów with 12.64, fourth in Monaco in 12.54 and fifth in Paris in 12.46 and in Lausanne in 12.61.
Megan Simmonds, the 2021 Olympic bronze medallist, won in Rome in 12.50 and finished second in Chorzów in 12.62 and Bellinzona in 12.53.
Men’s pole vault:
Armand Duplantis will aim to win his sixth consecutive Diamond League title. Duplantis claimed four wins at the Memorial Ivo Van Damme in 2020 with 6.00m, in 2021 with 6.05m, in 2023 with 6.10m and in 2024, when he won the Diamond League Final with a meeting record of 6.11m.
The Swedish athlete jumped four times over 6.00 metres and starts as the favourite, although he will face a very tough battle to retain his Diamond League title.
Duplantis set the 15th world record of his career by clearing 6.31m at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala last March. A few weeks later he won his fourth consecutive world indoor title in Toruń with a championships record of 6.25m. He opened his Diamond League season with a world-leading mark of 6.12m in Keqiao. On 7 June he suffered his first defeat in nearly three years and 40 consecutive wins. Shortly after marrying Swedish model Desirée Inglander, he returned to the track on 28 June winning in Paris with a meeting record. He claimed another win in Monaco with another meeting record of 6.07m. In his final competition before the European Championships in Birmingham Duplantis cleared 5.95m at the Diamond League in London, but he was forced to withdraw from the competition after that jump due to a left thigh injury. He won his fourth consecutive European gold medal setting the championships record with 6.15m.
Duplantis won at the Athletissima City Event in Lausanne with 6.21m, but Emmanouil Karalis challenged him by clearing 6.16m to finish second. Karalis produced the highest-ever second-place clearance in men’s pole vault history.
Just three days later Duplantis won at the Diamond League meeting in Chorzów with 6.20m, while Karalis shared the second place with Sondre Guttormsen with 6.00.
Duplantis won for the sixth time at Weltklasse Zurich with 6.25. Karalis cleared 6.20m to improve his Greek record by three centimetres.
Kurtis Marshall achieved five top-three finishes in the Diamond League this year. Marshall cleared 5.90m to win the Stockholm Diamond League, ending Duplantis’s historic 40-meeting winning streak. The Australian pole vaulter backed up his Stockholm victory with another win in Oslo. Marshall showed his consistency by clearing 5.80m or higher in every single competition. He finished third in both London with 5.95m and 5.91m in Lausanne. Marshall won the world indoor bronze medal in Toruń with 6.00m.
Sam Kendricks cleared a season's best of 5.95m in London to win his first Diamond League competition in five years beating Duplantis and Marshall on countback.
Women’s 800 metres:
Audrey Werro started her 2026 outdoor season on 31 May with a win at the Diamond League in Rabat in 1:56.56. One week later the Swiss athlete stormed to a win ahead of Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson in Stockholm in 1:53.98 setting the third-fastest time in history. Werro set a European all-time best in the 600 metres with 1:22.85 in Biel. At the end of June Werro won her third consecutive Diamond League race of the season in Paris with 1:53.80 setting a Diamond League and a meeting record. Werro won her first European title in Birmingham in 1:54.81, as well as the Diamond League legs in Lausanne in 1:55.33 and Zurich with a Diamond League record and Swiss record of 1:53.70.
Werro is just 0.42 away from Jarmila Kratochvilova’s world record of 1:53.28 set in 1983, the oldest world record in athletics.
Werro will go head-to-head with Femke Bol Broeders, who made a successful switch from the 400 metres hurdles to the 800 metres.
Over the new distance the Dutch star finished second to Werro in Ostrava in 1:57.13 and won her first outdoor race in Hengelo in 1:57.41. She finished second to Werro in Paris setting a PB of 1:55.60, missing Ellen Van Langen’s Dutch record by six hundredths of a second. At the London Diamond League meeting Bol pushed Hodgkinson to the limit finishing second in 1:56.46. At the European Championships in Birmingham, Bol Broeders won the bronze medal in 1:55.54 equalling Ellen Van Langen’s Dutch record. One week later Bol finished second behind Werro in Lausanne in 1:55.41 shaving 13 hundredths of a second off the 34-year-old national record set by Van Langen at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Just six days later Bol smashed her record by 70 hundredths of a second with 1:54.71 in Zurich finishing second behind Werro.
The line-up also features Addison Wiley, winner in the 800m in Doha in 1:57.98, national record-holder in the 1000m in 2:30.71 in Monaco and world indoor bronze medallist in Toruń 2026, Prudence Sekgodiso from South Africa, world indoor champion in Nanjing 2025, Saida Tsehaye, Ethiopian under-20 record-holder with 1:56.92 in Oordegem (Belgium), and Veronica Vancardo from Switzerland, who set a PB of 1:58.20 and finished eighth at the European Championships in Birmingham.
Women’s 200 metres:
Olympic 100 metres champion Julien Alfred will line-up in her favourite 200 metres distance this year. Alfred has remained unbeaten in the 200m this year.
Alfred opened her Diamond League campaign by winning the 200 metres in Rome ahead of Melissa Jefferson Wooden in 21.93 and the 100m in Oslo in 10.76. One month later Alfred claimed the 200 metres win in Monaco in a Diamond League record of 21.51 becoming the third-fastest sprinter in history over this distance. She triumphed in the 200m in the London Diamond League meeting for the second consecutive year in a meeting record of 21.66.
Julien Alfred returns to Brussels with a fond memory two years after winning the Diamond League final in the 100m in 10.88 in 2024. One month earlier she claimed the Olympic gold medal in Paris in a national record of 10.72. Alfred won the 100 metres at Weltklasse Zurich with a national record of 10.70 edging Melissa Jefferson Wooden by five thousandths of a second in a close photo finish. The sprinter from Santa Lucia also finished second behind Jefferson Wooden in Chorzów in 10.83 in the 100 metres.
d holds a national record of 11.06, and Patrizia Van der Weken from Luxembourg, European indoor bronze medallist in the 60 metres in Apeldoorn 2026 and sixth in the European Championships in Birmingham in 11.10. This year the Santa Lucian sprinter will aim to win the third Diamond League title of her career and the first in the 200 metres.
Amy Hunt won the world silver medal in Tokyo 2025 in 22.14 after improving her PB to 22.08 in the semifinal and the European gold medal in Birmingham in 22.19.
The top US sprinters are Kayla White, winner in the 200m in Lausanne in 22.18, Cambrea Sturgis, first in Rabat in 22.21, Anavia Battle, fourth in the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 in 2022, and Jenna Prandini, who set season's best times of 10.97 in the 100m and 22.36 in the 200m.
The line-up is completed by Audrey Leduc from Canada, who set a season's best of 10.97 in the 100m, and Success Eduan from Great Britain, European under-23 champion in the 200m in 2025 and European gold medallist in the 4×100m relay in Birmingham 2026.
Men’s 100 metres:
World champion Oblique Seville won the world title in the 100 metres setting a PB of 9.77. Seville won two Diamond League races this year in Monaco in 9.88 and Chorzów in 9.83 and finished second in Eugene in 9.89 and London in 9.87. He also claimed the Jamaican title in 9.82.
Seville will go head-to-head against Nigeria’s Kayinsola Ajayi, who won the NCAA 100m title in a wind-assisted 9.72. He claimed his first-ever Diamond League win in 9.84 beating Seville and Christian Coleman. He repeated his feat by winning his second Diamond League race in London with the same time of 9.84 ahead of Seville and European champion Romell Glave.
Christian Coleman, world champion in Doha 2019, won last year’s edition of the Diamond League final in Zurich. This year the US sprinter finished third in two Diamond League races in Eugene in 9.95 and in Chorzów in 9.93.
Trayvon Bromell won the Diamond League race in Paris in 9.91 last June.
Lachlan Kennedy from Australia won two silver medals at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025 in 6.50 and at the Commonwealth Games in the 100m in a PB of 9.85.The Australian sprinter clocked 10.01 to place fifth in the 100m at the Diamond League meeting in Keqiao.
Akani Simbine from South Africa, fourth in the Olympic final and silver in the 4×100m relay, finished fourth in Paris in 9.97 and seventh in Chorzów in 9.96. Simbine dipped under the 10 seconds for 12 consecutive years from 2015 to 2026. His compatriot Gift Leotlela won the 100 metres at the Keqiao Diamond League meeting in 9.97 and placed fifth in Chorzów in a world class 100m race in 9.95 after clocking 9.91 in the semifinal.
Men’s 400 metres:
Reigning world champion Collen Kebinatshipi will chase his first Diamond League title in the men’s 400 metres. The Botswanan sprinter claimed five consecutive Diamond League wins in Xiamen (43.92), Paris (43.54), Eugene (44.00), Monaco (43.44) and Chorzów (43.59). His performances in Paris and Monaco were Diamond League records. Kebinatshipi won two world gold medals in Tokyo in the 400m in 43.53 and in the 4×400m relay and the Olympic silver medal in the 4×400m relay in Paris 2024. Last April he won the national title in the 100 metres in a PB of 9.89 becoming the fourth athlete in history to run under 10 seconds in the 100 metres and under 44 seconds in the 400 metres after Wayde Van Niekerk, Michael Norman and Fred Kerley.
Zakithi Nene from South Africa claimed the win at the Diamond League in Stockholm in 44.40 and smashed his PB to 43.89 in Paris Charlety. He finished third at the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska in Chorzów with 44.37.
Matthew Hudson-Smith from Great Britain won his third European gold medal in Birmingham in 44.17 in front of his home fans. The British athlete finished second at Diamond League meetings in Rabat in 44.25, Paris in a season's best of 44.09 and London in 44.18 and fourth in Monaco in 44.22.
Jacory Patterson won last year’s edition of the Diamond League in Zurich in a PB of 43.85. The US athlete won in Rabat in 44.11 ahead of Hudson Smith and finished second in Monaco in a season's best of 43.96. The other two US athletes in the field are Khaleb McRae, world indoor record-holder with 44.52 and world indoor bronze medallist in Toruń 2026 in 45.03, and Chris Bailey, US champion in 44.29 in 2026 in New York and finished third in Paris in a PB of 44.06.
Jereem Richards won world silver medals in 43.72 at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 and at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2026.
Belgian hopes will be carried by Daniel Seegers, who finished second at the Golden Spike in Ostrava in a season's best of 44.81 and finished eighth in the European Championships final in Birmingham.
Women’s 100 metres:
Sha’Carri Richardson, world champion in Budapest 2023 in a PB of 10.65 and Olympic silver medallist in 10.87, won her third US title in New York in 10.78 last year. She finished second behind Jefferson Wooden in Eugene in 10.79 and third in Chorzów in 10.96 and Zurich in 10.97.
Tina Clayton won two world silver medals in Tokyo in the 100m in a PB of 10.76 and in the 4×100m relay. The Jamaican sprinter won two 100m races at the Rabat Diamond League in 10.85 and in Lucerne in 11.02 and finished second in 10.85 at the Jamaican Championships. The other Jamaican sprinter in the line-up is Jonielle Smith finished third at the Rabat Diamond League meeting in 11.00 and at the National Championships in Kingston in 10.94.
Amy Hunt made history at the European Championships in Birmingham by becoming the first athlete ever to win four gold medals in a single edition of this event. The British sprinter completed a sweep of titles by winning the 100m in 11.00, the 200m in 22.19, the women’s 4×100m relay in 42.05 and the mixed relay in 39.97. She also won the silver medal in the 100m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in the 100m in 11.02 and broke the 11-second barrier for the first time in her career with 10.97 in Stockholm. After the European Championships she finished fifth in Zurich in 11.04 and won in Brescia in 11.06.
Zaynab Dosso from Italy claimed the world indoor gold medal in the 60 metres 7.00 in Toruń 2026 completing her collection after winning bronze in Glasgow 2024 and silver in Nanjing 2025. Dosso set a season's best of 11.07 in Savona and finished second at the Diamond League meeting in Doha in a wind-assisted time of 11.01. She finished seventh in the 100 metres in 11.12 and fourth with the 4×100m relay with 43.21 at the European Championships in Birmingham.
Zoe Hobbs won a historic Commonwealth Games title in Glasgow in a national and Oceanian record of 10.93 becoming the first athlete from New Zealand to win the gold medal in the 100m at this event.
Delphine Nkansa from Belgium will receive strong support from the home fans. Nkansa won the European bronze medal in Birmingham in a PB of 11.06 missing Kim Gevaert’s national record by 0.02.
The other top European sprinters in the line-up are Boglarka Takács from Hungary, who clocked a wind-assisted 10.93 in the first round at the European Championships in Birmingham and holds a national record of 11.06, and Patrizia Van der Weken from Luxembourg, European indoor bronze medallist in the 60 metres in Apeldoorn 2026 and sixth in the European Championships in Birmingham in 11.10.
Men’s 200 metres:
Two-time Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek claimed three Diamond League wins this year in Rabat in a meeting record 19.69, Stockholm in 19.87 and Zurich in a world lead of 19.62 into a headwind of -0.4 m/s. Bednarek claimed two Diamond League titles in 2021 in Zurich in 19.70 and in 2024 in Brussels in 19.67 beating Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo. The US sprinter also won another race in Brussels in 2023 in 19.79.
Letsile Tebogo, Olympic champion in the 200m in Paris 2024 and world champion in the 4×400m relay in Tokyo 2025, won two Diamond League races in Oslo in 19.84 and Lausanne in 19.87 and finished second behind two-time world champion Tate Taylor in Eugene in 19.93 and in Rabat in 19.96.
Sinesipho Dambile from South Africa won his first Diamond League race in the 200m in Doha setting a PB of 19.74 and finished second in Lausanne behind Tebogo in 19.98 and in Zurich behind Bednarek in 19.82. Dambile won the gold medal over this distance in Glasgow in 19.96 after clocking a wind-assisted 19.83 in the semifinal.
Makanakaishe Charamba from Zimbabwe finished second behind Dambile at the Diamond League meeting in Doha in a PB of 19.88 and finished third in Eugene in 20.11 and in Lausanne in 20.14 and fourth in Zurich in 20.10.
Reynier Mena from Cuba won in Savona in 20.35 and finished fifth in Doha in a season's best of 20.04.
José Figueroa improved his PB to 19.76 in the semifinal before winning the final in 19.98 into a headwind of 19.98 at the CAC Games in Santo Domingo. Figueroa finished fourth in Lausanne in 20.14.
Courtney Lindsey won the 100m in 9.89 in the 100m in Winter Garden and finished third in Stockholm in 20.24 and fourth in Eugene in 20.19. He also placed fifth in the 100m at the US Championships in 9.97.
Timothé Mumenthaler from Switzerland won the gold medal at the European Championships in Rome 2024 in 20.28 and the European bronze medal in 20.26 after improving his PB to 20.09 in the semifinal.
Women’s 400 metres:
Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino will target her fourth Diamond League Trophy. Paulino leads the Diamond League standings with 40 points. She claimed five Diamond League races in Doha breaking Allyson Felix’s meeting record with 48.89, in Paris in a Diamond League record of 48.48, in Monaco in a meeting record of 48.67, in London in 48.97 and Chorzów in 48.87. She also won two gold medals in the 400m in 48.94 and in the 4×400m mixed with an anchor leg in 48.51.
During her career she won the Olympic gold medal in Paris 2024 in the Olympic record of 48.17, the world gold medal in Budapest 2023 and the world silver medal in Tokyo 2025 in 47.98 moving to third on the world all-time list.
Paulino will face Henriette Jaeger from Norway, Nickisha Pryce and Stacey Ann Williams from Jamaica, Natalia Bukowiecka from Poland.
Pryce is ranked second in the Diamond League standings with 35 points. The Jamaican athlete set her Jamaican record of 48.57 at the London Diamond League meeting in 2024. She won in Keqiao in 49.75 finished second behind Paulino in Chorzów in 49.49 and third in Rome in 49.80, Last Sunday she won a very close race at the Brescia Grand Prix in a season's best of 49.27 edging Selwa Naser with the same time to the hundredth of a second.
Pryce will be joined by her compatriot Stacey Ann Williams, who won the Jamaican title in 50.33 and in Zagreb in 49.48 and finished third in Paris in 49.51 and Eugene in 50.12.
Henriette Jaeger claimed two European gold medals in Birmingham in the 400 metres in a national record of 49.04 and in the women’s 4×400m mixed relay alongside her compatriot Karsten Warholm. Jaeger won three Diamond League races in Rome in 49.60, in Oslo in a season's best of 49.52 and in London with 49.15.
Natalia Bukowiecka won the European silver medal in Birmingham in 50.04 after setting her season's best with 49.57 in the semifinal. The Polish athlete mproved her Polish record by eight hundredths of a second to 48.90 in London in 2024 a few weeks before winning the Olympic bronze medal in 48.98.
Gloria Manuel won the world indoor gold medal in Toruń 2026 in 50.76. The young Czech athlete improved her national record to 49.37 at the Paris Diamond League meeting,
The line-up will also feature Roxana Gomez from Cuba, sixth at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 in a national record of 49.48, and Aalyiah Butler, second at the Monaco Diamond League meeting in a PB of 48.84.
Men’s 110 metres hurdles:
World record-holder Ja’Kobe Tharp will make his debut at the Allianz Memorial Ivo Van Damme. The 20-year-old US hurdler broke Aries Merritt’s 14-year-old world record clocking 12.75 in the semifinal of the NCAA Championships in Eugene last June. Merritt had set the previous record of 12.80 in Brussels in 2012. Tharp claimed two Diamond League wins in London in 12.91 and in Chorzów with 13.03 and finished first at the Continental Tour Gold in Budapest in 12.85.
Jamal Britt won five Diamond League races in Keqiao and Xiamen (same time of 13.07), in Paris in 12.89 (his first performance under the 13-second barrier), Eugene in a PB and a meeting record of 12.86 and Lausanne in 13.13. Britt also won at the Los Angeles Grand Prix in 12.99 and in Memphis in a wind-assisted 12.91. He moved to fifth place on the world all-time list.
Trey Cunningham broke the 13-second barrier for the first time in his career with 12.98 at the Diamond League meeting in Rome. With this performance he improved the 29-year-old Golden Gala meeting record held by Allen Johnson. Cunningham finished second in Chorzów in 13.08 and in Zurich in 13.19. He improved his PB to 7.35 in the 60m in the semifinal of the World Indoor Championships in Toruń before winning the bronze medal in 7.43 in the final.
Cordell Tinch won the world gold medal in Tokyo and five Diamond League races during a successful 2025 season, including the Diamond League Final in Zurich in 12.93. Tinch won the US title in 13.00 in New York edging Bradley Franklin by just four thousandths of a second and won the Diamond League race in Doha in 13.23 and finished second in Shanghai in 13.10.
Twenty-year-old Cuban hurdler Kendry Menendez won in Ostrava in 13.14 and clocked 13.02 in Zagreb before finishing second behind Tharp at the London Diamond League meeting improving his lifetime best to 13.01. One month later he secured another second place in the Diamond League in Lausanne in 13.20.
The other top athletes to watch out for are Rachid Muratake, Japanese record-holder with 12.92, Orlando Bennett from Jamaica, world silver medallist in Tokyo 2025 in 13.08, and Elie Bacari from Belgium, national indoor record-holder with 7.50 and European under-23 bronze medallist in Bergen 2025.
Men’s 800 metres:
Wanyonyi claimed three consecutive Diamond League titles in Eugene in 2023 in 1:42.80, in Brussels in 2024 in 1:42.70 and in 2025 in 1:42.37. The Kenyan broke Noah Ngeny’s 27-year-old world record in the 1000 metres with 2:11.83 in Monaco and won two consecutive Diamond League races in the 800 metres on Swiss soil in Lausanne in 1:42.19 and in Zurich setting a world-leading mark of 1:41.76. He collected two runner-up finishes at Diamond League meetings in Rabat behind Max Burgin, in Oslo behind Cooper Lutkenhaus and finished fourth in London in 1:43.31. Wanyonyi became the second-fastest 800m runner in history with 1:41.11 in Lausanne in 2024.
Marco Arop won the world title in Budapest 2023 and the Olympic silver medal in Paris 2024 behind Wanyonyi with a PB of 1:41.20. The Canadian athlete won the 800m at the Paris Diamond League meeting in 1:41.84 and clocked 1:42.13 in Edmonton. He finished second in Stockholm in 1:43.11, third in 1:43.33 in Oslo and fourth in Lausanne in 1:43.18.
Sedjati finished third in Lausanne in 1:42.31 and second in Zurich in a very close finish in a season's best of 1:41.86 before claiming the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto in 1:46.00. The Algerian athlete took third place in the 1000m in Monaco in 2:13.94 last July. He won two world silver medalss in Eugene 2022 and Tokyo 2025 and the Olympic bronze medal in Paris 2024.
Brandon Miller beat Cooper Lutkenhaus at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in 1:43.68 and claimed his second Diamond League win in London improving his PB to 1:42.19 last July
Ben Pattison from Great Britain won the world bronze medal in Budapest 2023 and finished fourth at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and sixth at the European Championships in Birmingham.
Gabriel Tual won the 800 metres at the Golden Gala in Rome with 1:43.66 in the venue where he won the European title in 2024 and finished fifth in Lausanne in 1:44.18.
Men’s 1500 metres:
Twenty-year-old Cameron Myers won the 1500 metres in 3:28.00 at the Diamond League meeting in Paris, the Bowerman Mile in Eugene setting a new Oceanian record of 3:46.06 and the 1500m at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin in 3:30.56. During the 2026 indoor season he claimed the win at the Wanamaker Mile in 3:47.57 at the Millrose Games in New York. Last March he won the 1500m at the Maurie Plant meeting in Melbourne in 3:30.42 and defended his Australian title in 3:29.85.
Two-time Olympic champion and four-time world record-holder Jakob Ingebrigtsen made a successful comeback from an extended break due to a serious Achilles tendon injury by winning his fourth European gold medal in the 5000m and his seventh overall outdoor title in Birmingham. Ingebrigtsen won two Olympic gold medals in the 1500m in Tokyo 2021 and in the 5000m in Paris 2024 and two consecutive world titles in the 5000 metres in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023. The Norwegian star claimed three wins at the Memorial Ivo Van Damme in Brussels in 2020 in the 1500m in 3:30.69, in 2023 in the 2000m in a world all-time best in 4:43.13 and in 2024 in the Diamond League Final in the 1500m in 3:30.37 beating Timothy Cheruiyot and Cole Hocker.
Hocker finished third in the 1500m with 3:31.16 in Chorzów and won in Zurich over this distance in 3:31.71 edging Phanuel Koech and Yared Nuguse, while Ingebrigtsen finished fifth. The US middle-distance runner won the Olympic gold medal in the 1500 metres in Paris 2024 in a PB and an Olympic record of 3:27.65 beating Ingebrigtsen and the world title in the 5000m in Tokyo in 12:58.30. Hocker broke the US indoor mile record with 3:45.94, becoming the second-fastest man in world indoor history. He also holds the US indoor 2000 metres record with 4:52.92 and won the two-mile race at the Millrose Games in New York.
The other top US athletes in the field are Hobbs Kessler, fourth in the 1500m in 3:32.35 and clocked 3:48.68 in the Wanamaker Mile in New York, and Ethan Strand, who claimed a surprising win at the Diamond League meeting in Chorzów in 3:30.77.
The top Kenyan athletes are Phanuel Koech Kipkosgei, world under-20 record-holder with 3:27.72 at the Diamond League meeting in Paris and second in Chorzów in 3:31.14, and 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruiyot, winner in the mile at the Diamond League in Oslo in 3:48.21 over Yared Nuguse in a photo finish sprint.
Women’s 400 metres hurdles:
Emma Zapletalová from Slovakia claimed five consecutive wins at Diamond League meetings in Rabat in 52.82, in Rome in 52.58, in Oslo in 53.13, in Paris in 52.30 and Lausanne in 52.41. Her winning streak came to an end in Zurich where she hit the ninth hurdle hard losing her rhythm completely and had to settle with sixth place in 54.07. Zapletalova won the gold medal at the European Championships in Birmingham in 52.91 becoming the first woman ever to win a gold medal in the history of this event.
Zapletalova will face 2024 Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell, who won at the Zurich Diamond League in 52.13 improving the meeting record held by Femke Bol. The US hurdler finished second in Rome in 52.77 and Lausanne in 53.15.
Rushell Clayton from Jamaica, two-time world bronze medallist in Doha 2019 and Budapest 2023, finished second at the Diamond League meeting in Doha setting her fastest time of the year of 53.05 and won in Berlin in 53.72 last Sunday.
Gianna Woodruff from Panama finished fifth at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 with 53.34 after setting her PB with 52.66 in the semifinal.
Dalilah Muhammad, two-time Olympic medallist and 2019 world champion in Doha, showed her good form by clocking 53.05 in Doha last June and won in Zagreb in a meeting record of 53.54. The US veteran finished second in Oslo in 53.50, third in Zurich in 53.17 and fourth in Lausanne in 53.65 before winning at the Brescia Grand Prix in 53.36 ahead of Woodruff last Sunday.
Women’s pole vault:
Angelica Moser, Hana Moll and Sandi Morris, the top three of the two most recent competitions at Weltklasse Zurich and at the Galaathletics in Bellinzona will be in action in Brussels.
Moser won her second consecutive European outdoor gold medal in Birmingham with a season's best of 4.80m clearing all heights on her first attempt. Moser continued her great season by finishing second in Lausanne with 4.74m behind Hana Moll and in Zurich with 4.80m and won in Bellinzona with 4.77m.
She clinched four more consecutive top-three finishes in the Diamond League: winner in Paris with 4.77m, third in Rabat with 4.70m, Rome with 4.80m and Monaco with 4.62m.
Three-time world champion Katie Moon won two Diamond League titles in Eugene 2023 with 4.88m and in Zurich 2025 with 4.82, At this year’s Diamond League she has put together a consistent season, although she has not claimed the win at any single event, She finished second in Eugene with 4.80m, third in Rabat with 4.70m, in Lausanne with 4.64m and in Zurich with 4.75m.
Hana Moll won two back-to-back Diamond League wins in Lausanne with 4.84m and in Zurich with 4.90m improving her PB both times. Moll claimed the NCAA outdoor title in 2025 with 4.75m and cleared 4.88m indoors last January.
Sandi Morris won the 10th US title of her career with a season's best of 4.90m in New York last July and claimed the win at the Prefontaine Classic with 4.85m. She placed third in Zurich with 4.75m and Bellinzona with 4.67m.
Tina Sutej won the world bronze medal in Tokyo 2025 with 4.80m and her second world indoor silver medal in Toruń 2026. The Slovenian pole vaulter placed fifth in Zurich with 4.75m and won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto with 4.60m earlier this week.
Imogen Ayris shared the world indoor medal with Angelica Moser and Amalie Svabikova with 4.70m in Toruń and improved her PB to 4.81m at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku.
Women’s high jump:
Nicola Olyslagers is chasing her second consecutive Diamond League titles one year after winning at Sechselautenplatz in Zurich in the new Oceanian record of 2.04m. The Australian high jumper went on to win the world outdoor title with 2.00m. This year Olyslagers claimed two Diamond League wins in London with 2.01m and in Zurich with 2.02m. She finished second at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 1.93m.
Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikhh is aiming to win her fourth Diamond League Trophy.
The Ukrainian athlete claimed her fourth European Championships title in Birmingham with 1.97m and at the Diamond League meeting in Chorzów with 2.00m, but she had to settle with fourth place in Zurich with 1.96m. Mahuchikh also won in Rabat with 1.97m and finished second behind Nicola Olyslagers on countback at 2.01m in London. Last weekend Mahuchikh finished second in Heilbronn with 2.00m behind Eleanor Patterson.
Mahuchikh won the Olympic gold medal in Paris 2024 and broke Stefka Kostadinova’s world record clearing 2.10m at the Diamond League in Paris in 2024. She claimed the world outdoor title in Budapest 2023 with 2.01m. Mahuchikh won the world indoor title in Toruń with 2.01m. Mahuchikh achieved a streak of four wins at the Memorial Van Damme after her victories in 2021 with 2.02m, in 2022 with a meeting and national record of 2.05m, in 2023 with 2.00m and 2024 with 1.97m.
Eleanor Patterson from Australia, world champion in Eugene 2022, claimed her second Commonwealth Games title in Glasgow with 1.96m and set a season's best of 2.00m at the Memorial Istvan Gyulai in Budapest. Patterson cleared 1.98m in Chorzów last August and won at the Heilbronn High Jump competition equalling her PB with 2.02m.
Iryna Gerashchenko finished second in Chorzów with 1.98m beating Patterson on countback. She finished fifth at the European Championships in Birmingham with 1.92m before bowing out at 1.95m.
Angelina Topic set a Serbian record of 2.00m in Banska Bystrika and shared a world indoor silver medal with Nicola Olyslagers and Yuliya Levchenko in Toruń with 1.99m. She finished fourth in London and fifth in Rabat with 1.96m in this year’s Diamond League season.
Lamara Distin from Jamaica, Commonwealth Games gold medallist in Birmingham 2022 with 1.95m and NCAA indoor and outdoor champion in the same year, showed her recent good form by clearing a season's best of 1.98m at the High Jump meeting in Heilbronn (Germany) on 30 August.
Belgian fans will cheer on three-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam, who will test her shape in the high jump before returning to heptathlon competition in Talence at the end of September. Thiam was forced to withdraw from the European Championships in Birmingham due to a hamstring injury. Thiam won three Olympic gold medals in Rio de Janeiro 2016 with 6810 points, in Tokyo 2021 with 6791 and Paris 2024 with 6880, two world titles in London 2017 with 6784 and Eugene 2022 with 6947 points, and three European gold medals in Berlin 2018 (6816), Munich 2022 (6628) and Rome 2024 (6848). The other Belgian athlete in the field is Merel Maes, who set a PB of 1.97m in Brussels in 2005.
Men’s high jump:
Gianmarco Tamberi will chase his fourth Diamond League title after winning in Zurich in 2021, 2022 and in Brussels in 2024 clearing 2.34m each time. Tamberi won his fourth European gold medal in Birmingham with his season's best of 2.32m and claimed the win at the City Event of the Memorial Skolimowska in Katowice with 2.31 securing his qualifying spot for the Diamond League final. Earlier this week he won the Mediterranean Games gold medal with 2.25m, the only title that was missing in his collection.
Ju’Vaughn Harrison set the world-leading mark of 2.34m at the What Gravity high jump circuit in Monaco and won in Bellinzona with 2.28m last week. Harrison won the world silver medal in Budapest 2.36m losing to Tamberi on countback and claimed NCAA indoor and outdoor titles in 2021.
Oleg Doroshchuk from the Ukraine won the world indoor gold medal in Toruń with 2.30m and the European silver medal in Birmingham adding these medals to the collection that includes the European indoor gold in Apeldoorn 2025 and the European bronze medal in Rome 2024. The Ukrainian jumper set the world lead of 2.33m on 27 June in Berdychiv and finished third in Doha with 2.24m.
Erick Portillo won the world indoor silver medal in Toruń 2026 with 2.30m breaking a 27-year medal drought for Mexico. Portillo placed second at the Golden Gala in Rome and won in Ostrava with 2.27m and in Bydgoszcz with 2.24m.
Men’s long jump:
Reigning Olympic and European champion Miltiadis Tentoglou from Greece will take on silver medallist Simon Ehammer from Switzerland and bronze Bozhidar Sarabyoukov from Bulgaria in rematch between the three medallists of the European Championships in Birmingham.
Tentoglou claimed the only Diamond Trophy title in 2022 with 8.42m in Zurich. The Greek star won his fourth consecutive European gold medal in Birmingham 2026 with 8.44m equalling Heike Drechsler for the most continental titles in the long jump. Tentoglou won four Diamond League competitions this year in Xiamen with 8.46m, in Monaco with 8.61m, Lausanne with 8.24m and Zurich with 8.45m. He equalled Louis Tsatoumas’s 19-year-old Greek record with 8.66m at the National Championships in Volos last July, adding one centimetre to his previous PB set when he won the European gold medal in Rome 2024.
Simon Ehammer won the Diamond League title at last year’s edition on Sechselautenplatz in Zurich with 8.32m beating Mattia Furlani by 2 cm. Ehammer leapt to 8.29m into a headwind of -2.7 m/s to win the European silver medal in Birmingham behind Tentoglou. In the Diamond League season Ehammer finished second at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne with 8.13m, fifth in Monaco with 8.32m and sixth in Zurich with 8.14m.
Ehammer won the world indoor title in the heptathlon in Toruń 2026 with a world indoor record of 6670 points. Ehammer leapt to a Swiss record of 8.51m during the Hypo Meeting in Götzis improving the world all-time best in the long jump during a decathlon competition. Ehammer won the decathlon competition with a Swiss record of 8778 points becoming the first Swiss athlete to win the decathlon in the 51-year-old history of the Hypo meeting.
Bozhidar Saraboyukov won the bronze medal with 8.26m against a strong headwind securing Bulgaria’s first European outdoor medal in the men’s long jump in eight years. He won the European Indoor gold medal in Apeldoorn 2025 and the world indoor bronze medal with 8.31m in Toruń. During the Diamond League season the Bulgarian athlete finished second in Keqiao with 8.07m and third in Xiamen with 8.29m, won in Rome with 8.26m ahead of Tentoglou, and placed fourth in Monaco with 8.36m and fifth in Zurich with 8.16m.
The best non-European athletes in the field are Jamaican jumpers Wayne Pinnock, silver medallist at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 with 8.36m and at the World Championships in Budapest 2025 with 8.50m, and Tajay Gayle, world champion in Doha 2019 with the national record of 8.69m and second in Zurich with 8.43m last week, Jorge Hodelin, who broke Mattia Furlani’s world under-20 record with 8.46m and third at the Diamond League in Monaco with 8.38m.
Women’s long jump:
Larissa Iapichino will aim to win her third consecutive Diamond League title after winning in Brussels with 6.80m in 2024 and in Zurich with 6.93m in 2025. The Italian long jump star won her first European gold medal in Birmingham with 7.00m and the world indoor silver medal in Toruń with 6.87m in 2026. During this year’s Diamond League season Iapichino placed second in Eugene with 7.12m improving her mother Fiona May’s Italian record by one centimetre, second in Stockholm with 6.84m and third in London with 6.82m.
Hillary Kpatcha from France won the European bronze medal in Birmingham equalling her PB with 6.98m in a very close final and won her first-ever Diamond League competition in Stockholm with 6.85m beating Iapichino by just one centimetre.
Agate De Sousa from Portugal won the world indoor gold medal in Toruń with 6.92m and finished fourth at the European Championships in Birmingham with a wind-assisted 6.96m after leaping to 7.00m in the qualifying round. The Portuguese athlete placed second with 6.98m in the City Event competition of the Memorial Kamila Skolimowska held in Katowice.
The US contingent will be formed by Alyssa Jones, NCAA champion with a PB of 7.06m and winner at the Kamila Skolimowska City Event competition with 6.98m in Katowice, Claire Bryant, world indoor champion in Nanjing 2025, and Monae Nichols, leader of the Diamond League standings with 26 points and third in Eugene with a wind-assisted 7.05m and in Katowice with 6.95m.
Belgian fans will cheer on Noor Vidts, two-time world indoor champion in the pentathlon in Belgrade 2022 and Glasgow 2024 and Olympic bronze medallist in the heptathlon in Paris 2024.
Men’s triple jump:
Andy Díaz Hernández from Italy will chase his fourth Diamond League title after winning in Zurich 2022, Eugene 2023 and Zurich 2025. Diaz won his first European outdoor gold medal in Birmingham with a world-leading best and Italian record of 18.15m in his second attempt moving to fourth place on the world all-time list behind Jonathan Edwards (18.29m), Jordan Díaz (18.18m) and Christian Taylor (18.15m). Diaz won at the Diamond League meeting in Rome with 17.59m and finished second in Oslo behind Jordan Scott with 17.59m and third in Lausanne with 17.20m.
Diaz will renew his rivalry against Pedro Pablo Pichardo from Portugal silver medallist with 17.76m to complete his collection that includes gold medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 with 17.98m, two world gold medals in Eugene 2022 with 17.95m and Tokyo 2025 with 17.91m and the European title in Munich 2022 with 17.50m. Pichardo won two Diamond League competitions this year in Doha with 17.71m and Lausanne with 17.44 and claimed three Diamond Trophies in 2018, 2021 and 2024.
Yasser Triki from Algeria finished third in Oslo with 17.43m and in Doha with a national record of 17.67m. He leapt to a wind-assisted 17.50m in Madrid.
Jordan Scott, world indoor silver medallist in Toruń 2026 with 17.33m, won in Oslo beating Diaz with 17.66m and finished second in Doha with 17.69m.
The line-up also features Lazaro Martinez from Cuba, two-time world medallist (silver in Budapest 2023 with 17.41m and bronze in Tokyo 2025 with 17.49m), and Almir Dos Santos from Brazil, winner at the Panamerican Championships in Medellin with 17.24 in 2026.
Women’s triple jump:
Olympic champion Thea LaFond from Dominica will face world champion Leyanis Pérez Hernández from Cuba. Saly Sarr from Senegal, Davisleydi Velazco from Cuba.
LaFond set the world-leading mark with 15.25m moving to ninth on the world all-time list. LaFond won the Olympic final in Paris 2025 with 15.02m becoming the first athlete from Dominica to win a gold medal at this event. She won in Brescia with 14.60 into a headwind of -1.6 m/s.
Pérez Hernández won the Diamond League competition in Monaco setting a season's best of 15.06m. The Cuban athlete claimed the world indoor gold medal in Toruń last March with 14.95m.
Saly Sarr from Senegal won her first-ever Diamond League competition setting a national record of 15.08m in Chorzów and finished second in Oslo with 14.75m and Monaco with 14.99m.
Davisleidy Velazco won two back-to-back Diamond League wins in Oslo with a wind-assisted 14.76m and in Doha with 15.13m and finished fourth in Monaco with 14.66m. The other Cuban athlete in the field is Liadagmis Povea, fourth in Doha with 14.58m and second at the CAC Games in Santo Domingo with 14.71m.
Ackelia Smith tied the sixth with Darya Derkacch in the ovs. However the Jamaican athlete secured the final available qualifying spot thanks to her best seasonal jump in the circuit with 14.54m.
Men’s shot put:
Double European champion and Italian record-holder Leonardo Fabbri will take on Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell from Jamaica, four-time world indoor champion Tom Walsh, two-time world champion Joe Kovacs, Jordan Geist and Roger Steen.
Fabbri won the Diamond League Final in Brussels in 2024 improving his Italian record to 22.98m. Fabbri will chase his fourth Diamond League win this season after claiming victories in Rome with 22.14m, in Eugene with a world-leading mark of 22.74m and in Chorzów with 22.08m. He won his second European gold medal in Birmingham with 22.31m. He achieved his 11th throw beyond the 22 metres of the season at Weltklasse Zurich with 22.16m.
Rajindra Campbell improved his PB three times this season in Xiamen with 22.34m, Zagreb to 22.44m and in Brescia with 22.59m. Campbell is second on the world-leading list. The Jamaican shot putter also finished second in Zurich with 22.22m.
Jordan Geist won his first ever Diamond League in Zurich this year setting a PB of 22.53m and won two more competitions in Memphis with 22.44m last July and at the US outdoor Championships with 22.32m in New York. Geist also finished second in Chorzów with 21.96m.
Joe Kovacs won three Diamond League titles in Zurich in 2022 with 23.23m (the second-best performance in history), in Eugene 2023 with 22.93m and in Zurich in 2025 with 22.46m. This year he won in Rabat with 22.58m and finished second in Rome with 21.87m and third in Chorzów with 21.86m.
Walsh won a historic fourth indoor title in Toruń 2026 with 21.82m and the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games with 21.03m. The shot put star claimed four Diamond League titles in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019.
Men’s discus throw:
European champion Kristjan Čeh from Slovenia leads the Diamond League standings with 28 points ahead of Mykolas Alekna (23) in the men’s discus throw.
Ceh will go head to head against European silver medallist Mykolas Alekna from Lithuania once again in a rematch of the continental final in Birmingham.
Ceh won his second consecutive continental title improving Alekna’s championships record to 72.51m.
He opened his campaign with a win in Keqiao with a meeting record of 70.58m and finished second in Eugene with 69.94m and Chorzów with 68.93m. The Slovenian thrower improved his national record to 72.61m in Ramona last April. Earlier this week the Slovenian thrower won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto with 68.70m.
Alekna, European silver medallist in Birmingham 2026, made a winning start to his Diamond League campaign in Eugene with a throw of 71.06m after undergoing surgery to repair a torn left pectoral muscle last March and claimed his second win in the circuit in Chorzów setting the meeting record with 72.58m and won in Bellinzona breaking Lars Riedel’s meeting record with 71.50m.
Daniel Ståhl won his third world gold medal in Tokyo 2025 with 70.47m on his final attempt in rainy conditions following his wins in Doha 2019 and Budapest 2023. The Swedish athlete won at the Diamond League on home soil in Stockholm with 69.60m and set a season's best of 69.85m in Uppsala. Stahl placed third in Chorzów with 68.25m.
Denny improved his PB to 74.04m in Ramona last April and won the Commonwealth title in Glasgow with 67.73m.
Stona won the Olympic gold medal in Paris setting the Olympic record with 70.00m and improved his PB to 70.66m. The Jamaican athlete placed second in Bellinzona with 68.14m.
Janssen finished third at the European Championships in Birmingham with a season's best of 69.53m, winning the first medal for Germany at these championships since Rober Harting in Zurich 2014. The German thrower confirmed his form by throwing 68.19m.
Women’s discus throw:
Valarie Allman won two consecutive Olympic gold medals in Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024, the world title in Tokyo 2025 completing the full set of medals following silver in Budapest 2023 and Eugene 2022 and five consecutive Diamond League titles from 2021 to 2025. She won four consecutive Diamond League competitions in Xiamen with 68.45m, Rabat with 68.75m, Stockholm with 68.60m and Eugene with 68.64m. She holds the US record with 73.52m and set a world-leading mark with 73.10m. She is aiming to win her sixth consecutive Diamond League title, a feat that would equal the all-time circuit record by Sandra Elkasevic.
The other athletes to look out for are Jorinde Van Klinken, world silver medallist in Tokyo and second at the Prefontaine Classic with 68.21, Alina Van Daalen, Laulaga Tausaga, world champion in Budapest 2023, and Shanice Craf from Germany,three-time European bronze medallist in Zurich 2014, Berlin 2018 and Munich 2022.
Cierra Jackson won her first competition in the circuit in London upsetting Sion breaking Sandra Elkasevic’s Diamond League record and the second-best US performance in history of 71.72m last July. Sion had to settle with second place with 68.39m.
Jorinde Van Klinken from the Netherlands won the European gold medal in Birmingham with 67.67m and the world silver medal in Tokyo 2025 with 67.30m.
The line-up also features Bin Feng from China, world champion in Eugene 2022, Shanice Craft from Germany and Vanessa Kamga from Sweden, who won silver and bronze respectively at the European Championships in Birmingham.
Men’s javelin throw:
Rumesh Pathirage is chasing his fourth Diamond League win this season. Pathirage became the first athlete from Sri Lanka to win a Diamond League competition in Rome breaking a 20-year-old meeting record with 92.62m. He extended his winning streak with three more Diamond League wins in Doha with 88.68m, Lausanne with 88.14m and Zurich with 92.07m, the second-best performance of his career. He also claimed the Commonwealth Games gold medal in Glasgow with 89.75m winning the first title for Sri Lanka in 20 years.
Anderson Peters won two world gold medals in Doha 2019 and Eugene 2022. Peters won in Rabat with 86.08m beating Pathirage and placed second in Rome with 83.91m and Doha with 86.38m and in Zurich with 86.93m and third in Lausanne with 86.69m. Last Sunday he placed second in Berlin behind Julian Weber with 83.32m.
Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago won the Olympic title in London 2012 at the age of 19 and the world gold medal in Tokyo 2025 13 years later. He finished third with 82.52m in Rabat and set a season's best of 83.71m in Lausanne.
US javelin thrower Curtis Thompson won the world bronze medal in Tokyo 2025 with 86.67m and the US title in New York with 87.59m.
The line-up also features Julius Yego from Kenya, world champion in Beijing 2025, Dawid Wegner from Poland, third in Zurich with 85.16m, Timothy Herman from Belgium, national record-holder with 87.35m.
Women’s javelin throw:
Chinese 18-year-old Yan Ziyi won the women’s javelin throw setting the second-best ever performance in history with 71.74m in Xiamen, just 54 centimetres shy of Barbora Špotáková’s world record of 72.28m set in 2008. Yan Ziyi broke the world under-20, Asian and Diamond League record. She won three more Diamond League competitions in Oslo (67.11m), Paris (67.44m) and Monaco (68.75m).
Haruka Kitaguchi from Japan won gold medals at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. The Japanese athlete secured the win at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 20 August with a season's best of 64.60m and finished third with 63.01m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris.
Flor Deniz Hurtado from Colombia retained her title at the Central American and Caribbean Games with a South American record of 67.34m. Hurtado won the world silver medal in Budapest 2023 with 65.47m.
Sara Kolak from Croatia won the European gold medal in Birmingham with 62.43m ten years after winning the Olympic gold medal in Rio de Janeiro 2016.
Adriana Vilagos finished third at the European Championships in Birmingham with 60.93m after winning two silver medals in Munich 2022 and Rome 2024 and won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto with 65.93m. She placed second in Paris with 63.83m and third in Lausanne with 62.28m.
Sigrid Borge from Norway finished second at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen with 65.00m and fourth at the European Championships in Birmingham.
The line-up also features Anete Sietina from Latvia, world silver medallist in Tokyo 2025 with 64.64m.
Women’s shot put:
World champion Jessica Schilder will go head-to-head against reigning world indoor champion Chase Jackson and Olympic gold medallist Yemisi Ogunleye from Germany and two-time world indoor gold medallist Sarah Mitton from Canada.
Schilder set a world lead and the longest throw in the world in 14 years with 21.09m in Keqiao. The Dutch shot putter smashed Valerie Adams’ 14-year-old Diamond League record and improved her national record by 40 cm. In her next competitions Schilder won in Stockholm with 20.89m and finished second in Oslo and Eugene with the same mark of 20.11m and Chorzów with 20.20m and third in Paris with 19.88m. She claimed her third consecutive European outdoor medal in Birmingham with 20.73m.
Schilder claimed the Diamond Trophy in 2025 by winning three circuit competitions in Monaco, Silesia and the Zurich final.
Chase Jackson won the world indoor title in Toruń 2026 with 20.14m and fourth US outdoor title with 20.55m in New York. The US star improved her North American outdoor record by 7 cm to 21.02m at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin on 30 August. She claimed three Diamond League competitions in Oslo with 20.74m, Eugene with 20.56m and Chorzów with 20.92m.
Mitton won the Diamond League title in Brussels in 2024 and holds the Canadian record of 20.68m and won two world indoor titles in Glasgow 2024 and Nanjing 2025 and the world silver medal in Budapest 2023. She claimed the win at this year’s Diamond League meeting in Paris with 19.99m and set a season's best of 20.42m when she finished third in Keqiao.
Yemisi Ogunleye from Germany won the Olympic gold medal in Paris 2024 with 20.00m and improved her PB to 20.37m at the German Indoor Championships. She finished second in Oslo with 19.93m.
The other top athletes in the field are Fanny Roos from Sweden, fourth at the European Championships in Birmingham 2026 with 19.05m, and Danniel Thomas Dodd from Jamaica, world silver medallist in Doha 2019.
Women’s 1500 metres:
Jessica Hull from Australia will face Georgia Hunter Bell from Great Britain, Dorcus Ewoi from Great Britain Birke Haylom from Ethiopia and Agathe Guillemot in a wide-open women’s 1500 metres.
Hull, Olympic silver medallist in the 1500m in Paris 2024, is second in the Diamond League standings with 23 points, narrowly trailing Haylom (24 points). The Australian middle-distance runner claimed the win in the 3000 metres in London in 8:24.69, finished second in the 1500 metres in 3:55.20 in Chorzów and fifth in the 800 metres in 1:58.24 showing her versatility over different distances.
Hunter Bell, world silver medallist in the 800m in Tokyo 2025, won three major gold medals this year at the World Indoor Championships in Toruń in the 1500 metres in 3:58.53, at the Commonwealth Games in the 800 metres in 1:59.51 and at the European Championships in Birmingham in the 1500m in 4:07.78. The British middle-distance runner won two Diamond League races in the 1500m in Rome in 3:58.63 and Paris in 3:55.63.
Birke Haylom claimed two Diamond League races in Keqiao in a meeting record of 3:55.56 and in Doha in 3:59.89 and finished second in Xiamen. She was also crowned the 1500m winner in the 2026 World Indoor Tour.
Dorcus Ewoi won the world silver medal in the 1500 metres in Tokyo 2025 in 3:54.92 and finished second over the mile distance in 4:17.62.
Agathe Guillemot won the world indoor gold medal in the 1500 metres in Apeldoorn 2025 and finished fourth at the European Championships in Birmingham 2026. She improved her French 1500m record in 3:56.24 and clocked 1:58.65 in the 800m in Bellinzona on 30 August.
Men’s 3000 metres steeplechase:
Soufiane El Bakkali, two-time Diamond League champion, set the world lead clocking 7:57.25 at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat. The Moroccan athlete claimed two more wins in Stockholm in 8:10.40 and in Doha in 8:09.28 and finished second in Chorzów in 8:04.61. The other top athlete in the field is Bne Yazide, who improved his PB to 8:05.08 in Chorzów and won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto.
The best Kenyan athletes in the field are 2023 Diamond League champion Simon Koech, winner in Monaco in 8:03.35 and third in Rabat in a PB of 7:59.44 and this year’s Commonwealth Games champion Edmund Serem, who improved his PB to 8:01.61 in Rabat, second in Stockholm in 8:12.27 and third in Paris in 8:08.54 and Monaco in 8:11.15.
The Ethiopian hopes are carried by Gemechu Godana, winner in Chorzów ahead of El Bakkali in a meeting record of 8:02.74, and Samuel Firewu, winner in Xiamen in 2025 in 8:05.61.
The best European contenders are Ruben Querinjean from Luxembourg, winner at last year’s edition of the Memorial Van Damme, European silver medallist in Birmingham and fourth in Chorzów in a national record of 8:05.36, and Karl Bebendorf, European bronze medallist in Birmingham.
Women’s 3000 metres steeplechase:
World champion Faith Cherotich will chase her third consecutive Diamond League title after winning the finals in Brussels in 2024 and Zurich in 2025. Cherotich leads the Diamond League standings after winning in Eugene in 8:51.74 and finishing second in Keqiao in 8:51.48 and in 9:01.90 in Lausanne and third in Xiamen in 8:52.53. She claimed the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in a championships record of 9:01.76.
Winfred Yavi, world champion in Budapest 2023 and Olympic champion in Paris 2024, won in Lausanne in 9:00.40 and finished second in Xiamen in 8:51.54 and Eugene in 8:52.84.
Peruth Chemutai from Uganda, Olympic gold medallist in Tokyo 2021, won two Diamond League races on Chinese soil in Keqiao in 8:51.47 ahead of Cherotich and in Xiamen in a meeting record of 8:51.06 and finished third in Zurich in 8:58.28. Chemutai won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games behind Faith Cherotich and Elise Thorner.
Doris Lemngole won two NCAA titles in 2024 and 2025 and finished fifth at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025. Lemngole finished fourth in three Diamond League races this year at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in 8:58.89 and in Lausanne in 9:07.09 and Zurich in a PB of 8:55.94. Lemngole claimed her first Diamond League win in Lausanne last year.
Marwa Bouzayani from Tunisia broke the nine-minute barrier four times this year in Shanghai (8:58.09), Xiamen (8:59.25), Stockholm (first in 8:59.28) and Eugene (8:54.32). She won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto in a championships record of 9:04.28.
Kena Tufa from Ethiopia also broke the nine-minute barrier with 8:59.66 in Keqiao.
The top European athletes in the field are Olivia Gurth, continental bronze medallist in Birmingham, Lea Meyer from Germany, silver medallist at the European Championships in Munich 2022, and Elise Thorner from Great Britain, silver medallist at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a PB of 9:05.45.
The best US athletes in the field are Lexy Halladay, fifth in Lausanne this year in a PB of 9:08.35, and Gabrielle Jennings, who set a PB of 9:06.61.
Men’s 5000 metres:
Birhanu Balew leads the overall Diamond League standings with 27 points ahead of Graham Blanks (25 points) and Parker Wolfe (20 points).
Balew finished second in a season's best of 12:47.73 in Oslo and won the 5000 metres in Lausanne in 12:57.55. He also finished third in Monaco in 12:52.91.
Parker Wolfe won the 3000m in Zurich in a meeting record of 7:27.43. Blanks finished second in Zurich in a PB of 7:27.91.
Grant Fisher, Olympic bronze medallist in Paris 2024, won the 5000m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris last June in 12.54.80 ahead of Jacob. Krop and Andreas Almgren.
Reynold Cheruiyot, world bronze medallist in the 1500m, finished second in the 3000m in Keqiao setting a PB of 7:26.11 and set a season's best of 3:30.28 in Paris.
Jacob Krop, world silver medallist in 2022, finished second in Paris in 12:55.22 and fourth in Monaco in 12.53.71.
Biniam Mehary finished fifth in the 3000m in 7:28.18 in Zurich and set a season's best of 12:54.35 in Oslo in 2026.
The other top athletes in the field are Dominic Lobalu from Switzerland, European champion in the 10000m in Rome 2024 and European silver medallist over this distance in Birmingham 2026, and Egide Ntakatturimana from Burundi, fourth in the 5000m in 12:56.06 and in the 3000m in Zurich in 7:28.13.
Women’s 5000 metres:
Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu will face her compatriots Marta Alemayo and Likina Amebaw in the women’s 5000 metres.
Hailu is second in the Diamond League standings with 25 points. She won two world indoor titles in the 1500m in Glasgow 2024 and in the 3000m in Nanjing 2025. In this year’s edition of the Diamond League Hailu won the 1500 metres in Rabat in 3:58.25 and the 3000m in Oslo in 8:24.22 and finished third in the 5000m in Rome in 14:18.94.
Alemayo won her second world under-20 title in Tallahassee. On the track the Ethiopian athlete finished third in Doha in the 5000m with 14:55.65 and fourth in Chorzów with 14:55.65.
Amebaw finished second in Oslo in the 3000m 8:25.15 and in the 5000m in 14:44.37.
Medina Eisa won the 5000m in 14:53.91 and set a season's best of 14:22.51 in Rome.
The best non African athletes are Georgia Griffith, world indoor bronze medallist in the in the 1500m in Nanjing 2025 and winner in the 3000m in Oslo in 8:24.20, and Maureen Koster from the Netherlands, European silver medallist in the 10000m in Birmingham 2026.
Invitational 400 metres races:
Dutch runner and recent European Championship bronze medallist Lieke Klaver will lead the line-up in the invitational non-Diamond League 400m on Friday 4 September. She currently sits outside of a qualifying position for the main Diamond League race. European indoor record-holder and fourth-place finisher at the European Championships Attila Molnar will line-up in the invitational men's 400 metres race against Italian champion and record-holder Edoardo Scotti, who clocked 44.70 and won the European 4×400m relay title in Birmingham.
