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Diamond League Meeting

Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme de Rabat

Golden Gala Pietro Mennea

Meeting de Paris

Bislett Games

Athletissima

BAUHAUS-Galan

Kamila Skolimowska Memorial

Herculis

London Diamond League

Weltklasse

Shenzhen Diamond League

Memorial van Damme

Prefontaine Classic

Golden Gala

Diamond League

Shericka Jackson, the 200m winner in Rabat

Jakob Ingebrigtsen leads the 1500m in Rabat

Fred Kerley wins the 100m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rabat

World champions Shericka Jackson, Grant Holloway, Ryan Crouser and Mutaz Barshim are the latest stars to join a world-class line-up for the Wanda Diamond League meeting in London on Sunday 23 July.
Jackson will join the already announced Dina Asher-Smith in the women&rsquo;s 100m which is set to be one of the highlights of the meeting. The Jamaican sped to a 10.82 clocking in Kingston last month, then went on to finish second at the Diamond League opener in Doha.
The 28-year-old earned world silver over 100m in Eugene last summer, then moved to sixth on the world all-time list for that event when she recorded 10.71 at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco. She also sits second on the world all-time list for 200m with the 21.45 she ran to win the world title in that event last year.
&ldquo;I am excited to be competing back in London, and for the first time over 100m in this stadium,&rdquo; said the five-time Olympic medallist. &ldquo;Last time I ran there (2019), I won the 400m so I have good memories of racing on that track.
Holloway, the world indoor champion and world record-holder over 60m hurdles, is the second-fastest 110m hurdler of all time with a best of 12.81. Holloway&rsquo;s victory at the World Championships in Oregon made him the first man to capture back-to-back world titles in the 100m hurdles for almost 20 years.
&ldquo;This will be my first time competing in London and it means a lot as I build towards another World Championships,&rdquo; said Holloway, who has clocked 13.01, 13.03 and 13.05 already this year. &ldquo;There have been some incredible performances in the stadium over the years. I was only 14 during the 2012 Olympics but I still remember Aries Merritt winning the hurdles gold.&rdquo;
Along with being the world champion, US shot putter Crouser is a two-time Olympic gold medallist. He also holds the world records, indoors and out. This will be his first time competing in the London Stadium since the 2017 World Championships.
&ldquo;The Diamond League events always bring a strong competition, so I look forward to being part of a great show with my fellow shot putters,&rdquo; he said.
Barshim is another world and Olympic champion who&rsquo;ll be in London. The Qatari high jumper won his first world title in the British capital in 2017, then went on to add two more world gold medals to his collection in Doha (2019) and Oregon (2022).
&ldquo;London, where I won my first World Championships title, is always close to my heart,&rdquo; said the 31-year-old. &ldquo;I know I&rsquo;ve achieved a lot, but I&rsquo;m still chasing and aiming for more. Competing in London is the perfect preparation for Budapest where I&rsquo;m aiming to win my fourth world title.&rdquo;
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World champions Shericka Jackson, Grant Holloway, Ryan Crouser and Mutaz Barshim are the latest stars to join a world-class line-up for the Wanda Diamond League meeting in London on Sunday 23 July.

World champions Jackson, Holloway, Crouser and Barshim set for London

Organisers of the Bislett Games have confirmed that Olympic champions Yulimar Rojas and Andre De Grasse will compete at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo on 15 June.
Rojas, the world champion and world record-holder, has dominated the triple jump in recent years. The last time someone jumped farther than the Venezuelan in a triple jump competition was August 2019.
In Oslo Rojas will be reunited with the other podium finishers from last year&rsquo;s World Championships: silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts and bronze medallist Tori Franklin. European champion Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk and USA&rsquo;s Keturah Orji are also in the line-up.
It will be Rojas&rsquo;s first Wanda Diamond League competition of 2023, and the first time she has competed in the Norwegian capital.
De Grasse, meanwhile, is no stranger to the Bislett Games. The Canadian sprinter has won in Oslo four times over the past seven years. After winning the 100m at the Bislett Stadium last year, this time De Grasse will race over 200m &ndash; the distance at which he is the Olympic champion &ndash; and will go up against the likes of USA's world bronze medallist Erriyon Knighton, and world and Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek.
More leading athletes have been added to the men&rsquo;s 400m, following the announcement that world record-holder Wayde van Niekerk will be competing in Oslo. The 2016 Olympic champion will take on 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James, European champion Matt Hudson-Smith and world leader Muzala Samukonga.
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Multiple global champion Yulimar Rojas will make her Bislett Games debut

Rojas and De Grasse announced for Oslo

Faith Kipyegon will return to the scene of her world record-threatening 1500m performance when she races at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 21 July.
The two-time Olympic and world champion ran 3:50.37 at the Stade Louis II during last year&rsquo;s Herculis EBS meeting, going close to Genzebe Dibaba&rsquo;s 2015 world record of 3:50.07.
That came after the Kenyan won a second world 1500m title in Oregon and she went on to claim a third Diamond League crown at the final in Zurich.
Four current world records were set in Monaco &ndash; Dibaba&rsquo;s 3:50.07 1500m, Sifan Hassan&rsquo;s 4:12.33 mile, Beatrice Chepkoech&rsquo;s 8:44.32 3000m steeplechase and Joshua Cheptegei&rsquo;s 12:35.36 5000m &ndash; and Kipyegon will no doubt be looking for another fast time as she warms up for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest one month later.
She started her season on the right note, winning at the opening Diamond League meeting in Doha in 3:58.57.
Another world and Olympic champion, Kipyegon&rsquo;s compatriot Emmanuel Korir, will also be in Monaco looking to make a statement ahead of the World Championships. After finishing second in the 800m in 2021, the 27-year-old raced the 1000m in Monaco last year but returns to his specialist distance in July &ndash; a discipline in which he won his third Diamond Trophy last September.
<h2>Kiplimo and Aregawi in 5000m head-to-head</h2>
They claimed the top two spots at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23 in February and now Jacob Kiplimo and Berihu Aregawi will clash again, this time over 5000m on the track.
Kiplimo added cross country gold to his world half marathon title and world record, plus 10,000m bronze medals at the Olympics and World Championships, while Aregawi secured silver in Bathurst to go with his 2021 5000m Diamond Trophy and world 5km record.
Uganda&rsquo;s Kiplimo then claimed a half marathon win in New York in March but is yet to compete on the track this year &ndash; his last track races being the Commonwealth Games 5000m and 10,000m finals, and he won both.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Aregawi opened his season at the Diamond League meeting in Doha and ran 7:27.61 to finish third in the 3000m, the distance he contested in Monaco last year and achieved a runner-up spot in 7:26.81.
They will be joined by Jimmy Gressier of France, who has twice improved the European 5km record in Monaco.
Organisers for World Athletics

Jacob Kiplimo and Berihu Aregawi

World champions Kipyegon and Korir among middle-distance stars set for Monaco

World 400m hurdles record-holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will race without the barriers and test herself in the 400m flat when Wanda Diamond League action heads to the Meeting de Paris on 9 June.
The Olympic and world champion is among a number of US stars named for the event at the Charlety stadium. As well as the already-announced Noah Lyles, Grant Holloway and Devon Allen, the meeting will feature global gold medallists Katie Moon and Sandi Morris in a top-class pole vault clash, Olympic champion Valarie Allman in the discus, and Olympic and world silver medallist Rai Benjamin in the 400m hurdles.
McLaughlin-Levrone improved her own world 400m hurdles record to 50.68 in Oregon last year &ndash; a time that is highly competitive for one lap of the track without there being 10 barriers in the way. The 23-year-old last raced the 400m in 2021 and she clocked her PB of 50.07 in 2018.
&ldquo;There&rsquo;s still so much to be done in the 400m hurdles, but I also haven&rsquo;t run the 400m truly competitively since college, so there&rsquo;s room for improvement there,&rdquo; she said last year ahead of being named World Athlete of the Year.
As well as a return to 400m flat racing, Paris offers a return to Diamond League competition for McLaughlin-Levrone, who last raced on athletics' premier one-day circuit in 2019.
Her competition at the Charlety stadium will include Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Marileidy Paulino, the Olympic and world 400m silver medallist who has a PB of 48.99 and who claimed the Diamond Trophy in the discipline last year.
Paulino won at Diamond League meetings in Doha, Rabat, Lausanne and Zurich last year and also took top spot at the Meeting de Paris in 2021.

The world 400m hurdles record-holder will go up against Olympic and world 400m silver medallist Marileidy Paulino

McLaughlin-Levrone heads to Paris for 400m test

In one of the most eagerly awaited clashes of the Wanda Diamond League circuit, world champion Fred Kerley will take on Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs over 100m at the&nbsp;Meeting International Mohammed VI in Rabat on 28 May and they will meet again just five days later at the&nbsp;Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Florence on 2 June.
Diamond League champion and world bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell is also in both line-ups, setting up two thrilling battles between the three big title-holders in the short sprint.
On social media and in interviews in recent weeks, Kerley and Jacobs have both been talking up their chances in a sprint showdown. The duo have raced twice before, in Monaco and Tokyo in 2021, with Jacobs finishing ahead on both occasions. But Kerley has since improved in the 100m and has started his 2023 campaign with three victories on the international circuit.
Kerley finished fourth in the 200m when he last raced in Rabat in 2017, while Jacobs and Bromell will be making their debuts at the meeting.
At the Golden Gala,&nbsp;Kerley will be seeking another victory following his wins at the meeting in the 100m in 2022 and the 400m in 2018. In Rome last year, the US sprinter won the 100m by a huge margin in 9.92, then went on to set a PB of 9.76 at the US Championships before claiming the world title in Oregon.
Jacobs set a European record of 9.80 to win the Olympic title in Tokyo in 2021, then added another gold to his collection in the 4x100m. He won two more major titles in 2022, taking world indoor 60m gold in a European record of 6.41 and then European 100m gold in Munich.
Bromell, who has an identical 9.76 PB to Kerley, is the 2016 world indoor 60m champion. Last year, after claiming world bronze in Oregon, Bromell went on to win the 100m at the Diamond League Final in Zurich.
Adding further strength to the field in Rabat are Andre De Grasse, Akani Simbine and Yohan Blake, while Samuele Ceccarelli, who beat his Italian compatriot Jacobs to the European indoor 60m title earlier this year, will be in the field in Florence.
<h2>Jacobs vs Lyles in Paris</h2>
The top-class clashes don't end there, as just one week later the Meeting de Paris on 9 June will host the first ever head-to-head between Jacobs and USA's Noah Lyles.
Olympic 100m champion against two-time world 200m champion. Jacobs has the faster 100m PB of 9.80 compared to Lyles' 9.86, but Lyles has experience of winning at the Stade Charlety, having claimed 200m triumph there after clocking 19.65 in 2019, the year he claimed Diamond Trophies in both the 100m and 200m.
Not only will they each be looking to make a statement by claiming victory, but they could also have an eye on&nbsp;Usain Bolt's meeting record of 9.79.
Looking to challenge them will be Blake, Botswana's Letsile Tebogo and Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala.

Marcell Jacobs will then race Noah Lyles for the first time in Paris

Kerley, Jacobs and Bromell to clash in Rabat and Florence

The first attempt in the first discipline of the first Wanda Diamond League meeting of 2023 set the tone for the rest of the evening.
World champion Kristjan Ceh&rsquo;s discus went soaring out to 70.89m with his opening throw at the Seashore Group Doha Meeting on Friday (5). It was one of three meeting records set in the Qatari capital as the premier circuit of one-day meetings got under way.
Ceh&rsquo;s monster effort remained the best throw of the day, though the Slovenian got close to the mark again in round five, throwing 70.70m. Olympic champion Daniel Stahl, whose meeting record Ceh broke by 33 centimetres, threw a best of 67.14m in round three to finish second, while USA&rsquo;s Sam Mattis took third place with 64.69m.
&ldquo;This means a lot to me,&rdquo; said Ceh. &ldquo;I just started my season and it was good. I&rsquo;m aiming to raise my average.&rdquo;
The men&rsquo;s 3000m had been billed as one of the biggest clashes of the night and it did not disappoint.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lamecha Girma was racing for the first time since breaking the world indoor record at the distance, but he was taking on a field that included global champions at 1500m, 10,000m, steeplechase and cross country.
The pacemakers did exactly what was required, leading the field through 1000m in 2:30.01 and 2000m in 4:58.91. Ethiopia&rsquo;s world cross-country silver medallist Berihu Aregawi was in pole position when the final pacemaker dropped out, but Girma, world and Olympic steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali, Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, Ethiopia&rsquo;s Getnet Wale and 2019 world 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot were close behind.
In the final kilometre, Girma moved closer to Aregawi, while Barega moved past El Bakkali into third, forming a trio of Ethiopians out in front. With 500 metres to go, Girma edged ahead of Aregawi, followed by Barega, but there was no catching the world indoor record-holder.
Girma, who before this year was primarily a steeplechase specialist, charged clear to win in an outdoor PB of 7:26.18, taking more than a second off the meeting record and moving to eighth on the world all-time list.
Barega finished second in a PB of 7:27.16 and Aregawi placed third in 7:27.61. It&rsquo;s just the second time in history that three men have finished inside 7:28 &ndash; the other time also happening in Doha back in 2011.
The other meeting record of the night came in the women&rsquo;s 100m, which was won by Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson.
The US sprinter trailed world 200m champion Shericka Jackson and Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith at half way, but powered through in the closing stages to win in a world-leading 10.76, taking 0.04 off the meeting record set in 2016 by Tori Bowie, who died earlier this week.
Jackson finished second in 10.85 and Asher-Smith was third in 10.98.
There was another blistering sprint finish just half an hour later as world 100m champion Fred Kerley came through strong to claim the men&rsquo;s 200m in 19.92.
US teammate Kenny Bednarek, the Olympic silver medallist, led coming off the bend and did his best to hold off Kerley, but the versatile sprinter edged in front with 10 metres to go to win with a season&rsquo;s best.
Bednarek was second (20.11) and Canada&rsquo;s Aaron Brown was third (20.20). World 400m champion Michael Norman crossed the line in eighth place (20.65).
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/645548a1712382f47cab2569.jpg" alt="Fred Kerley on his way to 200m triumph at the Doha Diamond League" />
Fred Kerley on his way to 200m triumph at the Doha Diamond League (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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<h2>Olympic champions on top form</h2>
Overall, it was a good night for the gold medallists from the Tokyo Olympic Games, with three of them setting world-leading marks.
Like the discus, the men&rsquo;s triple jump &ndash; which also got under way before the main track action started &ndash; got off to a stunning start with Pedro Pablo Pichardo bounding out to 17.65m with his opening leap.
The world and Olympic champion from Portugal improved to a marginally wind-assisted 17.91m (2.1m/s) in round two, but he couldn&rsquo;t rest on his laurels as Cuba&rsquo;s Andy Diaz followed him with a windy 17.80m (2.6m/s), then world indoor champion Lazaro Martinez went out to 17.71m (3.4m/s).
In the next round, world indoor record-holder Hugues Fabrice Zango jumped a wind-legal 17.78m (1.8m/s), which was a world lead for the jumper from Burkina Faso but only enough for third place at the half-way stage of this competition.
Pichardo and Diaz didn&rsquo;t improve in the final round, but Zango went out to 17.81m (1.5m/s) to improve on his own world lead and climb up one place, but it wasn&rsquo;t quite enough to catch his Portuguese rival.
Never before have three men jumped beyond 17.70m in the same triple jump competition in any conditions, but today four men surpassed that mark.
Faith Kipyegon looked to use the women&rsquo;s 1500m as a training exercise, but still came away as a convincing winner in a world-leading time.
The world and Olympic champion didn&rsquo;t make too much of an effort to make a break from the rest of the pack on the first two-and-a-half laps. But she moved up a gear with one lap to go and won by almost a full second in 3:58.57.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Diribe Welteji was second in 3:59.34 with Freweyni Hailu taking third in 4:00.29.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6455494c712382f47cab256f.jpg" alt="Faith Kipyegon leads the 1500m at the Doha Diamond League" />
Faith Kipyegon leads the 1500m at the Doha Diamond League (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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&ldquo;It was an exciting race, but a little bit windy, so I decided to not push too much and just focus on winning,&rdquo; said Kipyegon, who covered the final lap in 58.77 seconds.
For the second year in a row, the men&rsquo;s javelin produced a thriller of a contest.
Neeraj Chopra, who was a last-minute withdrawal last year, made amends with his opening throw of the competition, sending his spear out to a world-leading 88.67m. Two-time world champion Anderson Peters responded with 85.88m, which remained his best of the night, while world and Olympic medallist Jakub Vadlejch came within four centimetres of Chopra&rsquo;s lead with 88.63m in round three.
But the Indian&rsquo;s first effort stood up as the best of the night, and he was delighted to win against a strong field.
World and Olympic champion Katie Moon claimed a back-to-back pole vault victory in Doha.
The US vaulter trailed compatriot and former training partner Sandi Morris for most of the competition, with the two-time world indoor champion recording a clean card up to and including 4.71m.
But Moon took the lead with a first-time clearance at 4.76m, while Morris was unable to go any higher. Slovenia&rsquo;s Tina Sutej got over 4.71m on her third try and then equalled her own outdoor national record with a second-time clearance at 4.76m.
Moon was the only vaulter to go clear at 4.81m, doing so on her second try to wrap up the competition. She decided against going any higher as she had been dealing with a bit of tendonitis leading into tonight.
Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico took the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles in 12.48 from US duo Alaysha Johnson (12.66) and Nia Ali (12.69).
But not all Olympic champions were victorious tonight. Home star Mutaz Barshim finished third with 2.24m in a high jump competition won by JuVaughn Harrison.
The talented US jumper had a clean card up to and including 2.32m, at which point his last remaining rival &ndash; world indoor champion Woo Sanghyeok &ndash; bowed out of the competition. Harrison took one attempt at 2.35m, which was unsuccessful, and then called it a night, more than satisfied with his win.
<h2>One-lap triumphs for global silver medallists</h2>
Rai Benjamin and Marileidy Paulino, the world and Olympic silver medallists in their respective specialist disciplines, enjoyed moments of glory on the Qatar Sports Club track.
Benjamin, who finished second here last year, was this time victorious in the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. He had to contend with a strong challenge from US compatriot CJ Allen, who drew level with Benjamin at the final hurdle. But the US record-holder edged ahead in the closing stages to take victory in 47.78 from Allen&rsquo;s 47.91 PB, his first sub-48-second clocking.
Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Paulino, meanwhile, won the women&rsquo;s 400m in Doha for the second year in a row, clocking 50.50 to hold off the in-form hurdles specialist Shamier Little.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6455413ec76c8415c6982343.jpg" alt="Marileidy Paulino on her way to 400m victory at the Doha Diamond League" />
Marileidy Paulino on her way to 400m victory at the Doha Diamond League (&copy; Marise Nassour / Diamond League AG)
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Bahrain&rsquo;s Winfred Yavi got the better of a loaded field to win the women&rsquo;s steeplechase in a world-leading 9:04.38.
World record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech took command of the race at half way, once the pacemaker had dropped out, but the Kenyan had compatriot Faith Cherotich, Yavi and Ethiopian teenager Sembo Almayew for company.
Yavi moved to the front with one lap to go and was followed by Almayew, but the Bahraini could not be caught in the closing stages and she forged ahead to win in 9:04.38. Almayew finished second in a PB of 9:05.83, with Cherotich claiming third in 9:06.43 from Chepkoech&rsquo;s 9:06.90 &ndash; her fastest time for two years.
The men&rsquo;s 800m may not have been the fastest of races, but it certainly didn&rsquo;t lack excitement. Kenya&rsquo;s Wycliffe Kinyamal made a big move on the back straight on the final lap and quickly built up a comfortable lead. But Algerian duo Slimane Moula and world silver medallist Djamel Sedjati set off in pursuit of him.
Moula fared best on the final straight, unleashing a burst of speed to overtake Kinyamal and claim victory in 1:46.06.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Ceh takes discus with 70.89m, Girma wins 3000m in 7:26.18 and Richardson runs 10.76 in 100m

Ceh, Girma and Richardson break meeting records in Doha

Even by Wanda Diamond League standards, the quality of the fields at the series opener in Doha on Friday (5) is breath-taking.
More than 30 global gold medals have been amassed in the past two years alone by the athletes heading to Doha, and they will renew their rivalries in the Qatari capital as they get their World Championships season under way.
Fred Kerley and Shericka Jackson, the world champions in the 100m and 200m respectively, will take on strong fields in the sprints, while middle-distance superstar Faith Kipyegon opens her 2023 campaign in the 1500m. Full World Championship podiums, meanwhile, will be reunited in the men&rsquo;s javelin, men&rsquo;s triple jump and women&rsquo;s pole vault.
But perhaps the strongest field of all &ndash; and even that is a tough one to call &ndash; is the men&rsquo;s 3000m.
Three months on from his world indoor 3000m record, Lamecha Girma takes on the same distance outdoors and faces a field that includes four winners of global titles. The Ethiopian clocked 7:23.81 in Lievin in February and hasn&rsquo;t raced since. A lack of prior races didn&rsquo;t seem to do the Ethiopian any harm back then, so the fact this is his outdoor season debut shouldn&rsquo;t necessarily work against him.
Especially as the same applies to many other athletes in the field, including world and Olympic steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali. The Moroccan is more at home when jumping over barriers, but he is speedy enough on the flat to be competitive in a race such as this.
Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, 2021 Diamond League 5000m champion Berihu Aregawi and fellow Ethiopians Getnet Wale and Telahun Haile Bekele add further depth to the field, as do 2019 world 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot, world U20 cross-country champion Ishmail Kipkirui and Oceanian record-holder Stewart McSweyn.
The meeting record of 7:27.26 has stood for 12 years, but there are several athletes capable of challenging that mark on Friday.
Faith Kipyegon is no stranger to the Qatari capital, having raced at the Diamond League meeting five times across three different distances, winning twice. But the Kenyan ace is yet to win there at her specialist distance.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/641614387a7600be3f36f543.jpg" alt="Faith Kipyegon in action at the Diamond League meeting in Doha" />
Faith Kipyegon in action at the Diamond League meeting in Doha (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Nevertheless, she still has fond 1500m memories in Doha. It&rsquo;s where, in 2013, she recorded her first sub-four-minute performance, clocking an African U20 record of 3:56.98. She also set a Kenyan record of 3:54.22 in Doha when taking world silver in 2019.
Kipyegon, who improved her own national record to 3:50.37 last year, will take on world indoor 3000m champion Lemlem Hailu, as well as four Ethiopian women who broke four minutes last year: Diribe Welteji, Freweyni Hailu, Hirut Meshesha and Axumawit Embaye. Germany&rsquo;s European 5000m champion Konstanze Klosterhalfen and Australian duo Jessica Hull and Abbey Caldwell should also be in contention in a competitive field.
<h2>Oregon field event flashback</h2>
If the line-ups for the triple jump, javelin and pole vault bring a certain sense of d&eacute;j&agrave; vu, it&rsquo;s because all of the athletes who reached the podium in those events at the World Championships in Oregon will be in action in Doha.
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra will open his season in the javelin. The Indian superstar extended his national record to 89.94m last year and was incredibly consistent in the high 80s, so he will be keen to join the 90-metre club at some point this season.
Two men who joined that club for the first time at the 2022 Doha meeting will be back in the Qatari capital this week. Two-time world champion Anderson Peters threw 93.07m to win in Doha last year in a thrilling competition with world and Olympic medallist Jakub Vadlejch, who set a PB of 90.88m.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/628e41d3b12e9dae23523078.jpg" alt="Anderson Peters in action at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha" />
Anderson Peters in action at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott and Kenya&rsquo;s 2015 world champion Julius Yego &ndash; two more 90-metre performers &ndash; are also in the line-up, as are Germany&rsquo;s European champion Julian Weber and Finland&rsquo;s Oliver Helander.
The top five women from the pole vault at the 2022 World Championships will once again clash. World and Olympic champion Katie Moon set a meeting record of 4.84m when she won at this meeting last year, so she&rsquo;ll be hoping to put down a similarly impressive marker on her outdoor season debut.
The US vaulter will take on world indoor champion and former training partner Sandi Morris, Australia&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Nina Kennedy, Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw, European indoor and outdoor champion Wilma Murto, and world indoor bronze medallist Tina Sutej.
The three triple jumpers who earned global medals in Oregon and Tokyo &ndash; Pedro Pablo Pichardo, Hugues Fabrice Zango and Zhu Yaming &ndash; will face off on the runway. Pichardo, the world and Olympic champion, and Zango will be opening their outdoor seasons, while Zhu will be hoping to improve on his 16.88m season&rsquo;s best.
The field also includes world indoor champion Lazaro Martinez, fellow Cuban Andy Diaz and multiple world and Olympic champion Christian Taylor.
<h2>Sprint showdowns</h2>
Global champions from three different distances will meet in the middle in the men&rsquo;s 200m, where the meeting record of 19.83 could be living on borrowed time.
World 100m champion Fred Kerley and world 400m champion Michael Norman will race over 200m in a field that includes Andre De Grasse, the Olympic champion at that distance.
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Fred Kerley, winner of the 200m at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Melbourne (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Kerley has raced, and won, twice so far this year. He ran an incredibly easy looking 20.32 over 200m in Melbourne, then won over 400m in Sydney two weeks later with 44.65. Norman, who is just as versatile as Kerley across the three sprint distances, opened his season last month with a wind-assisted 10.03 over 100m. De Grasse, meanwhile, clocked 20.41 for 200m in Gaborone last week.
Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek, Canada&rsquo;s world 4x100m champion Aaron Brown and world mixed 4x400m champion Alexander Ogando are some of the other sub-20-second performers in the line-up.
Shericka Jackson, Dina Asher-Smith and Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson have already made statements with their sprinting so far in 2023.
World 100m silver medallist Jackson sped to a world-leading 10.82 in Kingston last month, just 0.11 shy of the PB she set last year. Asher-Smith enjoyed an undefeated indoor season earlier this year, reducing the British 60m record to 7.03. Richardson, meanwhile, breezed to a wind-assisted 10.57 clocking in Miramar a few weeks ago.
The talented trio will once again let their feet do the talking as they toe the line in Doha alongside US champion Melissa Jefferson, Oceania record-holder Zoe Hobbs and USA&rsquo;s Abby Steiner.
World and Olympic silver medallist Rai Benjamin will be the overwhelming favourite in the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. World bronze medallist Trevor Bassitt, France&rsquo;s Wilfried Happio, USA&rsquo;s Khallifah Rosser and South Africa&rsquo;s Sokwakhana Zazini add further quality to the field.
In the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles, Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn takes on 2019 world champion Nia Ali, Olympic bronze medallist Megan Tapper, European indoor champion Reetta Hurske, and rising US duo Alaysha Johnson and Tonea Marshall.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62a2664ef06b1f1e751f75ff.jpg" alt="Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Britany Anderson battle in the women's 100m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League in Rome" />
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Britany Anderson battle in the women's 100m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League in Rome (&copy; Getty Images)
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One year after beating Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo in Doha, Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Marileidy Paulino will aim to win again over 400m. The world and Olympic silver medallist takes on world bronze medallist Sada Williams and fellow sub-50-second performers Candice McLeod, Natalia Kaczmarek and hurdles specialist Shamier Little.
<h2>Barshim ready to delight adoring fans</h2>
No one will be surprised when Mutaz Barshim gets the biggest reception from the crowd on Friday night.
The Qatari high jumper has competed sparingly in recent years, mainly due to various injury concerns, but he has managed to get it right when it matters, winning the past three world titles as well as the Olympic title in 2021. He last competed in September 2022, so it remains to be seen what kind of form he is currently in, but he isn&rsquo;t easy to beat.
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Qatari high jumper Mutaz Barshim (&copy; Getty Images)
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World indoor champion Woo Sanghyeok beat Barshim at this meeting last year, so will want to show that wasn&rsquo;t a fluke. But USA&rsquo;s JuVaughn Harrison heads to Doha in great form, having already cleared 2.33m this year.
In the men&rsquo;s discus, world champion Kristjan Ceh clashes with Sweden&rsquo;s Olympic gold and silver medallists, Daniel Stahl and Simon Pettersson. USA&rsquo;s Sam Mattis, Britain&rsquo;s Lawrence Okoye and Australia&rsquo;s Matthew Denny are also ones to watch.
Another Olympic champion, Uganda&rsquo;s Peruth Chemutai, will be in action in the women&rsquo;s steeplechase, where she&rsquo;ll face world record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech, world bronze medallist Mekides Abebe, Commonwealth champion Jackline Chepkoech, Bahrain&rsquo;s Winfred Yavi, and 2017 world champion Emma Coburn of the USA.
Elsewhere, world silver medallist Djamel Sedjati of Algeria takes on world indoor silver medallist Noah Kibet &ndash; the winner here last year &ndash; in the men&rsquo;s 800m.
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Even by Wanda Diamond League standards, the quality of the fields at the series opener in Doha on Friday (5) is breath-taking.

Stars ready to shine in Doha as 2023 Wanda Diamond League gets under way

World record-holders Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Mondo Duplantis &ndash; named World Athletes of the Year in 2022 &ndash; are among the first six athletes announced for the Wanda Diamond League meeting at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on 8 September.
USA&rsquo;s McLaughlin-Levrone won the Diamond Trophy in the 400m hurdles in 2019 and the 23-year-old, who improved her world record to 50.68 when winning the world title in Oregon last July, will make her first appearance at the Memorial Van Damme during a season in which she has the chance to retain her world title in Budapest.
Sweden&rsquo;s world and Olympic pole vault champion Duplantis, meanwhile, took his world record to 6.22m in Clermont-Ferrand earlier this year,&nbsp;and will be looking for another strong performance following the 6.05m meeting record he set in Brussels in 2021.
Joining them at the event is Ukraine&rsquo;s world indoor high jump champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who returns to the scene of her 2.05m outdoor national record achieved last year.
&ldquo;The Memorial feels like a home competition to me.&nbsp;I was very well received in Belgium,&rdquo; she said at a press conference in Brussels on Thursday.&nbsp;&ldquo;My ambitions this year lie primarily with the World Championships in Budapest, but I also hope to be able to shine at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme, just like last year.&rdquo;
Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigtsen last competed in Brussels in 2020, when he won the 1500m in 3:30.69. Since then he has become the Olympic champion and a world gold medallist in the 5000m.
Another athlete looking to put on a show is Olympic and world marathon bronze medallist Bashir Abdi, who hopes for a record-breaking run on home soil as he targets the European 10,000m mark held by Mo Farah.&nbsp;
Also competing in front of home fans will be two-time Olympic and world heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam, who leapt 6.46m to finish fourth in the long jump at last year&rsquo;s Memorial Van Damme.
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Nafissatou Thiam and Bashir Abdi join them at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme

Mahuchikh, McLaughlin-Levrone and Duplantis among global stars announced for Brussels

The outdoor track and field season is finally here.
The World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series goes to southern Africa for the first time this weekend, with the Botswana Golden Grand Prix in Gaborone (29 April), to be swiftly followed by the 2023 Wanda Diamond League kick off next week in Doha (5 May), as the international calendar moves into top gear.
The Continental Tour Gold meeting in Melbourne back in February was a teaser of what to expect in the rest of the series, while the traditional early season competitions in the US have whetted the appetite for the next few months.
Now the world&rsquo;s leading track and field athletes will turn their attention to the premier one-day meeting circuits as they ramp up their preparations for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23.
Social media has been ablaze in recent weeks thanks to world 100m champion Fred Kerley and Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs with the two sprint stars talking up their chances in a head-to-head.
Whether that clash will happen before Budapest is yet to be confirmed, but it&rsquo;s highly likely the two global sprint champions will each appear several times on the Diamond League and Continental Tour circuits in the coming months. Kerley has announced he will run his first 100m of the outdoor season in Yokohama, at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix on 21 May, while Jacobs has yet to reveal his competition schedule.
There will be many other head-to-head clashes as the season unfolds. The Diamond League meeting in Doha will bring together Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra and two-time world champion Anderson Peters in the men&rsquo;s javelin, while the men&rsquo;s 3000m boasts a star-studded field that includes world indoor record-holder Lamecha Girma and Olympic steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali. World and Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon will also open her season in the Qatari capital.
Before then, the focus in Gaborone will likely centre around the sprints as Botswana&rsquo;s rising sprint star Letsile Tebogo takes on Olympic champion Andre De Grasse over 200m. The men&rsquo;s 100m, meanwhile, features world silver medallist Marvin Bracy and African record-holder Ferdinand Omanyala.
Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson, who sped to a wind-assisted 10.57 clocking over 100m earlier this month, will test her speed over 200m in Gaborone. Her Jamaican rivals are in varying form; double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has clocked 23.23 for 200m so far this year, while world 200m champion Shericka Jackson ran a world-leading 10.82 for 100m in Kingston. World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had been set to open her season in Gaborone but had to cancel her participation due to a family emergency. She now plans to open at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi on 13 May.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62a67d30363a4f987a5b99b0.jpeg" alt="Winner Aleia Hobbs, Sha'Carri Richardson and Cambrea Sturgis in the 100m at the New York Grand Prix" />
Winner Aleia Hobbs, Sha'Carri Richardson and Cambrea Sturgis in the 100m at the New York Grand Prix (&copy; Kevin Morris)
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The signs are already good for a bumper outdoor season on the way, with many big names showing impressive early season form.
Femke Bol, who broke the world indoor 400m record earlier this year, has already been confirmed to race in Hengelo and Lausanne. Her improved form during the indoor season suggests the Dutch athlete may be a lot closer to world and Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin in the 400m hurdles this year.
McLaughlin stunned the world with her 50.68 world record in Oregon last year, but the US superstar has suggested she may branch out into other disciplines this season.
Fellow world athlete of the year Mondo Duplantis, who raised his world pole vault record to 6.22m during the indoor season, has signed up to compete in Hengelo, Ostrava and Silesia so far. Given his clearance margins in his recent world records, there&rsquo;s clearly more in the tank for the world and Olympic champion.
Another world record-holder, Wayde van Niekerk, has made a welcome return to action this year. The South African sprinter sped to a world-leading 44.17 over 400m earlier this month and has already confirmed his participation in Oslo (15 June). Since returning from his career-threatening injury a few years ago, Van Niekerk has crept closer to regaining his medal-winning form, placing fifth at the World Championships last year. The early signs for 2023 are promising.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63205ad5802d94ab3ceb8406.jpg" alt="Wayde van Niekerk runs his fastest time since 2017 to win the 400m at the Gala dei Castelli in Bellinzona" />
Wayde van Niekerk runs his fastest time since 2017 to win the 400m at the Gala dei Castelli in Bellinzona (&copy; Chiara Montesano)
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Rai Benjamin is another one-lap specialist who has enjoyed a good start to his 2023 season. He set a 400m PB of 44.21 in early April, and one week later ran a world-leading 47.74 in the 400m hurdles. With world champion Alison Dos Santos battling an injury and likely out for most of the year, and Olympic champion Karsten Warholm still making his way back to full fitness, could 2023 be the year when three-time global silver medallist Benjamin finally claims a major individual title?
Benjamin&rsquo;s US compatriot Brooke Andersen has also been in PB form already this year. The world hammer champion threw 79.80m last week to move up to third on the world all-time list. She has now set her sights on becoming just the third woman in history to surpass the 80-metre barrier. World silver medallist Camryn Rogers, who set a Canadian record of 77.84m earlier this month, and 2019 world champion DeAnna Price will likely push Andersen to longer distances.
Olympic discus champion Valerie Allman and world shot put record-holder Ryan Crouser have featured prominently on the Diamond League and Continental Tour circuits in recent years. Following some surprise defeats in 2022, they will both look to regain their dominant form from 2021.
Sifan Hassan, meanwhile, produced a stunning run to win the recent London Marathon on her debut at the distance. Despite her triumph there, the Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion still plans to focus on the track in the near future, so the versatile Dutch runner will likely appear on the international circuit in the lead-up to Budapest.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/61326df73d016387e3841b57.jpg" alt="Sifan Hassan on her way to a mile win at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels" />
Sifan Hassan on her way to a mile win at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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<h2>Dates for the diary</h2>
The Diamond League and Continental Tour calendars have changed slightly in recent months. The Diamond League meeting in Shanghai has been cancelled as the facility won&rsquo;t be ready in time, and the meeting in Shenzhen has moved from 3 August to 2 September.
The Continental Tour Gold meeting scheduled to take place in Grenada in April will no longer go ahead due to delays in completion of that track, while the Istvan Gyulai Memorial on 18 July is moving from Budapest back to its traditional home of Szekesfehervar.
After this weekend&rsquo;s action in Gaborone, May will be an action-packed month with four more Continental Tour Gold meetings set to take place (Nairobi, Yokohama, Devonshire and Los Angeles) and two Diamond League fixtures (Doha and Rabat).
June will be even busier with no fewer than nine meetings spread across both circuits. Another five meetings will take place in July as athletes chase qualifying standards and world ranking points before the World Championships qualification window closes on 30 July.
And following the World Championships in Budapest, there will be four more Diamond League meetings &ndash; including the final in Eugene &ndash; and one more Continental Tour Gold competition, where newly crowned world champions will likely feature, as well as a host of athletes seeking revenge or redemption.
Wanda Diamond League calendar 5 May &ndash; Doha (QAT) 28 May &ndash; Rabat (MAR) 2 Jun &ndash; Florence (ITA) 9 Jun &ndash; Paris (FRA) 15 Jun &ndash; Oslo (NOR) 30 Jun &ndash; Lausanne (SUI) 2 Jul &ndash; Stockholm (SWE) 16 Jul &ndash; Silesia (POL) 21 Jul &ndash; Monaco (MON) 23 Jul &ndash; London (GBR) 31 Aug &ndash; Zurich (SUI) 2 Sep &ndash; Shenzhen (CHN) 8 Sep &ndash; Brussels (BEL) 16-17 Sep &ndash; Eugene (USA)
World Athletics Continental Tour Gold calendar 23 Feb &ndash; Melbourne (AUS) 29 Apr &ndash; Gaborone (BOT) 13 May &ndash; Nairobi (KEN) 21 May &ndash; Yokohama (JPN) 21 May &ndash; Devonshire (BER) 27 May &ndash; Los Angeles (USA) 4 Jun &ndash; Hengelo (NED) 6 Jun &ndash; Bydgoszcz (POL) 13 Jun &ndash; Turku (FIN) 24 Jun &ndash; New York (USA) 27 Jun &ndash; Ostrava (CZE) 18 Jul &ndash; Szekesfehervar (HUN) 10 Sep &ndash; Zagreb (CRO)

The outdoor track and field season is finally here.

Outdoor track and field action ready to ramp up in Gaborone and Doha

All three medallists from the men&rsquo;s javelin at last year&rsquo;s World Championships will be reunited at the Doha Meeting &ndash; the 2023 Wanda Diamond League opener &ndash; on 5 May as double world champion Anderson Peters takes on Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra and two-time Diamond Trophy winner Jakub Vadlejch.
Peters and Vadlejch produced the stand-out moment of last year&rsquo;s Doha Meeting, both men throwing beyond 90 metres for the first time in their careers with Peters eventually claiming victory with a final-round effort of 93.07m &ndash; a mark that moved him to fifth on the world all-time list.
The Grenadian went on to enjoy one of his best seasons to date, successfully defending his world title in Oregon and throwing beyond 90 metres in four of his competitions.
Chopra had originally been scheduled to compete in Doha last year but withdrew at the last minute due to a minor injury. The Indian superstar got his 2022 season under way in June, setting a national record of 89.30m in Turku before extending it to 89.94m in Stockholm. After claiming world silver, he ended his season by winning the Diamond Trophy in Zurich, with Vadlejch taking the runner-up spot.
Alongside the World Championships podium finishers, the Doha Meeting will also welcome Germany&rsquo;s European champion Julian Weber, who finished fourth at the World Championships and Tokyo Olympics and has a best of 89.54m, 2012 Olympic champion and 90.16m performer Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago, and Kenya&rsquo;s 2015 world champion Julius Yego, who holds the African record of 92.72m.
Peters isn&rsquo;t the only Doha winner from 2022 returning to the Qatari capital. Marileidy Paulino, who won the 400m at this meeting last year, will be seeking a second successive victory over one lap of the track.
The world and Olympic silver medallist from the Dominican Republic set a PB of 48.99 last year to win the Diamond Trophy in Zurich. Compatriot Fiordaliza Cofil, who finished second in Zurich after winning in Brussels with a PB of 49.80, will also be in action in Doha on 5 May.
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Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi, who shared the Olympic high jump title in 2021, will meet again at the Skolimowska Memorial &ndash; part of the Wanda Diamond League &ndash; in Silesia on 16 July.
Italy's Tamberi and Qatar's Barshim stole headlines across the world when they agreed to share the gold medal after tying on both height and count-back at the men's high jump final at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago.
As well as being good friends and joint Olympic champions, the two high jumpers are also among the most successful athletes in Diamond League history, with 24 victories and five series titles between them since Barshim first won the Diamond Trophy back in 2014.
Tamberi is the reigning Diamond League champion after successfully defending the title in a thrilling final at the Sechsel&auml;utenplatz in Zurich last September, while Barshim won the Diamond Trophy in 2014, 2015 and 2017.
"I am very excited. I have competed in Silesia before in 2021 and it was an amazing atmosphere," said Tamberi.
Barshim has also previously competed at the Skolimowska Memorial, winning with 2.35m at the 2016 edition which was held in Warsaw.
"In an event where turnover among the elite is high and the shelf life of leaders is generally limited, these two are monumental figures," said Piotr Malachowski, sporting director of the Skolimowska Memorial. &ldquo;And they are both charismatic to boot.&rdquo;
Tamberi and Barshim will be joined by a host of other international stars in Silesia, including Norway's Olympic and Diamond League 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen and pole vault world record-holder Mondo Duplantis.
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Joint Olympic champions will clash on 16 July

Barshim and Tamberi to be reunited in Silesia

Femke Bol, Joshua Cheptegei and Jakob Ingebrigtsen are among the first stars announced for Athletissima, the sixth meeting in this season&rsquo;s Wanda Diamond League series, in Lausanne on 30 June.
Cheptegei is world record-holder in the 5000m and 10,000m and in Lausanne the Ugandan Olympic and world gold medallist will contest the shorter of those events. He finished third in the 5000m at the 2017 edition of the meeting and fourth in 2019 &ndash; the year he claimed the overall Diamond League title.
His fellow world record-holders Bol and Ingebrigtsen will also be in action, with Dutch star Bol, who ran a world indoor 400m record in February, on the hunt for a third consecutive Athletissima victory in the 400m hurdles. Norway&rsquo;s world indoor 1500m record-holder Ingebrigtsen races that distance in Lausanne, where last year he clocked 3:29.05 to win.
Bol claimed world 400m hurdles silver last year in Oregon, where Ingebrigtsen took the 5000m title and secured 1500m silver. They will be joined by fellow global medallists Mujinga Kambundji and Simon Ehammer in Lausanne, the home stars contesting the 100m and long jump, respectively.
Bol has also been announced for the Golden Gala, the third Diamond League meeting of 2023, in Florence on 2 June. The 23-year-old has already won the 400m hurdles Diamond Trophy twice, in 2021 and 2022, and she will be hoping for another strong season to complete a hattrick of titles.
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