The 2023 Wanda Diamond League reaches its climax this weekend in Eugene, Oregon, with prize money and kudos up for grabs.
This Pre Classic sees the leading athletes from the 15-meeting series in 16 disciplines coming together as they try to win a Diamond Trophy plus a first prize of $30,000 in their event and a wild card entry for the World Athletics Championships.
The timetable of events can be seen here.
For UK viewers the action is live on the BBC website and live on BBC3 on September 16 from 8-10.30pm and September 17 from 8-11pm.
Noah Lyles, the world 100m and 200m champion from the United States, has done a U-turn when it comes to ending his season and decided to prolong it to take in the Diamond League final.
Lyles runs the 100m on Saturday and takes on Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya and Christian Coleman of the United States.
Sha’Carri Richardson, world women’s 100m champion, is also set to race at the end of a long season that began for her in earnest with victory at the Diamond League in Doha in early May.
The American faces Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica, Dina Asher-Smith and Imani Lansiquot of Britain plus Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast in the 100m on Saturday.
Jackson then races in her favoured 200m event the following day with Britain’s Daryll Neita also in the field.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen is set for a busy weekend in Eugene as he races the Bowerman Mile on Saturday followed by the 3000m on Sunday.
The mile at the end of Saturday’s programme line-up features world bronze medallist Narve Nordas of Norway, Britain’s Elliot Giles and George Mills plus American Yared Nuguse and Dutch teenager Niels Laros.
Never afraid to race, 24 hours later Ingebrigtsen faces Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and Ethiopians Yomif Kejelcha, Hagos Gebrhiwet and Selemon Barega in the 3000m.
One of the highlights of the two-day programme will be the women’s 800m, where the medallists from Budapest last month have a rematch. World champion Mary Moraa of Kenya leads the line-up with world silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson of Britain and the Budapest bronze medallist Athing Mu of the United States also in the mix.
Fresh from her 5th Avenue Mile win, Jemma Reekie is also in the two-lap showdown which takes place toward the end of Sunday’s schedule.
World 1500m and 5000m champion Faith Kipyegon is also set to race – and even after Eugene she plans to continue her brilliant season until the World Road Running Championships in Latvia two weeks later.
In the women’s 1500m Kipyegon is up against Britain’s Laura Muir and Melissa Courtney-Bryant plus Ireland’s Ciara Mageean and world silver medallist Diribe Welteji of Ethiopia.
After his surprise defeat to Kyron McMaster in Zurich recently, world 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm will be seeking revenge over the British Virgin Islands athlete. Femke Bol of the Netherlands is also in action in the women’s 400m hurdles.
Matt Hudson-Smith, Britain’s world silver medallist, withdrew from the last Diamond League meeting in Brussels but is on the entries list for Eugene in the men’s 400m. GB team-mate Vicky Ohuruogu is also in action in the women’s 400m with world champion Marileidy Paulino leading the line-ups.
Dan Rowden is also in action in a men’s 800m that features world champion Marco Arop of Canada.
World champions Ryan Crouser and Chase Ealey of the United States are in the shot put, whereas the men’s discus sees Daniel Stahl of Sweden and Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia renew their rivalry as Britain’s Lawrence Okoye will also be hoping to end his season well.
The women’s discus, meanwhile, sees surprise world champion Laulaga Tausaga up against fellow American Valarie Allman, the Olympic champion, among others.
Haruka Kitaguchi, the world champion from Japan, leads the women’s javelin line up while men’s world champion Neeraj Chopra of India is in the men’s contest.
It may be late in the season but it has not stopped the world’s best athletes travelling to Eugene to compete and the men’s pole vault is another example with world champion Mondo Duplantis of Sweden in action.
Similarly, in the women’s pole vault Katie Moon of the United States and Nina Kennedy of Australia renew their rivalry after sharing global gold in Budapest last month.
Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela is another world champion in Eugene as she heads the entries for the women’s triple jump.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine, the world high jump champion, is back in action along with Britain’s Morgan Lake, whereas Lake’s GB team-mate Jazmine Sawyers is in a women’s long jump line up that includes Ivana Vuleta of Serbia and Larissa Iapichino of Italy.
With reigning world champions peppering the programme, the sprint hurdles is no different with Grant Holloway of the United States and Danielle Williams of Jamaica putting their reputations on the line as the two-day meeting draws to a close on Sunday.
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