Jakob Ingebrigtsen makes his first Diamond League look in virtually two years in opposition to Olympic champion Cole Hocker, whereas Julien Alfred, Melissa Jefferson-Picket and Sha’Carri Richardson collide within the 100m at Sunday’s Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Chorzów.
The Diamond League returns to Poland on Sunday (Aug 23) for the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Chorzów, a gathering stacked with rivalries renewed and world record-holders in virtually each self-discipline.
The headline act is the boys’s 1500m, the place Jakob Ingebrigtsen returns to Diamond League competitors for the primary time since September 2024. The 2-time Olympic champion has barely raced over the gap since damage issues set in, although he confirmed he stays a risk with victory within the 5000m on the European Championships in Birmingham earlier this month.
He faces a stacked area together with Olympic champion Cole Hocker, world champion Isaac Nader and 2022 world champion Jake Wightman. Ingebrigtsen holds an 8-1 lifetime file over Hocker in 1500m and mile races, with the American’s solely win coming within the 2024 Olympic remaining, however Hocker arrives in good type after describing a latest coaching block in Blacksburg as among the many better of his profession. The sphere additionally contains Jake Heyward of Britain as he continues his nice comeback 12 months.
There may be intrigue within the girls’s 100m too, with Olympic champion Julien Alfred dealing with world champion Melissa Jefferson-Picket for the primary time since final 12 months’s World Championships remaining. Alfred is unbeaten this season, whereas Jefferson-Picket’s solely defeat got here in opposition to the Saint Lucian over 200m in Rome.
The pair are joined by 2023 world champion Sha’Carri Richardson, two-time world 200m champion Shericka Jackson (though the Jamaican is unquestionably a doubt after pulling up injured in Lausanne on Friday), world silver medallist Tina Clayton, final 12 months’s Silesia runner-up Tia Clayton and residential favorite Ewa Swoboda – with Jefferson-Picket the reigning champion right here after equalling the assembly file of 10.66 final 12 months.
The ladies’s 1500m is huge open following Religion Kipyegon’s choice to finish her season with a hamstring damage. World No.1 Georgia Hunter Bell isn’t within the Silesia area, leaving the race to be contested by world chief Birke Haylom, world silver medallist Dorcus Ewoi, Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull, Olympic 800m silver medallist Tsige Duguma, Nikki Hiltz and residential favorite Klaudia Kazimierska.
World record-holders function throughout the sphere occasions. Karsten Warholm takes on Brazil’s Alison dos Santos within the 400m hurdles, with Dos Santos the world chief this 12 months at 46.48 and unbeaten in opposition to the Norwegian throughout three conferences in 2026, although Warholm received their most up-to-date conflict in London.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the world record-holder and Olympic excessive soar champion, faces world champion Nicola Olyslagers, Commonwealth champion Eleanor Patterson, Angelina Topić and Yuliia Levchenko.
Mykolas Alekna is in discus motion in opposition to world chief Commonwealth champion Matt Denny, European champion Kristjan Čeh, Daniel Ståhl and Olympic champion Rojé Stona.
Mondo Duplantis and Emmanouil Karalis meet once more within the non-Diamond League pole vault having gone 6.21m and 6.16m respectively in Lausanne on Thursday. Silesia holds explicit significance for Duplantis – it is the place he set the tenth of his 15 world information, clearing 6.26m in 2024.
Elsewhere, Rai Benjamin steps down from the 400m hurdles to face world champion Collen Kebinatshipi within the flat 400m, whereas Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino headlines the ladies’s race in opposition to house star Natalia Bukowiecka.
World champion Indirect Seville goes for a second Diamond League win of the season within the males’s 100m in opposition to Kayinsola Ajayi, Emmanuel Eseme, Akani Simbine, Jordan Anthony and Kenny Bednarek.
Within the 110m hurdles, world record-holder Ja’Kobe Tharp faces world champion Cordell Tinch, whereas two-time Olympic and world steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali will look to increase his profitable run to 4 Diamond League races this season in opposition to world bronze medallist Edmund Serem.
Discipline occasions in Chorzów on Saturday, forward of the principle assembly, embrace a excessive soar contest between Gianmarco Tamberi, Mutaz Barshim, Oleh Doroshchuk, JuVaughn Harrison and Woo Sanghyeok, plus a girls’s lengthy soar area led by Malaika Mihambo, Alyssa Jones and Agate de Sousa.
BBC is masking the occasion for UK viewers on Sunday with iPlayer and on-line protection, plus BBC2 from 4.10-5.00pm.
