Hurdles giants conflict over little-run distance, whereas Brits corresponding to Amber Anning, Daryll Neita, Dina Asher-Smith, George Mills and Max Burgin are additionally in motion on Thursday
9 reigning Olympic champions and 7 in-form Brits compete within the Bislett Video games in Oslo on Thursday (June 12).
Such are the standard of the line-ups, it’s onerous to foretell what the spotlight of this Diamond League assembly will likely be.
However organisers have arguably left one of the best til final as they’ve positioned the 300m hurdles conflict between house favorite Karsten Warholm, Olympic champion Rai Benjamin and 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos proper on the finish of the schedule.
The trio will likely be determined to say victory however the world document of 33.05, which was set by Warholm in China in April, can also be weak.
British distance runner George Mills is a part of a powerful 5000m subject led by Hagos Gebrhiwet and Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia.
Final yr Gebrhiwet clocked 12:36.73, simply lacking Joshua Cheptegei’s world document of 12:35.36.
Mills at present sits No.4 on the UK all-time rankings with 12:58.68 set indoors final yr. So might Mo Farah’s British document of 12:53.11 from 2011 lastly fall?
The one disappointment is that Jakob Ingebrigtsen shouldn’t be within the race, as he’s presently returning to coaching following an Achilles harm.
Wanyonyi is likely one of the Olympic champions in Oslo however the 800m runner was crushed in Rabat lately by Max Burgin, the Brit clocking a PB of 1:43.34 behind the winner that day, Tshepiso Masalela of Botswana.
Masalela shouldn’t be in Oslo however Burgin and Wanyonyi are, plus Djamel Sedjati of Algeria and Gabriel Tual of France. Look out too for in-form Irishman Mark English, who gained in Hengelo earlier this week in a PB of 1:43.92.
Mondo Duplantis takes on Sam Kendricks, Emmanouil Karalis and Ernest John Obiena within the pole vault with the last word goal of bettering the 6.27m world document he set in Clermont-Ferrand in February.
The Dream Mile additionally has British curiosity with Elliot Giles among the many line-up along with former world champion Timothy Cheruiyot, Commonwealth gold medallist Olli Hoare, rising star Cameron Myers and Norway’s Narve Gilje Nordas.
Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita are in a stacked ladies’s 100m that sees Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia making her 2025 debut on the distance.
Additional Brits in motion embody Amber Anning within the ladies’s 400m and Elise Thorner within the 3000m steeplechase.
The occasion is reside for UK viewers on BBC3 and on-line/purple button from 7pm to 9pm. Begin lists and timetable right here.
