Religion Kipyegon, Mondo Duplantis, Julien Alfred, Beatrice Chebet, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Kishane Thompson, plus plenty of Brits, are amongst these competing in Eugene on Saturday
The Prefontaine Traditional has pulled out all of the stops for its fiftieth anniversary assembly on Saturday (July 5). The ninth assembly of this summer season’s Diamond League collection options 14 world record-holders and 48 Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists.
This implies followers will get to see full podium rematches from the Paris Video games within the girls’s 100m, 1500m, 3000m steeplechase and lengthy leap, along with the lads’s 400m.
Each 100m races at Hayward Area are effervescent with expertise and in-form athletes. These embody Kishane Thompson, who’s recent from successful the Jamaican males’s title in 9.75 (0.8) – a time that places him No.6 on the world all-time rankings.
Surprisingly Thompson has by no means received a Diamond League race and in Eugene he faces Trayvon Bromell, the American who clocked 9.84 to win in Rome final month, plus British duo Zharnel Hughes and Jeremiah Azu.
The ladies’s 100m is not any much less stacked with Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia up in opposition to the minor medallists from Paris – Sha’Carri Richardson and Melissa Jefferson-Picket of the USA – along with Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith.
One other Olympic champion, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, faces in-form American Kenny Bednarek within the males’s 200m.
Olympic one-two-three within the males’s 400m – Quincy Corridor of the USA, Matt Hudson-Smith of Britain and Muzala Samukonga of Zambia – face Charlie Dobson of Britain, Kirani James of Grenada and European champion Alexander Doom of Belgium.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the 400m hurdles world record-holder, leads the line-up for the ladies’s 400m with Britain’s Amber Anning and Eire’s Rhasidat Adeleke within the combine.
There isn’t any Keely Hodgkinson within the girls’s 800m, which implies Athing Mu-Nikolayev of the USA, Tsige Duguma of Ethiopia, Prudence Sekgodiso of South Africa and Mary Moraa of Kenya shall be battling for honours with Jemma Reekie main the British problem. Anais Bourgoin, the current European Staff Championship winner from France, additionally runs.
There isn’t any Jakob Ingebrigtsen or Josh Kerr within the Bowerman Mile both, however there’s nonetheless an awesome line-up. Olympic champion Cole Hocker and the Paris bronze medallist and fellow American Yared Nuguse face the current Kenyan Champs one-two Reynold and Timothy Cheruiyot.
Then there’s Azeddine Habz, the Frenchman having run a nationwide file of three:27.49 to win the Diamond League in Paris final month. Olympic 5000m and 10,000m medallist Grant Fisher exams his pace, whereas in-form 800m runner Tshepiso Masalela of Botswana strikes up in distance.
Australian expertise Cameron Myers, who turned 19 final month, plus one other teenager, the 20-year-old Niels Laros of the Netherlands, take a look at themselves in opposition to their older rivals.
Jake Wightman, the 2022 world champion, leads the British problem with Neil Gourley.
Simply over per week after her sub-four-minute mile try in Paris, Religion Kipyegon runs the 1500m in Eugene. She faces Ethiopians Diribe Welteji and Freweyni Hailu, Australian Jess Hull, American Nikki Hiltz, Eire’s Sarah Healy and Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell. With Hull and Hunter Bell successful medals behind Kipyegon in Paris final 12 months, it means that is one other Olympic rematch.
Beatric Chebet and Gudaf Tsegay’s 5000m conflict in Rome final month ended with an emphatic victory for Chebet as she ran a Kenyan file of 14:03.69. They meet once more in Eugene with Tsegay’s world file of 14:00.21 underneath risk. Chebet, the Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion, ran a world 10,000m file of 28:54.14 at this assembly 12 months in the past.
One other Paris 2024 rematch is within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase with gold medallist final 12 months, Winfred Yavi of Bahrain, taking up Olympic silver medallist Peruth Chemutai of Uganda and bronze medallist Religion Cherotich of Kenya.
American Conner Mantz seems to be set to be the lone non-African in a males’s 10,000m filled with east Africans who’re utilizing the occasion as their World Champs trial. These embody Berihu Aregawi, Selemon Barega and Hagos Gebrhiwet.
Rai Benjamin of the USA takes on Alison dos Santos of Brazil and Abderrahman Samba of Qatar within the males’s 400m hurdles.
Within the subject, Mondo Duplantis of Sweden is the person to beat within the males’s pole vault.
Tara Davis-Woodhall of the USA takes on Malaika Mihambo of Germany amongst others within the girls’s lengthy leap.
Just a few days after setting a US shot put file of 20.95m in Idaho, Chase Jackson leads the ladies’s shot line-up.
American throwers are additionally more likely to be on the fore within the girls’s discus with Valarie Allman and hammer with Brooke Andersen and DeAnna Worth, though the latter options Olympic champion Camryn Rogers of Canada and world record-holder Anita Włodarczyk of Poland.
One other world record-holder, Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania faces Olympic champion Roje Stona of Jamaica and final weekend’s European Staff Champs winner Daniel Ståhl of Sweden.
Leonardo Fabbri of Italy, one other massive Euro Staff Champs winner, faces People Joe Kovacs and Payton Otterdahl within the males’s shot.
The assembly is being proven stay on BBC for UK viewers from 9-11pm.
