Mondo Duplantis, Religion Kipyegon and Grant Holloway are among the many entries for the primary occasion of 2025 on Saturday in Xiamen, China
Mondo Duplantis, Grant Holloway, Religion Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet, Karsten Warholm, Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Gudaf Tsegay are among the many line-ups for the primary Wanda Diamond League assembly of 2025 in Xiamen, China, on Saturday (April 26).
Duplantis cleared 6.24m in Xiamen final 12 months and went on to set one other world report of 6.25m in Paris in August earlier than bettering to six.26m on the Silesia Diamond League after which 6.27m in Clermont-Ferrand in February.
The assembly in Xiamen can be his outside season opener because the Swedish celebrity competes for the primary time since successful his third world indoor title in Nanjing final month.
The ladies’s excessive bounce sees world record-holder Mahuchikh of Ukraine taking over Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson, with Olyslagers successful world indoor gold in Nanjing final month forward of Patterson and Mahuchikh.
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Warholm will sort out 300m hurdles in Xiamen along with his personal world report of 33.26 beneath risk. He faces Kyron McMaster and CJ Allen amongst others.
Within the males’s 110m hurdles, Holloway of the USA takes on Cordell Tinch, Freddie Crittenden and Daniel Roberts.
Just a few days after asserting her audacious bid to interrupt the four-minute barrier within the mile in Paris in June, Kipyegon will run 1000m in Xiamen with Svetlana Masterkova’s world report of two:28.98 set in 1996 in peril.
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One other Kenyan endurance operating star, Beatrice Chebet, leads the ladies’s 5000m fields however will tackle Gudaf Tsegay, who appeared in nice type when successful the world indoor 1500m title final month. Tsegay additionally holds the world report for 5000m and is bouncing again from a disappointing Olympics that noticed Chebet win 5000m and 10,000m golds.
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Recent from a North American discus report of 73.52m, Olympic champion Valarie Allman of the USA faces world champion Laulauga Tausaga, plus Sandra Elkasevic, Yaime Perez, Jorinde van Klinken and Feng Bin.
Elsewhere, within the girls’s 200m Shericka Jackson faces Mujinga Kambundji, Jenna Prandini and Tamara Clark, whereas the boys’s 100m sees Letsile Tebogo in opposition to Britain’s world indoor 60m champion Jeremiah Azu, plus Lachlan Kennedy, Akani Simbine, Christian Coleman and Ferdinand Omanyala.
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