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Ooredoo Doha Meeting

Diamond League Meeting

Prefontaine Classic

Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme de Rabat

Golden Gala Pietro Mennea

Bislett Games

Meeting de Paris

BAUHAUS-Galan

Kamila Skolimowska Memorial

Herculis EBS

Athletissima

Memorial van Damme

Weltklasse

Diamond League

Pole vault winner Jenn Suhr at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene

Kristjan Ceh, winner of the discus at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm

Alison Dos Santos on his way to winning the 400m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm

Eight reigning Olympic champions have so far been announced for the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne, with just over two months to go until the Wanda Diamond League meeting returns on 26 August.
The men&rsquo;s high jump will bring together multiple champions - joint Olympic gold medallists Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi going up against world indoor champion Woo Sanghyeok and Swiss record-holder Loic Gasch.
Bahamian 400m stars Shaunae Miller-Uibo and&nbsp;Steven Gardiner, who both claimed 400m titles in Tokyo, will also compete, racing the women's 400m and men's 200m respectively.&nbsp;
In the 200m, Gardiner will face USA's world champion Noah Lyles and Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek. It was in Lausanne in 2019 that Lyles achieved his PB of 19.50, a time that places him fifth on the world all-time list.
The throwing disciplines also promise exhilarating performances thanks to the presence of Olympic champions Ryan Crouser in the shot put and Neeraj Chopra in the javelin.&nbsp;
Olympic champion and world record-holder Mondo Duplantis will lead a high-flying line-up in the men's pole vault, which will take place the day before the main meeting, on 25 August, in the idyllic setting of Ouchy, on the shores of Lake Geneva.&nbsp;
Athletissima has already announced Femke Bol in the 400m hurdles, Lamecha Girma in the 3000m steeplechase and Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo in the triple jump. Other Swiss stars in action include Mujinga Kambundji and Ajla Del Ponte, who will run the 100m as well as the women's 4x100m relay.
Earlier today (24) it was announced that <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/heritage/plaque/news/athletissima-lausannes-heritage-plaque" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Athletissima has been awarded the World Athletics Heritage Plaque</a> to mark the Swiss meeting&rsquo;s 45-year history.
Organisers for World Athletics

Eight reigning Olympic champions have been announced for the Athletissima meeting

Barshim, Tamberi, Chopra and Miller-Uibo among champions set for Lausanne

Double Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the &lsquo;Pocket Rocket&rsquo;, went into orbit once again here at the Stade Charlety on Saturday (18) as she won the concluding event of a sweltering Meeting de Paris in 10.67, equalling her own world-leading mark.
The 35-year-old Jamaican&rsquo;s first clocking of that time this season &ndash; just 0.07 off her PB, which is the third best mark ever &ndash; came in the altitude of Nairobi on 7 May.
This meeting record was at sea level, albeit in temperatures still about 32C, having fallen from 38C at the start of this latest Wanda Diamond League meeting.
Behind her, Britain&rsquo;s Daryll Neita clocked 10.99 and the Ivory Coast&rsquo;s Marie-Josee Ta Lou was third in 11.01, with Poland&rsquo;s Ewa Swoboda clocking a personal best of 11.05 in fourth place.
&ldquo;I came here feeling really good, and I like to run in the heat,&rdquo; said Shelly-Pryce, who was jumping for joy in the aftermath of a performance that boosts her prospects of a successful world title defence at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
&ldquo;I am still training hard so I am now looking forward to the national championships and then afterwards,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;The plan and the aim is to make sure that I am able to run 10.60 sustainably.&rdquo; 
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 The heat also suited Nigeria&rsquo;s Tobi Amusan, who danced in triumph after finishing strongly to win the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles in an African record of 12.41, 0.02 better than her previous best.
The 25-year-old Commonwealth champion, fourth at last year&rsquo;s Olympics and at the 2019 World Championships, looks very capable of claiming a first global medal in Eugene this summer.
Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas was second in 12.63, ahead of Britain&rsquo;s Cindy Sember on 12.73 and France&rsquo;s 21-year-old world indoor champion Cyrena Samba-Mayela in a season&rsquo;s best of 12.76.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega finished half a straight clear in the men&rsquo;s 5000m after a long, long run for home, winning in 12:56.19 &ndash; very close to his season&rsquo;s best of 12:54.87 set in winning at the Rome Diamond League meeting.
Burundi&rsquo;s Thierry Ndikumwenayo was second in 13:05.24, with two-time world champion Muktar Edris of Ethiopia third in 13:06.54. Home athlete Jimmy Gressier was fourth in 13:08.75 &ndash; just inside the World Championships qualifying mark of 13:09.
<h2>World leads for Yavi and Mahuchikh</h2>
Bahrain&rsquo;s Winfred Yavi ran a solo race in the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase to win in a world-leading PB of 8:56.55 that might have been even faster had she not almost fallen at the final hurdle.
The 22-year-old world and Olympic finalist finished alone, with Ethiopia&rsquo;s Sembo Alemayehu a distant second in a personal best of 9:09.19, just ahead of compatriot Mekides Abebe (9:11.09). Elizabeth Bird set a British record of 9:19.46 in fourth. 
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 Ukrainian athletes dominated a high-quality women&rsquo;s high jump &ndash; and 20-year-old Olympic bronze medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh dominated the Ukrainians as she won in a world-leading 2.01m.
That finally saw off the challenge of her compatriot Iryna Gerashchenko, who missed an Olympic medal by one place last summer and who achieved a season&rsquo;s best of 1.98m on this occasion.
Third place went to Ukraine&rsquo;s 2017 world silver medallist Yuliya Levchenko, who was one of four jumpers to clear 1.95m.
Meanwhile Belgium&rsquo;s double Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam set a season&rsquo;s best of 1.92m.
Cuba&rsquo;s 21-year-old Jordan Diaz Fortun marked his first Diamond League meeting by winning the men&rsquo;s triple jump with a best of 17.66m, 10cm below the mark with which he leads this season&rsquo;s world list. Fellow Cuban Andy Diaz, currently second on that list, improved his PB to 17.65m in second place.
Portugal&rsquo;s Olympic champion Pedro Pablo Pichardo thought he had trumped his younger opponents with the last effort of the competition, dancing away from the pit before flinging down his headband in disgust when it was registered as a foul, leaving him with a best of 17.49m.
Burkino Faso&rsquo;s France-based Olympic bronze medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango was fourth in 17.25m, with double Olympic champion Christian Taylor of the United States, recovering from last year&rsquo;s serious achilles tendon injury, improving his season&rsquo;s best to 16.54m in seventh place.
<h2>Allman avenges Oslo defeat with meeting record</h2>
Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman, beaten by Croatia&rsquo;s two-time Olympic gold medallist Sandra Perkovic in Oslo on Thursday night, responded to heat that she had said the day before would be just like summer where she now lives in Texas to get back to winning ways. 
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 After Perkovic had taken a second-round lead with 66.00m, Allman &ndash; who earlier this year raised her own North American record to 71.46m &ndash; went out to a meeting record of 68.68m in the fourth round which proved to be the winning throw.
That said, Perkovic, ever competive, improved to a season&rsquo;s best of 68.19m in the sixth round.
The men&rsquo;s hammer, which was not part of the Diamond League programme, produced a suitably hot competition in early evening temperatures about 38C, with Poland&rsquo;s Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki earning victory after producing four efforts beyond 80 metres, the best of them 81.25m, just 33cm shy of his mark which tops this season&rsquo;s world list.
His fellow Pole, four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek, was second with 80.11m.
In the women&rsquo;s event, which lacked Poland&rsquo;s triple Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk, who is out for the season with a thigh injury incurred while chasing someone attempting to steal her car, was won by her compatriot, Olympic bronze medallist Malwina Kopron, with 71.33m.
Japan&rsquo;s Haruka Kitaguchi won the women&rsquo;s javelin with a best of 63.13m from Latvia&rsquo;s Lina Muze on 62.56m and Lithuania&rsquo;s Liveta Jasiunaite, who threw a season&rsquo;s best of 62.09m.
<h2>Adams makes surprise breakthrough</h2>
South Africa&rsquo;s Italy-based Luxolo Adams produced the shock result of the night as clocked a huge personal best of 19.82 to finish well clear of a men&rsquo;s 200m field including Canada&rsquo;s Olympic champion Andre De Grasse, running his first big race of the season at this distance.
The 25-year-old from Burgersdorp, whose previous best was 20.01, earned bronze at the 2018 African Championships in Asaba but hadn&rsquo;t competed at any major championships since then.
He was followed home by Alexander Ogando in a Dominican Republic record of 20.03 and home sprinter Mouhamadou Fall, who ran a personal best of 20.26 ahead of De Grasse, who clocked 20.38. 
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 Devon Allen of the United States, NFL wide receiver-in-waiting, maintained his winning run this season over 110m hurdles as he finished in 13.16 ahead of Brazil&rsquo;s Rafael Pereira, who equalled the personal best of 13.25 he had set in following the American home in the heats.
In those heats, France&rsquo;s 19-year-old world U20 champion Sasha Zhoya lowered his personal best to 13.40 (-1.7m/s) but did not appear in the final.
&ldquo;My start was the best I have had this year,&rdquo; said Allen. &ldquo;It was something we were really working on because it used to be the weakest part of my race. If we put it all together &ndash; maybe 12.65 in the future.&rdquo;
Double Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo duly earned victory in her second major race over that distance this season.
But after pulling well clear of the field around the top bend the 28-year-old Bahamian slowed in the final 50 metres, looking around her almost as if she were running for qualification in a heat before virtually jogging over the line in 50.10.
However, she was full of enthusiasm for her win afterwards. &ldquo;I had a great race tonight, really great,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I did a strong start, I pushed a lot on the first 300 metres. Then I managed to stay in the lead. I still had some gas in the tank to finish strong. I'm exactly in the shape I wanted to be at this time of the season.&rdquo;
Poland&rsquo;s Natalia Kaczmarek, who ran a huge personal best of 50.16 in Ostrava and stands sixth in this year's world list, was second in 50.24 ahead of compatriot Anna Kilebasinska, who clocked 50.28.
Later in the evening The Bahamas&rsquo; other Olympic 400m champion, Steven Gardiner, marked a rare Diamond League appearance with a smooth and dominant victory in a season&rsquo;s best of 44.21 from Lidio Andres Feliz of the Dominican Republic, who clocked 44.92.
<h2>Mixed fortunes for French stars</h2>
Home runner Benjamin Robert won the men&rsquo;s 800m in a personal best of 1:43.75 after a scrappy charge in the final 50 metres. About half an hour after the race, Robert heard news that he had been disqualified, but that ruling was later reversed and the original results stood.
The 24-year-old from Toulouse, back in the pack halfway down the home straight, accelerated steadily through the field and had to virtually run sideways at the end to get past Tony van Diepen, who seemed to lose momentum and fell back to third, albeit in a personal best of 1:44.14. 
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Benjamin Roberts wins the 800m in Paris (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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 The second-placed finisher, Peter Bol of Australia, set an Oceanian record of 1:44.00. There were also personal bests for France&rsquo;s Gabriel Tual and Mohamed Gouaned of Algeria, fourth and fifth respectively in 1:44.23 and 1:44.43.
&ldquo;In the last 200m I was burnt,&rdquo; said Robert. &ldquo;I said to myself, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s going to be hard to finish.&rsquo; Then something happened in the last 50 metres &ndash; the second wind. It&rsquo;s my first victory in the Diamond League. And it happened in Paris.&rdquo;
France&rsquo;s former world pole vault record-holder Renaud Lavillenie boosted his hopes of adding another global medal to his collection next month as he took second place on countback after clearing 5.80m, a centimetre below his season&rsquo;s best.
The win went to Belgium&rsquo;s Ben Broeders, with another home vaulter, Thibaut Collet, third on 5.75m.
Meanwhile France&rsquo;s world decathlon record holder and double Olympic silver medallist Kevin Mayer, troubled since the indoor season with an achilles injury that prevented him running properly, was engaged on his third &lsquo;triathlon&rsquo; at this meeting following previous opportunities at the 2017 and 2019 editions.
After winning the shot put with 15.61m, the 2017 world champion took part in the long jump, registering red flags with two healthy-looking efforts before earning second place with his final effort of 7.38m behind compatriot Teo Bastien, who recorded 7.44m.
All was not well, however, and Mayer was a disconsolate spectator by the time the field line up for the concluding 110m hurdles, which he had said the day before would be his first hurdle session of the season. That will now have to wait&hellip;
&ldquo;I did not want to do the hurdles today,&rdquo; said Mayer. &ldquo;There was no point doing it. It's too risky. I haven't done hurdles on competition since last winter. Instead, I did a 150m on the warming up track at a 400m pace, to simulate a last event of the first day of decathlon.
&ldquo;I'm quite satisfied with my results on shot put and long jump. Three weeks ago, I could not do sprint and jump at training. So, things are going better.&rdquo;
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics

World champion from Jamaica wins 100m in 10.67

Pocket Rocket Fraser-Pryce into orbit again in Paris as she equals 100m world lead

Devon Allen wants something to be known &ndash; he is not quitting athletics.
The 27-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona, who ran the third-fastest 110m hurdles of all time at last Saturday&rsquo;s New York Grand Prix, beating world champion and fellow US athlete Grant Holloway, will soon take up a three-year contract with National Football League team Philadelphia Eagles &ndash; but he will be alternating between athletics and American football rather than forsaking one for the other.
&ldquo;Everybody is saying I&rsquo;m quitting. I&rsquo;m not quitting," he said at a press conference held on the eve of the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Paris. "During the football season I&rsquo;m going to play football. And once February comes along and we&rsquo;ve won the Super Bowl, hopefully I&rsquo;m going to come back and start training for track and get ready for the major championships.
&ldquo;When the athletics comes around, obviously I&rsquo;ll need a little bit of leeway. Because it&rsquo;s not quite the football season yet, there&rsquo;s some training camps, but hopefully I&rsquo;m doing well enough in football that I can do both.&rdquo;
Asked if playing football might injure him for athletics, he responded: &ldquo;I did two ACLs in 2015 and 2016 playing college football. So I recovered from that. I think in athletics injuries are going to happen, obviously football&rsquo;s a little more contact injuries, track and field may be mostly muscle injuries. So going forward, I have to do the best things to manage my body, because that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s going to allow me to run 12.7 and play NFL and do well.
&ldquo;Being a wide receiver is probably the least amount of risk other than being a punter or a kicker. But we&rsquo;ll see. I&rsquo;m not going to think about that too much. It&rsquo;s something I&rsquo;ve wanted to do my whole life and I have the opportunity now so I am going to take the opportunity and just go for it.&rdquo;
On the subject of his 12.84 clocking &ndash; had that come as a shock?
&ldquo;I always believe I can do it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the reason why I am here in track and field, because I believe I can be the best in the history of the sport.
&ldquo;Training&rsquo;s been going really well. I&rsquo;ve been back and forth with training for football in April and May. About two and a half weeks ago I was done with football. So for a while I&rsquo;ve been training only one or two days a week on the track, running 13.1, 13.2, pretty solidly.
&ldquo;Earlier this year, indoors, I decided to go from eight steps to seven steps to the first hurdle, and that &ndash; I&rsquo;m not going to say it&rsquo;s a game-changer because I ran quick last year with eight, but it has really helped me to be in the race early, and then use my last five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 hurdles that I&rsquo;ve always been good at.
&ldquo;If I had Grant&rsquo;s start, I probably would have run 12.6 by now. But he&rsquo;s the greatest in the history of the 60m hurdles and probably the greatest starter for a long time.
&ldquo;Me and Grant have spoken about that. I said, &lsquo;hey, teach me how to start&rsquo;, and he said &lsquo;teach me how to do your last four!&rsquo;"
Sitting alongside Allen, 30-year-old home hurdler Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, European champion and world bronze medallist, reflected on recovering from his most recent injury &ndash; to his right calf &ndash; ahead of what will be his first race of the season.
&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know my shape at all because I had an injury at the end of April and had to have a month off," he said.
&ldquo;I have no reference at training about my speed, but I&rsquo;m not afraid about anything, and that may be the best way to run well.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s the same way I ran in the Olympics &ndash; I was injured just before, but in final I was OK. So how am I going to run tomorrow? I don&rsquo;t know &ndash; and it&rsquo;s OK for me.&rdquo;
Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce &ndash; 35, a mother, owner of three Olympic and nine world golds, but still pushing on to go faster.
The effervescent Jamaican ran a personal best of 10.60 last year and tops this year&rsquo;s world lists with her 10.67 clocking in the thin air of Nairobi. Looking ahead to the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, it is clear that she wants world gold in double figures. 
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Wanda Diamond League press conference in Paris (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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Asked about her continuing motivation, she replied: &ldquo;I believe I can run faster. I am hungry in that regard. I have been making sure to do the things I know help me to do that, to do with my technique, and once I have been able to cement that I definitely think that I will be able to run faster than I dreamed possible."
&nbsp;And Paris 2024?
&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Why not? I ran 10.6 last year, and this year. If I feel good, God willing, you will see me until I am 40!&rdquo;
When it was pointed out to her that her compatriot sprinter Merlene Ottey competed until she was 47 at the top level, Fraser-Pryce laughed uproariously, saying: &ldquo;No, no. I don&rsquo;t want to be lining up and have people saying, &lsquo;Why don&rsquo;t grandma go home?&rsquo; But I would definitely love to be here in 2024.&rdquo;
The Bahamas is providing the Stade Charlety with the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s Olympic 400m champions in the form of Steven Gardiner and Shaunae Miller-Uibo, both of whom will be racing in Paris for the first time.
Asked how far he was able to walk along the street without being recognised and stopped back home, Gardiner &ndash; who as well as being famous is 1.93m tall &ndash; responded with a wide smile: &ldquo;I would say two inches! We have a population of less than half a million people. So Shaunae and I get to perform for our small country and then we go home and they love us like we are their own kids. It&rsquo;s just a great feeling.&rdquo;
Christian Taylor, who turns 32 tomorrow, is having to set aside the memories of winning two Olympic and four world triple jump titles and concentrate on getting back to full competitive mettle after an achilles tendon injury last year ended his Tokyo ambitions.
Taylor, whose personal best of 18.21m, just eight centimetres shy of Jonathan Edwards&rsquo;s 1995 world record, came in 2015, currently has a season&rsquo;s best of 16.11m.
&ldquo;Right now, to be very honest, I&rsquo;m in a very humbling position, and watching a lot of competitions, losing a lot of competitions, but just re-learning and re-building confidence in my ability," he said. "At the end of the day, I&rsquo;m still the same person, my body is still the same, it&rsquo;s just building that confidence that the body&rsquo;s OK, I can push a little further, I can run a little faster.
&ldquo;Last Tuesday in Turku was the biggest test for me, the first time I jumped from a full approach. I feel like this was the biggest hurdle. I am a speed jumper. Lot of the others are vertical jumpers. For me it&rsquo;s about how much speed I could bring through. It was the ultimate test &ndash; &lsquo;if I run, can I walk away?&rsquo; Now I can breathe, now I can hold my head above water and say &lsquo;let&rsquo;s compete again&rsquo;.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult to compete when you are thinking &lsquo;is this going to be my final jump?&rsquo; Now I&rsquo;ve got the confirmation I can compete again, I can get back to the mentality of doing big marks.&rdquo; 
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Christian Taylor at the Wanda Diamond League press conference in Paris (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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Asked about the onward route to Oregon, Taylor responded: &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s going to be a bit of back and forth. My goal is Paris 2024. My heart was broken to miss Tokyo, I really had so many plans.
&ldquo;But this is life. In this time of the pandemic we all had plans, we all had to realign, readjust. Of course, looking towards Eugene, it would be fantastic to compete on home soil. But I would be lying if I said everything wasn&rsquo;t building towards Paris 2024.&rdquo;
Sitting alongside him, French-based Burkino Faso jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango also reflected on the special nature of the Olympics.
&ldquo;Winning an Olympic medal last year changed a lot of things,&rdquo; said the 28-year-old, who has just completed his master's in electrical engineering at Artois University in northern France. &ldquo;I was the first athlete from my country to bring back an Olympic medal, and the first African athlete in triple jump to win an Olympic medal. I was very, very happy for this and proud.
&ldquo;But after Tokyo I had to finish my studies. Now I&rsquo;m happy because it&rsquo;s done and I can go back to work on triple jump. Last week I did 17.34m. But this is not enough. I am still hungry and I want to do more. When you jump 18 metres you want to go back and feel this great moment again.&rdquo;
Among the opposition at the&nbsp;Meeting de Paris on Saturday (18)&nbsp;will be the two up-and-coming Cubans who top the 2022 list, Jordan Diaz Fortun and Andy Diaz, who have jumped 17.76 and 17.64m respectively.
&ldquo;Now these young ones are coming with big teeth,&rdquo; Zango said with a grin. &ldquo;This is something that motivates me. And Christian is still there.&rdquo;
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics 
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Devon Allen wants something to be known – he is not quitting athletics.

Allen sets record straight – he'll combine athletics with NFL, not leave it

At 35, Jamaica&rsquo;s two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has done it all. But she still hasn&rsquo;t finished, and her appearance at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Paris on Saturday (18) will represent another significant step in her campaign to defend her world 100m title in Oregon next month.
Fraser-Pryce established her name early on this season&rsquo;s world list when she ran in the rarified air of Nairobi and won in 10.67 - only seven-hundredths off the personal best she ran last year to put herself third on the all-time list.
Her Jamaican compatriot and twice successor as Olympic 100m champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah, has since made a good start to her pursuit of a first individual world title with a best of 10.79 on the Eugene track that will stage the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
But now Fraser-Pryce is back to make another impression in top-level competition at the Meeting de Paris on the ultra-fast blue track at Stade Charlety, which was renovated in 2019.
She will be taking on some talented sprinters including Switzerland&rsquo;s Mujinga Kambundji, the surprise &ndash; and surprised &ndash; winner of the world indoor 60m title in Belgrade earlier this year in a personal best of 6.96. Kambundji, who turns 30 on the day before the race, will be targeting her personal best of 10.94.&nbsp;
Also in the mix will be Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago, who has run 10.94 this season and has a personal best of 10.82, and Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast, who missed a 100m medal by one place in Tokyo as she ran 10.91.
Two-time Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who has raced well but not exceptionally at 200m this season, will get down to serious business at her specialist event. 
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Shaunae Miller-Uibo wins the 2019 Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; Jiro Mochizuki)
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The 28-year-old Bahamian, who lowered her own continental record to 48.36 in Tokyo last summer, is third in this year&rsquo;s top list with her time of 49.91, but that was set in April and the Olympic champion will want to check in on her current form having run over 200m recently.
She faces a strong Polish trio of Natalia Kaczmarek, who ran a huge personal best of 50.16 in Ostrava and stands sixth in this year&rsquo;s world list, European champion Justyna Swiety-Ersetic and Anna Kielbasinska.
The Bahamas will be providing both Olympic 400m champions in Paris, with Steven Gardiner hoping to further fine-tune his world title defence in Oregon with a rare Diamond League appearance.
The leggy 26-year-old, who is 1.93m tall and has run 43.48, making him the sixth best performer of all time, did not compete in any Diamond League race last year and only raced once in Europe, at Szekesfehervar in Hungary.
His last appearance on the sport&rsquo;s top circuit was at Monaco in 2019, when he won. Gardiner is already in good shape, having run 44.22 at Baton Rouge in Louisiana on 23 April - the fastest time recorded so far this year.
Meanwhile, European champion Matthew Hudson-Smith, who recently took one hundredth of a second off the British record of 43.36, set by Iwan Thomas in 1997, could be in position to better a record of even longer standing, this time the European one of 44.33 set by East Germany&rsquo;s Thomas Schoenlebe in 1987.&nbsp;
Devon Allen of the United States, whose 12.84 clocking in last Saturday&rsquo;s New York Grand Prix &ndash; the third-fastest ever run &ndash; earned him a handsome victory ahead of world champion and compatriot Grant Holloway, maintained winning momentum over 110m hurdles in Oslo, although this victory was earned in 13.22 into a headwind of -1.2 m/s. 
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Devon Allen wins the 110m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Allen, who will take up a professional American football career at the end of this season as a wide receiver with National Football League side Philadelphia Eagles, is due to run in Paris against a field that includes home hurdler Wilhem Belocian.
Canada&rsquo;s Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse has been running 100m recently to sharpen up, but after clocking 10.24 at the Birmingham Diamond League on 21 May he dropped out of the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games on 5 June. On Thursday in Oslo, however, he returned to form in the 100m &ndash; in which he won Rio 2016 bronze &ndash; as he earned victory in 10.05 from Britain&rsquo;s Reece Prescod, who clocked 10.06.
On Saturday, like Miller-Uibo, he will get down to business in his main event against a field that includes Prescod, who produced a big personal best over 100m of 9.93 in blustery conditions at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on 31 May. Meanwhile, Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic will be seeking to build on what has been a good start to the season, in which he has run 20.07.
Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, who won the Ethiopian World Championships trials race in Hengelo and then finished fourth in the 5000m in Rome, is expected to race over the shorter distance in Paris.
Christian Taylor and Pedro Pichardo produced some of the most epic men&rsquo;s triple jump competitions when they met during 2015. It seemed only a matter of time before they prompted each other to surpass the 1995 record of 18.29m set by Britain&rsquo;s Jonathan Edwards.
They didn&rsquo;t manage that, although they came close, with Taylor recording 18.21m in Beijing before retaining his Olympic title in Rio the following year, and Pichardo reaching 18.08m. Taylor added two more world titles before his Tokyo Olympic hopes disappeared with a severe achilles tendon injury last season, from which he is now working his way back. 
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Christian Taylor in action in the triple jump in Szekesfehervar (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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The two men&rsquo;s fortunes diverged in 2021, as Pichardo, having switched from his native Cuba to represent Portugal, won the Olympic title, adding a world indoor silver earlier this year.
As the two men meet again in competition, the dynamics are different, as Taylor, now 31, is seeking to regain previous heights &ndash; or rather, lengths &ndash; and has a season&rsquo;s best of 16.11m, set in Montreuil on 2 June.
Pichardo is eighth in this season&rsquo;s list with 17.18m, but he will need to be on top form to fend off the challenge of his two Cuban former compatriots who currently top the list with 17.76m and 17.64m respectively, Jordan Diaz Fortun and Andy Diaz.
French-based Burkino Faso jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango, the Tokyo bronze medallist, is outside the top 10 right now with his outdoor best of 17.09m, but his recent victory in the African Championships &ndash; and his indoor personal best of 18.07m &ndash; makes it clear that this is an athlete capable, if he hits it right, of defeating all the foregoing.
Belgium&rsquo;s two-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam will take part in the women&rsquo;s high jump, which her best of 2.02m makes her entely capable of winning as she prepares to earn a second world title this summer.
But she has formidable opposition in the form of the respective Olympic silver and bronze medallists Nicola Olyslagers - nee McDermott - and Ukraine&rsquo;s 20-year-old Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who won the world indoor title in Belgrade in March and is the only jumper to have reached 2.00m this season.
The men&rsquo;s pole vault will see France&rsquo;s former world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie, fifth in Oslo on 5.60m, and his younger brother Valentin in action along with Brazil&rsquo;s Rio 2016 champion Thiago Braz and, assuming he can resume normal working after pulling out of the Oslo competition, two-time world champion Sam Kendricks of the United States.
Bahrain's Winfred Yavi is the favourite in the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase having run 8:58.71 this year, putting her second on the season&rsquo;s list. This could be a steep learning curve for France&rsquo;s 31-year-old European indoor 3000m silver medallist Alice Finot as she continues her late breakthrough to the highest levels of competition.
Valarie Allman of the United States, the Olympic women&rsquo;s discus champion who has set a North American record of 71.46m this season, suffered a surprise defeat to Croatia&rsquo;s London 2012 and Rio 2016 gold medallist Sandra Perkovic in Oslo, and the two rivals will resume competition in Paris. 
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Discus winner Valarie Allman at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Home thrower Melina Robert-Michon, the Rio 2016 silver medallist, will be seeking to make a significant impact in front of French fans.
Japan&rsquo;s Haruka Kitaguchi, fifth in this year&rsquo;s women&rsquo;s world javelin list with 63.93m, has the best 2022 record of those assembled, but while Australia&rsquo;s Kelsey-Lee Barber has only reached 61.00m this season, she is world champion and has a personal best of 67.70m.
Also in the field are Barber&rsquo;s compatriot Mackenzie Little, who has thrown a personal best of 63.18m this season, and Nikola Ogrodnikova of the Czech Republic, who has thrown 62.80m this season and has a best of 67.40m. And last but not least, Ogrodnikova&rsquo;s compatriot Barbora Spotakova, double Olympic and three-time world champion, as well as being world record-holder with 72.28m. At 40, she is still a hugely competitive athlete.
Botswana&rsquo;s Nijel Amos, whose PB of 1:41.73 puts him third on the world all-time list, is always a winning possibility in any men&rsquo;s 800m race. But he faces Morocco&rsquo;s&nbsp;Moad Zahafi, who is bang on form and currently tops the 2022 world lists with 1:43.69, while Amos has run 1:44.92 this year.
Poland&rsquo;s Tokyo bronze medallist Patryk Dobek, who has run 1:44.49 this season, will also fancy his chances.
Meanwhile, home trio Benjamin Robert, Gabriel Tual and 2017 world champion and Tokyo finalist Pierre-Ambroise Bosse will be in the mix, with the latter two still requiring a World Championships qualifying time.
Nigeria&rsquo;s Commonwealth Games 100m hurdles champion Tobi Amusan, more recently African champion, won in a season&rsquo;s best of 12.57 at Tuesday&rsquo;s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Turku and will be favourite here. 
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Tobi Amusan celebrates her 100m hurdles win at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; Getty Images)
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But there are a clutch of challengers who won&rsquo;t be far away, including Poland&rsquo;s Pia Skrzyszowska, who has run 12.62 this year, Britain&rsquo;s Cindy Sember, who has gone one hundredth of a second slower, and Nadine Visser of the Netherlands, double European indoor champion, who has recorded a 2022 best of 12.72.
Sadly Poland&rsquo;s three-time Olympic gold medallist Anita Wlodarczyk will not be taking part in the evening&rsquo;s non-Diamond League hammer throw fest as she now has her entire left leg in plaster after injuring her thigh while chasing someone who was trying to steal her car.
That gives a big opportunity for Poland&rsquo;s Tokyo bronze medallist Malwina Kopron to shine, along with home talent Alexandra Tavernier, world bronze medallist in 2015.
The men&rsquo;s event features Poland&rsquo;s Tokyo champion Wojciech Nowicki and four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek along with France&rsquo;s world silver medallist Quentin Bigot, who recently threw a personal best of 80.14m in Forbach.
Meanwhile, France&rsquo;s world decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer, who took a second Olympic silver at the Tokyo Games despite injury problems, is preparing for a second world title with his customary cluster of key events at this meeting.
In company with other top home decathletes he will compete in the shot put, long jump and 110m hurdles.
His last &ldquo;triathlon&rdquo; at Stade Charlety in 2019 saw him lower his personal bests in the 110m hurdles to 13.55 &ndash; it has since come down by 0.01 &ndash; and the shot put to 17.08m.
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics

The next Diamond League meeting is another significant step on the road to Oregon

Fraser-Pryce aims to impress in Paris as she plans world 100m title defence

A Wanda Diamond League record from Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the mile, along with meeting records from Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault and Femke Bol in the 400m hurdles brightened a rainy evening at the Bislett Games in Oslo on Thursday (16).
Ingebrigtsen has won almost all there is to win in middle-distance events, but a senior Dream Mile victory in Oslo was one thing missing from the 21-year-old&rsquo;s resume. In fact, before today no Norwegian man had ever won the prestigious discipline at the Bislett Games.
But, racing in the final individual track event of the night, Ingebrigtsen ensured the 15,000 fans at the Bislett Stadion went home happy as he won the mile in a Norwegian record of 3:46.46, breaking the Wanda Diamond League record in the process.
Paced through the first two laps in 56.01 and 1:53.30, Ingebrigtsen was tracked closely by Australia&rsquo;s Oliver Hoare and Britain&rsquo;s Jake Wightman for most of the race. The Olympic 1500m champion never appeared to be under too much strain, though &ndash; even when Hoare was attempting to close in on the leader with half a lap left.
Ingebrigtsen &ndash; roared on by the home crowd, many of whom were on their feet &ndash; kicked down the home straight and crossed the line in 3:46.46, taking almost a second off his own Norwegian record and moving up to sixth on the world all-time list, just 0.14 shy of Steve Cram&rsquo;s European record.
Hoare finished second in 3:47.48 to break the Oceanian record and move to 13th on the world all-time list. Wightman was third in a PB of 3:50.30 from fellow Brit Neil Gourley (3:52.91). There was also a national record for Charles Grethen of Luxembourg in fifth (3:53.20).
&ldquo;I was ready to run fast and was happy to do that and to win,&rdquo; said the world indoor silver medallist. &ldquo;Some work needs to be done before the World Championships, but I will work hard to be in better shape there.
&ldquo;Last year I was sick and couldn't race here, so it was even more special here tonight, as being the first Norwegian to win the Dream Mile. Doing things nobody else has done before is really great.&rdquo;
The on-off rainfall throughout the evening was far from ideal for pole vaulting, but Duplantis didn&rsquo;t seem too badly affected, the world record-holder winning with a world-leading 6.02m to break his own meeting record. 
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Mondo Duplantis celebrates his world lead and meeting record in the pole vault at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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He cleared 5.80m at the first time of asking, as did leading Norwegian duo Sondre Guttormsen and Pal Haugen Lillefosse. Duplantis skipped the next height, while the Norwegian pair were unsuccessful at a would-be national record height of 5.86m. As the sole entrant left in the competition, Duplantis moved on to 5.92m and needed all three tries to go clear.
He then moved the bar straight up to 6.02m, one centimetre higher than his meeting record from last year. He got over on his first try before ending his evening with a couple of unsuccessful tries at 6.10m.
&ldquo;I felt good, despite it being a hectic day with the rain coming on and off &ndash; it was tiring coping with that but I'm happy with 6.02m,&rdquo; said Duplantis, who will compete at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm before turning his attention to the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. &ldquo;My legs ran out of steam, but the energy from the crowd was good, they helped a lot. I feel good ahead of the big dance.&rdquo;
Earlier in the evening the rain briefly eased just in time for the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. Bol, looking to improve on the 53.02 season&rsquo;s best she set last week in Rome, got off to a strong start and already had a clear lead at half way.
The Olympic bronze medallist entered the home straight unopposed and continued to pull away from the rest of the field. By the time she crossed the finish line in 52.61 &ndash; smashing the meeting record by almost half a second &ndash; Bol was more than two seconds clear of her rivals.
&ldquo;I was very surprised with the time as the weather wasn't the best and I stuttered into the last hurdle, so it was great to see that time,&rdquo; said Bol, who holds the European record at 52.03. &ldquo;It means a lot to take the meeting record. It's going to be a really busy summer but I'm ready for the challenge &ndash; I want to keep running fast and get some medals.&rdquo;
Ukraine&rsquo;s Anna Ryzhykova was second in 54.81, finishing just ahead of Britain&rsquo;s Jessie Knight (54.84).
Bol&rsquo;s fellow Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medallist, Alison dos Santos, dominated the men&rsquo;s race and came within 0.03 of his own world-leading mark. 
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Alison dos Santos wins the 400m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Estonia&rsquo;s Rasmus Magi, winner at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Turku earlier in the week, went with Dos Santos in the early stages, but the young Brazilian pulled away in the second half and ultimately won by more than a second in 47.26. Only Karsten Warholm, with his former world record run of 46.70 from last year, has ever gone quicker in this stadium.
&ldquo;It was a good time, but we expected more,&rdquo; said Dos Santos, who finished comfortably ahead of Magi (48.51). &ldquo;For sure, I am in 46-second shape. If Warholm was here, it would be better of course. I just try to have fun and enjoy every moment on the track. I love it.&rdquo;
<h2>Seyaum and Bekele lead Ethiopian 5000m sweeps</h2>
Dawit Seyaum may be new to the 5000m, but the former 1500m specialist looked anything but inexperienced as she outkicked her fellow Ethiopians to win a high-quality race.
The opening pace was steady, the first 1000m covered in 2:53.83 and 2000m reached in 5:52.33. Versatile Norwegian runner Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal then took up the pace in the second half and passed through 3000m in 8:48.65, leading a large lead pack. Grovdal held on to that lead for another 1500 metres, but then Seyaum and compatriots Letesenbet Gidey, Gudaf Tsegay and Almaz Ayana started battling for the lead with one lap to go.
Ayana&rsquo;s challenge soon faded, leaving Seyaum, Tsegay and Gidey out in front. Seyaum&rsquo;s kick down the home straight was enough to break free from Tsegay and she won in 14:25.84. Tsegay, the Olympic bronze medallist at this distance, was second in 14:26.69 while world record-holder Gidey was third in 14:26.92. Grovdal held on to fourth place in a Norwegian record of 14:31.07 and USA&rsquo;s Alicia Monson was fifth in a big PB of 14:31.11. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62ab8b6cd217ab0413f48ded.jpg" alt="Dawit Seyaum celebrates her 5000m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo" />
Dawit Seyaum celebrates her 5000m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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For just the second time in history, seven women finished inside 14:35 and eight women finished inside 14:40.
There was another Ethiopian 1-2-3 in the men&rsquo;s 5000m, though this time the 1500m standout was beaten by the 5000m specialist.
The pace was steady though never blazing quick, meaning most of the field was still in contention at the business end of the race. Two-time world indoor champion Samuel Tefera led at 3000m, passing in 7:54.39, but then sat back in the pack to save his legs for a potential fast finish.
He made his way back to the front of the pack in the closing stages, but could not get on level terms with Bekele, who kicked ahead and won in 13:03.51. Tefera held on for second in 13:04.35, just ahead of compatriot Getnet Wale (13:04.48).
Keely Hodgkinson won the battle of the Brits over 800m, getting the better of fellow Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir.
The 20-year-old ran a controlled and assured race and kept her cool in the closing stages to win comfortably in 1:57.71. Muir was second in 1:58.09, ahead of France&rsquo;s Renelle Lamote (1:58.50) and world champion Halimah Nakaayi of Uganda (1:58.68).
<h2>Fajdek breaks Diamond League record</h2>
A competitive showdown between global medallists resulted in four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek breaking the Diamond League record for the hammer.
Fajdek took an early lead with 77.96m, then Hungary&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Bence Halasz was the first to throw beyond 78 metres, recording 78.42m in round three. Fajdek improved to 78.16m and followed it with 78.41m in round four, but Halasz then responded with 78.73m to increase his lead.
Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki (78.21m) and Olympic silver medallist Eivind Henriksen (78.23m) threw beyond 78 metres in round five, with Nowicki improving to 78.36m in the final round. At that point, just half a metre separated the top four. Fajdek, with the penultimate throw of the competition, sent his hammer out to 80.56m to break his own Diamond League record. Halasz responded with a season&rsquo;s best of 79.29m, but it wasn&rsquo;t enough to regain the lead.
The women&rsquo;s shot put was a reunion of the top eight finishers from this year&rsquo;s World Indoor Championships. The three medallists from Belgrade filled the top three places here, though in a different order.
World indoor bronze medallist Jessica Schilder opened with 19.46m, an improvement on her Dutch record, which stood as the leading mark until round three when USA&rsquo;s world indoor silver medallist Chase Ealey threw 19.66m.
Ealey maintained her lead and improved to a lifetime best of 20.13m in the final round, moving her to fourth on the US outdoor all-time list. World indoor champion Auriol Dongmo threw a best of 19.43m in the final round to finish third.
Olympic champion Valarie Allman lost her winning streak in the discus as multiple global champion Sandra Perkovic won with 66.82m. Allman saved her best throw for the last round, but her 65.91m effort came up short behind the Croatian. Olympic silver medallist Kristin Pudenz was third with 63.31m.
Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, meanwhile, won the long jump with 8.10m from Sweden&rsquo;s Thobias Montler (8.05m).
<h2>De Grasse maintains Oslo winning streak</h2>
Andre De Grasse has competed at the Bislett Games four times. And, as of today, the Canadian sprinter has also won four times at the Bislett Games.
The Olympic 200m champion came under pressure from Britain&rsquo;s Reece Prescod in the closing stages, but De Grasse just held on to win in 10.05 (0.5m/s) from Prescod (10.06). South Africa&rsquo;s Akani Simbine was third in 10.09. 
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Devon Allen wins the 110m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Conditions were a bit tougher for the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles and times were affected by the damp conditions and -1.2m/s headwind, but world leader Devon Allen once again emerged victorious in 13.22.
Spain&rsquo;s Asier Martinez took second place in 13.30 from Brazil&rsquo;s Rafael Pereira (13.37).
Grenada&rsquo;s Kirani James has been a regular on the Wanda Diamond League circuit for more than a decade, but the 2012 Olympic champion had never previously raced in Oslo. The 29-year-old made a good first impression, though, and won the 400m convincingly in 44.78.
Botswana&rsquo;s Isaac Makwala was second in 45.45, just ahead of Jamaica&rsquo;s Olympic finalist Christopher Taylor (45.52).
Elsewhere, Denmark&rsquo;s Ida Karstoft maintained her streak of breaking national 200m records this year, winning the half-lap sprint in 22.73 (0.8m/s). It was her sixth Danish record in as many races this year, indoors and out.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Norway's Ingebrigtsen moves to sixth on the world mile all-time list with 3:46.46 at the Bislett Games

Ingebrigtsen, Bol and Duplantis in record-breaking form in Oslo

When the Bislett Games gets under way on Thursday (16) there will be less than a month to go until the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. And with only two other Wanda Diamond League meetings on the calendar before the athletics world descends on Eugene, many of the world&rsquo;s best athletes will be in action in Oslo as they gear up for the peak of the season.
While Norway&rsquo;s Olympic 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm has been forced to withdraw following the injury he picked up in Rabat, it has not dented the overall quality of a meeting that boasts 19 medallists from the Tokyo Games, including six Olympic champions.
And the presence of Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the Dream Mile means that the home crowd will still get to cheer on one of the country&rsquo;s biggest athletics stars.
He ran a world-leading 3:49.76 to win over the distance in Eugene last month. He has also tested his form at either end of his range so far this season, winning over 5000m in California in 13:02.03, and clocking 1:47.22 for 800m in Bergen last week.
Ingebrigtsen will be doubly keen to win on Thursday as he has never won the senior Dream Mile in Oslo (although he won it in 2017 when it was an U20-only event). The likes of Britain's Jake Wightman, Mohamed Katir of Spain, Australia&rsquo;s Oliver Hoare and Luxembourg&rsquo;s Charles Grethen will line up against the 21-year-old Norwegian.
Ingebrigtsen is one of four Olympic champions in Oslo who&rsquo;ll be heading to the Norwegian capital as the world leader in their discipline, alongside Mondo Duplantis, Valarie Allman and Wojciech Nowicki.
Duplantis, who increased his own world record to 6.20m when winning the world indoor title in Belgrade in March, has maintained his winning streak since the start of the Diamond League season. He won in Doha with 6.02m, followed it with a 5.91m victory in Eugene and then returned to six-metre form with a 6.01m triumph in Hengelo.
He set a meeting record of 6.01m in Oslo last year, and the 22-year-old Swede is highly motivated by constant improvement, so he&rsquo;ll be keen to go one better on Thursday. The field includes the 2016 and 2012 Olympic champions, Thiago Braz and Renaud Lavillenie, as well as two-time world champion Sam Kendricks and leading Norwegian vaulters Pal Haugen Lillefosse and Sondre Guttormsen.
The hammer may not be a Diamond League discipline, but it boasts one of the strongest fields of the evening as it reunites the top four from the men&rsquo;s final in Tokyo: Wojciech Nowicki, Eivind Henriksen, Pawel Fajdek and Mykhaylo Kokhan. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62a8db99a71c1036b727aa28.jpg" alt="Wojciech Nowicki in the hammer in Silesia" />
Wojciech Nowicki in the hammer in Silesia (&copy; Marta Gorczynska)
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Olympic champion Nowicki has dominated the event so far this year, winning four of his five competitions and posting world-leading marks in Nairobi (81.43m) and Silesia (81.58m). But the Pole hasn&rsquo;t been so dominant to assume that victory in Oslo will be a foregone conclusion.
Allman has been similarly impressive in the discus. The Olympic champion owns the eight best throws in the world this year, topped by her North American record of 71.46m. But multiple global champion Sandra Perkovic, who will also be in Oslo, came within 59 centimetres of Allman in Birmingham. Olympic silver medallist Kristin Pudenz, meanwhile, has been close to PB form this year and has the potential to cause an upset in Oslo.&nbsp;
<h2>Hurdle excitement expected</h2>
Hurdling events have produced some of the biggest highlights of recent editions of the Bislett Games and that trend could well continue on Thursday.
Fresh from his stunning 12.84 run in New York to move to third on the world all-time list, Devon Allen will line up in the 110m hurdles in Oslo, his first race outside of North America this year. The US athlete is treating 2022 as his final season before embarking on a career in the NFL, but before making that switch he is gearing up for one final hurrah at the World Championships in Oregon, home of his alma mater.
Jamaica&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic champion Omar McLeod and France&rsquo;s European indoor champion Wilhem Belocian will likely be Allen&rsquo;s toughest opponents in Oslo.
After years of the focus being on Warholm and Rai Benjamin, young Brazilian Alison dos Santos is fast becoming the talk of the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles.
The Olympic bronze medallist, who turned 22 earlier this month, is undefeated in this event this year. He set a season&rsquo;s best of 47.23 in Eugene at the end of May, but his 47.24 victory in Doha &ndash; on an evening of challenging blustery conditions &ndash; was perhaps even more impressive. They&rsquo;re the second and third-best performances of his career so far, behind the 46.72 PB he clocked in Tokyo to move to third on the world all-time list. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/627e8de1bf13efcaa3d66f9a.JPG" alt="Alison dos Santos pips Rai Benjamin in the Doha Diamond League 400m hurdles" />
Alison dos Santos pips Rai Benjamin in the Doha Diamond League 400m hurdles (&copy; Christel Saneh)
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The vastly experienced Rasmus Magi improved his Estonian 400m hurdles record to 47.82 in Turku on Tuesday, while Sweden&rsquo;s world indoor bronze medallist Carl Bengstrom has also already set a PB of 48.52 this year and could be one to watch in this race. Yasmani Copello should also be in contention.
Dos Santos&rsquo;s fellow Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol headlines the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. The Dutch athlete kick-started her outdoor campaign by smashing the world best for 300m hurdles, clocking 36.86 in Ostrava, and then followed it with wins of 53.94 and 53.02 for the full one-lap event in Hengelo and Rome respectively.
Ukrainian duo Anna Ryzhykova, a sub-53-second performer at her best, and Viktoriya Tkachuk should feature near the front of the race, as could British pair Jessie Knight and Lina Nielsen.&nbsp;
<h2>Gidey leads loaded 5000m field</h2>
Multiple world record-holder Letesenbet Gidey will be out to achieve her first victory of the year following runner-up finishes in Eugene and Hengelo.
The Ethiopian, who holds world records for 5000m, 10,000m and the half marathon, takes on a handful of her leading compatriots in the 5000m, including world indoor 1500m champion Gudaf Tsegay, 2015 world champion Almaz Ayana and 2016 world indoor silver medallist Dawit Seyaum. Britain&rsquo;s Eilish McColgan, who beat Gidey over 10,000m in Hengelo earlier this month, is also in the line-up. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/60bfd12290317ecf4f3e4b44.jpg" alt="Letesenbet Gidey sets a world 10,000m record in Hengelo" />
Letesenbet Gidey sets a world 10,000m record in Hengelo (&copy; Global Sports Communication)
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Following a promising debut at the distance in Eugene last month, two-time world indoor 1500m champion Samuel Tefera will contest the second 5000m race of his career. The 22-year-old Ethiopian clocked 13:06.86 at the Prefontaine Classic to finish second to Berihu Aregawi. While Aregawi is skipping Oslo, three other Ethiopians with sub-13-minute PBs are in the field: Getnet Wale, Telahun Haile Bekele and Milkesa Mengesha.
Olympic silver medallists Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir will race over two laps of the track. The British duo has raced each other just once before, Hodgkinson getting the verdict on that occasion at the national championships last year. The 20-year-old goes into this race as the fastest entrant too, having clocked a season&rsquo;s best of 1:57.72 when winning in Eugene last month.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Diribe Welteji, also aged just 20, goes into the race in good form too, having set a personal best of 1:58.28 for 800m and a season&rsquo;s best of 3:59.19 for 1500m. Uganda's world champion Halimah Nakaayi, Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule, Britain&rsquo;s Jemma Reekie and France&rsquo;s Renelle Lamote will ensure the race is super competitive.
<h2>Ehammer vs Tentoglou, take two</h2>
The long jump showdown between Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou and rising decathlon talent Simon Ehammer was one of the more exciting duels at the recent Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rabat. 
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Miltiadis Tentoglou in the long jump in Rabat (&copy; Diamond League / Matt Quine)
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Tentoglou won on that occasion, but the Greek had to work hard to overtake the Swiss all-rounder. World indoor champion Tentoglou has built up a nine-strong winning streak and he won&rsquo;t want to lose it to a non-specialist. That said, Ehammer is quite some decathlete, and his world decathlon best of 8.45m still leads the world list for this year. If he reproduces that form in Oslo, he&rsquo;ll be tough to beat.
Uruguay&rsquo;s Emiliano Lasa and Sweden&rsquo;s Thobias Montler will also be in the hunt to bag Diamond League points on the road to the final.
The women&rsquo;s shot put will be a rematch of the World Indoor Championships final as it reunites the top eight finishers from there. Much of the focus will fall on world indoor champion Auriol Dongmo and world leader Chase Ealey, but the likes of Jamaica&rsquo;s world silver medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd, USA&rsquo;s Maggie Ewen, Canadian record-holder Sarah Mitton, Dutch record-holder Jessica Schilder, and Swedish record-holder Fanny Roos have all thrown beyond 19 metres this season.
Half of the men&rsquo;s 400m field earned medals of some sort in Tokyo last year. Olympic bronze medallist Kirani James goes into the race off the back of a 44.54 victory in Rome and a 44.02 season&rsquo;s best in Eugene. He&rsquo;ll face three Olympic relay medallists in the form of Botswana&rsquo;s Isaac Makwala, the much-improved Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic and Liemarvin Bonevacia of the Netherlands.
Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse has raced in Oslo three times before and has won every time, taking the 100m in 2016 and 2017 and the 200m in 2021. The Canadian steps back down to the shorter sprint this year and will be keen to maintain his unbeaten record in the Norwegian capital as he takes on Britain&rsquo;s Reece Prescod &ndash; winner in Ostrava in a 9.93 PB &ndash; plus Ghana&rsquo;s Benjamin Azamati and South Africa&rsquo;s Akani Simbine.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Many of the world’s best will be at the Bislett Games as they gear up for the peak of the season.

World-leading Olympic champions ready to roll in Oslo

Shericka Jackson secured the spotlight in a superb 200m showdown, while Kenya&rsquo;s Nicholas Kimeli stormed his way up the world 5000m all-time list on an evening of top-class action at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome on Thursday (9).
The earlier storm had passed and blue skies returned in time for the meeting, leaving it down to the athletes to produce the sparks and prompt thunderous support at the Stadio Olimpico for the fifth meeting in this season&rsquo;s Wanda Diamond League series.
In a field featuring four reigning global champions, it was Jamaica&rsquo;s Olympic 100m bronze medallist Jackson who triumphed above them all in the women&rsquo;s 200m. Blasting out of the blocks, the versatile sprint talent surged off the final bend and couldn&rsquo;t be caught, setting a meeting record of 21.91 (1.3m/s) &ndash; her third-quickest ever time behind her 21.81 PB set in Zurich last year.
Becoming the first athlete to break 22 seconds in the event at this meeting, the 27-year-old &ndash; who also has world and Olympic 400m medals to her name &ndash; blazed away ahead of her five-time Olympic champion compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah (22.25), Britain&rsquo;s world champion Dina Asher-Smith (22.27) and two-time Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.48).
&ldquo;I just wanted to come out and run a strong race, so I think I did pretty good,&rdquo; said Jackson, who will soon race for World Championships places at the Jamaican Championships. &ldquo;The thing is, when it comes to Jamaican trials or major championships, I try not to have a different mindset than when I am at a Diamond League meeting or a development meet. Anything could happen on the day, so I just focus on coming out and performing at my best.
&ldquo;After the trials, and if everything goes well, my aim is to add a gold medal to my name. I have many individual medals at 400m and 100m, but I need to get that gold medal in any event that might be.&rdquo; 
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 Similarly in the men&rsquo;s 5000m, Kenya&rsquo;s Nicholas Kimeli might have been up against multiple global gold medallists but he too left them all for dust, surging to seventh on the world all-time list with a world-leading 12:46.33 to break the meeting record that had been set by Eliud Kipchoge back in 2004.
Running behind Ethiopia&rsquo;s two-time world indoor 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha through 3000m in 7:41.50 and 4000m in 10:15.10, Kimeli &ndash; who narrowly missed out on Olympic 5000m bronze in Tokyo &ndash; went on to battle with his compatriot Jacob Krop and edged to victory. Krop was right behind him in 12:46.79, a time that puts him joint ninth on the world all-time list with Kejelcha, who this time ran 12:52.10 for third.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega finished fourth (12:54.87) and Canada&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Mohammed Ahmed fifth (12:55.84) as the top eight all dipped under 13 minutes.
&ldquo;I am feeling great because I had never won a Diamond League race before and I really pushed to make it happen,&rdquo; said Kimeli. &ldquo;The race was very, very competitive.
&ldquo;Last year, I missed an Olympic medal and came fourth. So this year I really focus on our trials and coming home with a medal from the World Championships. This race has shown me that I am in good shape, and it has given me a lot of confidence.&rdquo;
<h2>Girma gets another sub-eight, Mu makes rapid return</h2>
Before 31 May, Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma had never broken eight minutes for the 3000m steeplechase. In the space of 10 days, the Olympic silver medallist has done it three times &ndash; first running a national record of 7:58.68 in Ostrava for a performance that puts him 12th on the world all-time list, then clocking 7:59.24 to finish second in Rabat and now, in Rome, storming to a dominant 7:59.23 victory.
Never troubled, Girma won by more than seven seconds ahead of Kenya&rsquo;s Abraham Kibiwot (8:06.73), with Ethiopia&rsquo;s Olympic fourth-place finisher Getnet Wale third in 8:06.74. 
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 The women&rsquo;s 1500m saw Ethiopia&rsquo;s Hirut Meshesha, fresh from a PB run of 3:57.30 to win in Rabat, triumph again in a tactical race. The world indoor bronze medallist moved away from her compatriot Axumawit Embaye, the world indoor silver medallist who was third in Rabat, to win &ndash; 4:03.79 to 4:04.53, with Britain&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir third in 4:04.93.
At the pre-event press conference, USA&rsquo;s Olympic 800m champion Athing Mu had expressed her hope for something &ldquo;fast and under two minutes&rdquo; in Rome. Mission accomplished. Racing the day after her birthday, the 20-year-old was in fact almost three seconds under that two-minute barrier as she strode to a world-leading 1:57.01 to show no ill-effects from the Covid diagnosis that had prevented her from racing in Eugene last month.
Mu followed the pacemaker through the first lap in 56.42 and then kicked with 200m to go. Renelle Lamote of France gave chase and finished second in 1:58.48, with multiple Italian champion Elena Bello inspired to a big PB of 1:58.97, as she went sub-2:00 for the first time &ndash; one of eight athletes to dip under that barrier in this race.
Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Olympic 100m hurdles champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn carried her recent fine form to Rome, following her wins in Eugene and Ostrava with another victory at the Stadio Olimpico. Clocking a world-leading 12.37 (0.1m/s), she improved her own meeting record set last year by 0.01 and held off Jamaica&rsquo;s Britany Anderson, who pushed Camacho-Quinn all the way but hit the last hurdle. She was second in 12.50, ahead of world champion Nia Ali (12.71). 
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Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Britany Anderson battle in the women's 100m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League in Rome (&copy; Getty Images)
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After clocking 53.94 at a wet FBK Games in Hengelo, Dutch Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medallist Femke Bol had been hoping to build on that in better conditions in Rome. Although still racing on a damp track, she did exactly that &ndash; recording a season&rsquo;s best of 53.02, 10 days after she set a 36.86 world 300m hurdles best in Ostrava. Bol won by more than a second, with Jamaica&rsquo;s Commonwealth champion Janieve Russell second in 54.18 and Ukraine&rsquo;s Anna Ryzhykova third in 54.50.
Four years after his 400m win in Rome, the versatile Fred Kerley claimed the 100m crown, clocking 9.92 (0.2m/s). The Olympic silver medallist got a strong start and was clearly away, leaving the rest of the field behind as he matched the season&rsquo;s best he ran in Nairobi last month. His US compatriot Kyree King was second in 10.14.&nbsp;
Grenada&rsquo;s multiple Olympic medallist Kirani James also maintained his winning record in Italy, clocking 44.54 to take the 400m ahead of USA&rsquo;s Vernon Norwood in 44.81. James, who won world U18 200m and 400m titles in Bressanone in 2009, was narrowly ahead off the final bend and although initially under pressure from Norwood, he was strongest in the closing stages. USA&rsquo;s Michael Cherry was third in 45.24.&nbsp;
USA&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek raced to a dominant win in the men&rsquo;s non-Diamond League 200m, clocking a season&rsquo;s best of 20.01 (-0.1m/s) ahead of South Africa&rsquo;s Luxolo Adams (20.33) and Filippo Tortu (20.40), who anchored the Italian 4x100m team to victory at the Tokyo Olympics.&nbsp;
The men&rsquo;s 3000m race walk was won by Italy&rsquo;s Francesco Fortunato in 10:57.77 from Gianluca Picchiottino in 10:59.91. The event was held to celebrate Massimo Stano and his Olympic 20km race walk win in Tokyo and the 30-year-old charged to third place in 11:06.15, to big cheers from the Stadio Olimpico crowd.
<h2>Ceh continues to impress</h2>
Slovenia&rsquo;s European U23 discus champion Kristjan Ceh continued his superb season with a meeting record-breaking throw of 70.72m to achieve his third Diamond League victory of the year. After his world-leading national and Diamond League record of 71.27m in Birmingham, the 23-year-old threw 69.68m in Rabat on Sunday and again faced a strong field in Rome featuring all three Tokyo Olympic medallists.
Holding his nerve, he improved the 12-year-old meeting record three times, first with 69.06m, then 69.71m and again with 70.72m in the final round, after encouraging the crowd to clap along in support. Those claps soon turned to fierce cheers as the final distance was confirmed, as he added almost two metres to the meeting record set by Poland&rsquo;s 2015 world champion Piotr Malachowski in 2010. Ceh also came close to that mark with his third-round 68.76m.
Austria&rsquo;s Lukas Weisshaidinger ended up being his closest challenger, throwing 68.30m in the fifth round, while Sweden&rsquo;s Olympic and world champion Daniel Stahl was third with 65.87m from his third throw.
&ldquo;Every competition it is getting better and better, so it is a good result here today,&rdquo; said Ceh. &ldquo;Having competed against the three medallists from the Olympic Games does not make me more nervous than usual, because I am always nervous before every competition. My first throw showed that, but I tried to focus on my technique and avoid added pressure.&rdquo; 
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Kristjan Ceh continues his win streak in the discus at the Wanda Diamond League in Rome (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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USA&rsquo;s two-time world champion Joe Kovacs took command in the men&rsquo;s shot put, throwing 21.85m in the third round for a lead he wouldn&rsquo;t relinquish. There was a close battle for the runner-up spot, with Croatia&rsquo;s 2016 world indoor bronze medallist Filip Mihaljevic throwing a season&rsquo;s best of 21.18m in the fourth round, Poland&rsquo;s Konrad Bukowiecki matching that mark in the fifth and Brazil&rsquo;s world indoor champion Darlan Romani recording 21.15m.
USA&rsquo;s Sandi Morris went into the pole vault contest as the world leader and she took that mark even higher in Rome, clearing 4.81m before having three attempts at 4.90m. The two-time world indoor champion entered at 4.40m and had first-time clearances up to 4.60m, before needing two attempts at 4.70m &ndash; a height that secured her the win &ndash; as well as 4.75m and 4.81m. Four athletes cleared 4.60m, with Britain&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw and Italy&rsquo;s Roberta Bruni sharing second place on countback.
USA&rsquo;s two-time double NCAA champion JuVaughn Harrison triumphed in the high jump to leave home favourite Gianmarco Tamberi still searching for his first win at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea. Harrison cleared a season&rsquo;s best of 2.27m to win on countback ahead of Norbert Kobielski, while joint Olympic champion Tamberi claimed another third-place finish in front of a passionate adoring audience as one of three athletes to clear 2.24m.
Ukraine&rsquo;s world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk soared to success in the long jump, leaping 6.85m to win by six centimetres ahead of Germany&rsquo;s Olympic, world and European champion Malaika Mihambo. USA&rsquo;s Quanesha Burks was just two centimetres off that, finishing third with 6.77m.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

Meeting records fall and world leads are set on evening of top-class action at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 

Jackson wins sprint showdown, Kimeli reigns in Rome

Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Gianmarco Tamberi and Athing Mu are among the 10 individual Olympic gold medallists from Tokyo who will aim to reign supreme when the Wanda Diamond League returns to Rome on Thursday (9).
As the fifth meeting in this season&rsquo;s Diamond League, the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea takes place just five weeks out from the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Two of those reigning Olympic champions go head-to-head in the women&rsquo;s 200m. Jamaican sprint star Thompson-Herah completed a sprint treble in Tokyo, winning the 100m and 200m as well as the 4x100m, while Miller-Uibo claimed the 400m crown. Now they meet as part of a stacked field for the half-lap event, lining up alongside US sprint legend Allyson Felix, Britain&rsquo;s world champion Dina Asher-Smith, Jamaica&rsquo;s Olympic 100m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson, world indoor 60m champion Mujinga Kambundji, Ivory Coast&rsquo;s multiple world medallist Marie-Josee Ta Lou, Britain&rsquo;s Beth Dobbin and Italy&rsquo;s Dalia Kaddari.
The 2019 Diamond League 100m champion Asher-Smith set the 200m meeting record last year, clocking 22.06 in Florence.
Thompson-Herah ran a couple of 200m races in Kingston in May but has focused on the 100m in international competition so far this season, clocking 10.79 at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene at the end of last month and 10.83 to win in Rabat. Miller-Uibo, meanwhile, races her first half-lap of the season after clocking 49.91 for 400m in April and then finishing third in Doha.&nbsp;When it comes to head-to-heads,&nbsp;Miller-Uibo leads their 200m outdoor final career clashes 5-1, but Thompson-Herah's one win came on the biggest stage &ndash; at the Olympics in Tokyo.&nbsp;
"I&rsquo;m not 100% but I think I am a true fighter,"&nbsp;Thompson-Herah explained at the pre-event press conference. "I opened my season at Mt SAC and I got a rotator cuff. You need your arms to run and every time I race I have discomfort, but I have to race, I need to see where I am at.
"Every season speaks for itself," she added. "Even though last year was spectacular, and I&rsquo;d love to repeat that this year, I am in no rush - my biggest aim is to taste that World Championships gold that I don&rsquo;t have."
Could a meeting record &ndash; and the event's first sub-22-second women's 200m &ndash; be on the cards?
"You never know," said&nbsp;Miller-Uibo. "This is a great line up of girls and I think we&rsquo;re all going to push ourselves to run a pretty decent time and put on a great performance. We&rsquo;ll try to surprise the crowd tomorrow."
USA&rsquo;s Mu is also just getting her season started and after a win in Texas in April, she races her first international 800m of the year in Rome. Such is the standard, four of the entrants have PBs under 1:57 and eight have broken the two-minute barrier this season.
Olympic champion Mu had been due to renew her rivalry with Tokyo silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson at last month's Diamond League in Eugene but explained how she wouldn&rsquo;t be racing there as she was &ldquo;still getting back into my rhythm of things&rdquo; after contracting Covid. So the US athlete&rsquo;s race in Rome, which comes the day after her 20th birthday and is her first Diamond League outside of the US, will be eagerly anticipated, particularly as Hodgkinson recorded a world-leading 1:57.72 when winning in Eugene.
"I&rsquo;m excited to be here," said Mu, speaking at the pre-event press conference on her birthday. "I feel like this is the beginning to my professional career, so to say. To experience it here in Rome for the first time, it&rsquo;s going to be something I remember for the rest of my career as the first overseas Diamond League that I have competed in."
On how fast she might be able to run, Mu added: "I just came back from being sick so just coming out here is me seeing where I am at physically and getting ready for championship season. I don&rsquo;t really have a specific time in mind but hopefully it&rsquo;s fast and under two minutes."
And that world record of&nbsp;1:53.28 remains an overall aim. "Who doesn&rsquo;t want to have a world record under their belt?" she said. "I think as time goes, and we keep competing with super great athletes like Keely Hodgkinson and we test one another, I think it will definitely come with time. The talent that we have in the 800m this past year and the coming years is really great and I think we&rsquo;ll continue to push each other."
Among her opposition this time is Uganda&rsquo;s world champion Halimah Nakaayi, Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule, Cuba&rsquo;s Rose Mary Almanza, Renelle Lamote of France, Australia&rsquo;s Catriona Bisset and Britain&rsquo;s Olympic fourth-place finisher Jemma Reekie. 
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Athing Mu at the 2021 Prefontaine Classic (&copy; Getty Images)
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In the 1500m, Reekie&rsquo;s fellow Briton and training partner Laura Muir &ndash; who secured Olympic silver behind Faith Kipyegon in Tokyo &ndash; will look to build on her victory in Birmingham before an 11th place finish in a Eugene race won by Kipyegon in a blazing 3:52.59. Ethiopia&rsquo;s world indoor bronze medallist Hirut Meshesha is fresh from a PB run of 3:57.30 to win in Rabat and she again lines up alongside her compatriot Axumawit Embaye, the world indoor silver medallist, who was third in Rabat in 3:58.80.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Lamecha Girma commands the spotlight again in the men&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase. After his national record of 7:58.68 &ndash; a mark that puts him 12th on the world all-time list &ndash; in Ostrava, he raced in Rabat and was second to the man who beat him to the Olympic title in Tokyo, local favourite Soufiane El Bakkali. Italy&rsquo;s Ahmed Abdelwahe was third in Ostrava and after setting his PB at the last edition of the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Florence last year, he&rsquo;ll be looking for another strong run on home soil. They race Ethiopia&rsquo;s Olympic fourth-place finisher Getnet Wale and Kenya&rsquo;s two-time world and 2016 Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto.
An Olympic champion, world champion and world record-holder clash in the men&rsquo;s 5000m as Ethiopia&rsquo;s 10,000m gold medallist in Tokyo Selemon Barega goes up against his compatriots Muktar Edris, the two-time world 5000m gold medallist, and world leader Berihu Aregawi, who set the world 5km record of 12:49 in Barcelona at the end of last year and clocked 12:50.05 when winning in Eugene. But it won&rsquo;t just be a three-way race, with further strength from Ethiopia&rsquo;s two-time world indoor 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha, Canada&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Mohammed Ahmed and Italy&rsquo;s Yemaneberhan Crippa, who recently claimed a 10,000m win in London in 27:16.18. 
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Berihu Aregawi wins the 5000m at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; Matt Quine)
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Femke Bol has picked up from where she left off last season, the Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medallist and European record-holder proving she&rsquo;s still a formidable force with a 36.86 world 300m hurdles best last week in Ostrava. She went on to win the 400m hurdles in a meeting record of 53.94 at a wet FBK Games in Hengelo and later explained how she hopes to run faster in better conditions in Rome.
Ukraine&rsquo;s Anna Ryzhykova was second in 55.62 in Hengelo, while USA&rsquo;s 2015 world silver medallist Shamier Little was also in action, and they all clash again in Rome.
An Olympic champion headlines the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles and Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn will be looking to continue her fine form, fresh from wins in Eugene and Ostrava. The world leader, who set the&nbsp;Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meeting record of 12.38 when the event was held in Florence last year, will again have to overcome a tough field in order to triumph. She lines up alongside USA&rsquo;s world champion Nia Ali, Jamaica&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Megan Tapper and 2015 world champion Danielle Williams, European indoor champion Nadine Visser of the Netherlands and Poland&rsquo;s Pia Skrzyszowska.
The men&rsquo;s 100m sees Olympic silver medallist Fred Kerley return to Rome for the first time since his 400m win in 2018 and the versatile sprinter will be looking to build on the 9.92 season&rsquo;s best he set in Nairobi last month. He is one of five sub-10-second men in the field, joined by his US compatriots Marvin Bracy, Kyree King, Michael Rodgers and Isiah Young, but fans will have to wait another day to see Italy&rsquo;s Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs in action as he withdrew from the race due to injury.
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Fred Kerley wins the 100m at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, Grenada&rsquo;s multiple Olympic medallist Kirani James is back in Italy for the first time since 2009, when he became the 200m and 400m World U18 Champion in Bressanone. This time in the one-lap event he faces USA&rsquo;s Michael Cherry and Vernon Norwood, plus Isaac Makwala of Botswana.
In the non-Diamond League 200m, Jacobs&rsquo; gold medal-winning Olympic 4x100m teammates Fausto Desalu, Lorenzo Patta and Filippo Tortu, who anchored Italy to victory in Tokyo, go up against USA&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek and Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s world indoor 400m champion Jereem Richards.
<h2>Tamberi looks to hit the heights on home soil</h2>
The high jump head-to-head between the joint Olympic champions may no longer be happening following the withdrawal of Qatar&rsquo;s Mutaz Barshim from the competition, but Gianmarco Tamberi will still be looking to put on a show for his home fans.
Sporting a return of his trademark half beard, the Italian got back into the rhythm of things in Ostrava by clearing 2.30m and had been looking to use that competition as a warm up for Rome, where he seeks his first Golden Gala Pietro Mennea win following second place in 2020, third places in 2021 in Florence and in 2016, and fourth place in 2019.
"This is my penultimate competition before the World Championships and one of the most important competitions of the year for me, because we are in Rome," said&nbsp;Tamberi. "I always care a lot about competing here and performing well here.
"I always perform well but I have never won. I hope this will be the time because I really want it. I feel that I want to jump high here in front of my crowd."
His rivals for success include Ukraine&rsquo;s Andriy Protsenko, USA&rsquo;s two-time double NCAA champion JuVaughn Harrison, Australia&rsquo;s Commonwealth champion Brandon Starc, Switzerland&rsquo;s Loic Gasch, Canada&rsquo;s Django Lovett and Israel&rsquo;s world U20 champion Yonathan Kapitolnik. 
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High jump winner Gianmarco Tamberi in Ostrava (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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The men&rsquo;s discus, women&rsquo;s long jump and women&rsquo;s pole vault also all feature the respective reigning Olympic champions but in the discus it&rsquo;s the Olympic fifth-place finisher who starts as the favourite. Slovenia&rsquo;s 23-year-old Kristjan Ceh continued his unbeaten season by throwing 69.68m in Rabat on Sunday and that came after his monster 71.27m in Birmingham &ndash; a world-leading national and Diamond League record that moved the European U23 champion to 10th on the world all-time list. That saw him win ahead of all three of the Tokyo medallists &ndash; Sweden&rsquo;s Olympic and world champion Daniel Stahl, his compatriot Simon Pettersson and Austria&rsquo;s Lukas Weisshaidinger &ndash; and they will all clash again in Rome.
Germany&rsquo;s Malaika Mihambo also started her season in fine style in Birmingham, leaping a world-leading 7.09m. She too is unbeaten this year and jumped 6.65m in Hengelo on Monday. But like Ceh in the discus, Mihambo also faces some strong opposition in Rome. Sweden&rsquo;s Khaddi Sagnia jumped a PB of 6.96m to win in Eugene, while Serbia&rsquo;s Milica Gardasevic improved to 6.81m in Silesia and they take on Ukraine&rsquo;s world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, USA&rsquo;s Quanesha Burks and Italy&rsquo;s European U20 champion Larissa Iapichino.
USA&rsquo;s two-time world indoor champion Sandi Morris leads the way when it comes to this season&rsquo;s pole vault performances, having cleared a world-leading 4.73m to win in Birmingham. She&rsquo;ll seek further success on the Diamond League stage in Rome, where she will battle with USA&rsquo;s Olympic champion Katie Nageotte, Britain&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw, 2016 Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece, Slovenia&rsquo;s world indoor bronze medallist Tina Sutej and Italian champion Elisa Molinarolo. 
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Sandi Morris at the Diamond League in Birmingham (&copy; Andy Buchanan / Diamond League AG)
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Nick Ponzio and Leonardo Fabbri will also be keen to impress in front of home fans in the men&rsquo;s shot put, an event in which their competition includes USA&rsquo;s two-time world champion Joe Kovacs, who has finished in the top two in each of his five contests so far this season, as well as Brazil&rsquo;s world indoor champion Darlan Romani. Achieving the first 22.00m-plus throw at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea will be among the aims.
Another Olympic champion is in action in the 3000m race walk, held to celebrate Massimo Stano who drops down in distance after his 20km race walk victory in Tokyo and subsequent wins over that distance and 35km in Alberobello and Dudince respectively this year.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Gianmarco Tamberi and Athing Mu are among the 10 individual Olympic gold medallists from Tokyo who will aim to reign supreme when the Wanda Diamond League returns to Rome

Global medallists ready for rematches in Rome

The Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah was in pandemonium tonight as local hero Soufiane El Bakkali, Morocco&rsquo;s golden champion of the Tokyo Olympics, won the steeplechase in a meeting record and world lead of 7:58.28 at the Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme de Rabat on Sunday (5).
Earlier the large crowd, relishing the return of the Wanda Diamond League to this arena for the first time in three years, had voiced huge dismay as Norway&rsquo;s Olympic 400m hurdles champion and world record-holder Karsten Warholm, making his keenly anticipated 2022 debut, pulled up and held his right hamstring after clearing the first hurdle.
After that downswing, the final upswing created such excitement that El Bakkali, having once more defeated the man he beat to gold in Tokyo &ndash; Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lamecha Girma &ndash; was mobbed by youngsters as he attempted to leave the arena.
He had tracked Girma all the way before choosing his moment, always appearing in control of his fortunes. It was a huge marker for his prospects of adding world gold this summer to the silver and bronze he already owns.
Girma also dipped under eight minutes, clocking 7:59.24, with his compatriot Hailemariyam Tegegn, who had kept in touch with the two leaders until the final lap, third in a personal best of 8:06.29.
Behind him, the revived and recuperated 2016 Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto took fourth place in 8:12.47, with India&rsquo;s Avinash Mukund Sable fifth in a national record of 8:12.48. A momentous race.
For Warholm, however, the night ended swiftly and unexpectedly.
On the eve of the meeting the Norwegian had commented: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s always a lot of nerves when it comes to the season starter because you know you have been putting in a lot of training but you don&rsquo;t know what to expect.&rdquo; True enough. 
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Khallifah Rosser in the 400m hurdles in Rabat (&copy; Diamond League / Matt Quine)
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 At the start of a sequence he was hoping would take him smoothly on to a third world title and, perhaps, an even faster time than his monumental world record of 45.94, the amiable 26-year-old was suddenly faced with the downside of this sporting life.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s probably a cramp in my hamstring &ndash; my leg seized up,&rdquo; Warholm said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not fun to stop like this. It&rsquo;s not something I expected, I felt very, very good. So we will just have to see what is happening.&rdquo;
As the world and Olympic champion was convening despondently on the first bend with his long-time coach Leif Olav Alnes, the departed field arrived at the line, with Khallifah Rosser crossing first in a meeting record of 48.25 from Estonia&rsquo;s Rasmus Magi, who clocked 48.73.
So Alison dos Santos, the 21-year-old Brazilian who took Olympic bronze last year, looks like he might be safe for a while yet at the top of this year&rsquo;s world list with the 47.23 he clocked at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene.
A third meeting record was set in the women&rsquo;s 100m.
Jamaica&rsquo;s double Olympic 100m and 200m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, who had maintained on the eve of competition that she was &ldquo;not in the best shape&rdquo; nevertheless delivered a smooth performance that brought her victory in 10.83.
Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast was second in 11.04, from Natasha Morrison of Jamaica, who clocked 11.22. 
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Elaine Thompson-Herah in the 100m in Rabat (&copy; Diamond League / Matt Quine)
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<h2>Ceh and Tentoglou maintain momentum</h2>
Kristjan Ceh retained his current hero status in the men&rsquo;s discus. The 22-year-old Slovenian, who retains his glasses during competition, has something of the look of Clark Kent &ndash; but he is currently throwing like Superman.
Having set a Diamond League and Slovenian record of 71.27m in Birmingham, improving on his previous PB of 68.75m and moving up to 10th on the all-time list, Ceh repeated the trick with a massive effort of 69.42m.
That took over the lead from Sweden&rsquo;s Olympic and world champion Daniel Stahl, who had managed 67.16m in the previous round. And after Ceh improved still further to 69.68m in the final round, Stahl could only muster 62.53m.
Australia&rsquo;s Matthew Denny also excelled himself on the night, taking third place with a personal best of 67.07m.
Greece&rsquo;s Olympic long jump gold medallist Miltiadis Tentoglou made good on his vow to &ldquo;defend the long jump pride&rdquo; by beating decathlete Simon Ehammer of Switzerland, who cleared a world-leading 8.45m at last weekend&rsquo;s combined events competition in G&ouml;tzis. 
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Miltiadis Tentoglou in the long jump in Rabat (&copy; Diamond League / Matt Quine)
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 While Tentoglou, who added another gold to his collection in March at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, carried the day with his fourth-round effort of 8.27m, the Swiss still rides high.
Ehammer &ndash; reported to be contemplating doubling up at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 &ndash; had taken the lead with his third-round distance of 8.11m.
He improved that to 8.13m in the final round after Tentoglou, who had thrown his arms up in frustration as a handsome-looking fifth attempt was ruled out, had failed to register a final distance.
Olympic bronze medallist Maykel Masso of Cuba was third with 8.08m.
<h2>Convincing 1500m wins for Meshesha and Wightman</h2>
Ethiopia dominated the women&rsquo;s 1500m, with Hirut Meshesha, who was five metres clear when the second of the two pacers stepped away with 500 metres remaining, held on to her lead despite the challenge around the final bend of Freweyni Hailu, who moved out into lane two to try to move past her compatriot but lacked the strength to make any further impression.
Meshesha crossed in a personal best of 3:57.30, with the 21-year-old Hailu second in 3:58.18 and Axumawit Embaye taking third place in 3:58.80 ahead of Australia&rsquo;s Georgia Griffith, who gamely kept in touch with the lead throughout and was rewarded with a personal best of 4:00.16. 
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Hirut Meshesha wins the 1500m in Rabat (&copy; Diamond League / Matt Quine)
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 Britain&rsquo;s Jake Wightman ran a perfectly judged race to win the men&rsquo;s 1500m in 3:32.62 ahead of his compatriot, fellow Olympic finalist and namesake Jake Heyward, who clocked 3:33.54.
Wightman made his move on the final lap, moving clear down the home straight to finish in composed fashion, with home athlete Abellatif Sadiki finishing strongly to take third place in 3:33.93 as Spain&rsquo;s Mohamed Katir, a front-runner until the final 100 metres, falling all the way back to seventh place.
Kenya&rsquo;s 17-year-old Emmanuel Wanyonyi, the world U20 800m champion, followed up his victory in Ostrava on Wednesday with another assured display that belied his age, maintaining himself within striking distance of the lead throughout and finishing strongest in 1:45.47.
Botswana&rsquo;s fast-finishing 2012 Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos was second in 1:45.66 with France&rsquo;s Gabriel Tual striving hugely for third place in 1:45.71.
Kenya&rsquo;s Collins Kipruto dropped away to fourth over the final 50 metres, but his compatriots Emmanuel Korir and Ferguson Rotich, the respective Olympic gold and silver medallists, had an even less happy time in warm but blustery conditions, finishing eighth and 10th respectively in 1:46.93 and 1:47.72.
Like the men&rsquo;s steeplechase, the women&rsquo;s 3000m produced sustained competition as Kenya&rsquo;s Mercy Cherono and European indoor champion Amy-Eloise Markovc battled all the way down the finishing straight before the Kenyan edged home in 8:40.29, 0.03 clear.
Cherono had tracked the US-based Briton round the final bend before striking for home, but Markovc resolutely refused to let any light develop between them and was rewarded with a personal best of 8:40.32, with Ethiopian teenager Medina Eisa third in 8:41.42.
Three years after making his international debut at this meeting &ndash; where he finished fourth in 20.51 &ndash; Kenny Bednarek returned as the Olympic 200m silver medallist, and he gave a performance in keeping with that standing as he won in 20.21 from lane seven, comfortably clear of South Africa&rsquo;s Luxolo Adams, who clocked 20.35.
The women&rsquo;s 400m saw the Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist and world leader Marileidy Paulino finishing two metres clear in 50.10, with Sada Williams of Barbados second in 50.74 and Stephenie Ann McPherson of Jamaica third in 51.37.
<h2>Jumps victories for Morris, Mahuchikh and Lafond</h2>
Sandi Morris, set on following successive world pole vault silvers with gold in the home setting of Eugene, Oregon this summer, maintained her winning form with a confident display.
By contrast, her training partner Katie Nageotte, the Olympic champion, failed to clear her opening height of 4.30m. Morris, meanwhile, did not enter the competition until 4.55m, clearing at the second attempt, and a first-time clearance at 4.65m confirmed victory. 
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Triple jump winner Thea Lafond in Rabat (&copy; Diamond League / Matt Quine)
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 Australia&rsquo;s Nina Kennedy was also clear first time at 4.65m, despite making 4.55m on her third attempt, but then had to retire. Greece&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi was third, clearing 4.55m first time but then being unable to make 4.65m.
Ukraine&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist and world silver medal-winning high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who has already earned world indoor gold this year, maintained her winning momentum with a first-time clearance at 1.96m before skipping up to take three unsuccessful attempts at 2.01m.
Like her two compatriots Iryna Gerashchenko and Yuliya Levchenko, the 20-year-old was sporting a badge pinned to her vest in support of Ukraine&rsquo;s resistance to the Russian invasion.
Gerashchenko cleared 1.93m and took second place on countback ahead of Australia&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Nicola Olsylagers &ndash; formerly McDermott &ndash; and Kazakhstan&rsquo;s Nadezhda Dubovitskaya.
Thea Lafond of Dominica won the women&rsquo;s triple jump with a fifth-round effort of 14.46m, with Shanieka Ricketts of Jamaica second with 14.43m and Slovenia&rsquo;s Neja Filipic third, a centimetre behind.
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics

World and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm pulls up after the first barrier

El Bakkali rocks Rabat with world-leading steeplechase victory

What do you do when you&rsquo;ve done it all? That was a question Karsten Warholm posed for himself in Tokyo last year by winning the Olympic 400m hurdles title in an unearthly world record of 45.94. But he&rsquo;s figured it out. He&rsquo;s going to push on.
&ldquo;One thing is success and another thing is repeating success,&rdquo; the 26-year-old Norwegian said on the eve of his first race of the year in the fourth Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Rabat on Sunday (5). &ldquo;It is actually more difficult to repeat it. And that is a task that I&rsquo;m up for.
&ldquo;I feel like we&rsquo;ve pushed a level very, very far when it comes to performance. When you run 45.94 it&rsquo;s putting a mark that nobody has ever seen and that also means that you are now walking a path that nobody has walked before you. So now it&rsquo;s up to me and my coach to be able to find the ways we want to walk now. And for us it&rsquo;s been all about putting in more work to see if there&rsquo;s any more to get.
&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the reason I didn&rsquo;t do indoors this year. I am looking forward to getting back to indoor running in the future, but I didn&rsquo;t prioritise it this year. And I hope that now, coming into the summer and the important part of the track season, I am more prepared and very eager to run and I&rsquo;m really looking forward to getting started.
&ldquo;Because everything that I can win in 400m hurdles I&rsquo;ve won and all the records I&rsquo;ve taken. Now we go back to the reason why I started doing this in the beginning. Now it&rsquo;s all about seeing how good I can become. I think I am entering a new part of my career, because now there&rsquo;s very big expectations on me, and for me to be living up to them &ndash; the journey starts here in Rabat. 
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Karsten Warholm at the Rabat Diamond League press conference (&copy; Chiara Montesano / Diamond League AG)
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&ldquo;Of course I am looking to have a good race. That&rsquo;s something I put a lot of pride into &ndash; when I go to a competition I want to deliver. I&rsquo;m not just coming here to show my face, I want to talk with my feet as well.
&ldquo;I love to compete. I am always ready to fight, and I love a good fight. So hopefully it will be a good fight tomorrow, and for the World Championships and the European Championships this year.&rdquo;
Sitting next to Warholm was the man who won Morocco&rsquo;s only medal &ndash; a golden one &ndash; at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, 3000m steeplechaser Soufiane El Bakkali.
The 26-year-old from Fez, whose Olympic gold came after missing out on a medal by one place at Rio 2016, and World Championships where he took silver and then bronze, was happy to respond to questions by local journalists seeking to know how much joy he was about to bring to watching fans in the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium tomorrow evening.
But he was careful to point out that this was a race for which he would be preparing like any other &ndash; and also that the field, which contains the two athletes who followed him home in Tokyo &ndash; Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lamecha Girma and Benjamin Kigen of Kenya &ndash; as well as France&rsquo;s Rio 2016 bronze medallist, Mahiedine Mekhissi, was formidable.
His victory at the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha last month established him atop this year&rsquo;s world lists with 8:09.66, before Girma ran 7:58.68 in Ostrava. But&nbsp;El Bakkali&nbsp;especially welcomed the chance to talk about his subsequent success at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi. 
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 &ldquo;I am glad to be asked about that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It was a very valuable experience to collect, to win in Kenya. Because this event has been a Kenyan speciality for so long.
&ldquo;So this win in Kenya will be a big encouragement to me as I look to the World Championships that will start so soon in Eugene.
&ldquo;And while there are pressures involved in competing in our own country, we hope we will be able to deal with this and move into a new phase for this season.&rdquo;
Having achieved Olympic success, adding a gold to his current collection of world silver and bronze is a top priority for Morocco&rsquo;s local hero.
Strangely, despite having won two individual golds in both 100m and 200m at the Olympics, Jamaica&rsquo;s Elaine Thompson-Herah is also still searching for a first individual world gold, having earned 200m silver in 2015. It is a state of affairs she is eager to correct, although she insisted that, despite her super-fast start to the season at the last Diamond League meeting in Eugene, where she clocked 10.79, she is not in peak shape.&nbsp; 
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Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates her 100m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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&ldquo;I think it would be very important to me to add that gold to my tally,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I have five Olympic gold medals, and in the World Championships I only have a silver. And I think it&rsquo;s important for me to get that and I am working towards that. I don&rsquo;t want to be only an Olympic baby &ndash; I want a taste of that gold from the World Championships.
&ldquo;And the fact that it is closer to home this year means that I will be more flexible and comfortable.&rdquo;
On the inevitable subject of the world record, she responded: &ldquo;I would love to break the world record but I&rsquo;m in no rush, so if I don&rsquo;t get it this year I have next year and the year after. I have some challenges this season early on, so I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m in the best shape right now.
&ldquo;But whenever I am in the best shape of my life I will try to break that record. Last year I ran 10.54 not knowing I could run that time. And in Tokyo I ran an Olympic record of 10.61 and I think that was not the best shape of my life yet.
&ldquo;Even though this year I changed coach, I&rsquo;m now working with my husband, I think I&rsquo;m on the right path even though I had some challenges early on. But never say never, I&rsquo;m still here trying, I want to hit that record, I know I can do it, I have that in me.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just about getting my mind and my body and everything right on that day. You have to get everything together, and I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m in that shape right now. But if I can do that I can definitely hit that target.&rdquo;
Like Thompson-Herah, the woman sitting alongside her, world indoor pole vault champion Sandi Morris of the United States, is also in search of a world outdoor gold this year, and has also recently switched coaches.
Morris is now being guided by former US vaulter Brad Walker and thus working alongside the fellow US athlete who won Tokyo gold last year, Katie Nageotte.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve won a world indoor title twice in my career and a world outdoor gold has eluded me so far,&rdquo; Morris said.
&ldquo;I would love to break that streak, especially given the Championships will take place on my home soil in Eugene, with American flags in the stands. That is going to be something that I and other US athletes have never experienced before, to have that much support at the World Championships. I&rsquo;m getting chills just thinking about.&rdquo; 
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Sandi Morris in the pole vault at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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Reflecting upon her year so far, Morris &ndash; who heads this year&rsquo;s outdoor world list with 4.73m, said: &ldquo;Consistency is key, and I&rsquo;ve been in the 4.70m range and jumped 4.80m indoors a couple of times, so I feel confident that I&rsquo;m really consistent at those heights.
&ldquo;I just changed coaches this season, and so to be able to be that consistent under a new training programme, working on new technical things, it just shows that the future is bright for this season. I feel like I&rsquo;m right there ready to make a breakthrough physically, I feel like I have had more time to prepare for this outdoor season and indoor was helping me build up that basework.
&ldquo;I feel like I&rsquo;m right there looking up at 4.90m, and I haven&rsquo;t jumped five metres since 2016 and changing coaches was a big incentive for that. I felt like I&rsquo;d plateaued for a couple of seasons. I feel like I&rsquo;m still capable of jumping five metres, I just have to make some changes. That&rsquo;s my goal really, to get back to five metres territory.&rdquo;
Morris is operating in a new spirit having endured, like everyone else, the disruptions of the pandemic and, in her case, untimely injury last summer which undermined her Olympic ambitions.
&ldquo;Last year was a wake-up call for me,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;And so was Covid, and things getting postponed. And it was kind of a realisation that you never know if it will be your last time on the runway. You never know if an injury is waiting just around the corner, or a pandemic, or God knows what that is going to make it impossible for you to continue in the sport.
&ldquo;So I have seen it in that light. The injury last year has been my motivation to take advantage of every time I run down that runway, I run down like it might be the last jump of my career. So my eyes are on the future and in the present, working on things down the runway to make every jump I do better. So I feel motivated, I feel positive and I feel really good in my new training situation.&rdquo;
For Kenny Bednarek of the United States, 200m silver medallist at the Tokyo Games, tomorrow will mark a huge affirmation of a long journey given that he made his first international appearance in Rabat the last time the Diamond League was held here in 2019.
Meanwhile, Greece&rsquo;s Olympic long jump gold medallist Miltiadis Tentoglou, who has built upon his Tokyo success by winning the world indoor title this year with a national indoor record of 8.55m, has set himself a specific task tomorrow &ndash; namely to beat the decathlete who tops the world list with his huge effort of 8.45m in the recent Gotzis multi-event meeting, Switzerland&rsquo;s Simon Ehammer.
&ldquo;So many jumpers train for years and they can not do this result,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;So yes, it would be good not only for me to defeat him, but I need to defend the long jump pride.&rdquo;
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics

What do you do when you’ve done it all? That was a question Karsten Warholm posed for himself in Tokyo by winning the Olympic 400m hurdles title in a world record.

Warholm, the winner who has taken all, re-booting his career in Rabat

Morocco is welcoming the Wanda Diamond League back for the first time since the pre-pandemic year of 2019 &ndash; and awaiting a momentous start to the season for Norway&rsquo;s Olympic 400m hurdles champion and world record-holder Karsten Warholm and local hero Soufiane El Bakkali.
Warholm, who smashed his own world record in the Olympic final with 45.94, will begin his competitive route at the Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme de Rabat on Sunday (5) to what he hopes will be a second successful defence of his world title in Eugene, Oregon this summer.
The 26-year-old Norwegian, who last competed in September, has seen Brazil&rsquo;s 21-year-old Olympic bronze medallist Alison dos Santos raise eyebrows this season with his defeat of Olympic silver medallist Rai Benjamin of the United States at the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha, and followed it up with victory at the third meeting of the series, in Eugene last Saturday, in 47.23, the fastest run so far this year.
That will certainly be a marker for Warholm as he takes on a field that includes Turkey&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Yasmani Copello.
But it will be El Bakkali, whose long-awaited gold in the men&rsquo;s steeplechase last year was Morocco&rsquo;s only medal of the Tokyo 2020 Games, who will be the centre of attention for home fans.
The 26-year-old from Fez, whose Olympic gold came after missing out on a medal by one place at the Rio 2016 Games, will certainly be hoping to fare better than he did at that last edition of this meeting. 
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Soufiane El Bakkali and Lamecha Girma battle in the Doha Diamond League 3000m steeplechase (&copy; Christel Saneh)
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 On that occasion he fell away to 11th place as Getnet Wale pressed on to win in an Ethiopian record of 8:6.01 &ndash; although three months later El Bakkali added world bronze in Doha to the world silver he had won in London in 2017.
The going, however, will be tough for Morocco&rsquo;s Olympic poster boy, who became the first non-Kenyan to win the men&rsquo;s Olympic steeplechase title since Poland&rsquo;s Bronislaw Malinowski in 1980 and the first to win it at a Games where Kenya were contesting the title since Belgium&rsquo;s Gaston Roelants in 1964.
He faces the two athletes who followed him home in Tokyo &ndash; Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lamecha Girma and Benjamin Kigen of Kenya &ndash; as well as France&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic bronze medallist, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Bennabad, who hasn&rsquo;t completed a steeplechase race since winning the European title in 2018.
Jamaica&rsquo;s double Olympic 100m and 200m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, who opened her Wanda Diamond League season with a 100m victory in 10.79 at last Saturday&rsquo;s meeting in Eugene, will continue her preparations for what would be a first individual world title of any kind this summer. 
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Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates her 100m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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 Switzerland&rsquo;s Ajla Del Ponte, Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast, and Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago are likely to be her closest challengers.
Ukraine&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist and world silver medallist high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh will seek to maintain her excellent form in a season where, despite a nightmare three-day trip &ndash; initially under shelling &ndash; from her native city of Dnipropetrovsk to Belgrade, she managed to win world indoor gold.
The 20-year-old faces strong opposition in the form of Australia&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Nicola Olyslagers &ndash; formerly McDermott &ndash; and her Ukrainian compatriot Iryna Gerashchenko.
Olympic 800m champion Emmanuel Korir will take on the fellow Kenyan whom he beat to gold in Tokyo, Ferguson Rotich.
But other Kenyans will be in the mix given the presence of Collins Kipruto, a consistent performer last year, and the startling new talent of 17-year-old Emmanuel Wanyonyi, last year&rsquo;s world U20 champion, who earned victory in the 800m at Wednesday&rsquo;s Continental Tour Gold meeting in Ostrava in 1:44.15.
Also in the field is Bosnia and Herzegovina&rsquo;s Amel Tuka, who has a personal best of 1:42.51, albeit from 2015.
The men&rsquo;s 1500m also features huge Kenyan talent in the form of Abel Kipsang, who clocked a personal best of 3:29.56 as he missed out on an Olympic medal by one place, having set what was then an Olympic record of 3:31.65 in the semi-finals.
Kipsang reached a global podium earlier this year, however, as he took bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
Mohamed Katir of Spain, with a best of 3:28.76 from last year, and Britain&rsquo;s Olympic finalists Jake Heyward and Jake Wightman, who ran 3:29.47 in 2020, will challenge strongly.
In the men&rsquo;s discus Kristjan Ceh will be hoping to maintain the startling form he displayed last month in Birmingham, where he set a Diamond League and Slovenian record of 71.27m, improving on his previous mark of 68.75m and moving up to 10th on the world all-time list. 
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Slovenian discus thrower Kristjan Ceh (&copy; Peter Kastelic)
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 The 22-year-old will be wary of the response, however, of Sweden&rsquo;s world and Olympic champion Daniel Stahl, who could only finish third in Birmingham with 65.97m.
Stahl&rsquo;s compatriot Simon Petterson and Austria&rsquo;s Lukas Weishaidinger, respective Olympic silver and bronze medallists, will also be formidable challengers.
Greece&rsquo;s Olympic long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, who will seek to add world outdoor gold this season to the indoor version he already has in his possession, will be looking for an advance on the decent start he has already made to his season by registering 8.36m last month.
The 8.45m achieved by decathlete Simon Ehammer at last weekend&rsquo;s combined events competition in Gotzis may be a motivating target for him &ndash; and the Swiss athlete will also be there in person.
Strong opposition will also be present in the form of Sweden&rsquo;s Thobias Montler, who earned world indoor silver in March, and Jamaica&rsquo;s world champion Tajay Gayle.
Burundi&rsquo;s Diamond League 5000m champion Francine Niyonsaba will be favourite to win the women&rsquo;s 3000m. The main opposition for Niyonsaba, who beat Kenya&rsquo;s double Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon over 3000m in Doha, will most likely come from Mercy Cherono of Kenya, whose personal best of 8:21.14 is a couple of seconds slower than hers.
Sandi Morris of the United States, who put her injury-undermined Tokyo Olympic experience behind her to successfully defend her world indoor pole vault title earlier this year, remains on a high, having won at the Birmingham Diamond League with 4.73m, the best outdoor mark of the year so far.
She will face strong opposition in the form of Britain&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw, Slovenia&rsquo;s world indoor bronze medallist Tina Sutej and Greece&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi.
Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek of the United States will feature in a men&rsquo;s 200m that also includes Botswana&rsquo;s 35-year-old Commonwealth champion Isaac Makwala and Canada&rsquo;s Jerome Blake, who won over this distance at Wednesday&rsquo;s Continental Tour Gold meeting in Ostrava in 20.14.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s 21-year-old Freweyni Hailu, who ran 3:56.28 over 1500m in Monaco last year, is the fastest entrant for the metric mile in Morocco, although she faces strong opposition from four athletes who have also beaten four minutes in compatriots Axumawit Embaye and Hirut Meshesha, Kenya&rsquo;s Winnie Nanyondo and Australia&rsquo;s Linden Hall.
Patricia Mamona, who set a Portuguese record of 15.01m to take women&rsquo;s triple jump silver behind the mercurial Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas at last summer&rsquo;s Tokyo Olympics, will be favourite to win a contest where her most likely rivals will be Jamaica&rsquo;s world silver medallist Shaniecka Ricketts, who has a best of 14.98m and Liadagmis Povea of Cuba, who has reached 14.93m.
The Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Marileidy Paulino will be the one to watch in the women&rsquo;s 400m, with pressure upon her likely to be exerted by Jamaica&rsquo;s Stephenie Ann McPherson.
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics

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USA&rsquo;s Michael Norman produced the standout performance at the&nbsp;Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene on Saturday (28), the 24-year-old setting a Diamond League 400m record of 43.60 to beat Grenada's Kirani James (44.02) and Matthew Hudson-Smith, who broke the British record with 44.35.&nbsp;
On a cool, blustery afternoon at Hayward Field, with many outbreaks of heavy rain, Norman was one of many athletes who defied the conditions to make it another memorable edition of the Prefontaine Classic.
&ldquo;I had zero expectation of what I could run today,&rdquo; said Norman, who revealed he and coach Quincy Watts had gone &ldquo;back to the basics&rdquo; during their winter training. &ldquo;Hard work and consistency with diet and training,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;My motto this year has been that if it&rsquo;s comfortable, it&rsquo;s too easy &ndash; on the weight room or the track. Based on how I felt, there are a few areas I can improve on.&rdquo;
Looking to next month&rsquo;s US Championships and the&nbsp;World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on the same track&nbsp;in July, Norman said: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to train like I want to do something special, and when the time comes, the time comes.&rdquo;
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon was equally peerless when taking the women&rsquo;s 1500m in commanding fashion, the Olympic champion tracking chief rival Gudaf Tsegay until the final turn, at which point she blew by and came home a clear winner in a world lead and meeting record of 3:52.59. Tsegay got second in 3:54.21 with Canada&rsquo;s Gabriela Debues-Stafford third in 3:58.62.&nbsp; 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6292a285b528277b63a7601a.jpg" alt="Faith Kipyegon wins the 1500m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene" />
Faith Kipyegon wins the 1500m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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&ldquo;The race today gave me great morale that everything I&rsquo;m doing is correct towards the World Championships &ndash; that&rsquo;s my biggest fish and I hope for the best, for the gold medal,&rdquo; said Kipyegon, who is &ldquo;going to think about&rdquo; a world record attempt at 1500m later in the summer. &ldquo;I was not expecting (to run 3:52) when I saw the rain this morning, but I felt comfortable. It was good.&rdquo;
USA's Ryan Crouser produced by far the standout performance in the field events, the Olympic shot put champion looking utterly peerless when launching a world-leading 23.02m effort in the second round. That left him well clear of long-time rivals Joe Kovacs (22.49m) and Tom Walsh (21.96m).
What made it more impressive is that Crouser did not use his full technique, but threw off a &ldquo;static&rdquo; starting position, which prior to today had never produced a 23-metre effort. Crouser said he usually throws 40-60cm farther when utilising his full technique.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I thought 23 was possible but I thought I&rsquo;d have to get into my full (technique) to do it,&rdquo; said Crouser. &ldquo;My best static ever was in the 22.90s. To throw a static PR, under a heavy load, without a taper, is a really good indicator of where I can be seven or eight weeks from now.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6292a4936751f8c5df13fc30.jpg" alt="World shot put record-holder Ryan Crouser in action at the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene" />
World shot put record-holder Ryan Crouser in action at the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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Berihu Aregawi turned in a superb solo performance to take the men&rsquo;s 5000m in a meeting record and world lead of 12:50.05, coming home well clear of fellow Ethiopians Samuel Tefera (13:06.86) and Selemon Barega (13:07.30). Aregawi swept to the front in the third kilometre after the pacers stepped aside and the Ethiopian broke clear of the field, powering through to the final laps to a rapturous reception from the crowd, which historically loves displays of fearless distance running.&nbsp;
In the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles, Brazil&rsquo;s Alison Dos Santos achieved another dominant performance, clocking a world-leading 47.23 to come home a distant winner ahead of USA&rsquo;s Khalifah Rosser and Quincy Hall, who both clocked personal bests of 48.10.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy with this, but I want more, I want to go faster,&rdquo; said Dos Santos. &ldquo;Me and (Rai) Benjamin never win against (Karsten) Warholm, and nobody wants to lose, but it&rsquo;ll be hard for us to come up against him at the World Championships and win. He is the boss, the guy to beat, and for winning the final you need to run 45 (seconds) &ndash; everyone is so strong.&rdquo;
Sprint queen Elaine Thompson-Herah once again asserted her supremacy with a comfortable win in the 100m, clocking 10.79 (0.7m/s) to beat Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson, who bounced back to form with a 10.92 clocking to edge Shericka Jackson, who was third in 10.92. Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith was fourth with 10.98.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy to cross the line healthy and with the win,&rdquo; said&nbsp;Thompson-Herah, who explained prior to the event that she&rsquo;d been managing a niggle in training.&nbsp;&ldquo;It got me ready for my championship in Jamaica next month.&rdquo; 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6292a5626751f8c5df13fc33.jpg" alt="Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates her 100m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene" />
Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates her 100m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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USA&rsquo;s Trayvon Bromell laid down a big marker ahead of next month&rsquo;s US Championships by defeating his chief rivals in the 100m, pulling clear to take a comfortable win in 9.93 (-0.2m/s). Fred Kerley was next best with 9.98, while Christian Coleman faded from first at halfway to third at the finish, clocking 10.04 just ahead of Noah Lyles (10.05).&nbsp;
"I really just wanted to come out with the win as I knew the wind was iffy today," said Bromell. "There were some technical things I wanted to do better with but I just have to go back to the drawing board and try to fix it."
Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn came from behind to score an impressive win in the 100m hurdles, a non-Diamond League event, the Puerto Rican clocking 12.45 into a slight headwind (-0.7m/s) with Nigeria&rsquo;s Tobi Amusan second in 12.58 and USA&rsquo;s Tonea Marshall third in 12.66.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was a little sloppy,&rdquo; said&nbsp;Camacho-Quinn.&nbsp;&ldquo;I hit my trail leg a couple of times and that slowed me up, but I&rsquo;ll take it. I went 12.4 in these conditions.&rdquo;
Jamaica&rsquo;s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was a clear winner of the women&rsquo;s 200m in 22.41 (0.8m/s), with USA&rsquo;s Brittany Brown second in 22.74 and Anthonique Strachan of Bahamas third in 22.76.&nbsp;
Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigtsen re-asserted his supremacy in the Bowerman Mile, the Olympic champion breaking clear with a lap to run and coming home a comfortable winner in a world lead of 3:49.76, with Australia&rsquo;s Ollie Hoare second in a PB of 3:50.65 and world champion Timothy Cheruiyot third in 3:50.77.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was a great race &ndash; I&rsquo;m where I&rsquo;m supposed to be,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen, who will &ldquo;for sure&rdquo; double over 1500m and 5000m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. Looking towards the European Championships in Munich, he said he&rsquo;d &ldquo;love to do 800m, 1500m, steeplechase, 5km, 10km and marathon, but I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s possible with the schedule.&rdquo;
He will next race over 800m before competing at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo on 16 June. &nbsp; 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6292b0158158cb189e7824d7.JPG" alt="Jakob Ingebrigtsen celebrates his Bowerman mile win in Eugene" />
Jakob Ingebrigtsen celebrates his Bowerman mile win in Eugene (&copy; Diamond League AG)
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Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson utilised her typical sit-and-kick tactics to great effect to take the women&rsquo;s 800m, the Olympic silver medallist powering clear of race leader Natoya Goule entering the home straight and holding off the late surge of world indoor champion Ajee Wilson to win in a world lead of 1:57.72, with Wilson second in 1:58.06 and Raevyn Rogers third in 1:58.44.&nbsp;
Olympic champion Athing Mu was a late withdrawal after contracting Covid-19, but Hodgkinson is looking forward to renewing their rivalry in July.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It would have been good if she was here, but she&rsquo;s going to be there at the World Champs and I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll have a good duel then &ndash; &nbsp;I look forward to racing her,&rdquo; said Hodgkinson. &ldquo;I felt really good, it was a bit windy out there but there was good competition, it was a good run. I can&rsquo;t complain.&rdquo;
Sweden&rsquo;s Khaddi Sagnia unleashed a PB of 6.95m (1.0m/s) to take victory in the women&rsquo;s long jump, with Nigeria&rsquo;s Ese Brume second with 6.82m and USA&rsquo;s Tara Davis third with 6.73m.&nbsp;
Norah Jeruto, the Kenyan-born athlete who now represents Kazakhstan, produced an impressive display to win the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase in 8:57.97, a world lead. Bahrain&rsquo;s Winfred Mutile Yavi was close behind in second, clocking a PB of 8:58.71, while Ethiopia&rsquo;s Mekides Abebe was third in 9:03.26.&nbsp; 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6292a5cd6751f8c5df13fc36.jpg" alt="Winfred Yavi and Norah Jeruto go head-to-head in the 3000m steeplechase in Eugene" />
Winfred Yavi and Norah Jeruto go head-to-head in the 3000m steeplechase in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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In the men&rsquo;s 1500m, a non-Diamond League event, New Zealand&rsquo;s Samuel Tanner took victory in a PB of 3:34.37 in front of Britain&rsquo;s Neil Gourley, who clocked a PB of 3:34.85.
Italy&rsquo;s Martina Caironi set a world record of 14.02 in the T63 women&rsquo;s 100m, while in the men&rsquo;s T62 400m, Germany&rsquo;s Johannes Floors took the win in 48.13. &nbsp;
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

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Calendar
Date	Meeting	Venue	Country
13–14 MAY 2022	Ooredoo Doha Meeting	Suhaim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha	QAT
21 MAY 2022	Diamond League Meeting	Alexander Stadium, Birmingham	GBR
27–28 MAY 2022	Prefontaine Classic	Hayward Field, Eugene, OR	USA
05 JUN 2022	Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme de Rabat	Complexe Sportif Prince Moulay Abdellah, Rabat	MAR
09 JUN 2022	Golden Gala Pietro Mennea	Stadio Olimpico, Roma	ITA
16 JUN 2022	Bislett Games	Bislett Stadion, Oslo	NOR
18 JUN 2022	Meeting de Paris	Stade Charléty, Paris	FRA
30 JUN 2022	BAUHAUS-Galan	Olympiastadion, Stockholm	SWE
06 AUG 2022	Kamila Skolimowska Memorial	Stadion Śląski, Chorzów	POL
10 AUG 2022	Herculis EBS	Stade Louis II, Monaco	MON
26 AUG 2022	Athletissima	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne	SUI
02 SEP 2022	Memorial van Damme	Boudewijnstadion, Bruxelles	BEL
07–08 SEP 2022	Weltklasse	Letzigrund, Zürich	SUI

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