The Lausanne Diamond League meeting, scheduled for Thursday, will witness a star-studded lineup featuring 18 Olympic and world champions. Among them are Armand Duplantis, Letsile Tebogo, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who will headline the event.
Duplantis, the reigning Olympic pole vault champion, will participate in a City Event on Wednesday before the main competition. The Swede, who recently broke his own world record with a jump of 6.25 meters, will face off against American Sam Kendricks and French legend Renaud Lavillenie.
Tebogo, the Olympic 200m champion from Botswana, will race against Fred Kerley and Erriyon Knighton. The 21-year-old set an African record of 19.46 seconds in Paris, becoming the first African to win the Olympic 200m.
The men’s 800m promises to be a thrilling contest, with four Olympic finalists set to compete. Emmanuel Wanyonyi, the Olympic champion and third-fastest man in history, will face Marco Arop, Bryce Hoppel, and Mohamed Attaoui.
Ingebrigtsen, the Olympic 5,000m champion, will seek redemption in the 1500m after a disappointing performance in Paris. He will face Cole Hocker, who upset Ingebrigtsen in the Olympic final.
The women’s high jump will feature Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who set a world record of 2.10m at the Paris Diamond League meet. She will be challenged by Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson, the silver and bronze medalists from Paris.
Femke Bol, the Olympic bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles, will also compete in Lausanne.
