Everything you need to know about this weekend’s Memorial Van Damme meet in the Belgian capital
The final Diamond League of the season will be in Brussels and welcomes many of the world’s top athletes to the 50,000 capacity King Baudouin Stadium over two days (September 13-14).
A myriad of Olympic champions and medallists will make the trip to Brussels as they attempt to win the Diamond League trophy and take home the top prize of $30,000 in each discipline.
There will also be para athletes in action, national races and young athletes’ relays before the main Diamond League programme.
Around 70,000 tickets have been sold so far and UK viewers can also watch it live on BBC Two and BBC Three from 7-9pm BST across both days respectively.
So who should you look forward to watching?
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Mondo Duplantis aims to soar high again
Mondo Duplantis has had yet another stellar season and will aim to end it in some style.
The Swedish pole-vaulting superstar loves competing in Brussels and last year set a meeting record of 6.10m, narrowly missing out on what would’ve then been a world record of 6.23m.
In 2024, Duplantis has broken his own best mark on three occasions and, if he is in top form and conditions are good, could clear 6.27m in the Belgian capital.
Duplantis’ main competition will come from Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis and US’s Sam Kendricks, who have both jumped six metres-plus this season.
KC Lightfoot, Chris Nilsen, Ben Broeders and Thibaut Collet complete the line-up.
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Letsile Tebogo leads a strong 200m
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo will hope to see off a strong US challenge in what could be a spectacular men’s 200m.
Tebogo hasn’t lost a single race over either the 100m or the 200m since claiming gold over the latter in Paris one month ago.
That time of 19.46 put Tebogo fifth on the 200m all-time list and only Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Noah Lyles and Michael Johnson have gone quicker.
Tebogo will likely have to be at his best to win as Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek looks in fine form.
The American almost beat Tebogo at the Zurich Diamond League and clocked 19.57 – going joint-eighth on the 200m all-time list – to the Botswana’s 19.55.
Other US athletes include the likes of Fred Kerley, Kyree King, Courtney Lindsey and Erriyon Knighton, while Joseph Fahnbulleh and Alexander Ogando are also in the field.
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