It’s that time of year once again where the eyes of the track and field world will descend upon Stratford in West London for the sports biggest one day meet.
Since its move from Crystal Palace Park to the London Stadium the London Diamond League has become a staple of the track season with global stars coming from far and wide to put on a show in front of an expectant crowd of 60,000.
2025 is set to be no different and here is a full run down of what to expect from Saturday’s meet:
First we should start with the unfortunate withdrawals of two of the headline names. Keely Hodgkinson MBE has chosen to pull out of the meet due to the continued nursing of a hamstring injury she suffered during training in the indoor season.
The Olympic champion was set for a golden return to the site of her breathtaking national record run last summer. London marks the third scheduled Diamond League meet that Hodgkinson has had to withdraw from through injury as she prepares to finally seel a world title following two previous Silver medals.
Jakob Ingerbrigtsen will also miss out as he continues to recover from an achilles injury. The defending 5000m Olympic champion was set to bring the curtain down on the meet with a reigniting of his fierce rivalry with 2023 World Champion Josh Kerr over 1500m.
The meet opens with the men’s long jump which will see the top 5 in the world go head to head. Miltiadis Tentoglou is the favourite with a season best so far of 8.46, but will have young Italian Mattia Furlani and last year’s Diamond League champion Wayne Pinnock. Australian Liam Adcock leads the standings by 7 points and will once again be looking to put on a show. Former British indoor champion Samuel Khogali will be flying the flag at his home meet.
The men’s discus follows in the field with world record holder Mykolas Alekna is joined by Kristian Ceh and Brits Nicholas Percy and recent GB captain at the European team championships Lawrence Okoye.
2024 World Indoor Champion Molly Caudery makes a return to the london stadium in the women’s pole vault and is joined by the likes of 2 time world champion Katie Moon, 2025 Indoor champion Marie-Julie Bonnin and Angelica Moser.
The track action begins with the women’s 400m Hurdles where World Champion and meeting record holder Femke Bol will be joined by five other top 10 ranked athletes in Rushell Clayton, Shiann Slamon, Janieve Russell, Andrette Knight and Jasmine Jones. They will also be joined…
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