Diamond League 2025: Who’s competing in Xiamen opener and how to watch on BBC

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After winning the first global title of his career with world indoor 60m gold in March, Great Britain’s Jeremiah Azu begins his push for outdoor success.

The 23-year-old will have Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo, American Christian Coleman and South Africa’s Akani Simbine for company in a stacked race.

Swedish pole vault star Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis competes in the men’s pole vault after breaking the men’s world record for an 11th time in February.

In Xiamen one year ago, Duplantis posted the earliest world record in a Diamond League season before going on to win a fourth trophy.

Having announced this week that in June she will attempt to become the first woman to run a sub-four minute mile, three-time Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon will contest the women’s 1,000m in Xiamen.

The Kenyan, whose personal best is just 0.17 seconds slower than the world record of two minutes and 28.98 seconds, is joined in that race by Olympic 800m silver medallist Tsige Duguma and GB’s Erin Wallace.

Elsewhere, Britain’s Amy Hunt lines up in the women’s 200m against Jamaica’s two-time world champion in the event Shericka Jackson, while Morgan Lake competes against Ukraine’s Olympic high jump champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh.

The inaugural Diamond League men’s 300m hurdles features the event’s world record holder Karsten Warholm, while four-time global champion Grant Holloway goes in the men’s 110m hurdles.


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