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The Hindu
11-06-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Duplantis headlines Oslo Diamond League, Warholm eyes 300m hurdles showdown
Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis headlines a star-studded Diamond League meet in Oslo on Thursday, featuring eight other champions from the Paris Olympics. AFP Sport looks at five stand-out events at the sixth meeting of the 15-event Diamond League circuit, where athletes have collectively won more than 15 individual Olympic gold medals and over 20 world championship golds: Women's 100m Julien Alfred made history at the Olympics last summer when she won a first-ever medal for her tiny island homeland of Saint Lucia. File photo: Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia celebrates with her national flag after winning gold in the women's 100m at the Paris 2024 Olympics. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Her personal best of 10.72sec is matched in the Oslo field by 36-year-old Ivorian veteran Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith. But Alfred will likely come under more pressure from the British pair of Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita. Men's 5,000m Oslo's Bislett Stadium is known as a venue where world records are regularly set. When a world-class field lines up for the 5,000m, they'll be chasing what could be the 72nd world record set at the venue since Adriaan Paulen established the first one back in 1924. Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet missed it by just over a second when he clocked 12:36.73 in the Norwegian capital last season. File photo: Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia. | Photo Credit: Getty Images This year, both Gebrhiwet and his compatriots Yomif Kejelcha, who finished second last year in 12:38.95, and Berihu Aregawi, with a personal best of 12:40.45, are all lining up with one goal in mind: breaking Joshua Cheptegei's world record of 12:35.36. Men's 800m If the race over 5km proves to be a mouth-watering clash, also don't rule out the 800m, where meet organisers have brought together what they say is the strongest line-up they've ever assembled. ALSO READ | Priyanka Goswami wins gold in women's 10km race walk at Austrian Championships Kenyan legend David Rudisha holds the stadium record of 1:42.04 from 2010. File photo: Emmanuel Wanyonyi is the reigning Olympic champion in the men's 800m event. | Photo Credit: Getty Images But that could be under threat from compatriot and reigning Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Algeria's Djamel Sedjati and France's Gabriel Tual, respectively second, fifth and sixth fastest ever over the two-lap race. Men's pole vault Duplantis remains head and shoulders above the rest, having bettered his own world record to 6.27m in February on the back of a 2024 season when he not only won Olympic gold but also broke the world record three times. The US-born Swede has also registered the 11 highest jumps in the history of the sport, improving the world record one centimetre at a time from 6.17 to 6.27. He is the undisputed king of the event and was also named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for 2024. Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt is the only track and field athlete to have previously won the award. The world's top eight will compete in Oslo, three of them having cleared the 6m mark, notably Greece's Emmanouil Karalis, who won Olympic silver in Paris and has a personal best of 6.01m and American Sam Kendricks (6.06). Men's 300m hurdles Home favourite Karsten Warholm headlines a sparkling field in the 300m hurdles, an event that was granted official status earlier this year, but is yet to have a ratified world record. The Norwegian clocked a best of 33.05sec in Xiamen this season. File photo: Karsten Warholm of Norway is the world record holder in the men's 400m hurdles. | Photo Credit: AP Warholm, reigning world champion and world record holder in the 400m hurdles, will be up against Bislett debutant Rai Benjamin of the USA, the Olympic champion, and Brazil's Alison dos Santos. The trio's personal bests are the three fastest times ever run in the 400m hurdles. Between them they own the 19 fastest races in the event's history and also won all medals at both the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. Now it's time for crowing rights in the shortened race. 'I believe the introduction of the 300m hurdles can help bring in new athletes now that the long hurdles expand from one to two events,' said Warholm.
The Independent
09-06-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Diamond League Oslo schedule and start times for Bislett Games
The Diamond League is back in action on Thursday night for the sixth stop of the 2025 season in Oslo. After just a short six-day break, some of the world's top track and field stars will return to Oslo, including nine reigning Paris Olympic champions. Great Britain's Max Burgin appears in a stacked field in the men's 800m after running a 1 minute and 43 seconds PB in Rabat two weeks ago. He is currently fourth in the event standings but will face stiff competition, such as Paris Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi. The men's 5000m world record is in jeopardy as two Ethiopians threaten to beat the 12 minutes and 35 seconds mark set by Joshua Cheptegei in 2020. These hopefuls come in the form of Hagos Gebrhiwet, who missed the record last year by just over a second, and Yomif Kejelcha, who finished second place last year. Team GB's George Mills, who won silver at this year's European Indoor Championships, continues his outdoor campaign after appearing at Grand Slam Track last month. The Briton has his work cut out to remain with the Ethiopians, but he will be targeting a revision of his personal best, which sits at 12 minutes and 58 seconds. The final event of the competition is sure to be one of the evening's great spectacles - the men's 300m hurdles. Although not an Olympic race, the 300m hurdles offers a faster and more explosive version of the traditional 400m setup. All three Olympic medallists from the Paris Games will be racing. Olympic champion Rai Benjamin and bronze medallist Alison dos Santos, but all eyes will be on Paris silver medallist: Norway's Karsten Warholm. The home athlete is the current world record holder in the 400m hurdles, as well as the first and only world record holder of the 300m hurdles since the event was added to the DL programme earlier this year. Britain's top two fastest women can be seen in the 100m. Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita will face Paris Olympic champion Julien Alfred,Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith and current event leader Maia McCoy. Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis will also continue his campaign for a fifth consecutive Diamond League title. The Swedish pole vaulter has broken the world record 11 times and is the undisputed greatest of all time in the event. When and where is Oslo Diamond League? The Oslo Diamond League meeting will be held on Thursday 12th May 2025 at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway. How can I watch? UK viewers can tune into the action on BBC Three, with live coverage from 7pm BST. It will also be available to watch on BBC iPlayer and on the BBC mobile app. Oslo Diamond League Schedule (All times BST) 6.15pm - Triple jump women 6.20pm - Pole vault men 6.53pm - Javelin women 7.04pm - 400m women 7.09pm - Triple jump women final 7.19pm - 800m men 7.26pm - 3000m steeplechase women 7.41pm - Triple jump men 7.42pm - 200m men 7.48pm - Javelin women final 7.56pm - Dream mile men 8.06pm - 100m women 8.14pm - 5000m men 8.36pm - 400m hurdles women 8.42pm - Triple jump men final 8.53pm - 300m hurdles men
