An intriguing clash between Morocco\u2019s double Olympic and two-time world champion Soufiane El Bakkali and New Zealand\u2019s Geordie Beamish in the 3000m steeplechase, will be one of the big clashes at the Wanda Diamond League in Rabat this Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After stops in Shanghai and Xiamen, Rabat hosts the third meeting of the season, with a series of world and Olympic podium rematches set to take centre stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beamish was the surprise winner of the world title in Tokyo, where he beat El Bakkali to gold. The inclusion of Kenya\u2019s Edmund Serem means the full World Championships podium will be reunited in Rabat, while Germany\u2019s Diamond League champion Frederik Ruppert adds further quality to the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The women\u2019s pole vault brings together the winner of every global title from 2020 onwards. Three-time world champion Katie Moon of the USA, world silver medallist Sandi Morris of the USA and world bronze medallist Tina Sutej of Slovenia are all entered, recreating the full 2025 World Championships podium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They will take on Olympic champion Nina Kennedy of Australia, who makes her first Diamond League appearance since September 2024, as well as Britain\u2019s two-time world indoor champion Molly Caudery and France\u2019s 2025 world indoor champion Marie-Julie Bonnin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men\u2019s javelin also features a global podium rematch. Sri Lanka\u2019s world leader Ramesh Tharanga Pathirage takes on the three medallists from last year\u2019s World Championships: Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Keshorn Walcott, Grenada\u2019s Anderson Peters and USA\u2019s Curtis Thompson. Germany\u2019s 2016 Olympic champion Thomas Rohler, Czech Republic\u2019s Jakub Vadlejch and Kenya\u2019s 2015 world champion Julius Yego \u2013 all 90-metre throwers \u2013 are also in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s another podium reunion in the men\u2019s 400m, where Olympic champion Quincy Hall of the USA is set for his first race in almost a year. He faces Britain\u2019s Matt Hudson-Smith and Zambia\u2019s Muzala Samukonga, the other two medallists from the Olympic final, while the field also includes sub-44-second performers Khaleb McRae of the USA, Zakithi Nene of South Africa and Jacory Patterson of the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men\u2019s 200m brings together the two most recent Olympic champions. Botswana\u2019s Letsile Tebogo will take on Canada\u2019s Andre de Grasse, the Rabat meeting record-holder, as well as two medallists from last year\u2019s World Championships: USA\u2019s Kenny Bednarek and Jamaica\u2019s Bryan Levell. South Africa\u2019s Sinesipho Dambile, a world finalist who recently clocked 19.77 in Nairobi, also lines up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jamaica\u2019s Shericka Jackson will look to continue her winning start to the Diamond League season in the women\u2019s 200m, having taken victories in both Shanghai and Xiamen. Bahamas\u2019 Shaunae Miller-Uibo was runner-up in both of those races and will renew that rivalry in Rabat, while USA\u2019s Cambrea Sturgis arrives off the back of a 21.93 PB in Nairobi last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The women\u2019s 100m includes Jamaica\u2019s world silver medallist Tina Clayton and Italy\u2019s world indoor champion Zaynab Dosso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenya\u2019s world and Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi opens his Diamond League campaign in the men\u2019s 800m, where he faces USA\u2019s 2019 world champion Donavan Brazier, Britain\u2019s world and Olympic finalist Max Burgin and Ireland\u2019s Mark English, winner of the Diamond League 800m in Shanghai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wanyonyi\u2019s compatriot Lilian Odira makes her first Diamond League appearance since landing a surprise 800m victory at the World Championships last year. The high-quality field also includes Olympic silver medallist Tsige Duguma, Switzerland\u2019s world indoor silver medallist Audrey Werro, USA\u2019s world indoor bronze medallist Addison Wiley, South Africa\u2019s 2025 world indoor champion Prudence Sekgodiso, Botswana\u2019s Oratile Nowe and Ethiopia\u2019s Nigist Getachew, who beat Odira in Nairobi last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Portugal\u2019s world champion Isaac Nader heads the men\u2019s 1500m field, where he will face Kenya\u2019s world bronze medallist Reynold Cheruiyot, Ethiopia\u2019s steeplechase world record-holder Lamecha Girma, France\u2019s Azeddine Habz and USA\u2019s Yared Nuguse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
USA\u2019s Ryan Crouser will look to rebound in the men\u2019s shot put after finishing third in Xiamen. The world and Olympic champion faces Jamaica\u2019s Rajindra Campbell, who threw a national record of 22.34m to win in Xiamen, as well as Italy\u2019s world leader and world bronze medallist Leonardo Fabbri, New Zealand\u2019s world indoor champion Tom Walsh and USA\u2019s two-time world champion Joe Kovacs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine\u2019s world record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh heads the women\u2019s high jump field. The Olympic champion faces Australia\u2019s 2022 world champion Eleanor Patterson, Serbia\u2019s world bronze medallist Angelina Topic, Poland\u2019s world silver medallist Maria Zodzik and Ukraine\u2019s Yuliia Levchenko, the world indoor silver medallist who won in Xiamen with 1.99m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the women\u2019s discus, the winners of the past three world titles will clash. USA\u2019s world and Olympic champion Valarie Allman faces 2023 world champion Laulauga Tausaga of the USA and China\u2019s 2022 world champion Feng Bin, while the field also includes world silver medallist Jorinde van Klinken of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsewhere, USA\u2019s Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell and Slovakia\u2019s world bronze medallist Emma Zapletalova are among the leading names in the women\u2019s 400m hurdles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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