Mondo Duplantis will return to Paris for the first time since winning his second Olympic pole vault title when he competes at the Meeting de Paris on Sunday, 28 June 2026, the eighth of 15 Wanda Diamond League meetings this season.
The Swedish world record-holder heads back to the French capital looking to reassert himself after a rare defeat at the Stockholm Diamond League earlier this month. Before that competition, Duplantis had won 41 consecutive pole vault contests, building one of the most dominant streaks in the sport.
Paris now offers an opportunity for the multiple world and Olympic champion to respond on a stage filled with happy memories. It was in the French capital two years ago that he won his second Olympic gold, doing so with a world record height of 6.25m.
Duplantis, who has since increased his world record to 6.31m, now returns to Paris to face a field that includes the full top 12 from the world rankings and all medallists from the three most recent global championships.
Australia’s Kurtis Marschall, the man who beat Duplantis in Stockholm, is again in the line-up. So too are the two men who joined Duplantis on the Olympic podium in 2024, Sam Kendricks and Emmanouil Karalis. Karalis and Marschall, meanwhile, were podium finishers behind Duplantis at both the 2025 World Championships and 2026 World Indoor Championships.
Audrey Werro heads to Paris in the form of her life following a series of outstanding performances. The Swiss athlete clocked a world-leading 1:53.98 to win the 800m in Stockholm, then followed it with a 1:54.45 victory in Hengelo. Earlier this week she also recorded a European 600m best of 1:22.85.
In Paris, Werro takes on Femke Broeders-Bol, who will contest her first 800m in a Diamond League race. The two-time world 400m hurdles champion has made an impressive start to life over two laps, finishing second to Werro in Hengelo in a PB of 1:57.16 before producing a dominant 1:57.41 victory in Ostrava.
Others in the field include Australia’s Sarah Billings, 2025 world indoor champion Prudence Sekgodiso and Botswana’s Oratile Nowe.
Noah Lyles will also make his first competition appearance in Paris since winning Olympic 100m gold in the French capital in 2024.
The US sprinter, recently named as an Ultimate Star for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship, is undefeated outdoors this year. He won the 100m at the Rome Diamond League in 9.88, then set a world best of 14.67 for 150m at the Golden Spike in Ostrava.
In Paris, Lyles takes on world indoor champion Jordan Anthony, 2021 Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, South Africa’s Akani Simbine and USA’s Trayvon Bromell.
Jimmy Gressier will carry strong home hopes in the men’s 5000m.
The world 10,000m champion contests his first 5000m of the season, fresh from setting a French 3000m record of 7:28.67 in Montreuil last week. He faces a loaded field that includes Ethiopia’s Addisu Yihune, winner of the Oslo Diamond League in a world-leading 12:47.62, and Asian record-holder Birhanu Balew, who was a close second in Oslo.
World 10,000m bronze medallist Andreas Almgren, USA’s double Olympic bronze medallist Grant Fisher and steeplechase world record-holder Lamecha Girma are also in the field.
Olympic podium reunites over 400m
The men’s 400m brings together the full Olympic podium, with Quincy Hall, Matthew Hudson-Smith and Muzala Samukonga all set to race.
They will be joined by the top two finishers from the 2025 World Championships, Collen Kebinatshipi and Jereem Richards, as well as USA’s 2025 world indoor champion Chris Bailey and South Africa’s Zakithi Nene.
Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino heads the women’s 400m field after her 48.91 victory at the Doha Diamond League. She faces world indoor champion Lurdes Gloria Manuel and Olympic bronze medallist Natalia Bukowiecka.
The men’s 110m hurdles features six athletes with sub-13-second PBs, three of whom have achieved that feat this year: Trey Cunningham, Jamal Britt and Kendrick Smallwood. Japanese record-holder Rachid Muratake and in-form Cuban Kendry Menendez are also in the line-up.
The women’s 100m hurdles is similarly stacked. World record-holder Tobi Amusan faces world champion Ditaji Kambundji, three-time world indoor champion Devynne Charlton, former world record-holder Kendra Harrison, world bronze medallist Grace Stark, Olympic silver medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela, Jamaican champion Demisha Roswell and Dutch record-holder Nadine Visser.
World and Olympic champions clash in throws
World champion, world leader and Diamond League record-holder Jessica Schilder heads the women’s shot put field.
The Dutch thrower, who set a Diamond League record of 21.09m in Shanghai earlier this season, takes on Olympic champion Yemisi Mabry and two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton.
The women’s javelin brings together a mix of experience and rising talent. World leader and teenage sensation Yan Ziyi, who threw 71.74m earlier this year, faces world champion Juleisy Angulo, Olympic champion Haruka Kitaguchi, 2022 European champion Elina Tzengko, two-time world U20 champion Adriana Vilagos and 2016 Olympic champion Sara Kolak.
Olympic champion Nina Kennedy, winner in Rabat last month, will aim to secure her second Diamond League victory of 2026 in the women’s pole vault. New Zealand’s Eliza McCartney and Imogen Ayris are set to challenge, while European champion Angelica Moser will be looking to upset the Antipodean party.
World indoor champion Georgia Hunter Bell leads the women’s 1500m field. She faces two-time world indoor champion Freweyni Hailu, Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull and Australia’s Abbey Caldwell, who won in Xiamen last month.
The men’s 1500m includes 2022 world champion Jake Wightman, world bronze medallist Reynold Cheruiyot, Australia’s Cameron Myers, Niels Laros of the Netherlands, French record-holder Azeddine Habz and world road mile champion Hobbs Kessler.
In the men’s 800m, 2023 world champion Marco Arop takes on Algeria’s Slimane Moula and European champion Gabriel Tual.
The men’s 3000m steeplechase features Germany’s European record-holder Frederik Ruppert, Olympic bronze medallist Abraham Kibiwot and world bronze medallist Edmund Serem.
SOURCE: WORLD ATHLETICS
