Coaches, athletes and experts will come together on 4 June to discuss the coach-athlete relationship, as part of the Coaching Matters Series virtual forum.
The 2024 series, which is hosted by World Athletics and the Global Athletics Coaching Academy (GACA), launched in March when the focus was on &lsquo;performing under pressure&rsquo;. Recordings of both forum sessions &ndash; one that took place for the Western time zone and another for the Eastern time zone &ndash; are available to watch back via the <a href="https://elearning.worldathletics.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics e-learning platform</a>.
Now attention turns to the topic of &lsquo;having the difficult conversation&rsquo; and again two sessions will take place &ndash; one at 9am CET and the other at 6pm CET on Tuesday 4 June.
The coach-athlete relationship is unique but like any other relationship, it has to be worked at and there will be bumps along the journey. When the bumps occur, how do we tackle them? This forum welcomes speakers who will, through their experience and knowledge, discuss how we can successfully approach and resolve difficult conversations.
Further information on each forum session, the speakers involved and how to join can be found on the forum flyers: 
<a href="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/665770346b56c1e967b2920c.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eastern forum</a> (5pm AEST / 2pm WIB / 9am CET) <a href="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/66577072b91e1655b5016368.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Western forum</a> (6pm CET / 9am PST / 5pm BST)
Speakers include sport psychologist Dr Margaret Ottley, coach Robert Weir, freestyle moguls head coach Kate Blamey, performance psychologist &amp; high performance cricket coach Peter Clarke, 2017 moguls skiing world champion Britteny Cox&nbsp;and former athletes Laura Strati and Sena Bekric.
During both sessions, the content experts will present their topic material as a way to inform the forum discussion and that will be followed by Q&amp;A interactions among the panellists and guests.
The Coaching Matters Series forum sessions take place on the first Tuesday of March, June, September and December in 2024. Following each session, recordings will be available to watch back via the <a href="https://elearning.worldathletics.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics e-learning platform</a>, where sessions from the Coaches' Club in Budapest and Glasgow can also be viewed.

Coaches, athletes and experts will come together on 4 June to discuss the coach-athlete relationship, as part of the Coaching Matters Series virtual forum

Coaching Matters Series returns with focus on the coach-athlete relationship

French 110m hurdles specialist Sasha Zhoya has big ambitions ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.&nbsp;
After becoming the 2021 world U20 champion and finishing sixth at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the rising star tells <a href="https://worldathletics.org/videos/playlist/latest-videos/664ee7387b2478b166078b0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics Inside Track</a> how his determination and motivation will see him through this Olympic year and beyond, as he eyes the world record.
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&ldquo;Before the race, I&rsquo;m only telling myself one thing &ndash; that I&rsquo;m the most dominant and I&rsquo;m going to win this race,&rdquo; says the 21-year-old, who has a <a href="https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/sasha-zhoya-110m-hurdles-world-u20-nairobi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">background in ballet and music</a>.
&ldquo;I motivate myself, I almost lie to myself, and tell myself that I&rsquo;m the best.&rdquo;
After setting a world U20 record of 12.72 over the U20 height hurdles when winning his global age group title in Nairobi three years ago, Zhoya now has his sights on another time target.
&ldquo;I think Aries Merritt&rsquo;s record (the senior world 110m hurdles record of 12.80) is on the verge of getting broken,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got Grant (Holloway) who ran 12.81, Devon Allen ran 12.84, so it shows that the guys are capable of running close to that time. Myself, I feel like because in the junior hurdles I ran a 12.72, it&rsquo;s possible to go under 12.80. Who is going to be the first person to do it? That&rsquo;s up for grabs but I&rsquo;m no longer visioning to do 12.80, I&rsquo;m visioning to go under that.
&ldquo;Now that I&rsquo;m on the world stage and especially that now that I&rsquo;m not No.1, as I was in the juniors, there&rsquo;s more hunger in me to get up to that level that I was before.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I want to be the gold medallist at my own home Games.&rdquo;

The XXXIII Olympic Games

"I want to be the gold medallist at my own home Games"

Sasha Zhoya: homecoming

It might have been a blustery evening in Ostrava but that didn&rsquo;t seem to matter to Mondo Duplantis and Molly Caudery, who remained resolute to win their pole vault contests during the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting on Tuesday (28).
Duplantis secured a six-metre clearance before three attempts at another world record, while Caudery achieved a meeting record and the highest women&rsquo;s outdoor vault in the world so far this year to triumph at the Ostrava Golden Spike in Czechia.
There were some thrilling battles on the track, too, with Andre De Grasse getting a sprint double, Steven Gardiner extending his win streak, Ciara Mageean digging deep and Djamel Sedjati storming to an unchallenged world lead.
But in the men&rsquo;s pole vault, Olympic and world champion Duplantis had the contest won after just two jumps, as he cleared 5.62m and 5.82m on his first attempts.
It took him all three tries to get over 6.00m but that didn&rsquo;t deter the 24-year-old, who then asked for the bar to be raised to 6.25m &ndash; a single centimetre higher than the world record he set on his season opener in Xiamen on 20 April.
While his third try at 6.25m &ndash; which would have been the ninth world record of his career so far &ndash; was close, it wasn&rsquo;t to be and Duplantis walked away, ready to try again on home soil in Stockholm on Sunday.
The next five athletes all cleared 5.62m, topped by Ethan Cormont of France on countback.
"Of course, it was a bit more difficult for all of us in the field because of the weather. The pole vault is a very sensitive event when it is cold and windy," said Duplantis. "But I just tried to jump the best I could. I was very surprised with my third attempt on 6.25m. I knew that it would take the best jump of my life to get this and it was actually really a good one. This gives me big confidence going forward and to the next competitions."
World indoor champion Caudery also dominated the women&rsquo;s contest, as she cleared 4.84m on her third try to add a centimetre to the meeting record set by Stacy Dragila in 2004 and achieve a mark that only she has surpassed so far this year, with her indoor clearances of 4.86m and 4.85m.
She then had two unsuccessful attempts at a would-have-been national record of 4.92m. Caudery won by 20cm, as 2016 Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi secured the runner-up spot with a second time clearance at 4.64m.
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The men&rsquo;s javelin closed the programme and that was won by Germany&rsquo;s Julian Weber to deny home favourite Jakub Vadlejch. Weber&rsquo;s best of 87.26m came in the second round and that was more than a metre farther than Vadlejch, the Olympic and world medallist, could manage as he settled for second with 86.08m from his first throw.
World champion Haruka Kitaguchi won a much closer women&rsquo;s competition as she threw 60.47m to also deny a home win, Petra Sicakova finishing second with 60.42m.
Italy&rsquo;s Leonardo Fabbri, who threw 22.95m in Savona recently, got another 22 metre-plus performance to take the win in the shot put. He might have only surpassed that barrier once in the competition but it was enough, as he threw 22.40m in the second round, putting him ahead of Jordan Geist, who went beyond 22 metres for the first time with 22.09m in the final round.
In other field event action, Poland&rsquo;s Norbert Kobielski and USA&rsquo;s Shelby McEwen shared the high jump win as they both cleared 2.24m.
<h2>Sprint double for De Grasse</h2>
Canada&rsquo;s De Grasse is a multiple global medallist in both the 100m and 200m and he won both of those events in Ostrava. First, the Olympic 200m champion took on his fellow Olympic gold medallist Marcell Jacobs, who won the 100m in Tokyo, in the shorter event and beat the Italian, 10.10 to 10.19 (0.0m/s). Splitting the pair was Ryiem Forde, who ran 10.17 for second place.
De Grasse returned to the track 80 minutes later for his specialist event and he won that too, clocking 20.09 (0.4m/s) to triumph clear ahead of Andrew Hudson who ran 20.56.
Poland&rsquo;s world indoor 60m silver medallist Ewa Swoboda also made a statement in the women&rsquo;s 100m, winning on her individual season debut in 11.05 (0.7m/s) ahead of Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye (11.14).
Olympic champion Gardiner maintained his unbeaten run in the 400m, but the race came down to a thrilling finish. The Bahamian 28-year-old, who also claimed the world title in 2019, went out hard and looked ready to cruise to victory. But as he began to tire, world indoor champion Alexander Doom launched his attack, and the Belgian finished just 0.05 back &ndash; 44.39 to 44.44. It was a season&rsquo;s best for Gardiner and he led Doom to a PB that missed the Belgian record by just 0.01.
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There was also a big PB by the runner up in the women&rsquo;s 400m. Poland&rsquo;s world silver medallist Natalia Kaczmarek was well in control as she strode to a season&rsquo;s best of 50.09 to win but chasing her over the line was Czechia&rsquo;s 18-year-old Lurdes Gloria Manuel, who took more than half a second off her own national U20 record with 50.59.
Switzerland&rsquo;s Ditaji Kambundji narrowly denied another win for Poland in the 100m hurdles, crossing the line in 12.68 (-0.6m/s) to pip world indoor bronze medallist Pia Skrzyszowska by just 0.03.
Cathelijn Peeters, a member of the world 4x400m title-winning Dutch teams in Budapest and Glasgow, set a PB of 54.31 to triumph in the 400m hurdles, while the men&rsquo;s event was won by Italy&rsquo;s Alessandro Sibilio in 48.25.
A world lead was set in the men&rsquo;s 800m and Algeria&rsquo;s Sedjati did it in style. Surging off the final bend, he clearly had the win well secured but that wasn&rsquo;t enough for the 2022 world silver medallist and he only seemed to push harder the closer he got to the line. Sprinting away, he stormed over the finish in 1:43.51 for the fastest time in the world so far this season, winning by more than two seconds ahead of France&rsquo;s Gabriel Tual (1:45.79).
While Sedjati&rsquo;s win never seemed in doubt, Mageean fought back for hers in the 1500m. The world fourth-place finisher was back in seventh as they reached the final bend but timing her kick to perfection, she passed her rivals down the home straight and eventually pipped Sarah Healy to lead an Irish one-two, 4:01.98 to 4:02.12.
The men&rsquo;s 1500m closed the track action and there Italy&rsquo;s Federico Riva clinched the win in a PB of 3:33.53, just ahead of Raphael Pallitsch who set an Austrian record of 3:33.59. A series of other PBs followed, including 3:34.32 by Ireland&rsquo;s Luke McCann in third.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/calendar-results/7191205/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>
Keep an eye on <a href="https://worldathletics.org/videos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics Inside Track</a> for highlights from the Ostrava Golden Spike

It might have been a blustery evening in Ostrava but that didn’t matter to Mondo Duplantis and Molly Caudery, who remained resolute to win their pole vault contests during the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting

Duplantis and Caudery defy conditions, De Grasse does double in Ostrava

Wanda Diamond League action returns to the Norwegian capital of Oslo on Thursday (30), when a host of global champions and world record-holders will battle at the Bislett Games.
Home stars Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen contest two of the many top-class match ups, while Shericka Jackson heads the 200m line up, Joshua Cheptegei stars in a strong 5000m field, Prudence Sekgodiso has the chance to make another statement in the 800m and&nbsp;Mykolas Alekna forms part of another impressive discus clash.
Norway&rsquo;s Warholm set the first of his two world 400m hurdles records in Oslo, clocking 46.70 in 2021. He went even faster one month later, improving the record to 45.94 to win the Olympic title in Tokyo.
It was also in 2021 that Warholm claimed the second of his two Diamond Trophies and now, as he works towards his Olympic title defence, the Bislett Games is where he kicks off his 2024 Diamond League campaign. After an indoor season that featured just the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, where he secured 400m silver, Warholm opened his outdoor season in Bergen last week. Running 33.28 for the 300m hurdles, he missed his own world best from 2021 by just 0.02.
In Oslo, the three-time world champion contests the 400m hurdles for the first time since finishing second in the Diamond League final in Eugene in September. He&rsquo;s got some fierce competition as he faces Brazil&rsquo;s Alison dos Santos, the world and Diamond League champion in 2022, who opened his own 400m hurdles season with a 46.86 win in Doha. Looking to challenge them both will be world silver medallist Kyron McMaster.
While Warholm races in the Diamond League for the first time this year, his compatriot Ingebrigtsen started his season by finishing second in a thrilling mile in Eugene and will now look to go one better in the 1500m on home soil. The Olympic champion, who won both the 1500m and 5000m Diamond League titles last year, this time goes up against the likes of his compatriot Narve Gilje Nordas, the world bronze medallist last year, plus 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruiyot, Azeddine Habz and Stewart McSweyn, as Ingebrigtsen returns to a meeting at which he ran 3:27.95 last year.
The men&rsquo;s 5000m is also highly competitive as Uganda&rsquo;s Cheptegei, the world record-holder and Olympic champion, goes up against his compatriots Jacob Kiplimo and Oscar Chelimo, plus Olympic and world medallist Hagos Gebrhiwet and his Ethiopian compatriots Yomif Kejelcha, Samuel Tefera and Biniam Mehary, Switzerland&rsquo;s Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu and Spain&rsquo;s Thierry Ndikumwenayo.
In the women&rsquo;s 800m, South Africa&rsquo;s Sekgodiso has the chance to double her number of Diamond League meeting wins, following her breakthrough victory in Marrakech. There she ran a PB of 1:57.26 to beat Habitam Alemu and Noelie Yarigo, and Yarigo is also in action in Oslo, as is world indoor champion Tsige Duguma, who was second in Los Angeles in a PB of 1:57.56. Jess Hull, who ran 8:37.18 to win in Sydney in March, races the 3000m against Caroline Nyaga and Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal.
<h2>Jackson and Jacobs in sprints, Alekna heads discus clash</h2>
Jamaica&rsquo;s world champion Jackson got her season off to a winning start with a 200m victory in Marrakech in 22.82 to maintain a winning streak of 16 finals that dates back to June 2022. Having won Diamond Trophies in both the 100m and 200m last year, she&rsquo;ll look to build on that opener in Oslo, where she will face USA&rsquo;s Jenna Prandini, Anavia Battle and Brittany Brown, plus Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith and Daryll Neita, who won the 200m in Suzhou and 100m in Doha.
In the men&rsquo;s 100m, Italy&rsquo;s Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs will clash with Akani Simbine, who won in Suzhou, plus Marrakech winner Emmanuel Eseme and Abdul Hakim Sani Brown. Brandon Hicklin and Jeremiah Azu, who have both run sub-10.00 PBs this season, join them in the line up.
Dominican Republic&rsquo;s world champion Marileidy Paulino will race against world bronze medallist Sada Williams and world indoor silver medallist Lieke Klaver in the 400m, while the men&rsquo;s event features Grenada&rsquo;s multiple Olympic and world medallist Kirani James, world silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith and home favourite Havard Bentdal Ingvaldsen. Jamaica&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Rushell Clayton leads the entries for the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles.
After setting a world record of 74.35m in Ramona in April, Mykolas Alekna won the discus clash in Marrakech, surpassing 70 metres again with a 70.70m throw to beat Australian record-holder Matthew Denny and Sweden&rsquo;s Olympic and world champion Daniel Stahl.
That trio clash again in Oslo as part of a stacked field &ndash; one which also includes 2022 world gold medallist Kristjan Ceh, Andrius Gudzius, Fedrick Dacres and Lukas Weisshaidinger. The women&rsquo;s discus competition gets the Diamond League action under way in Oslo and that contest will see 2022 world champion Feng Bin go up against world fourth-place finisher Jorinde van Klinken. Both have clinched third-place finishes in the Diamond League so far this season, Feng in Xiamen and Van Klinken in Eugene.
The top two from the World Championships in Budapest clash in the men&rsquo;s triple jump as Hugues Fabrice Zango goes up against Lazaro Martinez. In the men&rsquo;s pole vault, USA&rsquo;s Olympic and world medallist Chris Nilsen, KC Lightfoot and two-time world champion Sam Kendricks take on Ernest John Obiena and home star Simen Guttormsen.

Wanda Diamond League action returns to the Norwegian capital on Thursday, when a host of global champions and world record-holders will battle at the Bislett Games

Warholm, Jackson and Ingebrigtsen among stars on show in Oslo

The three individual men&rsquo;s Olympic sprint champions are set to compete at the Golden Spike &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting &ndash; in Ostrava on Tuesday (28).
Italy&rsquo;s Marcell Jacobs and Canada&rsquo;s Andre De Grasse, the Olympic gold medallists over 100m and 200m respectively, will clash over the shorter distance, then De Grasse will double up by contesting his specialist event. Olympic 400m champion Steven Gardiner, meanwhile, will take on world indoor champion Alexander Doom over one lap of the track.
The field event action will be similarly gripping with world and Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis headlining the pole vault, just five weeks after increasing his own world record to 6.24m in Xiamen. World champion Haruka Kitaguchi and multiple global medallist Jakub Vadlejch will feature in the javelin contests.
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Jacobs has had just two individual outings this year, the latest being a 10.07 season&rsquo;s best to win in Rome last weekend. That makes the Italian the fastest of the Ostrava field this year on season&rsquo;s bests, though he&rsquo;s also one of four men in the line-up with a sub-10-second PB.
De Grasse, meanwhile, has a best this year of 10.11 and recently finished second at the Diamond League meeting in Marrakesh. Britain&rsquo;s Reece Prescod, who set his PB of 9.93 in Ostrava when winning in the Czech city two years ago, will be one to watch, as will Jamaica&rsquo;s Ryiem Forde.
Later in the evening, De Grasse will take on Jamaica&rsquo;s Andrew Hudson and Britain's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake in the 200m.
Not including the few races where he has pulled up injured, Gardiner has been undefeated over 400m since the 2017 World Championships. But the Bahamian, who has a season&rsquo;s best of 44.45, could be pushed by Belgium&rsquo;s Doom, who won in Marrakesh last week with a lifetime best of 44.51.
The women&rsquo;s sprints should be similarly competitive. Poland&rsquo;s Ewa Swoboda and Italy&rsquo;s Zainab Dosso, who took silver and bronze respectively over 60m at the World Indoor Championships, will clash outdoors for the first time this year. Swoboda will be contesting her first individual race of the outdoor season, while Dosso is fresh from reducing the Italian 100m record to 11.02 in Savona.
Switzerland&rsquo;s European 200m champion Mujinga Kambundji and double African Games sprint champion Gina Bass are also in the line-up.
In the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles, European champion Pia Skrzyszowska takes on European leader Ditaji Kambundji, while world silver medallist Natalia Kaczmarek is the strong favourite in the women's 400m.
<h2>Duplantis returns</h2>
One year after setting a meeting record of 6.12m, pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis returns to Ostrava&rsquo;s Golden Spike to try to improve on that mark.
The Swede is undefeated so far this year, winning all four of his indoor competitions &ndash; including taking gold at the World Indoor Championships &ndash; and then setting a world record of 6.24m on his outdoor season opened in Xiamen in April. One week later, he won in Suzhou with 6.00m.
Ernest John Obiena, who finished second to Duplantis at last year&rsquo;s World Championships, will also be in Ostrava.
The javelin is always one of the most popular and competitive events at the Golden Spike, and this year&rsquo;s edition is set to continue that tradition.
In the men&rsquo;s contest, home favourite Jakub Vadlejch will take on European champion Julian Weber and two-time world champion Anderson Peters. Four-time global medallist Vadlejch recently won in Doha with 88.38m, which puts him just one centimetre ahead of Weber on this year&rsquo;s world list. Peters is close behind with a best of 86.62m.
In the women&rsquo;s event, world champion Haruka Kitaguchi of Japan faces two-time world U20 champion Adriana Vilagos. Both women are undefeated this year and head to Ostrava with similar season&rsquo;s bests. Kitaguchi threw 63.45m last weekend to win in Tokyo, while Vilagos set a PB of 63.58m earlier this month in Offenburg.
Italy&rsquo;s Leonardo Fabbri will look to continue his sensational form in the shot put. The world silver medallist has this month racked up throws of 22.95m in Savona, 22.91m in Asti and 22.88m in Modena. His toughest opponent in Ostrava could be New Zealand&rsquo;s two-time world indoor champion Tom Walsh.
In other field event action, world indoor champion Molly Caudery takes on Slovenia&rsquo;s Tina Sutej and Katerina Stefanidi of Greece in the women&rsquo;s pole vault.
Elsewhere on the track, meanwhile, Djamel Sedjati and Ben Pattison, the world silver and bronze medallists, will clash over 800m. And in the women&rsquo;s 1500m, Ethiopian trio Tigist Girma, Netsanet Desta, Axumawit Embaye take on Ireland&rsquo;s Ciara Mageean.

63rd Ostrava Golden Spike

The three individual men’s Olympic sprint champions are set to compete at the Golden Spike

Global sprint champions set to clash in Ostrava

In a race that was set up as a 10,000m world record attempt, the competitor who initially had no intention of challenging the record became the one ultimately to smash it.&nbsp;
The record now belongs to <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/beatrice-chebet-14749924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beatrice Chebet</a> of Kenya, who ran 28:54.14* to become the first woman under 29 minutes on the track. That performance, achieved on Saturday (25) at the Prefontaine Classic, is seven seconds faster than the previous world record of 29:01.03 that Letesenbet Gidey established in 2021. The race opened the Wanda Diamond League meeting with an immediate roar from the Hayward Field crowd.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Gudaf Tsegay became the third-fastest all-time performer with her runner-up finish of 29:05.92, as four women ran faster than 30 minutes. The race also doubled as the selection race for Athletics Kenya&rsquo;s Paris Olympic team, and Chebet and Lilian Kasait Rengeruk (29:26.89) qualified.
In a race that took place before the Diamond League programme, Tsegay and Chebet stayed within a stride of the lights marking world record pace as they passed halfway in 14:31, until Chebet sped ahead with three laps remaining, the lead all her own, and with it the weight of a world record attempt.&nbsp;
Her move was motivated by seeing world 5000m record-holder Tsegay &ndash; who had initially requested a world record pace, only to decide against it because of discomfort in a foot, and change her mind again in recent days after feeling better &ndash; begin to fall behind the pace lights. Chebet said she entered the meeting to qualify for Paris, where she plans to contest both the 5000m and 10,000m, but her intent was not the record.
&ldquo;When Gudaf asked for a world record, I decided to say: &lsquo;Let me try to go for that to see how the body is.&rsquo; Because my body was not bad,&rdquo; said Chebet, the two-time world cross country champion who also claimed world 5km gold last year. &ldquo;I was comfortable to run a world record so when I saw Gudaf drop a bit, I said: &lsquo;Let me try to push it to see how it can go.&rsquo; When I got to the last two laps, I just got motivated and said, I&rsquo;m on a world record pace, so let me push the last 400m.&rdquo;
With 800m to go, Chebet pulled ahead of the pace lights by two whole strides as fans inside Hayward Field began standing in their seats.
After the finish, Chebet fell to the track, splayed out in exhaustion, as Tsegay finished and joined her on the track. When the women stood, they hugged as the new world record flashed on the scoreboard behind them. Chebet later returned to the track wearing a &lsquo;Stop Pre&rsquo; T-shirt, the same design that Steve Prefontaine wore at Hayward Field more than 50 years earlier.
After only her second ever 10,000m race, Chebet adds this world record to the world 5km record of 14:13 she set in Barcelona in December.
&ldquo;I knew a woman could run under 29, I&rsquo;ve known for a long time,&rdquo; said Sifan Hassan, who entered the meeting as No.2 all-time, and now ranks fourth. Hassan believes women &ldquo;can run 28:45&rdquo; in the future.
Four men sprinted within a step of one another toward the finish of Athletics Kenya&rsquo;s men&rsquo;s 10,000m trials, with Daniel Mateiko winning in 26:50.81 after a 56-second final lap to edge Nicholas Kipkorir, who ran a personal best of 26:50.94.&nbsp;
<h2>Kerr claims mile crown</h2>
In perhaps the most anticipated race, world 1500m champion Josh Kerr outduelled Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win the Bowerman Mile in a British record of 3:45.34, breaking Steve Cram&rsquo;s 1985 record.&nbsp;
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Josh Kerr pips Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the mile in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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After the pacer came through halfway in 1:53, Kerr moved up to the front with 600m remaining and the favourites aligned at the front, with Ingebrigtsen and Yared Nuguse behind, and 2022 world champion Jake Wightman tracking Nuguse closely in fourth. That order was unchanged with half a lap remaining and no one could make up ground on Kerr, who ripped his sunglasses off after finishing before collecting himself and shaking the hand of Ingebrigtsen. The two had bantered through the press for months about their standing atop the 1500m.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I felt very strong through the first (kilometre) and I was like, you know what, it&rsquo;s time to press and push and see what these guys have got,&rdquo; Kerr said.&nbsp;
Ingebrigtsen was coming off an achilles tendon injury during the winter and opened his season in 3:45.60, with the US record-holder Nuguse third in 3:46.22. Ingebrigtsen said that although he was coming off missing time due to injury, he considered the race an improvement on last year at this time.
&ldquo;I tried to fight him,&rdquo; Ingebrigtsen said of Kerr, &ldquo;but today for me was more of a time trial. Of course, we&rsquo;re racing, but it&rsquo;s definitely some differences in terms of approach into this race because this, for some people, this is their final test, even before the Olympics in Paris. But this is not my final test. I think if anything, this is going to be an exciting summer. For myself, I think it&rsquo;s very good.&rdquo;
Even with Olympic and world champion Ryan Crouser a late withdrawal, the men&rsquo;s shot put was won by one of history's farthest marks. Joe Kovacs threw 23.13m, which stands as the seventh best winning mark of all time and as the second best throw of Kovacs&rsquo; career. In recent weeks while training at the sector Kovacs is building at his home, he has thrown well beyond Saturday&rsquo;s mark, so far that it &ldquo;hits the mulch&rdquo; in his backyard, he said. On Saturday, his winning throw pushed the limits of the stadium sector.
&ldquo;If I did a mulch throw here, I think I would be doing some landscaping at Hayward,&rdquo; Kovacs added.&nbsp;
Kovacs said he would have preferred to compete against Crouser to measure up to the world record-holder, and Leonardo Fabbri, the year&rsquo;s previous world leader, but said he understood that national trials were only three weeks away. It wasn&rsquo;t the only big throw, with Canada&rsquo;s Camryn Rogers breaking the meeting record while winning the hammer with 77.23m on her fifth attempt. DeAnna Price was second with 76.74m.&nbsp;
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66526dac9b7311681d610c3a.jpg" alt="Joe Kovacs celebrates his win at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene" />
Joe Kovacs celebrates his win at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene (&copy; Logan Hannigan-Downs / Diamond League AG)
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<h2>Hodgkinson takes top spot</h2>
In an 800m field that could be a Paris preview, Keely Hodgkinson made her move to the front with 150m remaining, passed world champion Mary Moraa and gained a step by the top of the final backstretch. That gap widened from there, with Hodgkinson winning in 1:55.78, breaking the tape with a slash of her hand. Moraa was second in 1:56.71, and Jemma Reekie and Nia Akins close behind.
Afterward, Hodgkinson revealed that during November training she had injured a ligament, tendon and hamstring at the back of her knee in what she called a &ldquo;freak accident&rdquo; while spraining her ankle. The injury sidelined her for the indoor season.
Tsigie Gebreselama took eight seconds off of Tsegay&rsquo;s previous world leading time to win the 5000m in 14:18.76, a personal best. Ethiopian women finished in the top six places, with Ejgayehu Taye second in 14:18.92 after a fierce fight for the line.
Hassan was seventh, in 14:34.38. There were no lingering effects from running the Tokyo Marathon, Hassan said. Instead, she said she was coming off of several hard weeks of training in the US at altitude. Now that her range has extended to the marathon, Hassan &ndash; who has earned gold at global championships from the 1500m to the 10,000m &ndash; said she would likely decide what event, or events, to focus on in Paris in July.
Another world lead was set in the 3000m steeplechase after Peruth Chemutai broke the Ugandan record in 8:55.09, which took three tenths of a second off of the previous world lead held by Beatrice Chepkoech, Saturday&rsquo;s runner-up in 8:56.51. They were the only women under nine minutes.
<h2>Sprint showdowns</h2>
Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson and Elaine Thompson-Herah lined up next to one another at the start of the 100m, but Richardson quickly made their showdown moot. Only Julien Alfred could stay within a step of the world champion, whose 10.83 was off the world lead of 10.77 but well ahead of the field. Alfred was second in 10.93, as one of three women &ndash; including Dina Asher-Smith &ndash; under 11 seconds. Thompson-Herah, the five-time Olympic champion, opened her season in ninth, in 11.30. Richardson said she was nervous &ldquo;but I used that nervousness as my motivation.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Christian Coleman held off Ferdinand Omanyala to win the men&rsquo;s 100m, 9.95 to 9.98.&nbsp;
Gerald Drummond won the 400m hurdles in 48.56 out of the eighth lane, pulling ahead in the final 50m after Roshawn Clarke faded from first to fourth. Rai Benjamin, the world leader, had initially been entered, only to withdraw after feeling slight discomfort coming off his world-leading victory the week prior in Los Angeles.
Three women were within three-hundredths of a second at the finish of the 100m hurdles before Cyrena Samba-Mayela won in 12.52, tying her own French record. She was just ahead of Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, in 12.54.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66528c05e653d29c3025aa95.jpg" alt="Cyrena Samba-Mayela wins the 100m hurdles in Eugene" />
Cyrena Samba-Mayela wins the 100m hurdles in Eugene (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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Grant Holloway led the 110m hurdles by the third barrier and widened the gap by a whole stride at midway en route to the season&rsquo;s fastest time of 13.03 &ndash; an improvement on the 13.07 he ran last week in Atlanta. Holloway extended his winning streak to 11 consecutive races in 2024. Only a late push by Daniel Roberts, second in 13.13, narrowed Holloway&rsquo;s margin of victory only slightly over a strong field that included five who made the final of last year&rsquo;s World Championships. Hansle Parchment, the Budapest silver medallist, was fourth in 13.28.
Diribe Welteji ran away with the 1500m victory in a personal best of 3:53.75, pulling Australia&rsquo;s Jessica Hull to an area record 3:55.97 in the process, with Elle St. Pierre right behind in 3:56.00, a PB by two seconds. Hull had made breaking the Australian record her goal at the last Prefontaine Classic, in September, and felt it was possible after becoming very comfortable running 62-second laps during training, she said.&nbsp;
Wearing what has become his trademark headband, one that on Saturday read &ldquo;conqueror,&rdquo; Kenny Bednarek led the 200m coming off the curve and won in 19.89, ahead of Courtney Lindsey&rsquo;s 20.09.&nbsp;
World silver medallist Valarie Allman led the discus from her first attempt but required a final throw of 67.36m to stay ahead of Yaime Perez, whose own final throw came close at 67.25m. Since winning the Tokyo Olympics, Allman said she had been searching for the past three years to recapture the rhythm that had led to her gold medal.&nbsp;
Emily Grove won the pole vault at 4.63m, beating Robeilys Peinado and Olympic and world champion Katie Moon, who each cleared 4.53m. At the pre-meeting press conference, Moon acknowledged that training has been interrupted since the winter because of trouble with her achilles&rsquo; tendon.&nbsp;
The triple jump world leader, Thea LaFond, finished second by nine centimetres, when her last attempt could not eclipse the first by winner Leyanis Hernandez Perez of 14.73m (2.1m/s).
Andrew Greif for World Athletics
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/calendar-results/7174055/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>
*Subject to the usual ratification procedure

In a race that was set up as a 10,000m world record attempt, Beatrice Chebet of Kenya ran 28:54.14* to make history at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on Saturday

Chebet breaks world 10,000m record, Kerr pips Ingebrigtsen in mile in Eugene

Stefka Kostadinova&rsquo;s world high jump record of 2.09m has remained unbeaten ever since she cleared that auspicious height at the 1987 World Athletics Championships, and it is fitting that her name is among the current list of global record-holders as the Bulgarian Athletics Federation celebrated its centenary on Friday (24)
To date, Bulgarian athletes have set 17 ratified world records outdoors and another three indoors, although only Kostadinova&rsquo;s mark remains on the record books.
However, the curious fact that all these record setters have been women would probably have seemed unbelievable at the time the federation was established 100 years ago.
Like many eastern and central European countries, organised athletics in Bulgaria had started to take hold at the end of the 19th century in boy&rsquo;s schools and colleges in the bigger towns and cities.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/8f75266a-dda8-444f-b30a-d0f4eda1298b.jpg" alt="Stefka Kostadinova" />
Stefka Kostadinova (&copy; Getty Images)
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<h2>&ldquo;Come to Paris&rdquo;</h2>
In the case of Bulgaria, historians have attributed this to the influx and influence of Swiss physical education teachers who were regularly employed in these institutions.
After the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 came to an end, men-only sports clubs in Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv were also established. Even though the focus of attention was on football, athletics events also periodically took place.
This somewhat ad hoc situation continued until 1923 when the International Olympic Committee sent an invitation to the Bulgarian National Sports Federation (BNSF) for the country to compete at the Olympic Games in Paris the following year &ndash; having only previously been represented at the Olympics when one of the aforementioned Swiss teachers living in the capital Sofia made his way to Athens in 1896 and competed as a gymnast under the Bulgarian banner &ndash; motivated by wanting to swell its numbers from the paltry 28 nations, 25 of whom competed in athletics, that went to Antwerp in 1920.
Consequently, the Bulgarian National Olympic Committee was created on 30 March 1923.
The Athletics Committee of the BNSF took charge of trying to select athletes for Paris and began sending out weekly bulletins giving updates on qualification standards, training programmes, measuring out running a 100m running track and other news such as how to buy running spikes from overseas suppliers since none were manufactured or stocked in Bulgaria.
<h2>Making history</h2>
Among these items of information was an announcement that trials had been organised at the Sofia racecourse on 24-25 May and, accordingly, on the first day of Bulgaria&rsquo;s very first national athletics competition, the Bulgarian federation was formed.
Ultimately, Bulgaria sent four athletes to Paris as part of a 24-strong team in four sports. However, despite a national athletics championships being inaugurated in 1926 &ndash; again only men&rsquo;s events, the first women&rsquo;s championships came along in 1936 and it was to be 1952 before the sprinter Tsvetana Berkovska became the first Bulgarian female athlete to go to the Olympics &ndash; there was little progress over the coming years after these promising beginnings.
It was not until the second half of the 20th century, with Bulgaria having not been invited to the London 1948 Olympics due to its role as a member of the Axis in World War II, and a radical change of the political environment, that athletics began to flourish.
As part of the post-World War II Soviet Bloc, organised sport started to play a much greater role in the culture and society of ordinary Bulgarians across the country, and this was combined with a noticeable rise in living standards from the mid-1950s onwards.
Bulgaria hosted its first Balkan Athletics Championships in 1958, having sent athletes to the very first one in Athens in 1930, and in 1960 sent its biggest ever Olympic athletics contingent of six men and four women to Rome, with pole vaulters Hristo Hristov and Dimitar Hlebarov memorably making the final and finishing 10th and 11th.
<h2>Landmarks by Stoykovski,&nbsp;Yorgova&nbsp;and Blagoeva</h2>
Four years later, Virzhiniya Mihaylova just missed out on a medal when finishing fourth in the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games discus, and a landmark was achieved in 1966 when triple jumper Georgi Stoykovski, who was seventh in Tokyo, won Bulgaria&rsquo;s first continental title at the 1966 European Athletics Championships.
Mikhail Zhelev also won the 1969 European 3000m steeplechase gold medal.
However, during the 1970s and 1980s the headlines were dominated by Bulgaria&rsquo;s female athletes, starting with Diana Yorgova winning the country&rsquo;s first Olympic athletics medal when she finished second in the Munich 1972 long jump.
Another silver went to high jumper Yordanka Blagoeva a few days later but just 20 days after having watched Germany&rsquo;s Ulrike Meyfarth take Olympic gold on home soil with a world record-equalling 1.92m, Blagoeva improved that mark by two centimetres to 1.94m in Zagreb.
It was the first of a plethora of world records set by Bulgarian women across a 16-year period that culminated in an epic period of two years between 1986 and 1988 that saw not only Kostadinova revise the record books three times but five successive reductions in the 100m hurdles world record, four of them by Yordanka Donkova and another by her compatriot and rival Ginka Zagorcheva.
Donkova&rsquo;s final mark of 12.21 on home soil in Stara Zagora on 20 August 1988 remained as the standard for 28 years until USA&rsquo;s Kendra Harrison improved it to 12.20 in 2016.
Just over a month after the last Bulgarian world record to date, Donkova flew to gold at the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games in an Olympic record of 12.38. Bulgaria&rsquo;s first Olympic athletics gold had been won by shot putter and 1972 bronze medallist Ivanka Khristova 12 years earlier in 1976 to fulfil her role as favourite having set world records in successive days in July 1976.&nbsp;
Women were mostly the ones taking the plaudits during Bulgarian athletics&rsquo; halcyon period in these two decades, but there were a few men taking medals and titles as well.
<h2>Markov takes triple gold</h2>
Following Petar Petrov&rsquo;s 100m bronze at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games for Bulgaria&rsquo;s first ever men&rsquo;s athletics medal, triple jumper Khristo Markov became the first and, so far, only men&rsquo;s Olympic champion when he took gold in Seoul to add to his 1986 European and 1987 world titles.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/665101216042e9e47cd880fe.jpg" alt="Khristo Markov at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul" />
Khristo Markov at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul (&copy; Getty Images)
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It's not a matter for much debate to say that Markov is Bulgaria&rsquo;s greatest ever male athlete.
Unfortunately, the 21st century has seen the current generation of Bulgarian athletes unable to emulate their predecessors.
Kostadinova&rsquo;s 1995 world title and Tereza Marinova&rsquo;s Sydney 2000 Olympic Games triple jump gold were the last occasions when the Bulgarian national anthem of Mila Rodino was played on a global stage.
No Bulgarian athlete has won a medal at the World Athletics Championships since 2007, although there was a moment to savour when two-time European Athletics Championships high jump silver medallist Mirela Demireva followed in the footsteps of Blagoeva and Kostadinova to finish second at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Off the track, the Bulgarian federation has also played its part in being part of the global athletics family.
In addition to the World University Games being staged in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital staged the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships and, more recently, the 1990 World Athletics U20 Championships and 2012 World Half Marathon Championships were held in Plovdiv and Kavarna respectively.
In 2020, Dobromir Karamarinov became the European Athletics President and currently sits on the World Athletics Council to extend Bulgaria&rsquo;s influence in the corridors of power.
Phil Minshull for World Athletics Heritage (with thanks to Anton Bonov and Yana Kasova of the Bulgarian Athletics Federation)

Stefka Kostadinova’s world high jump record has remained unbeaten ever since she cleared 2.09m in 1987 and it is fitting that her name is among the current list of global record-holders as the Bulgarian Athletics Federation celebrated its centenary

A century of Bulgarian athletics highlighted by Kostadinova's 37-year-old world record

Rising sprint star Torrie Lewis and global gold medallist Isaac Beacroft are among the 68 athletes on Australia&rsquo;s team for the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24, taking place between 27-31 August.
Lewis is the national 100m record-holder who won the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, while Beacroft set an Oceanian U20 record on his way to the U20 men&rsquo;s 10km race walk title at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Antalya 24.
Featuring 35 women and 33 men, the team for Peru also includes Olympic Games-bound middle-distance runner Claudia Hollingsworth, who is one of eight athletes returning to the global U20 stage following their participation in the 2022 World U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. Triple jumper Tiana Boras also returns after clinching Australia&rsquo;s first ever major championships medal in the event with bronze in Cali.
They are joined by athletes including sprinters Sebastian Sultana and Gout Gout, and the versatile Izobelle Louison-Roe, who will contest the high jump and triple jump.
With seven Australian U20 record-holders in individual events with 12 records between them, plus the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s 4x100m squads who have already inked the record books in 2024, the team stakes its claim as one of the strongest in Australian history.
Athletics Australia for World Athletics
<h2>Australian team for Lima</h2>
Women 100m: Torrie Lewis, Aleksandra Stoilova&nbsp; 200m: Torrie Lewis, Jessica Milat 400m: Jemma Pollard, Amelia Rowe 800m: Claudia Hollingsworth, Marie Celie Warneke 1500m: Ada Rand, Cleo Richardson 3000m: Amy Bunnage, Gabrielle Schmidt 5000m: Amy Bunnage, Gabrielle Schmidt 100m hurdles: Delta Amidzovski, Amali Butcher 400m hurdles: Alesha Bennetts, Sienna Farrell 3000m steeplechase: Allegra McGivern, Mia Toohey 10,000m race walk: Alexandra Griffin, Chelsea Roberts High jump: Izobelle Louison-Roe, Toby Stolberg Pole vault: Tryphena Hewett Long jump: Delta Amidzovski, Mia Scerri Triple Jump: Tiana Boras, Izobelle Louison-Roe&nbsp; Shot put: Xylavene Beale, Marley Raikiwasa Discus throw: Marley Raikiwasa, Chelsy Wayne Heptathlon: Mia Scerri 4x100m: Olivia Dodds, Olivia Inkster, Torrie Lewis, Jessica Milat, Thewbelle Philp, Chelsea Scolyer, Aleksandra Stoilova 4x400m: Sophia Gregorevic, Charlotte McAuliffe, Bella Pasquali, Ella Penman, Jemma Pollard, Amelia Rowe
Men 100m: Gout Gout, Sebastian Sultana 200m: Gout Gout, Sebastian Sultana 400m: Jett Grundy, Terrell Thorne 800m: Peyton Craig, Hayden Todd 1500m: Cameron Myers, Daniel Williams&nbsp; 3000m: Ky Hehir, Cameron Myers 110m hurdles: Rashid Kabba, William Wong&nbsp; 400m hurdles: Matt Hunt 3000m steeplechase: Toby Chippendale&nbsp; 10,000m race walk: Isaac Beacroft, Marcus Wakim High jump: Mitchell Hatfield&nbsp; Long jump: Jesuye Doherty, Mason McGroder Triple jump: Alex Epitropakis&nbsp; Shot put: Robert Marchesi-Scott Discus throw: Ethan Ayodele, Darcy Giddings Javelin throw: Edward Rogan Decathlon: Jack Whiteside 4x100m: Zach Della Rocha, Gout Gout, Cody Hasler, Jonathan Kasiano, Archer McHugh, Frankleen Newah-Jarfoi, Sebastian Sultana 4x400m: Adam Beiers, Jack Deguara, Jordan Gilbert, Jett Grundy, Caleb Kilpatrick, Terrell Thorne

World Athletics U20 Championships

Torrie Lewis, Isaac Beacroft and Claudia Hollingsworth are among the athletes on Australia’s team for the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24

Australia names team of 68 for World U20 Championships Lima 24

The Wanda Diamond League <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/news/mile-clash-kerr-ingebrigtsen-nuguse-prefontaine-eugene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continues on Saturday (25) in Eugene with the fifth meeting of the season</a>.
World record-holders, Olympic gold medallists and world champions will compete at the Prefontaine Classic.
The action will start at 12:50pm local time (GMT -7) with the women's discus and the main two-hour broadcast window will begin at 1:00pm local time with the men's 400m hurdles.
<a href="https://eugene.diamondleague.com/program-results-eugene/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results, programme and entry lists</a> | <a href="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/6651b53d343d0574797e71e9.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media information sheets and athlete biographies</a>
<h3>Where to watch</h3>
The meeting will be streamed in a number of territories on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@diamondleague/streams" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wanda Diamond League YouTube page</a> from 1:00pm local time (GMT -7). The live stream will not be available in all territories.
To find out the broadcast rights holder in your country, check the list below. If your country does not appear on the list, please check local listings. The list is&nbsp;subject to change, and some broadcasters may only show highlights coverage, while others will show the meeting live.&nbsp;Please check your local listings to find out more information.&nbsp;
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<td>Territories</td>
<td>Broadcaster/ rights holder</td>
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<td>Africa (English language):&nbsp;Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, S&atilde;o Tom&eacute; and Pr&iacute;ncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland</td>
<td>Supersport (English)&nbsp;</td>
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<td>Africa (French language):&nbsp;Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, S&atilde;o Tom&eacute; and Pr&iacute;ncipe, Mayotte</td>
<td>New World TV</td>
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<td>Argentina</td>
<td>TeleRed, TyC Sports</td>
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<tr>
<td>Azerbaijan</td>
<td>Saran Group, CBC Sport</td>
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<td>Baltics: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland</td>
<td>SIA All Media, Viasat Baltics, TV3 Sport</td>
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<tr>
<td>Balkans:&nbsp;Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia</td>
<td>United Media - Sportklub</td>
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<td>Belarus</td>
<td>Saran Group</td>
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<tr>
<td>Belgium</td>
<td>VRT</td>
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<td>Brazil</td>
<td>COB,&nbsp;TVN Sports, Globo Sport Brazil, Newco - BandSports</td>
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<td>Bulgaria</td>
<td>Mobitel, A1 - Sport Max</td>
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<td>Canada</td>
<td>CBC</td>
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<td>Caucasus/Central Asia: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan</td>
<td>Saran</td>
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<td>Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barth&eacute;lemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bonaire, Bermuda, Cura&ccedil;ao, Sint Maarten</td>
<td>Flow Sports, CWC</td>
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<td>Central America:&nbsp;Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname</td>
<td>Sky Mexico</td>
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<td>China</td>
<td>CCTV</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chinese Taipei</td>
<td>Elta</td>
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<tr>
<td>Czech Republic</td>
<td>Ceska Televize</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Denmark</td>
<td>TV3 Sport, Viasat Sport A/S Account</td>
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<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td>MTV Katsomo</td>
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<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td>Sky Deutschland</td>
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<tr>
<td>Greece&nbsp;</td>
<td>TAF/ERT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hong Kong</td>
<td>PCCW</td>
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<tr>
<td>Hungary</td>
<td>ASC1, MTVA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>India</td>
<td>Viacom 18</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Israel</td>
<td>Charlton - Sport 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy&nbsp;</td>
<td>Sky Italy / Sportface / Rai</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Malaysia</td>
<td>Measat, Astro</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mongolia</td>
<td>SPS Mongolia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Morocco</td>
<td>SNRT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td>Liberty Global Content, Ziggo Sports, NOS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>New Zealand</td>
<td>TVNZ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td>NRK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Philippines</td>
<td>TAP DMV</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poland</td>
<td>Polsat</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Portugal</td>
<td>Sport TV Portugal</td>
</tr>
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<td>Qatar</td>
<td>ALKASS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovakia</td>
<td>RTVS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Singapore</td>
<td>Singtel, Starhub</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>South America: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela</td>
<td>Panam Sports</td>
</tr>
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<td>South Korea</td>
<td>KBS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spain</td>
<td>Telefonica</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td>TV4, SVT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td>SRG</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thailand</td>
<td>Cineplex, JKN</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turkey</td>
<td>Saran Group, Ssport</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United Kingdom</td>
<td>BBC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ukraine</td>
<td>Setanta</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>USA</td>
<td>NBC Sports</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Australia, Bhutan, Cambodia, France, Iceland, Indonesia, Japan, Monaco, Myanmar (Burma), Romania, South Korea, Sri Lanka</td>
<td>Wanda Diamond League YouTube / Facebook</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Social media</h2>
- World Athletics: <a href="https://twitter.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/worldathletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@worldathletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> - Wanda Diamond League: <a href="https://twitter.com/diamond_league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DiamondLeague/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/diamondleagueathletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>
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The Wanda Diamond League continues on Saturday (25) in Eugene with the fifth meeting of the season

How to watch and follow the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene

Women&rsquo;s world marathon record 2:11:53 Tigist Assefa (ETH) Berlin 24 September 2023 
Tigist Assefa&rsquo;s world marathon record of 2:11:53 set in Berlin last year has been ratified by World Athletics.
The Ethiopian smashed the previous mark by more than two minutes at the BMW Berlin Marathon on 24 September, becoming the first woman to run inside 2:13 and 2:12, and erasing the world record of 2:14:04 that had been set by Kenya&rsquo;s Brigid Kosgei in Chicago on 13 October 2019.
During Assefa&rsquo;s record-breaking run, a large pack of the leading contenders ran together through the early stages, passing through 5km in 15:58. 13 women were still in contact with the lead as they reached 10km in 31:45.
By 15km, reached in 47:26, Assefa and compatriot Workenesh Edesa had managed to open up a slight gap. Less than two kilometres later, Assefa was alone out in front and she went on to reach the half-way stage in 1:06:20, comfortably inside world record pace.
Assefa, still looking incredibly relaxed and composed, covered the 25-35km section in a remarkable 31:02. Spurred on by the knowledge that the world record was in the bag, Assefa picked up her pace in the closing kilometres and charged through the finish line in 2:11:53.
&ldquo;I hope that my performance will be motivation for young women athletes in Ethiopia and that the world record one year before the Olympic Games gives our country a boost for Paris,&rdquo; said Assefa.
World Athletics

Tigist Assefa’s world marathon record of 2:11:53 set in Berlin last year has been ratified.

Ratified: Assefa’s world marathon record

Going strictly by time, the Bowerman Mile at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday (25) is one of the fastest races in the meeting&rsquo;s 49-year history.
Add in the storylines, and it&rsquo;s one of the most anticipated, too.
Featuring seven men with lifetime bests faster than 3:50, Olympic and world championship gold medallists, world record-holders and rivals whose banter has preceded the matchup for months, the mile caps a Wanda Diamond League meeting at Hayward Field whose potential for world-leading marks extends far beyond its final event.
Consider, for one, the women&rsquo;s 800m, and the early window it will open into this summer&rsquo;s Olympics. The field includes six of the eight competitors from last year&rsquo;s World Championships final in Budapest, including gold medallist Mary Moraa and silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson. Notably absent will be bronze medallist Athing Mu, the Olympic champion, who was initially scheduled to race but has been withdrawn out of precaution because of a sore hamstring.
Raevyn Rogers, the 2019 world silver medallist whose image adorns a tower standing high above Hayward Field, also is entered, along with Jemma Reekie, Nia Akins and Halimah Nakaayi, who is coming off a victory at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix.
World champion Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson and Elaine Thompson-Herah headline the women&rsquo;s 100m, along with world indoor 60m champion Julien Alfred and Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith, while world indoor 60m champion Christian Coleman and Ackeem Blake are among the fastest entered in the men's 100m.
Perhaps the most dominant athlete entering the meeting is Grant Holloway, the world 110m hurdles champion who has won all 10 races he has contested this year, including the indoor season and heats. That also includes running a world-leading 13.07 into a headwind to win in Atlanta last weekend.
The three-time world champion's last loss came on the very same Hayward Field track, at last September&rsquo;s Prefontaine Classic. The only remaining gap on Holloway&rsquo;s resume is an Olympic gold medal, and Saturday&rsquo;s race could be an early preview of Paris, as the field includes five who raced in last summer&rsquo;s World Championships final in Budapest, including silver medallist Hansle Parchment and Daniel Roberts, who earned bronze.
Shot put world record-holder and multiple world and Olympic champion Ryan Crouser will open his outdoor season in his home state and at the stadium where he owns the facility record, while trying to best Leonardo Fabbri&rsquo;s world-leading mark of 22.95m.
Since 2023, Crouser has lost in just one final &ndash; and it was at September&rsquo;s Prefontaine Classic to Joe Kovacs, who won in Los Angeles last weekend with 22.93m, and is entered again. Payton Otterdahl, who owns the world No.3 mark this year, also is in the field.
Those events offer no shortage of global medallists. Few, however, carry the prospect for as much drama as the mile.
Over the past year, Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Josh Kerr, who outkicked Ingebrigtsen for last year&rsquo;s world title in Budapest, have carried on a battle of words through the press about who could prevail in Paris.
Commonwealth champion Olli Hoare, who is part of the field following his 1500m win in Los Angeles last week, said the sport was better for the attention drawn by the back-and-forth between Ingebrigtsen and Kerr &ndash; but added that other racers wanted to strike the appropriate level of respect for their competitors, such as Yared Nuguse, whose PB of 3:43.97 was set battling Ingebrigtsen (4:43.73) down to the line at September&rsquo;s Pre Classic.
&ldquo;This is a big one. This is going to be a big one for a lot of egos,&rdquo; Hoare said in Los Angeles. &ldquo;But I think it&rsquo;s going to be a big one for me because it&rsquo;ll be the first race where I&rsquo;ll have an inkling of where I am with the world&rsquo;s best. There&rsquo;s a bit of tossing and turning with the banter but you can&rsquo;t disrespect that field. If you do, you&rsquo;ll get eaten alive.&rdquo;
That list of seven men under 3:50, which includes Hoare, notably doesn&rsquo;t include Jake Wightman, who will be racing Ingebrigtsen for the first time since their duel at the 2022 World Championships in Oregon, when Wightman won gold; Abel Kipsang, who was fourth at the Tokyo Olympics; Geordie Beamish, less than three months after he stormed to the world indoor title; or Lamecha Girma, the steeplechase world record-holder who is making his mile debut.
&ldquo;Jake Wightman&rsquo;s back, he&rsquo;s a world champion,&rdquo; Hoare said. &ldquo;Yared Nuguse, 3:43 mile &ndash; these guys are keeping quiet and they&rsquo;re going to wait for their opportunity to strike. And when they do strike, I guarantee they will make a comment.&rdquo;
They are not the only accomplished names entered in the distances.
Athletics Kenya will determine its men's and women's Olympic 10,000m qualifiers at Hayward Field, with Kenya's two-time world cross-country champion Beatrice Chebet, the world leader at 5000m this season, part of a women's race that will include world champion Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia, eight months after Tsegay set the world 5000m record on the same track.
World record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech will attempt to retain her controlling hold over the steeplechase when she races top challenger Faith Cherotich. The Kenyan duo produced the two fastest times in the world this year at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, which Chepkoech won in 8:55.40 to Cherotich&rsquo;s 9:05.91. Olympic silver medallist Courtney Frerichs will no longer run after injuring the ACL and meniscus in her right knee.
One week after winning in Los Angeles, Diribe Welteji leads the 1500m field that includes 13 women who have run under four minutes. World indoor 3000m champion Elle St Pierre, who won the 5000m in Los Angeles, is running her first 1500m of the season, with Laura Muir, Nikki Hiltz, Jessica Hull, Hirut Meshesha and Cory McGee also entered.
Multiple world and Olympic gold medallist Sifan Hassan, as well as world No.2 Ejgayehu Taye, will feature in the 5000m.
In the field, world and Olympic pole vault champion Katie Moon opens her outdoor season against Sandi Morris, and in the triple jump four of the top five women this season are entered, led by Thea LaFond, whose 15.01m jump to win the world indoor title in Glasgow still stands as the mark to beat.
Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman has not lost in Eugene in two years, a run that includes claiming September&rsquo;s Diamond League final. That could change on Saturday because of the presence of world leader Yaime Perez, who finished second to Allman in Xiamen last month.
In the men&rsquo;s 200m, top US sprinters who will duel at the Olympic trials only weeks later will face off. Kenny Bednarek, fresh off a world-leading 19.67 in Doha, is scheduled to race against world No.2 Courtney Lindsey (19.71), with world silver medallist Erriyon Knighton making his season debut. Joe Fahnbulleh and Kyree King, winner of the Los Angeles Grand Prix 100m, are also entered.
Another winner in Los Angeles, Rai Benjamin, headlines the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles, and he enters with considerable confidence after running 46.64, the ninth-fastest performance of all time.
&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;m the fastest guy in the field, honestly,&rdquo; Benjamin said of potential Olympic chances.
The women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles and women&rsquo;s hammer will not count towards Diamond League points totals, but will be more potential previews for global championships.
Women who account for five of the year&rsquo;s six fastest times, all of whom are separated by fractions of a second, will face off in the hurdles. Tonea Marshall, fresh off her victory in Los Angeles in 12.42, leads 2019 world champion Nia Ali, Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, two-time world champion Danielle Williams and world indoor champion Devynne Charlton.
Brooke Andersen&rsquo;s 79.92m throw from earlier this month remains the world-leading hammer mark this season but she will be challenged by world champion Camryn Rogers, 2019 world champion DeAnna Price and world silver medallist Janee&rsquo; Kassanavoid, who own the next three farthest throws this season.
Andrew Greif for World Athletics

Prefontaine Classic

The Bowerman Mile is one of the fastest - and most anticipated - races at the Prefontaine Classic

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Only a year after winning his long-sought world title, one of the world&rsquo;s top sprinters couldn&rsquo;t run away from the sport fast enough.
Michael Norman had spent every year since he was a teenager consumed by athletics, attempting to live up to the considerable promise that first showed in 2016, when he nearly made the US Olympic team while still in high school. But that changed in 2023. Injured and frustrated by changes that had not gone to plan, the 2022 world 400m champion &ldquo;completely shut out&rdquo; athletics following July&rsquo;s US Championships.&nbsp;
He stopped training. He left the country on vacation. When the World Athletics Championships began in Budapest, he watched only the races featuring Rai Benjamin, his longtime friend and training partner, and nothing else. He didn&rsquo;t watch a meeting again until the World Athletics Relays, nine months later.&nbsp;
The unplanned break &ldquo;gave me peace,&rdquo; he said, and made him more patient and mature as an athlete. When Norman returned to training on 1 November under his former coach, Quincy Watts, he was out of shape. Yet it had been more than worth it. Taking what he called &ldquo;small, small steps moving in the right direction&rdquo; left him refreshed and ready to go after what he called his ultimate 2024 goal: Olympic redemption.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It gave me the clarity that I needed because I was on a downward spiral toward hating the sport, so I was like, I just need to take a step back, gather myself before I get into this like, point of no return,&rdquo; Norman said after winning at Saturday&rsquo;s <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/news/los-angeles-grand-prix-2024-benjamin-mclaughlin-levrone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix</a> in 44.53. &ldquo;It was really important for me to give myself the space and be a normal person for just a little bit of time.&rdquo;
It wasn't Norman&rsquo;s first time seeking deeper answers about his running. After the sprinter set the US high school record for 400m, he finished fourth at the NCAA Championships one year later, only to respond the following season by breaking the collegiate record and turning professional. In 2021, after fading from pre-race favourite to fifth at the Tokyo Olympics, Norman spent the next several months trying to understand what had led to an outcome he described at the time so &ldquo;devastating" that the gold medal he earned for his leg on the US 4x400m team in Tokyo provided zero solace. He poured that frustration into his training in 2022 and rebounded by claiming the world 400m gold medal in Oregon in front of a raucous crowd of US fans.&nbsp;
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Michael Norman celebrates his 400m win at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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Coming off that victory, Norman opted for change, dabbling in shorter sprints. As part of his move to drop down to the 100m, he switched coaches from Watts to John Smith. Yet by last May, he had felt discomfort behind a knee while racing in Doha and was never fully healthy again. After finishing eighth in the 100m at the 2023 US Championships, Norman said he had dealt with tendonitis as well as &ldquo;setback after setback.&rdquo;
He did not use the bye into the World Championships 400m field he had earned as the 2022 champion. He began his hard break instead, just days after the US Championships, and re-examined the sacrifices he'd made for his career.
&ldquo;When I&rsquo;m in competition and training mode I kind of have that mentality where track comes first over everything and that comes with all aspects of my life &ndash; friendships, relationships, just anything,&rdquo; Norman said. &ldquo;So, when I felt like the track side of my life was falling apart, I was like, &lsquo;OK, I need to take a step back and just kind of be a regular human being. Catch up with some friends I haven&rsquo;t talked to in years, just be a normal 26-year-old.&rsquo; And that&rsquo;s what I did. I took a step back.
&ldquo;I think it was really healthy for me to have that break. It got to a point where it was very tiring, especially when I wasn&rsquo;t seeing the fruits from my labour. I just said, you know what? What do I want to do as a person right now?&rdquo;
Norman proposed to his girlfriend. A self-described foodie, Norman ate what he wanted, or skipped breakfast. He travelled to Mexico for the first time while on vacation with high-school friends. After returning from his Mexican vacation, Norman was invited by Benjamin, the No.2 all-time 400m hurdles star, to drop by at training in Los Angeles before Benjamin left for Budapest and the World Championships. Norman caught up with Benjamin and former training partners including Kendall Ellis, &ldquo;and I was like, I miss it,&rdquo; Norman said. &ldquo;Coach Watts came and then I was like, this is where I&rsquo;m supposed to be. And that was the decision that, I&rsquo;m going back here.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to be patient with yourself when you don&rsquo;t really see a clear path of where to go or where you&rsquo;re heading so, yeah, it&rsquo;s been quite difficult. But if you have the right people around you, they&rsquo;ll remind you of the good, the bad and they&rsquo;ll help you through any situation. I think that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s helped me a lot.&rdquo;
It wasn&rsquo;t his only homecoming. Norman would also be going back to the 400m. His reasoning?
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just not worth the risk to jump down into those shorter events, especially in a year like this just because if you don&rsquo;t execute and you don&rsquo;t perform the way you want to, or the way that people expected &hellip; things don&rsquo;t look good,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s safer and less of a risk for me to be competing in the 400m, which I still enjoy just as much.&rdquo;
His 2024 season has also not gone necessarily as smoothly as hoped, despite running a 44.21 clocking on 4 May that puts him at No.3 this season. What he called &ldquo;body-type issues&rdquo; limited how much he could sprint between January and May, and they &ndash; along with last season&rsquo;s injuries &ndash; are why he called managing his health the theme of his year. That, and redemption.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s quite a journey,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s exciting.&rdquo;
Andrew Greif for World Athletics

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