World record holder and Wanda Diamond League champion Armand "Mondo" Duplantis will take on a world class field in the men's pole vault at the fifth meeting of the season as he bids to make it four wins in four at Oslo's Bislett Games in 2023.
Duplantis has won in Oslo in each of the last three years amid an unstoppable rise to complete hegemony in the men's pole vault and will be firm favourite to do so again on June 15th.
The Swedish star, who has broken the world record four times in the last 15 months alone, is also hoping to claim his third successive Wanda Diamond League title in 2023, having won the Diamond Trophy in both of the last two seasons.
In Oslo, he will be up against his old friend and rival Renaud Lavillenie, who is still the joint record champion in the Wanda Diamond League with seven titles between 2010 and 2016.
The USA's Chris Nilsen, an Olympic silver medallist in Tokyo, will also be a potential banana skin for Duplantis, having beaten the Swede at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne back in 2021.
The home crowd, meanwhile, will be getting behind local stars Sondre Guttormsen and Pål Haugen Lillefosse, while the Philippines' world number three Ernest John Obiena, Belgian world number nine Ben Broeders and 2016 Olympic champion Thiago Braz make up the remainder of a stellar field.
The Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo is the fifth leg of athletics' premier one-day series, which comprises 14 of the most prestigious events in global track and field. Athletes compete for points at the 13 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final in Eugene on 16th-17th September.
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