Lavillenie is the only five-time Diamond Race winner in any event, of either gender.He has set meeting records at 11 of the 14 Diamond League meetings and won in Eugene at the 2013 and 2014 IAAF Diamond League meeting.
In the field against Lavillenie in Eugene will be Konstantinos Filippidis, of Greece, who won the 2014 world indoor title when Lavillenie was sidelined with an injury.
Germany’s Raphael Holzdeppe, who beat Lavillenie to gold at the 2013 IAAF World Championships, will also be in Eugene.
Sam Kendricks is the newly-crowned US indoor champion and is very familiar with Hayward Field. He has twice won in Eugene, taking the NCAA crowns for his alma mater Mississippi in 2013 and 2014.
There are also the two medallists behind Lavillenie from the European Indoor Championships earlier this month, when the Frenchman won with a 2015 world-leading 6.04m.
Piotr Lisek, 22, took the bronze medal in Prague and cleared a Polish national record of 5.90m this winter.
Russia’s Aleksandr Gripich, 28, cleared a personal best of 5.85m to take the silver medal in the Czech capital.
Also on his way to Eugene will be Brazil's Augusto Dutra, 24, who is aiming for the 2016 Olympics in Rio and set two South American records in 2013.
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