Faith Kipyegon will headline a sparkling array of world and European champions in action at the eighth Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season on July 7th, returning to the stadium where she broke the 5000m world record last year.
Kenyan star Kipyegon made history in 2023 as she became the first athlete to break more than one world record in a single Diamond League season. Her 5000m record of 14:05.20 was the second of three, and came just a week after she had broken the 1500m world record in Florence.
Kipyegon's record was later broken by Gudaf Tsegay at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Eugene, yet the Kenyan still ended the season as Wanda Diamond League champion, claiming her fourth career Diamond Trophy in the 1500m.
She will launch her defence of that title in Paris this year, just a few weeks before targeting a third career Olympic gold in the same city.
The Meeting de Paris will be an Olympic dress rehearsal for many of the sport's biggest names, with pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis and German long jump star Malaika Mihambo both already confirmed to compete at the Stade Charléty.
Kipyegon and Duplantis are among the six reigning world champions on the Paris entry lists, with Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Dominican Diamond League 400m champion Marileidy Paulino, Serbian long jumper Ivana Vuleta and Bahraini steeplechaser Winfried Yavi also set to compete.
Yavi, who broke an Asian record on her way to the Diamond League title in Eugene last year, will go up against Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech, who has held the steeplechase world record since she clocked 8:44.32 at the Monaco Diamond League back in 2018.
Six-time Diamond League champion Sandra Elkasevic (née Perkovic) will be one of several freshly crowned European champions as the Croatian discus star sets her sights on a record-equalling seventh title this year.
Ireland's 1500m star Ciara Mageean, Polish 400m runner Natalia Kaczmarek and javelin Diamond League champion Jakub Vadlejch will also be hoping to take their European Championship form into the Olympics via the Meeting de Paris.
The Wanda Diamond League is the premier one-day meeting series in athletics. It comprises 15 of the most prestigious events in global track and field. Athletes compete for points at the 14 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on 13th-14th September.
