Five-time Wanda Diamond League champion Noah Lyles will lead a quintet of reigning world champions at the Herculis EBS Monaco meeting as athletics' premier series continues next month.
With around six weeks to go until the Olympic Games begin in Paris, Monaco is one of three Diamond League meetings in July at which the world's best athletes will be hoping to hit form as they prepare for the biggest stage of all.
All eyes will be on Lyles in the men's 200m, with the American star looking to finally add an Olympic gold medal to his glistening array of global titles this summer.
A six-time world champion and five-time winner of the Diamond Trophy, Lyles picked up bronze in the 200m in Tokyo in 2021. Having narrowly missed out on a sixth Diamond League crown at last year's final in Eugene, he will out to prove he is still the man to beat in the sprints when he attacks the meeting record of 19.46 which he set in Monaco back in 2022.
Lyles will not be the only world champion hoping to make a statement in Monaco.
Pole vault world champion Katie Moon will also be in action at the Stade Louis II, aiming to claim the first win of her Diamond League title defence after she missed out on Doha and came second in Eugene earlier this summer.
Moon currently holds all three of the Olympic, world and Diamond League titles, and will no doubt want to keep it that way in 2024.
Haruka Kitaguchi is also the reigning world and Diamond League champion in the women's javelin and is now eyeing a first ever Olympic medal this summer. The Japanese star has already hit form on the Diamond League circuit this year, beginning her season with a dramatic last-gasp victory in Suzhou back in April.
Canadian 800m star Marco Arop also got an early win under his belt this year when he posted a world lead of 1:43.61 at the season opener in Xiamen. The world champion has good memories of Monaco, having broken his personal best at the meeting in 2020 and 2021.
In the men's 110m hurdles, Grant Holloway will be hoping to repeat the form which saw him break the 13-second barrier in Monaco on the way to the Diamond League title in 2022.
Holloway has dominated the sprint hurdles in recent years, taking the silver medal in Tokyo and back-to-back world titles in 2022 and 2023. Yet he suffered a surprise defeat in last year's Diamond League final and is yet to in in the series this season.
