Noah Lyles Makes 100m Season Debut at the London DL: Full Meet Preview
Noah Lyles Makes 100m Season Debut at the London DL: Full Meet Preview
Fans will see a Noah Lyles v. Letsile Tebogo rematch in the 100m at the 2025 London Athletics Meet.

A number of stacked races are queued up for this weekend's London Athletics Meet. In middle-distance action, U.S. fans will be treated to Donavan Brazier's first Diamond League race since 2022 against Emmanuel Wanyonyi. In the sprints, Noah Lyles and Letsile Tebogo will rematch in Lyles' 100m season debut and Julien Alfred will keep rolling in the 200m, while the UK will be sending their best in events across the board as most athletes will get their last chance to shine before national championships and trials. Fields for every Diamond event are previewed below.
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Men's long jump (7:53am ET): Unheralded Adcock having stellar season
Autralia's Liam Adcock doesn't have the accolades of his peers Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE), Wayne Pinnock (JAM), and Mattia Furlani (ITA), who swept the Paris Olympic medals in this event last year. But in Rome this year, he beat Furlani and Tentoglou to take the DL win with an 8.34-meter PB. That mark still ranks him second-worst in the field and he did lose to Furlani at the Paavo Nurmi Games last month, but as the only athlete to PB this season he's got room to improve.
It'll be interesting to monitor Swiss decathlete Simon Ehammer, who often dips into the individual long jump to great success (e.g. by winning the 2023 Diamond League finals). The lone Brit is Samuel Khogali, who was just 11th at the European Team Championships.
Men's discus (8:19am ET): WR-holder Alekna a heavy favorite
Lithuanian world record holder for Cal Mykolas Alekna may have let the NCAA title slip away from him last month, but he's been flawless in 2025 save for that, winning 7/8 competitions and will be favored in London. Slovenian 2022 World champ Kristjan Čeh won the Stockholm DL this year and might be the top challenger as he's on a nine-competition win streak this season himself. The Jamaican Olympic champ Roje Stona, in the process of transferring allegiance to Turkey, has struggled on the DL circuit placing 4th at Pre.
The UK enters Lawrence Okoye and Nicholas Percy. Okoye is a man of many hats as an NFL defensive tackle signed to the San Francisco 49ers, a star junior rugby union player, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist in the discus. Percy didn't advance from the Olympic qualifying round last year but was 5th at Commonwealths in 2022 behind Okoye.
Women's pole vault (8:53am ET): The Caudery-Moon showdown will be a nail-biter
The 2025 Diamond League women's pole vault standings have been relatively evenly-matched so far, with Britain's '24 World Indoor champ Molly Caudery taking the first DL meeting and Americans Katie Moon and Sandi Morris splitting the following four. With no Morris in London, it'll be up to Caudery to beat '20 Olympic champ Moon for home-town glory.
2025 indoor worlds finalist Emily Grove rounds out the U.S. squad. She made her first U.S. team since 2017 to finish 9th in Nanjing.
Women's 400m hurdles (9:04am ET): It's Bol against the clock
The Netherlands' Femke Bol has displayed nothing short of domination on the Diamond League circuit, winning all three meets this year she's showed up at with no particularly close calls. She'll face a new challenger this time in American Jasmine Jones, last year's NCAA champ who was 4th at the Olympics and runner-up at the Philly Slam in her only 400mH race this year.
Jones comes in with the second-best PB in the field and could push Bol if she can summon her 2024 late-season form. Jamaican Andrenette Knight won the Rome DL and could take advantage should Bol or Jones falter.
Women's high jump (9:13am ET): Mahuchikh favored but has shown vulnerability
Some expected Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh to bulldoze through 2025 following her world record and undefeated outdoor season in 2024, but that hasn't quite come to fruition. She's done enough to cement herself as the favorite in London, winning the Xiamen and Shanghai DLs, but she's coming off consecutive losses to Nicola Olyslagers in Stockholm and Paris.
Olyslagers isn't in the London entries, so a new challenger like Eleanor Patterson (AUS; 2025 World Indoors silver medalist) will have to step up if she wants to take the crown. Heptathlete Charity Hufnagel will represent the U.S., having finished 7th in a 1.94m PB at the What Gravity Challenger earlier this year.
Men's 800m (9:15am ET): The Monaco race loses Sedjati and Hoey but gains wildcard Brazier
The Monaco DL Olympic final rematch in this event last week met all expectations, with Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi powering to a 1:41 win ahead of Josh Hoey with Djamel Sedjati 3rd. Hoey and Sedjati aren't returning in London but a new entrant makes up for that and more: American Donavan Brazier, who disappeared with injury in the years since winning the 2019 World Championships only to return in style this year, running 1:44 and 1:43 at domestic meets.
If Brazier wins over the Olympic champ Wanyonyi in London, we'll have seen enough to say he can win Worlds if he stays healthy. But the men's 800m has evolved significantly since Brazier's peak, with 1:41 now becoming the norm to win a quality Diamond League race.
The other American, Paris 4th-placer Bryce Hoppel, has been solid in 2025 but making the U.S. team may be a challenge with Hoey and Brazier in the mix so a win against Brazier would be a good sign. 2023 World champ Marco Arop of Canada under-performed in Monaco due to what appeared to be a tactical error going out too slow, and he'll have a chance to go back to the drawing board and fix that going into London.
A full set of three Brits (Ben Pattison, Max Burgin, Ethan Hussey) round out the field. Pattison has only run 1:46 this year far off his 1:42 best set at Monaco last year, while Burgin showed great form to finish runner-up in Rabat but was only 11th in Monaco after getting tripped up. Hussey won World U20 bronze in 2022 and has a 1:44 best this year.
Women's 5000m (9:27am ET): The DL will see a new women's 5K champ
With Beatrice Chebet taking 4/5 DL distance event wins in 2025 and Linden Hall taking the one Chebet missed in Stockholm, we're guaranteed to see a new winner in London as neither Chebet nor Hall is in the field.
Shock Olympic silver medalist Nadia Battocletti of Italy will be in pole position, having shown decent form this year in a Rabat DL runner-up and a 3rd at the Rome DL 5K in 14:23. Miami Slam 3K and 5K runner-up Medina Eisa will also be one to watch as she and compatriots Chaltu Dida and Hirut Meshesha are the only others in the field to have run under 14:30 this season.
There are no Americans set to run the 5K in London, but the UK will be represented by a full squad of Megan Keith, Hannah Nuttall, Calli Hauger-Thackery, Innes FitzGerald, and Alexandra Millard. Keith won European 10K bronze last year but was 17th at the Rome DL. Nuttall won British indoor champs in the 3K this year and carried that into a 6th at Euro Indoors (FitzGerald was 8th), and was an encouraging 4th in Stockholm. Paris marathon Olympian Hauger-Thackery will be stepping down in distance following a 6th-place Boston Marathon finish this year, while Millard was just 10th at NCAAs for Providence.
Women's long jump (9:47am ET): Mihambo will be challenged by a fast-improving Bryant
Tara Davis-Woodhall won the two DL long jumps earlier this year, but without her presence in London Malaika Mihambo of Germany, the 2020 Olympic gold medalist, will be favored.
Mihambo was 4th in Stockholm and improved to 2nd at Pre, but she wasn't the only competitor to move up two spots in that time. American Claire Bryant, who surprised to win World Indoors gold this year, started her circuit debut rocky in 5th but shot up to 3rd at Pre. Italian Larissa Iapichino and the other American Monae Nichols, both also in the field, went 2-3 behind Woodhall in Stockholm, and Iapichino's 7.06m monster leap in her home country this May is the best mark of the bunch this year.
GB's star jumper Jazmin Sawyers finally broke the 7 meter mark in 2023, and was 6th at the European Team Champs earlier this year. Team GB heptathlon Olympic silver medalist Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be an interesting one to watch, as she hasn't competed in a long jump this year but was a World Indoor silver medalist in the event 11 years ago.
Women's 800m (9:52am ET): Hunter-Bell and Wiley square off following Wiley's American record
This should be a competitive one as Paris bronze medalist Georgia Hunter-Bell will represent the home country against U.S. phenom Addy Wiley, who just significantly improved upon her own 1K American record in Monaco. Sadly, Olympic gold medalist Keely Hodgkinson isn't on the start lists, having withdrawn Tuesday to nurse a long-term injury.
Hunter-Bell may have won her medal over 1500m but has performed better over 800m this year, winning the Stockholm DL. Her countrywoman Jemma Reekie has one of the fastest PBs on the circuit from last year but has finished mid-pack in her two DL outings this year. 2020 silver medalist Laura Muir has experience from middle- to long-distances and has popped off a 1:56 in the 800m before, but at 32 she'll have to prove she still has her speed.
Men's 400m (10:03am ET): Matt Hudson-Smith could put on a show for the home crowd
Matthew Hudson-Smith was inches away from 400m gold in Paris before Quincy Hall stole it from him at the line, and he's got as great a chance as any to seek redemption this year as Hall has performed inconsistently and won't be in London. Hudson-Smith is coming off 400m wins at the Philly Slam and Pre, though his 44.10 season's best trails that of South Africa's Zakithi Nene (set in Kenya late May).
America will be represented by circuit staple Vernon Norwood, who at 33 years old was 4th in Shanghai and 5th in Rome this year. Charlie Dobson is the only other Brit in the field, who shocked to win the Diamond League 400m finals last year despite not making the Olympic finals.
Women's 1 mile (10:13am ET): Hassan drops from marathon to mile to face Jess Hull
Update: As of June 16, Hassan has withdrawn from the mile.
Sifan Hassan's versatility in the running world in unmatched, and her wild antics result in accomplishing feats not previously thought possible, like entering the 5K, 10K, and marathon at the 2024 Olympics and winning medals in all three for the Netherlands. This Saturday will play host to another improbable move by Hassan as she goes from placing 3rd at the London Marathon earlier this year (her only other 2025 performance) to 1/26th the distance in a stacked mile Diamond League field -- a distance Hassan actually held the world record in before Faith Kipyegon took it from her in 2023..
Hassan will have had some time to recover since April -- this isn't like 2023 when she ran the FBK Games 1500m just one month after her London Marathon debut and won in 3:58. She's not ducking competition either as despite Faith Kipyegon's absence, 3:50 1500 woman Jess Hull (AUS) will appear as the favorite following her 3:52 this year. Fellow Aussie Linden Hall surprised to win the 3K in London and could grind out a fast pace if the likes of Ethiopian Birke Haylom leads with one.
Three Brits will take the stage in Katie Snowden (11th in Rome DL 1500), Erin Wallace (15th at Pre), and Revee Walcott-Nolan (12th in Rome) though they've all struggled this year. Also in this 18-woman field is Sinclaire Johnson, U.S. indoor Worlds team member who ran 4:23 indoors this year and was 4th in the Monaco 1K record attempt.
Men's 100m (10:27am ET): The Lyles-Tebogo rivalry repeats at half the distance
The Noah Lyles-Letisile Tebogo rivalry has pitted the American 200m record-holder and Olympic 100m champ against Botswana's star 200m runner who bested a COVID-hampered Lyles in his signature event in Paris. Tebogo had been leading the circuit in Lyles' absence until Monaco, when Lyles entered himself in the field last-minute to effortlessly beat Tebogo in 9.86.
Conventional wisdom would say Lyles would be an even bigger favorite over 100m given his recent global accolades, but Tebogo has his roots in the 100m (also showing versatility up to 400m) while Lyles has built his career on the 200m and has only one race under his belt outdoors so far.
Jamaican Oblique Seville has beat Lyles before last year and is coming off a quick 9.83 in Kingston last month. Three Brits complete the race in '23 WC 100m bronze medalist Zharnel Hughes, NCAA champ Louie Hinchliffe, and this year's World Indoor 60m gold medalist Jeremiah Azu.
Women's 200m (10:38am ET): Alfred's post-Olympic glory season continues
Julien Alfred's rise to stardom was quick in the lead-up to her Paris 100m gold for St. Lucia, but in 2025 she's been acting like she's been on top for years. She's undefeated on the year save for a loss to Melissa Jefferson at Pre, which will make it difficult but not impossible for hometown hero Dina Asher-Smith (2019 200m World champ) to bring home a win in London.
Olympic 200m bronze medalist Brittany Brown won the Diamond League finals in this event last year and could also challenge though she was only 5th at the Paris DL. Darryl Neita and Amy Hunt were both part of the Team GB 4x100m relay last year that won silver.
Men's 1500m (10:48am ET): Is Phanuel Koech the most talented 1500m runner in world history?
The world is still reeling since June 20th, when Kenyan junior Phanuel Koech ran 3:27.72 (U20 world record, #9 all-time) in the Paris non-DL 1500m to vault himself from a name even the most seasoned track fans were unaware of to a serious contender for Tokyo gold and beyond -- all in just the 2nd 1500m in his career as a former 1:46 800m runner.
He had Azeddine Habz to tow him in Paris, but in London the Habz-less field will be aware of the threat he poses and likely won't give him an easy path. Most British fans will stay to see 2023 World champ Josh Kerr, who won the Miami and Philly Grand Slam Track 1500m races and hasn't raced at all outside GST until now this season. He's shown well enough form to be the favored Brit, but the entire UK crew of all-star middle distance talents is entered behind him in George Mills (3rd in the 2023 DL final), Jake Wightman ('22 World champ recovered from injury), Neil Gourley (2025 World Indoor 1500m silver), and Elliot Giles (road mile world record holder at 3:51).
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Diamond League 2025 Schedule
Here's the full Wanda Diamond League schedule in 2025.
- April 26, 2025 – Xiamen (CHN)
- May 3, 2025 – Shanghai/Keqiao
- May 16, 2025 – Doha (QAT)
- May 25, 2025 – Rabat (MAR)
- June 6, 2025 – Rome (ITA)
- June 12, 2025 – Oslo (NOR)
- June 15, 2025 – Stockholm (SWE)
- June 20, 2025 – Paris (FRA)
- July 5, 2025 – Eugene (USA)
- July 11, 2025 – Monaco (MON)
- July 19, 2025 – London (GBR)
- August 16, 2025 – Silesia (POL)
- August 20, 2025 – Lausanne (SUI)
- August 22, 2025 – Brussels (BEL)
- August 27-28, 2025 – Zurich (SUI)
Diamond League Prize Money In 2025
The 2025 Wanda Diamond League series will distribute a record $9.24 million in total prize money, with $500,000 allocated to each of the regular season meets, including an increased payout for select Diamond+ Disciplines at each meeting.
For the season opener in Xiamen, the Diamond+ Disciplines will be 5000m Women, High Jump Women, 110m Hurdles Men, and Pole Vault Men.
Diamond Disciplines
- $10,000
- $6,000
- $4,000
- $3,000
- $2,500
- $2,000
- $1,500
- $1,000
- $500
Diamond+ Disciplines
- $20,000
- $10,000
- $6,000
- $5,000
- $3,000
- $2,500
- $2,000
- $1,500
- $750
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