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Faith Kipyegon, Ferdinand Omanyala and Letsile Tebogo will be the star names at the season-opening Xiamen Diamond League and here is where and how to catch the action.
Multiple Olympics champion Faith Kipyegon will be among 10 world record holders squaring it out at the season-opening Xiamen Diamond League meeting in China on Saturday.
Kipyegon, the 1,500m GOAT, will drop down to the 1,000m where she is up against the likes of Ethiopia’s world U20 champion Saron Berhe and Olympic 800m silver medallist Tsige Duguma, plus Australia’s Abbey Caldwell, Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi and Benin’s Noelie Yarigo in what is her first race of the season.
The 31-year-old has already confirmed that she will attempt to be the first woman to run a mile under four minutes in the Breaking4 challenge in Paris in June and will use the Xiamen event as part of her build-up.
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20:30 - 17.04.2025
Faith Kipyegon Leaves Fans In Awe With Scary Recovery Session As She Shapes Up For Season-Opener In Xiamen
Faith Kipyegon has left her fans marveling at the extent she goes to achieve success after getting them in on one of her grueling recovery sessions.
Kipyegon is joined in Xiamen by other Kenyans in Olympics 5,000m champion Beatrice Chebet, who will run the same distance, seeking to assert her dominance and she will have Ethiopians Freweyni Hailu, Birke Haylom and world U20 steeplechase champion Sembo Almayew, making her debut, to compete with.
Meanwhile, Ferdinand Omanyala, Africa’s fastest man, faces off with familiar foes in the 100m being South Africa’s Akani Simbine, the fastest man this year, as well as Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, the Olympics 200m champion, while in the women’s 200m, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson makes her long-awaited return, the two-time world champion featuring in the race for the first time since July 2024.
Time and where to watch Xiamen Diamond League
The Xiamen Diamond League will start at a friendly time for Kenyans and East Africans as the meeting will gun off in the afternoon.
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12:39 - 24.04.2025
3 Ethiopians Set to Spoil Beatrice Chebet's Season Opener at Xiamen Diamond League
Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet is poised to kick off her season's campaign against an Ethiopian-studded field.
The first event will be the women’s high jump, starting at 13:15, while the final one will be the men’s 300m hurdles, starting at 15:52.
The events of interest will be the women’s 5,000m, involving Chebet, which will start at 14:15, the women’s 200m which will see the spotlight on Jackson from 14:50, men’s 100m men, where Omanyala, Tebogo and Simbine will square it off from 15:01, and Kipyegon’s 1,000m gunning off at 15:10.
All races of the Xiamen Diamond League will be broadcast live on SuperSport TV.
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20:22 - 22.04.2025
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Xiamen Diamond League Programme
13:15♦️High Jump Women
13:20♦️Shot put Women
13:35♦️Pole Vault Men
14:04♦️400m Men
14:15♦️5000m Women
14:21♦️Discus Women
14:39♦️Long Jump Men
14:40♦️110mH Men
14:50♦️200m Women
15:01♦️100m Men
15:10♦️1000m Women
15:24♦️100mH Women
15:33♦️3000mSC Men
15:52♦️300mH Men
*EAST AFRICAN TIME
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