This week saw three Diamond League meetings add world record holders to their 2026 line-ups, with Karsten Warholm set for London, Jessica Hull heading to Xiamen and Mondo Duplantis and Keely Hodgkinson returning to Stockholm.
Sixteen world records have been broken in the Diamond League over the past three seasons, as the world’s best athletes continue to rewrite history on the sport’s biggest stage.
In the latest episode of our 2025 Revisited series, we take a look back to last year’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, where Kenyan stars Beatrice Chebet and Faith Kipyegon both set new world records in the distance events.
Both Kipyegon and Chebet came to Eugene in scintillating form, with Chebet having recently set a new Diamond League recordover 3000m and Kipyegon having fallen just short in her bold attempt to break the four-minute mile.
Hopes were high of a world record to celebrate the Prefontaine Classic’s 50th anniversary, and the two Kenyans delivered a double.
Chebet raced to 13:58.06 in the women’s 5000m, becoming the first woman ever to go under 14 minutes and breaking the record Gudaf Tsegay had set in the same stadium at the 2023 Diamond League Final.
An hour or so later, Kipyegon followed up with 3:48.68 in the women’s 1500m, shaving a third of a second off her own previous world record.
It was the fifth world record Kipyegon had broken at a Diamond League meeting in just three years.
Other standout results in Eugene included a Dutch record from Niels Laros in the men’s mile and meeting records from Winfred Yavi in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, Chase Jackson in the women’s shot put and Valarie Allman in the women’s discus.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden beat Julien Alfred in the women’s 100m to claim her first ever Diamond League victory, while Letsile Tebogo stormed to a world lead in the men’s 200m.
You can catch all the highlights from the 2025 Prefontaine Classic below.
Each week between now and the beginning of the season, full half-hour highlights packages of each 2025 Wanda Diamond League meeting will be made available on the series YouTube channel.
