In three months’ time, Mondo Duplantis and co. will descend on Doha for the first meeting of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League season.
If last year’s meeting in the Qatari capital is anything to go by, it should be an explosive season opener.
In the latest episode of our 2025 Revisited series, we go back to last May and a night of world leads and wild results at the Qatar Sports Club.
It was a night which will be remembered most for a historic men’s javelin competition, in which both India’s Neeraj Chopra and Germany’s Julian Weber broke the 90-metre mark.
2021 Olympic champion Chopra had been chasing the milestone for years and could barely contain his emotion when he landed 90.23m with his third throw of the competition.
Yet there was a bittersweet twist later on, as Weber snatched both victory and the limelight with a winning effort of 91.06m in the final round.
Doha also saw plenty of world-class action on the track, with world leads from Botswana’s Tshepiso Masalela, Jamaica’s Tia Clayton and Kenya’s Faith Cherotich.
Masalela timed his kick to perfection in the men’s 800m, clocking 1.43.11 and missing out on David Rudisha’s meeting record by just 0.11 seconds.
Clayton held off her sister Tina and Jamaican legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to win the women’s 100m in 10.92.
Meanwhile in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, Cherotich chased down Olympic champion Winfred Yavi on the home straight to set a world leading 9:05.28, setting the tone for her world-title-winning season in 2025.
You can watch extended highlights of the 2025 Doha meeting 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.
