The world’s best sprinters are set to go head to head in an early-season test of form at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen on May 23.
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo, reigning Diamond League 100m champion Christian Coleman and World Championships silver medallist Kishane Thompson will square off against a world-class field which includes US heavweights Kenny Bednarek and Trayvon Bromell and South African stars Akani Simbine and Gift Leotlela.
Jamaica’s Thompson will be hoping to continue the brilliant Diamond League form he showed in 2025, when he claimed victories in Eugene and Silesia and a second-place finish in Keqiao.
Tebogo, who claimed 200m wins in Doha and Eugene last year, will be looking to improve on his seventh-place finish in the Xiamen 100m last year.
It was Simbine who claimed victory in that race, clocking 9.99 in the first of three back-to-back wins at the start of last season.
The South African now has 12 Diamond League wins to his name, and will be hoping to win his first ever series title in 2026.
He will be joined in Xiamen by fellow South African Gift Leotlela, who finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Coleman, Bromell and Bednarek are also among the greatest sprinters of their generation, with 26 Diamond League wins and six Diamond Trophies between them.
Coleman is the reigning Diamond League champion over 100m after he won his third series title in Zurich last year.
Bednarek won the 200m title in 2021 and 2024, while Bromell was crowned 100m champion in 2022.
Xiamen is the third leg of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League, which begins in Doha on May 8 and ends at the two-day series final in Brussels on September 4-5.
The series unites the biggest names in track and field in some of the world’s most iconic arenas, crossing four continents and 15 cities over the course of the season.
