Nine reigning Wanda Diamond League champions, including pole vault world record breaker Mondo Duplantis, will be out to claim another global title this weekend at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26.
Fresh from his latest world record of 6.31m in Uppsala last week, Duplantis will be chasing his fourth world indoor title in Torun, having previously claimed gold in 2022, 2024 and 2025.
Victory in Poland would see Duplantis head into the new Diamond League season in title-winning form, as he sets his sights on a sixth straight Diamond Trophy in 2026.
Fellow Olympic and Diamond League champion Julien Alfred will also be in action in Torun, going up against the likes of Amy Hunt, Patrizia van der Weken and two-time Diamond League champion Dina Asher-Smith in the women’s 60m.
The St. Lucia star successfully defended her Diamond League title in the 100m in 2025, and will now be looking to reclaim the world indoor gold she last won in Glasgow in 2024.
Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers will also be defending her title in the women’s high jump. The 29-year-old’s gold medal in Nanjing last year set the tone for a successful season in which she also won her first ever Diamond League title.
In Torun, she takes on three-time Diamond League champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine, who will be out to reclaim the world number one spot from Olyslagers in 2026.
In the women’s 800m metres, Switzerland’s Audrey Werro will be looking to build on the form which saw her claim a dramatic Diamond League Final win on home soil in Zurich last September.
She faces a stern test against two-time Diamond League champion Keely Hodgkinson, who heads to Torun on the back of her 800m indoor world record in Lievin last month.
The long jump and triple jump fields in Torun also include a sparkling array of Diamond League champions past and present.
Reigning long jump champions Larissa Iapichino and Simon Ehammer will both be in action, with Ehammer competing in the heptathlon.
The men’s long jump competition also sees the return of South African legend Luvo Manyonga, who won the Diamond League title in 2017 and 2018.
Andy Diaz Hernandez and Leyanis Perez Hernandez will be gunning for glory in the triple jump, with the latter taking on world record holder and three-time Diamond League champion Yulimar Rojas.
2025 Diamond League champion Jessica Schilder takes on predecessor Chase Jackson in the women’s shot put, while the men’s competition includes two former Diamond League winners in Leonardo Fabbri and Tom Walsh.
Other former Diamond League champions in action include Trayvon Bromell and Ackeem Blake in the men’s 60m, Getnet Wale in the men’s 3000m and Woo Sang-hyeok in the men’s high jump.
The World Athletics Indoor Championships will take place in Torun, Poland from 20-22 March.
The 2026 Wanda Diamond League season 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.
