Olympic gold medallist Miltiadis Tentoglou will face world champion Mattia Furlani in a clash of the titans in the men’s long jump next month as he launches his latest bid to regain the Diamond League title in Xiamen.
Two-time Olympic champion Tentoglou joins Furlani on a star-studded long jump field which also includes Olympic silver medallist Wayne Pinnock and world indoor bronze medallist Liam Adcock.
The Greek star has notched up nine Diamond League wins in the last five years, winning the series title in 2022.
Italy’s Furlani, meanwhile, will be chasing his first ever Diamond League win in 2026 following a string of narrow misses last season.
The two men are among the title favourites this year, but if recent history is anything to go by, nothing is certain in the men’s long jump.
The discipline has seen six different Diamond League champions in the last seven years, making it one of the most unpredictable and hotly contested in athletics’ premier one-day series.
With that in mind, both Adcock and Pinnock may both fancy their chances of springing a surprise at the Egret Stadium on May 23.
Adcock denied Furlani a home victory in Rome last year, while Pinnock beat Tentoglou in London.
The Xiamen long jump will also include two Chinese stars, with Asian indoor champion Zhang Mingkun and Asian champion Shu Heng both on the entry list.
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.
