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Jamaica’s Oblique Seville and St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred are among 12 Olympic and world champions who confirmed their attendance at the Monaco leg of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League this week.
Caribbean sprint superstars Seville and Alfred join a growing list of global champions in action at the Meeting Herculis EBS on July 10, one that already includes Faith Kipyegon, Mondo Duplantis and Jimmy Gressier.
Seville, who is also set to run in Silesia later in the Diamond League season, will take on the 100m against world indoor champion Jordan Anthony of the USA.
Alfred returns to action in the 200m following her victory over Melissa Jefferson-Wooden in Rome last week.
Elsewhere, Olympic champion Masai Russell will take on world champion Ditaji Kambundji in the women’s 100m hurdles, while world and Olympic champions Katie Moon and Nina Kennedy go head to head in the women’s pole vault.
Swiss decathlon world champion Simon Ehammer will continue his Diamond League title defence in the men’s long jump, while European champion Nadia Battocletti and world champion Geordie Beamish will be chasing their first ever Diamond League wins in the women’s 3000m and men’s 3000m steeplechase.
Kenyan world number one Emmanuel Wanyonyi will headline the men’s 800m and Botswana’s 400m world champion continues his title bid in the men’s 400m.
Monaco is the tenth leg of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League, which begins in Shanghai/Keqiao on May 16 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.
