Four global medallists are set to lock horns when the Road to the Final gets underway in the women’s high jump at the second Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Xiamen on May 23.
2022 world champion Eleanor Patterson will take on fellow Olympic bronze medallist Iryna Gerashchenko, world silver medallist Maria Żodzik and world indoor silver medallist Yuliia Levchenko in a competition which unites three of the top six in the world.
Australia’s Patterson shared bronze with Ukraine’s Gerashchenko at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, while Żodzik and Levchenko won silver at the outdoor and indoor World Championships in recent months.
Poland’s Żodzik claimed her first ever Diamond League win in Lausanne last season, beating both Patterson and eventual series champion Nicola Olyslagers.
The field in Xiamen will also include local star Shao Yuqi, who won silver at the Asian Indoor Championships in 2024.
Xiamen is the second 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.
