Xiamen 2025: Press conference

The 2025 Wanda Diamond League season kicks off in Xiamen this Saturday, with some of the sport’s biggest stars in action at the Egret Stadium.

Swedish pole vault ace Mondo Duplantis returns to the meeting where he broke his first of three world records last season, while Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon will also be hoping to rewrite the history books in the women’s 1000m.

The pre-meeting pess conference begins at 14:00 local time (GMT/UTC+8) on Friday, and the line-up is as follows:

14:00
Karsten Warholm (NOR, 300m hurdles)
Grant Holloway (USA, 110m hurdles)
Devynne Charlton (BAH, 100m hurdles)
Shericka Jackson (JAM, 200m)

14:30
Beatrice Chebet (KEN, 5000m)
Gudaf Tsegay (ETH, 5000m)
Faith Kipyegon (KEN, 1000m)
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR, high jump)

15:00
Mondo Duplantis (SWE, pole vault)
Bin Feng (CHN, discus)
Valarie Allman (CHN, discus)

15:30
Akani Simbine (RSA, 100m)
Letsile Tebogo (BOT, 100m)
Christian Coleman (USA, 100m)
Zhenye Xie (CHN, 100m)

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