Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi will be out to make athletics history when she attacks the mile steeplechase world record at the penultimate Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Brussels next week.
Olympic champion in 2024 and Diamond League champion in 2023, Yavi has established herself among the greatest 3000m steeplechasers in history in recent years.
She has twice come close to breaking the 3000m steeplechase world record on the Diamond League circuit.
She suffered an agonising near miss at last season’s Diamond League meeting in Rome, falling just 0.07 seconds short of Beatrice Chepkoech’s all-time best.
In Brussels, she now has the chance to attack a different world record in a less familiar form of the steeplechase.
As an additional discipline, the race will not count towards qualification for the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich on August 27-28.
Yet Yavi has already booked her ticket to the season finale, cruising to qualification with her victory in Eugene and two second-place finishes in Doha and Oslo.
About the Wanda Diamond League
The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in global athletics. It comprises 15 of the most prestigious events in global track and field. Athletes compete for points at the 14 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final, which will be held in Zurich on 27 and 28 August 2025.
