Xiamen Diamond League: Time and Where to Watch Faith Kipyegon, Ferdinand Omanyala and Co

Multiple Olympics champion Faith Kipyegon will be among 10 world record holders squaring it out at the season-opening Xiamen Diamond League meeting in China on Saturday.

Kipyegon, the 1,500m GOAT, will drop down to the 1,000m where she is up against the likes of Ethiopia’s world U20 champion Saron Berhe and Olympic 800m silver medallist Tsige Duguma, plus Australia’s Abbey Caldwell, Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi and Benin’s Noelie Yarigo in what is her first race of the season.

The 31-year-old has already confirmed that she will attempt to be the first woman to run a mile under four minutes in the Breaking4 challenge in Paris in June and will use the Xiamen event as part of her build-up.

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Kipyegon is joined in Xiamen by other Kenyans in Olympics 5,000m champion Beatrice Chebet, who will run the same distance, seeking to assert her dominance and she will have Ethiopians Freweyni Hailu, Birke Haylom and world U20 steeplechase champion Sembo Almayew, making her debut, to compete with.

Meanwhile, Ferdinand Omanyala, Africa’s fastest man, faces off with familiar foes in the 100m being South Africa’s Akani Simbine, the fastest man this year, as well as Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, the Olympics 200m champion, while in the women’s 200m, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson makes her long-awaited return, the two-time world champion featuring in the race for the first time since July 2024.

The Xiamen Diamond League will start at a friendly time for Kenyans and East Africans as the meeting will gun off in the afternoon.

The first event will be the women’s high jump, starting at 13:15, while the final one will be the men’s 300m hurdles, starting at 15:52.

The events of interest will be the women’s 5,000m, involving Chebet, which will start at 14:15, the women’s 200m which will see the spotlight on Jackson from 14:50, men’s 100m men, where Omanyala, Tebogo and Simbine will square it off from 15:01, and Kipyegon’s 1,000m gunning off at 15:10.

All races of the Xiamen Diamond League will be broadcast live on SuperSport TV.

13:15♦️High Jump Women

13:20♦️Shot put Women

13:35♦️Pole Vault Men

14:04♦️400m Men

14:15♦️5000m Women

14:21♦️Discus Women

14:39♦️Long Jump Men

14:40♦️110mH Men

14:50♦️200m Women

15:01♦️100m Men

15:10♦️1000m Women

15:24♦️100mH Women

15:33♦️3000mSC Men

15:52♦️300mH Men

*EAST AFRICAN TIME