It’s that time of year once again where the eyes of the track and field world will descend upon Stratford in West London for the sports biggest one day meet.

Since its move from Crystal Palace Park to the London Stadium the London Diamond League has become a staple of the track season with global stars coming from far and wide to put on a show in front of an expectant crowd of 60,000.

2025 is set to be no different and here is a full run down of what to expect from Saturday's meet:

First we should start with the unfortunate withdrawals of two of the headline names. Keely Hodgkinson MBE has chosen to pull out of the meet due to the continued nursing of a hamstring injury she suffered during training in the indoor season.

The Olympic champion was set for a golden return to the site of her breathtaking national record run last summer. London marks the third scheduled Diamond League meet that Hodgkinson has had to withdraw from through injury as she prepares to finally seel a world title following two previous Silver medals.

Jakob Ingerbrigtsen will also miss out as he continues to recover from an achilles injury. The defending 5000m Olympic champion was set to bring the curtain down on the meet with a reigniting of his fierce rivalry with 2023 World Champion Josh Kerr over 1500m.

The meet opens with the men’s long jump which will see the top 5 in the world go head to head. Miltiadis Tentoglou is the favourite with a season best so far of 8.46, but will have young Italian Mattia Furlani and last year's Diamond League champion Wayne Pinnock. Australian Liam Adcock leads the standings by 7 points and will once again be looking to put on a show. Former British indoor champion Samuel Khogali will be flying the flag at his home meet.

The men’s discus follows in the field with world record holder Mykolas Alekna is joined by Kristian Ceh and Brits Nicholas Percy and recent GB captain at the European team championships Lawrence Okoye.

2024 World Indoor Champion Molly Caudery makes a return to the london stadium in the women’s pole vault and is joined by the likes of 2 time world champion Katie Moon, 2025 Indoor champion Marie-Julie Bonnin and Angelica Moser. 

The track action begins with the women’s 400m Hurdles where World Champion and meeting record holder Femke Bol will be joined by five other top 10 ranked athletes in Rushell Clayton, Shiann Slamon, Janieve Russell, Andrette Knight and Jasmine Jones. They will also be joined by British olympic relay medalist Lina Nielsen.

Bol is coming off the back of a season's best performance in Monaco last Friday coming home in a time of 51.95. The Dutchwomen also remains undefeated in this year's Diamond League with three wins from three appearances. Nielsen comes into the meet off the back of an indoor flat season that saw her claim a European Championship’s relay medal as well as smashing the British 300m record. So far her Hurdling Diamond League season has seen one previous appearance at the Rome Golden Gala, where she ran 54.66 for a fourth place finish.

The Women’s High Jump follows at 14:13 with the pick of the names being Yaroslava Mahuchikh as the Olympic champion confirmed her attendance at the European Team Championships in Madrid at the end of last month. Mahuchikh will be joined by fellow Ukrainian Yuliia Levchenko, 2022 World Champion Eleanor Patterson and defending British Champion Morgan Lake.

Mahuchikh’s season best of 2.02 achieved at Mutaz Barshim’s ‘What Gravity’ event in Doha is 5cm higher than anyone else in the field however the Ukranian has finished runner up in her previous 2 appearances in the Diamond League in Stockholm and Paris. 

In the men’s 800m Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya and Marco Arop of Canada will reunite in what has been a fascinating rivalry so far this season. With three consecutive wins on the bounce including a season's best last time out in Monaco of 1:41.44 the defending Diamond League champion Wanyonyi will be the stand out favourite. 

Arop will not be the only one looking to break the Kenyan’s streak as the likes of American Bryce Hoppel and Spain’s Mohamed Attaoui who sit fifth and sixth in the world rankings this year will be joined by the ever consistent Irishman Mark English will line up alongside three Brits as Max Burgin, Ethan Hussey and Ben Pattison will look to cause an upset on home soil. Burgin and Hussey have both run personal best times this year with Burgin’s coming in his maiden Diamond League win in Morocco (1:43.34). Pattison sits inside the Worlds top 100 and will open his diamond League account this season following a consistent 2024 which saw him qualify for the finals in Brussels.  

Five Brits go in the Women’s 5000m including defending British Champion Hannah Nuttall, rising star Innes Fitzgerald and Paris Olympian Megan Keith, who recently took the British 10,000m title. They will be joined by Fellow Brit’s Calli Hauger-Thackery who drops down in distance following and impressive showing over 10k in Oslo and Alexandra Millard who sits just outside the world’s top 100 and is a former top 8 finisher and team bronze medalist at the World Cross country championships with a season’s best of 15:22.71.

They’ll be joined by Australian’s Georgia Griffith and Rose Davies as well as a host of Ethiopians including Medina Eisa. 

In the Women’s Long Jump Larissa Iapichino of Italy leads a stacked field that includes indoor World Champion Claire Bryant and 2022 World Champion Malaika Mihambo. They’ll be joined by France’s Hilary Kpatcha who has the second furthest seasons best in the field as well as Heptathlon Icon Katarina Johnson Thompson and former European Indoor Champion Jazmin Sawyers who looks to continue her triumphant return from a year long achilles injury that has already seen her book her place on the plane to this Septembers World Championships.

The Women’s 800m was set for the triumphant return of Keely Hodgkinson but following her withdrawal their still remains heavy British interest. Georgia Hunter Bell will line up alongside 5 time European indoor champion Laura Muir and former World Silver Medalist Jemma Reekie. Shafiqua Maloney continues her step up from 400m alongside Sarah Billings and World 400m Relay champion Lisanne De Witte; it will be the Dutchwomen’s first appearance at a Diamond League since 2023.   

Olympic Silver Medalist Matthew Hudson Smith carries British hopes in the men’s 400m alongside defending Diamond League champion Charlie Dobson. They’ll be joined by four other top 10 ranked athletes with Zambia’s Muzala Samukonga and Botswana’s Bayapo Ndori looking to reign on the parade of the British hopefuls who have had strong showing so far this season. Hudson Smith returned to the Diamond League with a win at Hayward field following a stint in Grand Slam Track as for Dobson well he has been jet setting around the globes with Britain's relay teams helping them qualify for Tokyo before taking out a season's best performance at his opening Diamond League runout in Rome. 

17 women will line up in the mile including Gudaf Tsegay, Jessica Hull and current 1500m Diamond League leader Sarah Healy. They’ll be joined by the likes of Birke Haylom Agathe Guillemot and three Brits; Erin Wallace, Katie Snowden and European indoor Bronze medalist Revee Walcott-Nolan.

Next up is the Men’s 100m. 5 of the World Top 10 line up alongside 3 others who just so happen to be the raining 60m indoor European and World Champion, a NCAA champion and the fastest British man of all time. 

In lane 1 is Jeremiah Azu, the Welshman is having the year of his life picking up titles and clocking PB’s left right and centre. His early Diamond League showing prove he can mix it with the big names with a third place finish in the season opener in Xiamen. The current 60m indoor World and European champion will look to make an impression in front of the 60,000 strong British crowd. 

Lane 2 is Ackeem Blake, Defending Diamond League Champion who following a PB in his homeland of Jamaica of 9.88 opened his Diamond League account with a 10.03 in Eugene.

Lane 3 sees Louie Hinchcliffe aim to prove doubters wrong. The 2024 NCAA 100m champion was heavily criticised following the end of his relationship with coach Carl Lewis and opting to move back to the UK. His season’s best should be set this week with a 10.08 2 weeks ago in Tomblaine being his best showing. Last year Hinchcliffe raised eyebrows with a 9.97s fourth place finish in London. Following an Olympic relay bronze the Sheffield native eyes this as a season defining race.

Lane 4 is Zharnel Hughes, the Anguillan born sprinter is the fastest British athlete ever and took Bronze over 100m at the last World Championships in Budapest. With a seasons best of 9.91 Hughes sits just outside the top 10 in the world. But a second place finish in the 100m last time out in Eugene may lead to success at his home meet.

Lane 5 is taken by the almost inevitable Noah Lyles. The Olympic champion opened his 2025 season over 200m in Monaco last week taking the win and will look to open his 100m account in the same stadium he ripped the field apart in last year.

Lane 6 is Oblique Seville, the 24-year old Olympic finalist with a season's best of 9.83 will look to shock the field as pundits talk up the household names. 

Akani Simbine is in lane 7. A seasons best of 9.90, a first global medal and so far an unbeaten Diamond League season has turned the South African into one of the shining stars of the sprint world. Simbine returns to the Diamond League following 3 wins in three meets in Xiamen, Kequiao and Rabat all run under sub 10 and will look to make it four from four to kickstart his European summer. 

Rounding out the lineup is Letsile Tebogo, the 200m Olympic Champion has had a mixed bag of results over 100m in the Diamond League this year. Failing to break the 10 second barrier with his most recent appearance being a 9th place 10.43 in Rabat in May. The Botswanan knows he has ground to make up on his 200m form and what better place to do it than the biggest Diamond League meet of the year. 

In the Women’s 200m Rashidate Adeleke of Ireland takes lane 1. The 400m specialist and European Silver Medalist has been trying her hand at 200m this season with a personal best of 22.34.

Olympic champ Julian Alfred is in second with a seasons best of 21.88 just .02 behind her Personal best time she set at this meet last year. It will also be Alfred's first 200m in the Diamond League this season.

2019 World Champion Dina Asher-Smith goes in 3 with a season’s best of 22.65, following a pretty successful stint in the 100m which included 2x top 3 finishes the Brit will look to build on a 200m campaign that was largely run in Grand Slam Track.

Jael Bestue goes in 4 with a season's best of 22.19 which is also her personal best set at the European team championships in Madrid. She previously finished second in the Stockholm Diamond League. 

In lane five is one of the shining stars of British sprinting this year in the form of Amy Hunt. The Olympic relay medalist currently sits with two back to back 2nd place finishes in Paris and Rome as well as a personal best 100m time in Doha which followed an indoor season that saw her reach the world and European 60m finals.

Next up in Six is rising Australian star Torrie Lewis who makes her diamond league bow for 2025 following a successful domestic season.

Ashanti Moore is in 7, the Jamaican has a season's best of 22.66 run in the Jamaican championships and is making her debut on the European circuit for 2025.

In 8 is Daryll Neita who also makes her 200m Diamond League debut this weekend following the majority of that distance being competed over in Grand Slam. The 2-time European champion will look to continue to build her season towards Tokyo.

The meet is closed out by the men’s 1500m as Six Brits including 2 world champions take the start line. 2022 champ Jake Wightman and 2023 champ Josh Kerr line up alongside the new 5000m British record holder George Mills, world indoor silver medalist Neil Gourley, mile world record holder Elliot Giles and British indoor medalist Ben Claridge. 

They'll be joined by Oliver Hoare, Gilje Narve Nordas and Robert Farken in a race although missing its main star will be one for the ages.

The action kicks off at the London Stadium from 13:00 and with the Vinco team being the social media managers of the Diamond League, we’ll also be bringing you the action across our social media channels with Dyestat throughout the day.