World record holders Mondo Duplantis and Karsten Warholm are among the star names set to light up the men’s events at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Shanghai/Keqiao on Saturday, 16 May. The meeting will feature a raft of reigning world champions including Daniel Ståhl, Mattia Furlani and Cordell Tinch, along with reigning Olympic champions such as Rojé Stona and Letsile Tebogo.
Duplantis will open his outdoor season in a loaded men’s pole vault field that includes Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis, who moved to second on the world all-time list in February with a 6.17m clearance in Athens. The field also includes two-time world champion Sam Kendricks and two-time World Championship bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall.
Two European indoor champions, Sondre Guttormsen of Norway and Menno Vloon of the Netherlands, are also in the field along with France’s Thibaut Collet, who has cleared 5.95m at his best.
Duplantis set his 15th pole vault world record earlier this year, clearing 6.31m in Sweden, and the two-time Olympic champion – who has not been beaten since 2023 – will be keen to extend his winning streak in Shanghai/Keqiao and maybe just give the fans another unforgettable moment.
Warholm was a hugely impressive winner at this meeting last year, clocking 47.28 in the 400m hurdles, but this year he will take on a world-class field in the 300m hurdles – where his world best of 32.67 could be under threat. He will line up against 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos of Brazil and 2022 world bronze medallist Trevor Bassitt of USA.
The men’s 100m will serve up a clash between some of the biggest names in global sprinting. They include Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, South Africa’s Akani Simbine and the US trio of Christian Coleman, Kenny Bednarek and Trayvon Bromell. The in-form Lachlan Kennedy, who clocked 9.96 to win the Australian 100m title last month, is also in the field, while Chinese fans will be cheering for their national 200m record holder Xie Zhenye. Unfortunately Kishane Thompson had to withdraw from the event. Ferdinand Omanyala from Kenya is confirmed as his replacement.
The men’s 110m hurdles will see the return of US superstar Cordell Tinch, who moved to fourth on the world all-time list at this meeting last year, powering to victory in a remarkable 12.87. He went on to take gold at the Tokyo World Championships last September and the 25-year-old will be keen to produce more fireworks on his return to Shanghai/Keqiao.
He’ll face a strong line-up that includes fellow sub-13-second hurdlers Rachid Muratake of Japan, along with Jamaica’s Orlando Bennett, who won silver behind Tinch in last year’s world final. The field also includes recent world indoor silver medallist Enrique Llopis of Spain and 2023 European indoor champion Jason Joseph of Switzerland.
Reigning world champion Mattia Furlani will headline a star-studded men’s long jump. The 21-year-old is coming off an impressive indoor season, during which he set a national indoor record of 8.39m and won silver in the world indoor final. That followed a remarkable 2025 when he won both the world indoor and world outdoor titles.
He will face a slew of other global medallists including Bozhidar Sarâboyukov of Bulgaria, Jamaican duo Tajay Gayle and Wayne Pinnock, Australia’s Liam Adcock and Sweden’s Thobias Montler, while a strong Chinese challenge is led by Shi Yuhao, who won bronze in last year’s world final in Tokyo.
The men’s discus will see reigning world champion Daniel Ståhl of Sweden clash with reigning Olympic champion Rojé Stona of Jamaica, while 2022 world champion Kristjan Čeh and 2024 Olympic bronze medallist Matthew Denny are also in the field, in addition to four athletes who have thrown well beyond 70 metres: Steven Richter, Sam Mattis, Laurence Okoye and Alex Rose.
The men’s 800m will feature three men who have run below 1:43 – Wycliffe Kinyamal of Kenya, Peter Bol of Australia and Britain’s Ben Pattison, the 2023 world bronze medallist. The field includes five others who have gone below 1:44: Mark English, Kethobogile Haingura, Yanis Meziane, Brandon Miller and Adrián Ben.
The men’s 3000m looks a similarly open race and Andreas Almgren – the 2025 world bronze medallist at 10,000m – is among the leading contenders, with every chance his Swedish record of 7:31.42 comes under threat.
Kenya will have a typically strong hand with 2019 world 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot and 2025 world 1500m bronze medallist Reynold Cheruiyot both stepping up from their specialist distance, while their compatriots Jacob Krop and Edwin Kurgat have both run 7:28 at their best. Ethiopia will also be well represented with Getnet Wale and Addisu Yihune in the field.