The Wanda Diamond League has published the entry lists for the 60th Bislett Games, locking in a Wednesday-night programme at Oslo's compact downtown stadium on 10 June with the men's 400 metres hurdles already shaping into the meeting's defining race. Reigning Olympic champion Rai Benjamin, world champion Karsten Warholm and Diamond League titleholder Alison Dos Santos are all confirmed for the discipline, with the rivalry now well into its third Olympic cycle and Warholm running on home soil.
For Warholm the meeting will be his first 400-metre hurdles race of the 2026 outdoor season after opening at 300 metres in Xiamen and Keqiao in May. The Norwegian holds the world best for the rarely-contested 300 metres hurdles distance and trimmed it to 32.78 at last year's Bislett Games, but coach Leif Olav Alnes has signalled that this year's Oslo programme will be a full-distance test ahead of the European Championships in Birmingham. Benjamin's 2026 has been quieter to date — he has run only one outdoor race — and Dos Santos arrives in Oslo straight from a planned Stockholm tune-up the prior weekend.
Beyond the hurdles flagship, the Bislett card showcases the heavyweights expected on a Diamond League programme. Confirmed men's events include the 200m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, pole vault and triple jump; women's disciplines run from the 100m and 400m up through the 3000m, plus 400m hurdles, triple jump, shot put and javelin. The Dream Mile may be the headline distance race after Jakob Ingebrigtsen's recently-announced 2026 return at the Pre Classic on 4 July: meeting director Steinar Hoen has confirmed Ingebrigtsen will line up at Bislett ten days earlier, fitness permitting, in what would be his first home race since the 2024 Olympics.
The 2026 edition is freighted with anniversary weight — Bislett's first Diamond League incarnation was the 1986 Bislett Games, but the meeting itself is even older, dating to 1965. Sixty straight editions makes it one of only a handful of European track meetings to hit the milestone. Organisers will mark it with a fan zone in the stadium plaza, an alumni night involving local distance icons Grete Waitz and Ingrid Kristiansen, and a cap on tickets at last year's 14,800-strong capacity to keep the famously claustrophobic atmosphere intact. Demand has been brisk: the meeting reported the bowl 70% sold out within 48 hours of the entry-list announcement.
Norway's national broadcaster NRK will once again carry the meeting live, with the Diamond League world feed available globally through Wanda's broadcast partners. The Bislett Games sit fifth on the 2026 Diamond League calendar, between the Stockholm BAUHAUS-galan on 7 June and the Paris Diamond League on 14 June — a triplet of meetings that, along with the rescheduled 19 June Doha leg, will define which athletes head into the European Championships and the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest with the form to spare.