The Wanda Diamond League's first Chinese stop of 2026 will run on Saturday 16 May with the Shanghai meeting once again hosted at Keqiao Sports Centre, just outside Shaoxing. Fourteen Diamond Disciplines are on the programme, with two additional non-Diamond events filling out a full evening session.
The men's programme features the 100m, 800m, 3000m, 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, pole vault and discus throw, while the women's events include the 200m, 400m, 1500m, 100m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase, long jump and shot put. The split keeps the meeting evenly balanced across sprints, distance and field events at a venue that has already established itself as a fast surface across previous editions.
World pole vault record holder Mondo Duplantis is among the confirmed entrants, with Shanghai one of seven Diamond League starts the Swede has signalled across the season as he targets a sixth consecutive Diamond Trophy. Promoters have indicated that further headline athlete confirmations will be announced in the days leading into the meet, in line with the Wanda series' standard weekly entry releases.
The 2026 Diamond League calendar's first leg has already produced strong early-season times in Xiamen and Doha, and the Keqiao stop traditionally rewards the field events as much as the sprints. Long jump and shot put both produced 2025 world-leading marks at the venue, and the discus discipline has been retained for 2026 after a successful introduction last season.
For the global season build, Shanghai sits as a key staging post between the Asian opening swing and the European summer. Athletes scoring at Keqiao will lock in early Diamond Trophy points before the calendar moves on to Rabat, the Prefontaine Classic and the Bislett Games in June, with Tokyo's outdoor world championships rotation looming later in the year.