The third leg of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League circuit lands at Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat on Sunday with a field-event programme that has tightened further over the past forty-eight hours. Triple Olympic champion Ryan Crouser, opening his outdoor season, headlines a men's shot put line-up in which six of nine entrants represent the United States, an unusually deep American block for the European leg of the series and the deepest single-nation shot field of the year so far.
Crouser, who last competed indoors at the World Championships in ToruĊ, will face fellow Americans Joe Kovacs, Roger Steen, Tripp Piperi, Adrian Piperi and Payton Otterdahl, alongside Italy's Leonardo Fabbri and New Zealand's Tom Walsh. Diamond League organisers confirmed on Thursday that all nine throwers have cleared customs at Mohammed V International, with the men's shot put set as the opening apron discipline at 17:55 local time on Sunday.
The marquee field event of the evening is the women's pole vault, where Australia's Nina Kennedy, the reigning Olympic champion, returns to the Diamond League circuit for the first time in 2026 against Americans Katie Moon and Sandi Morris. Kennedy opened indoors at 4.83m in February and has been training in San Diego under Steve Hooker since the Easter break. Moon, the 2022 world champion, is the season leader at 4.91m, while Morris brings her 4.87m outdoor opener from the LA Track Fest.
On the high jump apron, Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine returns to outdoor competition for the first time since clearing 2.05m at the Paris Olympics, with race director Hassan El Houcine confirming that an indoor warm-up plan with the LA Coliseum was scratched in favour of a single training session in Madrid before Rabat. Mahuchikh meets Eleanor Patterson, Yuliya Levchenko and an in-form Iryna Gerashchenko, with the bar set to open at 1.86m at 18:15 local.
The track block is led by the men's 3000m steeplechase, with home favourite Soufiane El Bakkali opening his season alongside Lamecha Girma and Abraham Kibiwot, and the men's 200m where Letsile Tebogo and Andre De Grasse anchor a nine-deep heat. Women's mile, 100m hurdles and 800m round out the running block before the men's 1500m closes the meet at 21:48. Wanda Diamond League's world feed picks up at 16:50 GMT.