The Wanda Diamond League circuit moves down the Chinese coast this Saturday, with the season's second meeting taking place at Xiamen's Egret Stadium on 23 May. After the opening leg in Shanghai/Keqiao a week ago delivered Mondo Duplantis's pole vault meet record and Jessica Schilder's 21-metre breakthrough, organisers have stitched together a similarly stacked entry list for the southern Fujian leg.
Sprinting again provides the marquee names. Two-time world 200m champion Shericka Jackson opens her European-bound season in the women's 200m, while Botswana's Letsile Tebogo lines up over 200m on the men's side after skipping Shanghai. Norway's Karsten Warholm headlines the men's 400m hurdles, while in the women's 100m hurdles defending Diamond Trophy winner Jasmine Camacho-Quinn is expected to be pushed hard by world finalist Tia Jones.
In the field events the women's discus rivalry resumes between Valarie Sion, chasing a record-equalling sixth Diamond League title, and Dutch silver medallist Jorinde van Klinken. Ryan Crouser, the world shot put champion and three-time Olympic gold medallist, will start his outdoor campaign in Xiamen against world bronze medallist Tom Walsh. Australia's Eleanor Patterson leads the women's high jump field, alongside Ukrainian pair Iryna Gerashchenko and Yuliia Levchenko.
Distance fans will be drawn to the men's 1500m, where world indoor 3000m champion Yared Nuguse is entered against a deep East African field. The women's 3000m steeplechase pits world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech against Olympic silver medallist Faith Cherotich, with both runners using Xiamen as their first competitive outing of the outdoor track season. Conditions in Xiamen are forecast to be warm and humid, which historically rewards strength-runners over front-running specialists.
Action begins at 19:30 local time on Saturday 23 May (12:30 BST) and runs across roughly two hours of live competition. The meeting will be broadcast in the United Kingdom on the Wanda Diamond League's YouTube channel and via BBC iPlayer, with United States viewers able to stream live on FloTrack. Xiamen marks the final Asian stop on the circuit before the Diamond League moves to Rabat at the end of May.