Warholm, Benjamin, Dos Santos set for 300m hurdles conflict in Oslo

Hurdles giants conflict over little-run distance, whereas Brits reminiscent of Amber Anning, Daryll Neita, Dina Asher-Smith, George Mills and Max Burgin are additionally in motion on Thursday

9 reigning Olympic champions and 7 in-form Brits compete within the Bislett Video games in Oslo on Thursday (June 12).

Such are the standard of the line-ups, it’s exhausting to foretell what the spotlight of this Diamond League assembly will probably be.

However organisers have arguably left one of the best til final as they’ve positioned the 300m hurdles conflict between house favorite Karsten Warholm, Olympic champion Rai Benjamin and 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos proper on the finish of the schedule.

The trio will probably be determined to say victory however the world document of 33.05, which was set by Warholm in China in April, can also be susceptible.

British distance runner George Mills is a part of a robust 5000m discipline led by Hagos Gebrhiwet and Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia.

Final 12 months Gebrhiwet clocked 12:36.73, simply lacking Joshua Cheptegei’s world document of 12:35.36.

Mills presently sits No.4 on the UK all-time rankings with 12:58.68 set indoors final 12 months. So might Mo Farah’s British document of 12:53.11 from 2011 lastly fall?

The one disappointment is that Jakob Ingebrigtsen will not be within the race, as he’s presently returning to coaching following an Achilles harm.

Wanyonyi is among the Olympic champions in Oslo however the 800m runner was crushed in Rabat just lately by Max Burgin, the Brit clocking a PB of 1:43.34 behind the winner that day, Tshepiso Masalela of Botswana.

Masalela will not be in Oslo however Burgin and Wanyonyi are, plus Djamel Sedjati of Algeria and Gabriel Tual of France. Look out too for in-form Irishman Mark English, who received in Hengelo earlier this week in a PB of 1:43.92.

Mondo Duplantis takes on Sam Kendricks, Emmanouil Karalis and Ernest John Obiena within the pole vault with the final word goal of bettering the 6.27m world document he set in Clermont-Ferrand in February.

The Dream Mile additionally has British curiosity with Elliot Giles among the many line-up along with former world champion Timothy Cheruiyot, Commonwealth gold medallist Olli Hoare, rising star Cameron Myers and Norway’s Narve Gilje Nordas.

Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita are in a stacked ladies’s 100m that sees Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia making her 2025 debut on the distance.

Additional Brits in motion embody Amber Anning within the ladies’s 400m and Elise Thorner within the 3000m steeplechase.

The occasion is reside for UK viewers on BBC3 and on-line/purple button from 7pm to 9pm. Begin lists and timetable right here.