Several freshly crowned world champions, including Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Noah Lyles and Yulimar Rojas, will head to Lausanne for the Athletissima meeting next month as they bid to pick up more valuable Wanda Diamond League points.
Fresh from defending his 200m world title in Oregon this week, American sprinter Noah Lyles will be looking to jump start his 2022 Wanda Diamond League campaign when he returns to action among several other world champions at the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne next month.
Four-time Diamond League champion Lyles has made a quiet start to this year’s campaign with just one win in the 200m so far, and will be hoping to double his points tally and secure a berth to the final in Zurich with another victory in Lausanne.
Having stormed to a world lead and American record of 19.31 at Eugene’s Hayward Field on Thursday, he is now the favourite to take the 200m Diamond Trophy which he won three times in a row between 2017 and 2019.
In Lausanne, Lyles will once again take on Eugene bronze medallist Erriyon Knighton, who is set to make his first ever overseas Diamond League appearance at the Stade de la Pontaise.
There will also be a world champion and four-time Diamond Trophy winner in the women’s 100m, as Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce looks to consolidate her place in the final after claiming her fifth world title in Oregon this week.
Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, who won her third successive World Championships gold medal at Hayward Field, will also star at the first of two Swiss Diamond League meetings.
The triple jump star is the defending Diamond League champion after she won her first series title in Zurich last year, but is in desperate need of points having not yet competed on the circuit in 2022.
Olympic champion Hansle Parchment is set to star in the men’s 110m hurdles, while there is also a stellar line-up in the men’s javelin, featuring Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, Grenadian Anderson Peters and two-time Diamond League champion Jakub Vadlejch.