Record seekers Hodgkinson and Kerr in London action alongside Duplantis

Record-seekers Keely Hodgkinson and Josh Kerr lend a strong home interest at Saturday’s Diamond League meeting in London where Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, Julien Alfred and Femke Broeders-Bol are also in action.

The star-studded track and field meet, featuring athletes with an astonishing 71 medals between them from the 2025 world championships in Tokyo and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, is the 11th of 15 on the elite circuit.

AFP Sport looks at five events to watch at the London Stadium, home to Championship football team West Ham United.

Women’s 800m

Broeders-Bol continues her crossover from the 400m hurdles in which she has claimed multiple world and Olympic medals when she races the two-lap event.

The 26-year-old Dutch star, along with Ethiopia’s Olympic silver medallist Tsige Duguma, Australian Sarah Billings and American Addison Wiley, will face a stellar British contingent led by Olympic champion Hodgkinson and Jemma Reekie.

Also set to compete are rising British runners Issy Boffey and 2024 Olympic semi-finalist Phoebe Gill, the latter in her Diamond League debut.