2023 Diamond League Final in Eugene preview: Full schedule and how to watch the action live

After 13 rounds of Diamond League meets that produced some scintillating track & field performances in 2023, the season all comes down to this.

With a winner-takes-all format, the Diamond League Final takes place from 16-17 September in the same Hayward Field stadium where last year’s World Athletics Championships were hosted in Eugene, Oregon.

The victor in each of the 32 events (16 for men and 16 for women) will be named 2023 champion and take home the bragging rights less than a year before the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The scene is set for one of the most exciting finals in history, with many of the stars of the recent World Athletics Championships in Budapest returning for one last chance to rise victorious at the end of the 2023 season.

World records will be on the line, surprises most likely sprung and a host of new champions crowned as competitors look to run, jump and throw their way into the history books.

Find out everything you can expect from this year’s Diamond League Final in Eugene below.

Athletes to watch at the Diamond League Final in Eugene

Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson: World 100m champions aiming high at Prefontaine Classic

Both of the world champions in the 100m will be present in Eugene, with Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles of the USA confirming their participation in the final.

This year has seen Richardson rise to become one of the biggest stars in the sport, claiming a stunning 100m victory at the Worlds in Budapest in a championship record time of 10.65 seconds.

The run made her the joint-fifth fastest female of all time over the distance but also cemented her position as one of the most exciting runners today as she overcame the competition of two pre-race favourites, Shericka Jackson and Marie-Josee Ta Lou.

In the men’s 100m, newly-crowned world champion Noah Lyles will look to add the 2023 Diamond League title to the three golds he won in Budapest in August. The 26-year-old has been in stellar form this year but had originally indicated his season was over before posting on social media: "You know what... I might have another 100m in me for the year.”

Soon after, he confirmed he will race in Eugene, writing: “I’m Coming to @nikepreclassic Let’s go out with a [bang emoji]”

Lyles was last named Diamond League champion in the 100m in 2019, however he is already a four-time 200m Diamond League champion. He will be odds-on favourite to repeat the feat over both distances in Oregon.

Will Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis set a new world record in Eugene?

There’s excitement surrounding Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis each time he competes - not least because he's capable of setting a new world record at every meet in which he’s involved.

At the World Athletics Championships, the US-born Swede had three attempts at 6.23m - one centimetre more than his existing best-ever jump - but fell agonisingly short of going cleanly over the bar.

Then at the recent Diamond League in Brussels, he again attempted a record vault, again failing to set the record by the smallest of margins.

"I really believe that I should have made it today,” a disappointed Duplantis said after the competition. “I had it in me to jump the world record today and I really thought that I was going to do it. It's a shame."

But with every new competition comes another opportunity and if all goes to plan in Eugene, Duplantis will once again try for the world record.

It makes for a tantalising prospect in the season closer this weekend.

Shericka Jackson’s battle for Flo-Jo’s 200m world record continues

Talking about world records, nobody in recent history has come as close to breaking Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 35-year-old women’s 200m record than Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson this season.

Jackson was just 0.07 seconds away from the mark when she blazed to victory in the final of the 200m at this year’s Worlds, setting the second-fastest time in history (21.41) in the process.

Then on 8 September, the two-time half-lap world champion achieved the fourth-fastest time ever when she came home in 21.48 to become the Diamond League record holder in Brussels.

The 29-year-old has made it clear that she wants to break Flo-Jo’s legendary mark of 21.34, stating prior to racing in Brussels that: "Coach and I have spoken and we are going after (the record) this year. I hope to get it.”

She has one more real chance to do it at the Diamond League Final - so watch out for fireworks on Sunday.

Faith Kipyegon and Jakob Ingebrigtsen - 2023 world record breakers expected to shine in Oregon

Two athletes who haven’t as much been chasing records as breaking them this season are also expected to grab headlines at the Diamond League Final in Eugene.

Faith Kipyegon has enjoyed a stellar year, destroying both the 1500m and 5000m world records in 2023.

Her 3:49.11 in the shorter distance in this year’s Florence Diamond League was followed just a week later with a stunning 14:05.20 in the 5000m in Paris, making her a double world record holder within the span of seven days.

Add to that the one-mile world record she set in Monaco and there’s little denying that Kipyegon is one of the highest-performing stars of recent times.

By contrast, Jakob Ingebrigtsen had a mixed year, with the Olympic 1500m champion settling for silver in his pet event at the World Athletics Championships. However, for the second year running, he bounced back from disappointment in the metric mile to record a thrilling victory in the 5000m - considered to be his weaker event.

If all that wasn’t enough, the Brussels Diamond League saw the Norwegian break the 2000m world record of the legendary Hicham El Guerrouj in a time of 4:43.13.

Much will be expected of both of these stars should they compete in the Diamond League Final in Eugene.

Other notable stars competing in the Diamond League Final in Eugene

Of course, with the world’s very best expected to compete in Oregon, there will be a wealth of other Olympic and World Champions fighting for glory.

Among those, watch out for the likes of India's Neeraj Chopra, Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas - the reigning world record holder in the women’s triple jump, the Dutch star of the recent World Championships, Femke Bol, joint pole vault world champions Katie Moon and Nina Kennedy, 110m hurdles world champion Grant Holloway and many, many more of the brightest lights in track & field today.

Schedule for the 2023 Diamond League Final in Eugene

All times Pacific Daylight Time

Saturday 16 September

• 11:00: Women’s javelin
• 11:06: Men’s triple jump
• 11:08: Men’s high jump
• 12:04: Men’s 400m hurdles 
• 12:16: Men’s 400m
• 12:20: Men’s javelin 
• 12:26: Women’s pole vault
• 12:29: Women’s 3000m steeplechase
• 12:49: Women’s triple jump
• 12:51: Women’s 1500m
• 13:07: Men’s 100m
• 13:11: Women’s shot put
• 13:19: Men’s 3000m steeplechase
• 13:40: Women’s 100m
• 13:50: Men’s Bowerman Mile 

**Sunday 17 September **

• 11:30: Women’s high jump 
• 11:40: Men’s discus
• 11:48: Men’s long jump
• 12:04: Men’s 800m
• 12:39: Women’s 5000m
• 12:57: Men’s pole vault
• 13:04: Women’s 400m hurdles 
• 13:08: Women’s discus
• 13:17: Men’s 3000m
• 13:37: Women’s 400m
• 13:42: Women’s long jump
• 13:52: Men’s 110m hurdles 
• 14:05: Women’s 100m hurdles 
• 14:09: Men’s shot put
• 14:19: Women’s 800m
• 14:36: Men’s 200m 
• 14:49: Women’s 200m

How to watch the Diamond League Final in Eugene

The Diamond League in Eugene takes place on Saturday 16 September and Sunday 17 September. 

Action will be streamed in a number of territories on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube page. The live stream will not be available in all territories.

BBC has the rights in the UK and will broadcast it on BBC Two, while for viewers in the U.S., NBC holds the rights and will broadcast on CNBC and on Peacock.

SuperSport is the rightsholder for the 2023 Diamond League in most of Africa.