2024 Oslo Diamond League: Preview, schedule and how to watch live
Just a quick glance at the entry list for the 2024 Oslo Diamond League tells you that this meet is primed to be a thriller.
Olympic and world champions will join up-and-coming athletics stars on the starting line at the Bislett Olympic Stadium for one action-packed evening on 30 May.
Among the champions travelling to Oslo, Olympic men’s 100m title holder Marcell Jacobs, reigning women’s 200m world champion Shericka Jackson, Tokyo 2020 men’s 1500m gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen and many, many more will be hoping to show they are in the form that could take them to Paris 2024 gold in just two months’ time.
Keep reading on Olympics.com to find out which athletes are competing, the complete schedule and how to watch the entire event live in your country.
Athletes to watch at the 2024 Oslo Diamond League
Fresh off a 100m victory at the Roma Sprint Festival, Italy’s reigning Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs will be back in action at the Oslo Diamond League.
It’s fair to say that things haven’t been easy for the 29-year-old who burst onto the scene in the most impressive manner with his shock victory in the 100m final at Tokyo 2020.
Since then, injuries have blighted his progress at major championships and he hasn’t reached the heights he did on that memorable night in the capital of Japan. The Italian has failed to dip under 10 seconds since 2022, so Oslo will be a strong test of his Olympic credentials just two months away from the next edition of the Games.
In Norway’s capital, Jacobs will need to out-pace a strong field that includes South Africa’s Akani Simbine, the 2018 African and Commonwealth Games champion, as well as the joint second-fastest 100m runner of all time, Jamaica’s Yohan Blake.
Who will come out on top? All will be revealed on Thursday.
One athlete who has gone from strength to strength since the last Olympics in Tokyo is Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson. The 29-year-old has claimed 200m gold at the last two World Athletics Championships, while also taking the position as the second-fastest half-lap runner of all time.
Anticipation is high that this year might finally be the one in which Jackson breaks the over three-decades-old 200m world record of 21.34 seconds that was set by Florence Griffith-Joyner all the way back in 1988. However, with the emergence of challengers such as Sha’Carri Richardson and Gabby Thomas, as well as the ongoing rivalry with fellow Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah, Jackson may not have things all her way in Paris.
The upcoming Oslo Diamond League will present a stern test to the rapid Jamaican as she takes on the likes of three-time African champion Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith, Great Britain’s in-form Daryll Neita and a trio of fast Americans including Jenna Prandini, Brittany Brown and Anavia Battle.
One star who - surprisingly as it seems - may feel he has something to prove this week is men’s Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen. The Norwegian lost his much-hyped Bowerman Mile battle with last year's 1500m world champion Josh Kerr at the recent Eugene Diamond League and has been outspoken about his struggles with injury.
Returning to the metric mile, Ingebrigtsen has the chance to show he’s still the one to beat when he lines up against the likes of Kenya’s Olympic silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot. Oslo, of course, is also a home Diamond League for two-time 5000m world champion Ingebrigtsen, so expect a special showing from the 23-year-old.
Another home favourite who will race for glory in Oslo is Karsten Warholm, with the 400m hurdles world record holder set to take part in one of the most highly anticipated races of the meet. Warholm, the reigning Olympic and three-time world champion, will race against Brazil’s 2022 world champion and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Alison dos Santos as well as the reigning world silver medallist Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands in what should be a rapid encounter.
In the women’s 400m, Budapest 2023 gold medallist Marileidy Paulino is the biggest draw of the race, in a year in which she will be hoping to upgrade her Tokyo 2020 silver to Olympic gold.
Other stars to keep a close eye on include Uganda’s Olympic 5000m champion Joshua Cheptegei, women’s 2019 world 800m champion Halimah Nakaayi, Grenada’s London 2012 champion Kirani James and Britain’s world silver medallist Matt Hudson-Smith, as well as the man who has jumped the second-farthest in history, Christian Taylor of the USA who takes on 2023 world champion Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango in the triple jump event.
2024 Oslo Diamond League schedule
Thursday 30 May (all times CEST)
19:07: Women’s discus throw
19:15: Men’s high jump
20:04: Women’s 400m
20:08: Women’s discus final
20:16: Men’s 400m
20:20: Men’s triple jump
20:22: Women’s 3000m
20:36: Men’s discus throw
20:38: Women’s 200m
20:44: Men’s 5000m
21:04: Men’s 100m
21:11: Women’s 800m
21:18: Men’s triple jump final
21:28: Men’s 400m hurdles
21:35: Women’s 400m hurdles
21:41: Men’s discus throw final
21:50: Men’s 1500m
How to watch the 2024 Oslo Diamond League
For audiences in the U.S., live coverage will be provided by NBC/Peacock. BBC has the rights in the UK and will broadcast it on BBC Three, while SuperSport is the rightsholder for the 2024 Diamond League in most of Africa.
Please check your local listings to find out more information