Silesia Diamond League 2023: Preview, schedule, stars, how to watch Kamila Skolimowska Memorial
The global athletics circuit continues on 16 July after the mid-year national championships with a stop in Poland, where stars like Noah Lyles, Fred Kerley, Mondo Duplantis, Yulimar Rojas and Sha'Carri Richardson are due to compete.
Athletics
After a quick mid-season detour from the global athletics season for national championships and trials, the world's track and field stars will return to Diamond League action in Silesia, Poland, for the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial on Sunday 16 July.
The men's 100m and women's 100m hurdles promise to be tantalising clashes, having drawn a strong field of the world's best athletes, including reigning world champions Fred Kerley and Tobi Amusan respectively. Men's world 200m champion Noah Lyles is also expected in the 100m field.
Amusan is one of five world record holders set to be in action at the Silesian Stadium, with Yulimar Rojas, Wayde van Niekerk, Mondo Duplantis and Ryan Crouser headlining the women's triple jump and men's 400m, pole vault, and shot put events respectively.
Current Olympic champions Jakob Ingebrigtsen (men's 1500m), Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim (men's high jump), Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (women's 100m hurdles), and Soufiane El Bakkali (men's 3000m steeplechase) are also due to compete on what will be a gripping day of athletics in Poland.
Athletes to watch at the 2023 Silesia Diamond League
The men's 100m was set to feature all three medallists from last year's World Championships: reigning world champion Kerley and his fellow Americans Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell. However, Bromell – who finished sixth in the final at the U.S. national championships and trials over the weekend – has decided to end his season early to have surgery. Despite that, a very fast race is still on the cards with South Africa's Akani Simbine, former world champion Christian Coleman, and Lyles due to compete – all nine men in the preliminary field have sub-10-second career bests.
Equally, the women's 100m hurdles should be an entertaining race. In addition to world record holder and world champion Amusan and Olympic champion Camacho-Quinn, the world's second-fastest hurdler Kendra Harrison, who held the world record before Amusan smashed it last year, is also due on the start line.
Sha'Carri Richardson will face off against world silver medallist – and the new 2023 world leader at 10.65 – Shericka Jackson of Jamaica in the women's 100m, while Marie-Josée Ta Lou will look to play spoiler.
The men's 400m also promises to be intriguing, with the third-fastest full-lap hurdler of all time, Alison dos Santos of Brazil, returning from injury in this flat race.
Rojas, Duplantis, Ingebrigtsen, Crouser, El Bakkali, Tamberi, and Barshim are all other high-profile names seeking another win under their belts before next month's Worlds. With the invited fields providing World Championships-level competition, the Silesian meet is a must-watch.
Silesia Diamond League 2023 schedule Kamila Skolimowska Memorial
All events held on Sunday, 16 July 2023. Times listed in Central European Summer Time (UTC +2 hours).
- 14:00 Women's high jump
- 14:10 Women's hammer throw (non-Diamond League)
- 14:10 Men's hammer throw (non-Diamond League)
- 14:27 Men's 110m hurdles heats (non-Diamond League)
- 14:44 Men's shot put
- 15:34 Women's 1500m (non-Diamond League)
- 15:42 Women's triple jump
- 15:45 Men's pole vault
- 15:49 Men's 110m hurdles final (non-Diamond League)
- 16:04 Women's 400m
- 16:08 Men's high jump
- 16:16 Men's 100m
- 16:26 Women's 3000m
- 16:47 Women's 100m hurdles
- 16:53 Women's javelin throw
- 16:57 Men's 3000m steeplechase
- 17:16 Men's 400m
- 17:27 Women's 800m
- 17:38 Men's 1500m
- 17:53 Women's 100m
How to watch Silesia Diamond League 2023
The Diamond League season, including the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, will be broadcast in a number of territories on the Diamond League YouTube page.
For a full list of global broadcasters and where to watch in your country, click here.