Olympic champion Noah Lyles will face Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson in the men’s 100m at the Diamond League meet in Chorzow on Saturday. The race is a rematch of their 2024 Olympic final in Paris, where Lyles won by five-thousandths of a second.
Thompson, who missed the 2023 world championships, ran a world-leading 9.75 seconds at the Jamaican trials in June, placing him sixth on the all-time list. Lyles is aiming to rebound from a 100m loss to Jamaican Oblique Seville at the London Diamond League.
Also in the 100m field are Kenny Bednarek, Christian Coleman, Lindsey Courtney, Trayvon Bromell, and Akani Simbine. Lyles and Bednarek previously clashed at the US trials, where Lyles ran a world-leading 19.63 in the 200m and stared at Bednarek as he finished, prompting Bednarek to call it “unsportsmanlike.”
Coleman will also contest the men’s 100m, while Sha’Carri Richardson, the women’s world champion and Olympic silver medallist, lines up in the women’s 100m alongside Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Dina Asher-Smith, and Jamaican twins Tina and Tia Clayton.
Armand Duplantis competes in the pole vault after setting his 13th world record on Tuesday, clearing 6.29m in Budapest. It was his third world record of 2025, following marks of 6.27m in February and 6.28m in June. Last year in Silesia, he set a then-world record of 6.26m.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon will target the 3,000m world record. She set the 1500m world record of 3:48.68 in Eugene and has five Diamond League world records in the last three seasons. Her Kenyan teammate Beatrice Chebet will contest the 1500m for the first time at a Diamond League meet, facing Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell and Ethiopians Gudaf Tsegay and Diribe Welteji.
