Lausanne Diamond League 2026: Jackson, Hunt headline Friday meet

Lausanne will host the next meeting of the 2026 Diamond League series on Friday, August 21, with Shericka Jackson, Amy Hunt, Letsile Tebogo and several Olympic champions on the programme. The meeting will be staged at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, while the men’s pole vault is scheduled for Thursday, August 20. All listed times are in East African Time, although no clock time is provided here.

The women’s 200m is one of the meeting’s main attractions. Jamaica’s Jackson will face Britain’s Hunt after Hunt won the 100m, 200m, women’s 4x100m and mixed 4x100m titles at the European Athletics Championships. Hunt’s four gold medals made her the most decorated athlete at that edition of the championships.

Jackson enters the event with the quicker season’s best, at 21.87 seconds, while Hunt has recorded 22.19. The Jamaican is a five-time Olympic medallist, but Hunt’s four-title European campaign gives the race a strong competitive focus.

The men’s 200m will bring together Botswana’s Olympic champion Tebogo and South Africa’s Commonwealth champion Sinesipho Dambile. Dambile has the faster season’s best of 19.74 seconds, compared with Tebogo’s 19.84. Tebogo missed the 2026 Commonwealth Games and will return to the Diamond League meeting after an inconsistent season.

Swiss athletes will also be central to the programme. European 800m champion Audrey Werro will compete in the women’s two-lap race against Femke Broeders-Bol and Commonwealth silver medallist Lilian Odira. In the women’s pole vault, European champion Angelica Moser will compete at home against Katie Moon and Sandi Morris. Simon Ehammer is entered in the men’s long jump.

The men’s 800m includes Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Paris 2024 runner-up Marco Arop and American Brandon Miller. Other Olympic champions listed for Lausanne are Masai Russell in the women’s 100m hurdles, Miltiadis Tentoglou in the men’s long jump and Neeraj Chopra in the men’s javelin. Armand Duplantis will lead the men’s pole vault field.

The meeting will be available through broadcast partners in more than 170 countries and territories. Viewers in East Africa can watch on SuperSport Africa 1 and SuperSport GOtv Africa 1, while selected regions will have access to the official Wanda Diamond League YouTube livestream. Local broadcaster information is available through the Diamond League website.