Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Jeferson-Wooden, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will meet for the first time in Brussels for their last chance at DL points.
The 2025 Diamond League season is sadly coming to a close. With the World Championships and the Zurich finals looming, athletes are getting their ducks in a row and hoping that the prep they’ve done all season has been enough to beat their rivals — some of which will be facing together for the first time, as is the case for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sha’Carri Richardson, and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden in the 100m.
Brussels, the site of last year’s Diamond League finals, will also feature a stacked women’s pole vault with Katie Moon, Sandi Morris, and the Moll twins; potential American fast times in the women’s and men’s 1500m races; and world #3 all-time Agnes Ngetich in the women’s 5K. Check out all of it previewed below.
The Brussels Diamond League will be taking place this Friday, and US Audiences can watch Brussels and other meetings of the 2025 Diamond League LIVE on FloTrack.
Men’s high jump (12:29pm ET): Kerr is catching up at just the right time
For a moment, fans were getting a little worried about the Kiwi Olympic champ Hamish Kerr’s chances to repeat in Tokyo. He only had one Diamond League win under his belt (in Rabat) this year to Sanghyeok Woo’s two, he lost to Woo at the What Gravity Challenger, and Woo’s 2.34m SB towered above Kerr’s 2.30m best from back in February.
But at the Silesia DL, Kerr made his biggest leap yet with a 2.33m season’s best and win, just 1 centimeter behind Woo’d world lead. Woo was absent then and won’t be in Brussels, meaning his biggest competition will probably be the same man he fought to sudden-death in Paris — Shelby McEwen, who was just runner-up at USAs. Ukraine’s Oleh Doroshchuk is the only other competitor in the field to have cleared 2.30m this year, which he did to place 2nd at the Rome DL.
An interesting name set to compete is Eli Kosiba, who was 13th at USAs representing Grand Valley State University. The American flew under the radar but was 4th at World Indoors this year so could podium on the right day. The host Belgium sends Thomas Carmoy and Jef Vermeiren — Carmoy was a 2x Euro Indoors bronze medalist while Vermeiren swept the nation’s indoor and outdoor titles last year.
Women’s shot put (12:36pm ET): Jackson’s duel with Schilder will be exciting
Chase Jackson is on a roll this year, taking the USA title by nearly a full meter and winning the Shanghai and Eugene DLs. Her 20.95m season’s best should make her the favorite, but the Netherlands’ Jessica Schilder has been building a legacy of her own winning the Xiamen, Monaco, and Silesia Diamond Leagues more recently. Expect her to not give it up easy.
Top international Rivals Sarah Mitton (World Indoor champ for Canada) and German Olympic champ Yemisi Ogunleye are also set to compete. Jackson will be joined by three of her compatriots in Maggie Ewen (2nd at USAs), Jaida Ross (4th), and Abby Moore (Oklahoma alum 7th at nationals at Silesia).
Men’s discus throw (12:50pm ET): Alekna hot off a Diamond League record
Lithuanian world record holder Mykolas Alekna seems unbeatable at every competition that’s not the NCAA finals. Save for that meet, he’s been undefeated this year and is coming off a 71.70m Diamond League record win at the London DL.
The other two DL winners this year, Australia’s Matt Denny and Slovenia’s Kristjan Čeh, would need what seems like a miracle to pull off an upset although Denny’s season best is less than a meter behind Alekna’s. Roje Stona, in the process of transferring allegiance from Jamaica to Turkey, won the Olympics last year but is the 7th seed by SB in Brussels.
Women’s pole vault (1:34pm ET): Moon, Morris, and the Moll twins meet Molly C.
American fans will be served a treat as the top four USAs finishers will face each other and last year’s British World Indoor champ Molly Caudery. Katie Moon and Sandi Morris have traded off DL wins this year, though the 2021 Olympic champ Moon hadn’t lost to Morris this year until USAs where she was runner-up.
The veterans will have to look out for newcomers Amanda and Hana Moll, twins from the University of Washington who have both been dominating the NCAA (Amanda took the indoor title while Hana won outdoors). Luckily thanks to Moon’s 2023 Worlds win unlocking a 4th spot, they both punched a ticket to Tokyo at USAs finishing 3rd and 4th respectively.
Two other Americans in Gabriela Leon and Emily Grove adorn the field — Leon was 7th while Grove was 8th at USAs though both made the U.S. team to indoor Worlds this year. Belgium’s Elien Vekemans, who just won the World University Games gold medal for the home country, is also entered.
Women’s 400m hurdles (2:04pm ET): Knight vs. Cockrell in a Bol-less field
Here are the top non-Femke Bol finishers at Diamond Leagues so far: Andrenette Knight (Rabat, Rome), Dalilah Muhammad (Oslo, Stockholm, Monaco), Jasmine Jones (London), Emma Zapletalová (Silesia). It’s a useful list for those times like in Brussels when Bol won’t be present, opening up the door for any of her challengers to earn DL points.
Of those “winners”, only Knight is set to compete on Friday. But beating American Olympic silver medalist Anna Cockrell, who was just 2nd at USAs in a 52.89 season’s best, won’t be easy. Belgium has two athletes in Naomi van den Broeck and Paulien Couckuyt — van den Broeck was the Belgian 400m flat national champion this year while Couckuyt was their 400m hurdles champion.
Women’s 1500m (2:11pm ET): Hiltz gets another crack at the AR vs. Welteji, Chepchirchir
American sensation Nikki Hiltz will get another chance at breaking Shelby Houlihan’s 3:54.99 American record in Brussels after a 3:56.10 miss in Silesia. The conditions may favor them better this time — with no Faith Kipyegon or Gudaf Tsegay, they won’t have to worry about going out in 1:59 through 800m.
There will still be a solid international field to keep the pace, led by Ethiopians Diribe Welteji and Freweyni Hailu and Kenyan Nelly Chepchirchir, who’s been having a moment winning three DL races this year when Kipyegon isn’t around. Australia’s Linden Hall won the Stockholm 3K and could also be there for a fast pace.
It’s also possible that the American record goes but Hiltz isn’t the one to take it. Sinclaire Johnson was 2nd at USAs but broke Nikki’s American mile record in London this year, running 4:16.32. Heather MacLean will also be running with a chip on her shoulder as the 4th-placer at USAs. Lastly, Nel Vanopstal will be the Belgian in residence, coming off a 7th-place 1500 m finish at Euro U23s.
Men’s javelin throw (2:19pm ET): Don’t call it a comeback for Yego
It’s been ten years since 36-year-old Julius Yego, who learned how to throw the javelin from watching YouTube videos in Kenya, won the 2015 World Championships gold medal, and it’s been almost as long since he last won a Diamond League meet in 2016. But that all changed in Silesia, when Yego won in 83.60m to become the third DL meet winner this year in three competitions, alongside Germany’s Julian Weber (Doha) and Indian superstar Neeraj Chopra (Paris).
Chopra won’t be at Brussels but the duel between Yego and Weber, who broke 90m to set the world lead in Doha, will be fierce. If either falters, 2024 DL series champ Anderson Peters of Grenada could also mix things up. Belgium sends their 11-time national champ Timothy Herman.
Men’s 200m (2:22pm ET): Gregory can show why he made the Worlds team behind Noah and Kenny
At the U.S. championships this year, all eyes were on the Noah Lyles-Kenny Bednarek duel and subsequent shove leaving the audience aghast. But keeping a low profile just behind them was Robert Gregory, last year’s NCAA 200m runner-up for Florida who overperformed to make his first U.S. team. Gregory will get his best chance to show the world what he’s made of in Brussels and could walk away with a win if all goes right.
He’ll have to beat Stanford’s ’23 NCAA 200m champ Udodi Onwuzurike (representing Nigeria), which might be possible as Onwuzurike hasn’t raced at the Diamond League level over 200m this year yet.
Gregory will also have to watch his back for U.S. rivals Christian Coleman and Kyree King, who finished 6th and 7th at USAs respectively. The host nation will be represented by Kobe Vleminckx, a national champion and ’19 Euro U23s silver medalist in the event.
Men’s 3000m steeplechase (2:29pm ET): Bebendorf shocked to win in Stockholm and could do it again
The Stockholm DL men’s steeplechase wasn’t a Diamond event, but audiences were surprised to see Karl Bebendorf run a huge 8:11.8 PB to win against the likes of Geordie Beamish and Ethiopian Getnet Wale. He’s not even the fastest German this year – that title goes to Frederik Ruppert, who isn’t in Brussels – but Bebendorf’s run still put him on World Championships finalist watchlists.
With Diamond League points now on the line, Bebendorf returns with a new 8:08 PB set in Monaco. He was only 7th there, but of the six ahead of him only Wale will be in Brussels — and remember, Bebendorf beat Wale in Stockholm. Top Kenyan contenders include national champ Simon Kiprop Koech and Olympic bronze medalist Abraham Kibiwot, who was only 12th in Monaco.
Americans Isaac Updike and Bernard Keter will also take on this field. Keter finished 3rd at USAs but desperately needs the 8:15.00 Worlds standard to make it to Tokyo.
Updike has the standard but was 5th at USAs (and was behind Matt Wilkinson who also has the standard) so, given that runner-up Dan Michalski ran the standard at NACACs, he won’t be going unless Keter doesn’t get the standard (it’s unlikely there will be rankings quota spots available) and an American wins the DL final.
Women’s triple jump (2:42pm ET): The Olympic top five is all here
There have only been three women’s triple jumps on the DL circuit this year, with Jamaican Olympic silver medalist Shanieka Ricketts taking the first two in Doha and Rome while Cuba’s 2024 DL champion Leyanis Pérez Hernández won in Oslo. Dominica’s first Olympic champ Thea LaFond will draw attention but she’s been beaten soundly in her DL appearances this year so far, so Ricketts could set herself up for Tokyo nicely with a win here.
American champ Jasmine Moore, who was also 5th at USAs in the long jump finals, could podium here like she did in Oslo. She’s coming off a 6.85m long jump meet record in Silesia, so it’ll be interesting to see if that fitness converts to the triple.
Cuban Liadagmis Povea, who was 4th in Paris last year, completes the Olympic top-five set, including bronze medalist Moore and 5th-placer Pérez Hernández. The host country’s Ilona Masson also enters as the 4th-placer at the World University Games this year.
Women’s 100m (2:45pm ET): Sha’Carri, Melissa, and Shelly-Ann will face off for the first time ever
In a matchup that pits the legend against the star against the Worlds favorite, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce will race Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Sha’Carri Richardson — and it’ll be the first time ever all three will be in the same race. (It’s taken this long in part because Richardson missed 2022 Worlds and Fraser-Pryce dropped out of the Olympics, and in part due to Jefferson-Wooden’s recent rise.)
Fraser-Pryce, who has already announced 2025 will be her last season, needs no introduction as a 10x World Championships gold medalist.
She was 4th at the Doha DL three months ago and has surely improved since then. The same could be said of Sha’Carri Richardson, the reigning World champ, who faltered in early races and at USAs but showed marginal improvement with an 11.05 SB for 6th in Silesia.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, on the other hand, needs no improvement. The 3x Grand Slam Track champ just ran 10.65 and 10.66 to win in Eugene and Silesia, and if she can put down a time like that in Brussels it’s highly likely she’ll win.
Belgium sends Rani Rosius and Delphine Nkansa. Rosius was just 7th at the World Indoors 60m while Nkansa is the ’23 Euro U23 champ over 200m.
Women’s 5000m (2:51pm ET): Agnes Ngetich reigns, and what is Abeba Aregawi up to?
28:46 road 10K record-holder Agnes Ngetich has been occupied with Grand Slam Track for much of her 2025 season, winning all three Slams in mostly unrabbitted, tactical times. But she was really able to shine at the Pre Classic, finishing runner-up to Beatrice Chebet in a 14:01.29 clocking that placed her #3 all-time. It’s not often you see a 5K that fast, which is why her PB sits a full 24 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.
The next-fastest seed is actually American Josette Andrews, who ran 14:25 to place 6th in Rome this year.
Andrews, who was 3rd at USAs to make the team, will be joined by Weini Kelati and Karissa Schweizer, who were 4th and 6th at nationals respectively in this event — Kelati likely can take a chunk off her 14:35 PB given her 10K and half marathon fitness displayed in the past.
Looking closely at the entries, there’s one name that stands out: Abeba Aregawi, who was the Olympic 1500m silver medalist for Ethiopia way back in 2012 and the 2013 World champion.
After seemingly ending her career in 2015, Aregawi sprung up in the news last year as she had changed allegiance to Sweden and began running road races — posting an impressive 1:06:36 half marathon in March before being disqualified due to an anti-doping rule violation. Aregawi looks to be back now, and if the entries are to be believed, she should start the Brussels 5K as her first track race in ten years.
Jana van Lent and Elise Vanderelst represent the host nation; Van Lent won the European Cup 10K this year while Vanderelst, the 2021 Euro Indoor 1500m champion, just beat Van Lent at nationals in the 5K.
Men’s 1500m (3:13pm ET): Nuguse will face his biggest hurdle to Worlds qualification in Phanuel Koech
It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions for American Yared Nuguse this year. After setting a mile indoor world record at Millrose, it was broken just a week later by rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen. He led Pre before being out-kicked by Dutchman Niels Laros, and sadly the same scenario happened at USAs where he finished 5th.
Nuguse then got some good news hearing that Ingebrigtsen wouldn’t contest the DL final — but he’ll still have to face upstart phenom Phanuel Koech, who ran 3:27 in the 2nd 1500m of his life and backed that up by winning the London DL over Josh Kerr.
Nuguse showed he has a shot to win the DL final by winning in Silesia this week, but he’ll likely have to beat Koech to do it in Zurich — and Brussels will mark the first time they’ve ever raced together.
Earlier DL winners Isaac Nader (Portugal; won in Oslo) and Laros will pose an extra challenge, as well as non-Diamond event winner Samuel Philstrom (SWE) who won in Stockholm. 2022 British World champ Jake Wightman has struggled with injuries since but has been improving this year, while American Hobbs Kessler hasn’t had quite the success he did in 2024 and will face even longer odds to secure Worlds qualification through winning the DL final. Kenya’s Reynold Cheruiyot won the Doha DL 5K and will step down in distance while Andrew Coscoran of Ireland won the Miami Slam 3K.
The Belgian trio of Ruben Verheyden, Jochem Vermeulen, and Pieter Sisk will round out this 18-man race. Verheyden was 7th at Euro Indoors this year; Vermeulen was last year’s European silver medalist; and Sisk was the Belgian indoor and outdoor national champ this year over the distance.
Men’s 400m (3:41pm ET): U.S. champ Patterson faces DL winners Dobson, Ndori
Jacory Patterson’s rise this season, breaking the 44-second barrier while loading UPS trucks on night shifts, was an inspiration to American fans, and he backed it up by winning USAs by a decent margin.
Patterson won the Rabat DL earlier this year, but he’ll be facing a tougher field this time including Xiamen DL winner Byapo Ndori of Botswana and Britain’s surprise ’24 DL finals champ Charlie Dobson, who also came late to win the London DL this year.
This event is likely last to feature Belgium’s ’24 World Indoor 400m champion Alexander Doom, who will be racing alongside compatriot Daniel Segers (the 2025 indoor national champ). Doom has struggled to repeat his success on the outdoor track, but with his home crowd cheering him on it’s possible sparks could fly and Doom could strike in the final 100 meters.
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