Women’s Javelin (16:20)

Reigning Olympic and World Champion Haruka Kitaguchi competes in Ostrava once more. The Japanese athlete trains and lives in Domažlice and will be looking for more success in her ‘second’ home ahead of the World Championships in her native Japan.

Adriana Viliagos has had an excellent start to this season, improving her Serbian Record to 67.22 and leads the World Lists 2025. Also due to compete is 2016 Olympic Champion Sara Kolak of Coratia.

Men’s Pole Vault (16:50)

The greatest pole vaulter of all time returns for the fourth time  to Ostrava. Mondo Duplantis will compete for the first time since improving his World Record to 6.28m. It was his twelfth World Record, but the first time he has achieved it in his home country of Sweden.

The Olympic Champion will be joined by Emmanouil Karalis of Greece, who won bronze in Paris last year and now regularly clears six metres. Also in the field is two-time Commonwealth Games Champion and World Championship bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall of Australia and 2023 European Indoor Champion Sondre Guttormsen of Norway.

All eyes will be on the Meeting Record of 6.12m, set by Duplantis in 2023, if not more.

Men’s High Jump (17:00)

With seven athletes who have jumped 2.30m or higher in their career, the men’s high jump promising a fascinating competition. With no clear favourite, the field includes home star Jan Stefela, who won silver at this year's European Indoor Championships, and 2007 World Champion Donald Thomas of the Bahamas. He has the best PB in the field, at 2.37m, although this was set in 2016.

Olympic Games fourth placer Stefano Sottile of Italy is joined by compatriots Manuel Lando and Marco Fassinotti. Another Olympic finalist, Bulgarian Tihomir Ivanov, is also in the field.

Men’s 800m (Race 1 17:10, Race 2 19:05)

As with all the middle distance events, there will be two races of the men’s 800m. The first stars Catalin Tecuceanu. The European Championship bronze medallist is quickest on paper thanks to his PB of 1:43.75 run in Monaco last year. The Italian is joined by four men who have run under 1:45.00; Saul Ordonez of Spain, Poland’s Filip Ostrowski, Botswanan Tumo Nkape and Giovanni Lazzaro also of Italy.

Czech Record holder Jakub Dudycha will face strong opposition in the second race. His opponents include European Indoor Champion Samuel Chapple of the Netherlands, Australia’s Commonwealth Games silver medallist and NR holder Peter Bol, and Croatian Record holder Marino Bloudek.

Women’s 800m (Race 1 17:20, Race 2 19:15)

All nine women in the fastest of the two women’s 800m race have PBs fastest than two minutes. They are led by World Indoor Champion Prudence Sekgodiso, who has a best of 1:57.26. Ethiopian duo Nigist Getachew and Worknesh Mesele will compete, the latter of whom competed in the final of the Olympic Games.

Germany’s Alica Schmidt steps up from her usual 400m in the first race, which takes place at 17:20.

Men’s 1500m (Race 1 17:30, Race 2 19:25)

Ostrava will see the most recent World Record breaker compete! Not Mondo, but rather in the men’s 1500m! Phanuel Koech, who sensationally broke the World U20 Record at the Paris Diamond League, competes once more. The Kenyan ran 3:27.72 to improve the mark by over one second.

He is joined by 800m specialist and World Indoor Champion Josh Hoey of the United States, plus Australian talent Cameron Myers and Oslo Dream Mile winner Isaac Nader. Samuel Pihlstrom is also looking for sub 3:30.

Eight in the field have run faster than the World Championship qualifying standard, and so a fast race looks likely. South African Tshepo Tshite ran NR in Paris. World Championship medallist Narve Gilje Nordas will also run.

Men’s 400m Hurdles (18:08)

Brazilian Matheus Lima is the one-to-watch in the men’s 400m hurdles. He will be looking to continue from top-five finishes in the Oslo and Paris Diamond Leagues. Ismail Doudai Abakar of Qatar joins him as do British duo Seamus Derbyshire and Josh Faulds, who have both set lifetime bests in recent days. Watch European U18 champion Michal Rada.

Men’s 400m (18:15)

An impressive six athletes have PBs inside 45.00 in the men’s 400m, headlined by Christopher Morales-Williams. The Canadian won the 400m at last year’s NCAA Championships and finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing.

He faces European U23 Champion Havard Bentdal Ingvaldsen of Norway, Jonas Phijffers of the Netherlands, who recently improved the Dutch U23 Record to 44.93, and Brit Sam Reardon, who won two relay medals at last year’s Olympic Games.

Women’s 100m (18:25)

Three-time World Championship medallist Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith leads the women’s 100m. With a PB of 10.74, the Ivory Coast athlete is the equal eighth fastest woman in history. She is joined by Olympic relay silver medallist Amy Hunt of Great Britain, American Cambrea Sturgis and Zoe Hobbs of New Zealand.

Women’s 100m Hurdles (18:35)

The fastest woman in history, Tobi Amusan, headlines the women’s 100m hurdles. It was at the World Championships in 2022 that the Nigerian rewrote history with a time of 12.12; however, she heads to Ostrava in excellent form having run 12.24 in Paris just a few days ago. That is her fastest time since the day of the World Record.

She is joined by  Ireland’s two-time World Indoor finalist Sarah Lavin, and Hungarian U23 record holder Anna Toth and Slovak record holder Viktoria Forster.

Men’s 110m Hurdles (18:45)

World Champion. Olympic Champion. World Indoor Champion. Grant Holloway will compete in Ostrava for the first time when he headlines the men’s 110m hurdles. His closest competition looks set to come from fellow Americans Dylan Beard and Eric Edwards. Beard improved his PB to an impressive 13.02 at the Paris Diamond League last week, whilst Edwards comes to Ostrava with a best of 13.15.

Men’s Shot Put (18:55)

World Championship silver medallist Leonardo Fabbri is the best thrower in the men’s shot put, with his impressive PB of 22.95m. He also WL holder. The Italian won at last year’s edition, throwing 22.40m. The Meeting Record is 22.63m (2023) and belongs to World Record holder Ryan Crouser.

Five others in the field have thrown beyond 22m, including home athlete Tomas Stanek, Poland’s Konrad Bukowiecki and another Italian Zane Weir.

Men’s Javelin (19:00)

After being forced to withdraw from last year’s competition, Neeraj Chopra will finally get his chance to compete in Ostrava. The Tokyo Olympic Champion and Paris silver medallist has exceeded the 90m barrier for the first time in his career this season and will be looking to build upon his win at last week’s Paris Diamond League.

He is joined by 2016 Olympic Champion Thomas Rohler of Germany, plus Anderson Peters the two-time World Champion and Olympic bronze medallist. The Meeting Record belongs to none other than Meeting Director, Jan Zelezny (94.64m).

Men’s 200m (19:35)

The penultimate race of the evening sees the much anticipated European debut of teenage superstar Gout Gout. The Australian is the fastest sixteen-year-old in history, having broken the age-best of Usain Bolt in December (20.04). That time is also the Oceanic Record.

It will not be an easy competition, however, as he faces the joint twelfth fastest man in history, Reynier Mena of Cuba, and Great Britain’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake. Mena was victorious at the recent Oslo and Stockholm Diamond Leagues and has a PB of 19.63, whilst Mitchell-Blake was part of the British men’s 4x100m quartet that won bronze at last year’s Olympic Games and gold at the 2017 World Championships.

Also in the field is Czech Record holder Ondřej Macík and Slovak record holder Jan Volko.

Women’s 400m (19:45)

The grand finale! Femke Bol makes a welcome return to Ostrava, this time to contest the women’s 400m. It brings a number of firsts for the reigning World Champion over 400m hurdles. She will race the flat distance for the first time this season and, in doing so, will line up alongside Olympic silver medallist Salwa Eid Naser for the first time in her career.

Bol returns to Ostrava after a promising start to her summer, running her joint seventh fastest ever 400m hurdles (52.11) at the Stockholm Diamond League last weekend. It will be an exciting head-to-head, with Naser having run 48.85 at the Paris Diamond League on Friday – her third time under 49 seconds this year.

The field also includes Martina Weil, who’s 49.83 in Paris was her first time sub-50 and another Chilean Record, and bronze medallist from Paris last summer Natalia Bukowiecka of Poland. The 42-year-old Meeting Record of Taťána Kocembová (49.67) may be under threat.