Lausanne Diamond League Preview: Star-studded line-ups in 5 events

The summer of athletics 2026 is coming to a close, but there's still room in the calendar for some top events. Continuing from the European Athletics Championships the European's will now face the challenge of the whole world at the Lausanne Diamond League.

Etusuora has decided five events to showcase and preview below coming into the competition. The Diamond League continues at a breath-taking pace from here, with trips to Silesia and Zurich before the grand finale in Brussels on the 28th of August.

Can European Champion Moser compete against the world on home soil?

Lausanne will be celebrating Angelica Moser in the women's pole vault after her recent golden success at the European Championships. A win on home soil will be a hard-fought affair, as the world has brought it's best to challenge her: Olympic & world champions Nina Kennedy & Katie Moon, USA National record holder (5,00m) Sandi Morris and Wilma Heltelä, who came second behind Moser at Birmingham.

The event is promising to be a banger, and any one of the quintet could take victory on their day. With two olympic golds, four world championships and three european championships between the five of them the crowd are bound to get their money's worth.

Birmingham stars Werro & Broeders-Bol face off again

The women's 800m final was among the most anticipated races at the European Championships, and the two-lap performance didn't disappoint. Switzerland's Audrey Werro who stumbled in the semi-finals got a bye to the final, and took the opportunity with both hands. Lausanne's perhaps biggest Swiss star led from start to finish, with closest challengers Keely Hodgkinson and Femke Broeders-Bol soundly defeated.

The whole trio will face off once more this season, but at Lausanne it will just be a duel between Werro and Broeders-Bol. If Werro has managed to put the strain of the European Championships behind her, there's a realistic chance the crowd might get to witness a world record attempt on home soil.

Jarmila Kratochvílová's world record time of 1:53,28 has stood for over 40 years, but Werro has certainly showcased her capability at challenging it - where better to succeed and put your name in the history books than at home?

All European Championship medal winners present in the long jump

The men's long jump sees all of Birmingham's medal winners back at it, as gold winner Miltiadis Tentoglou is challenged yet again by Simon Ehammer and Bozhidar Saraboyukov. The European Championships were held in unfortunate wind conditions for the long jumpers, so it will be interesting to see what kinds of results they'll achieve in top form this time.

They won't be without challenge though, as there are two jumpers outside of the old continent who have already gone over the 850 mark this season. Jamaica's Wayde Pinnock and Tajay Gayle will surely present a challenge that should excite the crowd in Lausanne.

Weber vs the world in the men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at Birmingham was a dull affair to begin with, but Julian Weber of Germany swept all those feelings behind with his last heave of the final. A throw of over 90 meters is more than worthy to win almost any championship, but in these European Championships he was head and wide shoulders above the rest, as 83,67m was enough to take silver.

On Friday it won't be just the rest of Europe to contend with, as his biggest challenge comes all the way from Sri Lanka in the form of this season's sensation Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage. Tharanga's exploits this season include multiple Diamond League victories along with the world leading result of the season: 92,62m.

Lausanne's Diamond League is also very important for India's Neeraj Chopra, who is seeking to achieve a spot at the World Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest. A good finishing position and quality result would make that task a lot easier for the 2020 Olympic Champion.

Edwards's triple jump record living on borrowed time?

Great Britain's very own Jonathan Edwards jumped the men's triple jump world record back in 1995, and it hasn't really come under significant threat for a while. However, there was clearly something the air at Birmingham's triple jump place, as Italy's Andy Diaz Hernandez might have leaped past it!

Sadly that first attempt was barely deemed a foul, but his second attempt of 18,15m which was visibly shorter came just 14 centimeters off Edwards' mark. In ideal conditions the Brit might be in trouble. Hernandez will be joined by the likes of Pedro Pichardo who won silver in Birmingham and Jamaica's Jordan Scott, who's managed a result of 17,67 this season.