Two-time Diamond League champion Chase Jackson will take on all three Paris 2024 Olympic medallists in a clash of the world’s best female shot putters at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene on July 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jackson will go up against the likes of Yemisi Ogunleye, Maddison Lee-Wesche and Jiayuan Song, as well as compatriot and Oregon native Jaida Ross at the Prefontaine Classic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A two-time world champion and 14-time Diamond League meeting winner, Jackson is looking to regain her series title in 2025, and has started strongly with a victory in Keqiao and a second-place finish in Xiamen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has good memories of Eugene, having won the second of her two Diamond Trophies at Hayward Field back in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
German star Ogunleye is the reigning Olympic champion, having sensationally taken gold with her first ever 20-metre throw in the Paris final last August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Zealand’s Lee-Wesche and China’s Jiayuan Song won silver and bronze in Paris. Like Ogunleye, they will be hoping to claim their first ever Diamond League wins in Eugene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in global athletics. It comprises 15 of the most prestigious events in global track and field. Athletes compete for points at the 14 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final, which will be held in Zurich on 27 and 28 August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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