Hunter-Bell among GB stars at Paris Diamond League
Georgia Hunter-Bell won 1500m bronze on her Olympic debut at Paris 2024
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Georgia Hunter-Bell will target her second Diamond League win of the season as Great Britain's athletics stars continue their World Championships build-up in Paris on Friday.
Hunter-Bell returns to the city where she won Olympic 1500m bronze on her Games debut last summer, competing over that distance following her spectacular 800m victory in Stockholm last week.
World indoor 400m champion Amber Anning tests herself against Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino, while former world champion Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt are both in 200m action.
Also on the programme - although not included as a Diamond League event - George Mills contests the men's 1500m after beating Sir Mo Farah's long-standing British 5,000m record in Oslo last week.
Watch the Paris Diamond League action on BBC Three, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app from 20:00-22:00 BST on Friday.
Hunter-Bell wins Stockholm Diamond League women's 800m
Who's competing in Paris and when?
20:04 BST - men's 400m hurdles featuring Alastair Chalmers
20:06 BST - women's high jump featuring Morgan Lake
20:15 BST - men's 800m featuring Max Burgin and Ireland's Mark English
20:51 BST - women's 400m featuring Amber Anning
20:59 BST - men's 1500m featuring George Mills (non Diamond League race)
21:08 BST - women's 200m featuring Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt
21:50 BST - women's 1500m featuring Georgia Hunter-Bell and Jemma Reekie, and Ireland's Sarah Healy
What's coming up this Diamond League season?
Hodgkinson won her first global title at Paris 2024
Stops in Eugene and Monaco follow the Paris Diamond League, before the series visits the UK for a sold-out London Athletics Meet.
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson, whose return from a hamstring injury was delayed by a setback this month, has been named on the entry list at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on 5 July, alongside main rivals Mary Moraa and American Athing Mu.
Hodgkinson has also been confirmed to compete at the London Diamond League on 19 July, the event where last summer she improved her British record to one minute 54.61 seconds.
London will also play host to the latest chapter in the 1500m rivalry between world champion Josh Kerr and Norwegian rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
Olympic and world 100m champion Noah Lyles, world 400m hurdles champion Bol and British pole vaulter Molly Caudery are also on the entry lists.
Before then, five-time Diamond League champion Faith Kipyegon, who will attempt to become the first woman to run a sub-four minute mile in June, contests the 1500m alongside Hunter-Bell in Eugene.
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo and world 100m champion Sha'Carri Richardson are both also in action in Eugene.
What is on the line in the Diamond League?
The 16th Diamond League season is under way as athletics' Olympic stars build towards their shot at world glory in 2025.
Athletes compete for points in 32 disciplines in a bid to qualify for the finals in Zurich in August.
That takes place just over a fortnight before the start of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
All Diamond League events will be shown on the BBC, which has agreed a deal to broadcast the competition for the next five years.
It is also the first year in which the Diamond League must compete with Michael Johnson's new Grand Slam Track for athletes' attention.
However, there has been only one direct clash between the two competitions - with the Miami Slam on 2-4 May taking place at the same time as the meet in Keqiao, China on 3 May.
The Diamond League has increased its prize money to the highest level in its history, with a total prize pot of $9.24m (£6.95m) on offer across the series.
That includes $500,000 (£375,000) at each of the 14 series meetings, and $2.2m (£1.7m) at the Diamond League final.
How does the Diamond League work?
The Diamond League final will be held in Zurich for the first time since 2022
Athletes will compete for points at the 14 regular series meetings which started in April and run through to August.
Points are awarded on a scale from eight for first place to one for eighth place.
After the 14th meeting in Brussels, the top six ranked athletes in the field events, the top eight in track events from 100m up to 800m, and the top 10 in the distances from 1500m upwards qualify for the final.
The two-day finals are a winner-takes-all competition to be crowned Diamond League champion in each event.
Diamond League calendar 2025
26 April - Xiamen, China
03 May - Keqiao, China
16 May - Doha, Qatar
25 May - Rabat, Morocco
06 June - Rome, Italy
12 June - Oslo, Norway
15 June - Stockholm, Sweden
20 June - Paris, France
05 July - Eugene, USA
11 July - Monaco
19 July - London, England
16 August - Silesia, Poland
20 August - Lausanne, Switzerland
22 August - Brussels, Belgium
27-28 August - Zurich, Switzerland