World record holder in the women’s 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, will be missing when the seventh instalment of the 2025 Diamond League makes its scheduled stop in the city of Stockholm, Sweden on Sunday.
The 28-year-old, who recently emerged as the winner of the event during the fourth leg of the Diamond League meet in Rabat, Morocco, will not be involved in her favoured discipline after her name was not featured amongst other athletes in the official start list released for the race.
Also, another Nigerian athlete, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, will not be involved as the men’s shot put event is not included in the lineup of events.
The event, which will be held at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, will see an array of stars compete on both track and field disciplines as they continue preparations ahead of the World Athletics Championships set to be held in Tokyo, Japan in September.
Most of the activities will take place on June 15 but the men’s challenger and women’s pole vault competitions will be conducted a day earlier, on June 14.
Among the star-studded cast of athletes set to feature in Stockholm is reigning Olympic women’s 100m champion Julien Alfred of St Lucia. The 24-year-old is making the second of two stops on the Scandinavian legs of the Diamond League, having confirmed her season debut in the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway few days prior.
Alfred, who is the odds-on favourite, will go head-to-head against British pair Dina-Asher Smith and Daryll Neita, African legend Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast, Italian double European medallist Zaynab Dosso, and homegirl Julia Henriksson.
