A star-studded men’s 100m field featuring six individual global medallists is set to light up the track at the 2026 Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen on May 23.
Reigning Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo will square off with Olympic and world 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson, four-time global 200m medallist Kenny Bednarek, 2019 world 100m champion Christian Coleman, along with two-time world 100m medallist Trayvon Bromell and world indoor 60m medallist Akani Simbine.
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They will be joined by South Africa’s Gift Leotlela, who ran a 100m PB of 9.87 en route to a fifth-place finish at the World Championships, and Chinese duo Wang Shengjie and Deng Xinrui.
Tebogo will return to Xiamen hoping to improve on his seventh-place finish in the 100m last year. The 22-year-old has shown great versatility across the sprint distances in recent years, winning world 100m silver in 2023, Olympic 200m gold in 2024 and helping Botswana to 4x400m gold at last year’s World Championships. His 100m best is 9.86, which he ran to finish sixth in the 2024 Olympic final.
Thompson had a breakthrough performance on his last visit to Xiamen in 2023, the Jamaican clocking a big PB of 9.85 to finish second, and the 24-year-old has since won 100m silver at the 2024 Olympics and 2025 World Championships. The 9.75 he ran to take the Jamaican title last year makes him the sixth-fastest man in history.
Bednarek clocked a PB of 9.79 to win the US 100m title last year and he went on to finish fourth in the world 100m final in Tokyo, later winning silver in the 200m and helping USA to gold in the 4x100m.
Coleman, the world record holder for 60m, has a 100m best of 9.76 and after a fourth-place finish in Xiamen last year, the 2019 world 100m champion will be looking for a repeat of his victory at this meeting in 2024.
He will be joined by fellow US star Trayvon Bromell, who won the world indoor 60m title in 2016 and claimed World Championship bronze over 100m in 2015 and 2022. His 100m best of 9.76 makes him the joint-seventh-fastest man in history.
South African sprinting has been on the rise in recent years and two of its brightest stars will be on the line in Xiamen. Akani Simbine will bid to repeat his victory at last year’s meeting, when he dipped under 10 seconds, while Gift Leotlela will make his first visit to Xiamen, the 27-year-old hoping to build on a breakthrough 2025 season in which he finished fifth in the world 100m final.
China’s Deng Xinrui and Wang Shengjie are sure to have lots of support from the home crowd. Xinrui is the reigning Chinese 100m champion and has a best of 10.06, while Shengjie was a silver medallist at last year’s National Games and has a best of 10.14.