Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Rai Benjamin and Grant Holloway are among the six reigning individual Olympic champions who will be returning to Paris to compete at the Meeting de Paris, this season’s Eighth Wanda Diamond League meeting today.

They will be joined by Marileidy Paulino, Valarie Allman and Soufiane El Bakkali, plus multiple other global gold medallists including Lamecha Girma, Nicola Olyslagers, Katie Moon, Neeraj Chopra and Yomif Kejelcha, looking to secure more success in the French capital.

Mahuchikh and Olyslagers will go head-to-head in the high jump, back in the city where Mahuchikh broke the world record and became an Olympic champion last year.

The first of those achievements came at the Stade Charlety, which again hosts this year’s Diamond League meeting. By clearing 2.10m, the Ukrainian 23-year-old broke one of the longest-standing world records on the books, and she won Olympic gold at the Stade de France the following month, clearing 2.00m to win on countback ahead of Australia’s Olyslagers. Australia’s Eleanor Patterson, the 2022 world champion, gained bronze and all three Olympic medallists will renew their rivalry in Paris today.

Mahuchikh is the world leader thanks to her 2.02m clearance in Doha in May, while two-time world indoor champion Olyslagers recently won in Stockholm with 2.01m. Their head-to-head record so far this year stands at 2-2, while Patterson finished between the two at the World Indoor Championships and the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen. Poland’s Maria Zodzik will be looking to build on her third-place finish in Stockholm.

A number of other big field event clashes are also on the cards. Germany’s Julian Weber and India’s Chopra both surpassed 90 metres in the javelin during the Diamond League meeting in Doha in May and they meet again in Paris. That Doha contest was just the seventh time in history that two men have thrown beyond 90 metres in the same competition, Weber improving his PB to 91.06m and world champion Chopra taking his PB to 90.23m.

USA’s two-time Olympic champion Allman, who threw a North American record of 73.52m in Ramona in April and is unbeaten this year, headlines the discus field against Yaime Perez, who was runner-up to Allman in Xiamen and Rome, plus world champion Laulauga Tausaga and multiple global gold medallist Sandra Elkasevic.

The men’s triple jump, which kicks off the evening’s Diamond League action, features respective world indoor gold and bronze medallists Andy Diaz Hernandez and Hugues Fabrice Zango, plus joint Diamond League leader Jordan Scott, while the women’s pole vault stars USA’s two-time world champion Moon and two-time world indoor gold medallist Sandi Morris, who are separated by a single centimetre on season’s bests, against home star Marie-Julie Bonnin, the world indoor champion.

USA’s Olympic 400m hurdles champion Benjamin continues his Diamond League campaign, five days on from his win in Stockholm and eight days after finishing second in the 300m hurdles in Oslo. Racing over one lap again in Paris, he doesn’t have his fellow Olympic medallists Karsten Warholm and Alison dos Santos to contend with, but his competition will include Abderrahman Samba and Matheus Lima as Benjamin looks to build on his strong season start.