Emmanuel Wanyonyi's next Diamond League hunting ground announced

Paris 2024 Olympic 800m gold medalist Emmanuel Wanyonyi has been confirmed for the Monaco Diamond League set to take place on Friday, 11 July at the Stade Louis-II.

The 20-year-old is among a list of seven Olympic champions who will take to the legendary track in the tenth Diamond League meeting of the season.

The event will be Wanyonyi’s fourth Diamond League race of the year, and first after his recent exploits at Stockholm last weekend, where he ran a season best 1:41.95.

Up for grabs for the 2023 World Championships silver medalist will be the race meeting record of 1:41.46, which went to rival and Algerian star Djamel Sedjati last year.

Wanyonyi maintains modest targets for Tokyo

Though coy on breaking David Rudisha’s long-standing world record of 1:40.91, the race could well provide him with a chance to do that, if Gabriel Tual’s comments are anything to go by.

Quizzed in the build-up to Friday, 20 June’s Paris Diamond League, the French star said the new world record in the distance will come “within the next month”, just right in the time-frame for Wanyonyi’s race in Monaco.

In his battle to win his third Diamond League trophy, Wanyonyi enjoys a comfortable lead in the men’s 800m standings, and is six points clear of his closest challenger - Botswana’s Tshepiso Masalela, who runs in Paris.

Sedjati wraps up the top three with 13 points.

The other Olympic champions who will join Wanyonyi in a month’s time include: Grant Holloway, Julien Alfred, Armand Duplantis, Hamish Kerr, Marileidy Paulino and Germany's Yemisi Ogunleye.