The Pre Classic is once again living up to its trademark as one of the world’s best annual track and field meets thanks to the star-studded fields at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field on Friday and Saturday.
That includes global icons like Faith Kipyegon to American standouts like Cole Hocker and even teenage phenoms like Cooper Lutkenhaus.
Full start lists are here. The Diamond League meet airs live on NBC Sports and Peacock.
2026 Pre Classic Broadcast Schedule
| Day | Time (ET) | Platform |
| Friday | 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. | Peacock, NBCSN |
| Saturday | 4-5 p.m. | Peacock, NBCSN |
| 5-6 p.m. | NBC, Peacock |
2026 Pre Classic Event Schedule
Friday (all times Eastern)
9 p.m. -- Men’s hammer throw
11 -- Women’s pole vault
11:07 -- Women’s discus
11:37 -- Women’s 400m
11:45 -- Women’s 1500m
11:56 -- Men’s mile
12:07 a.m. -- Men’s 800m
12:16 -- Men’s 2 mile
Saturday (all times Eastern)
3 p.m. -- Women’s hammer throw
3:30 -- Women’s shot put
3:32 -- Women’s 100m heats
3:47 -- Women’s Para 100m
3:50 -- Men’s discus
3:55 -- Men’s Para 100m
4:04 -- Men’s 400m
4:12 -- Men’s 110m hurdles
4:20 -- Men’s 2 mile
4:33 -- Women’s long jump
4:37 -- Men’s 100m
4:45 -- Women’s 3000m steeplechase
4:57 -- Men’s shot put
5:04 -- Women’s 100m hurdles
5:11 -- Women’s 800m
5:21 -- Men’s 200m
5:29 -- Women’s 100m final
5:37 -- Women’s mile
5:50 -- Men’s Bowerman mile
2026 Pre Classic Events to Watch
Men’s 800m (Friday night, 12:07 a.m. ET)
In the last year, Lutkenhaus, a rising Texas high school senior, became the youngest American to compete at a World Outdoor Track and Field Championships, became the youngest World Indoor champion in an individual event and won his first two Diamond League starts. He puts an undefeated 800m record in 2026 on the line at Pre against 2025 U.S. champion Donavan Brazier and 2024 Olympic Trials winner Bryce Hoppel.
Women’s Hammer Throw (Saturday, 3 p.m. ET)
The field includes every medalist from the 2024 Olympics and 2025 Worlds and the top three throwers in history. Canadian Camryn Rogers, the Olympic and world champion, hasn’t lost a top-level hammer competition since taking silver at the 2022 Worlds at Hayward. She won Pre the last two years and in April threw a personal best 81.13 meters, inching closer to Pole Anita Wlodarczyk’s world record of 82.98.
Men’s Para 100m (Saturday, 3:55 p.m. ET)
Three different Americans won 100m gold at the Paris Games, and they’re all in this field: Jaydin Blackwell (T38 classification), Ezra Frech (T63) and Noah Malone (T12).
Men’s 110m Hurdles (Saturday, 4:12 p.m. ET)
Ja’Kobe Tharp returns to the track where he broke the world record at the NCAA Championships on June 10. Tharp ran 12.75 that day, having never before broken 13 seconds in a wind-legal race. At Pre, he’ll face 2025 World champion Cordell Tinch.
Women’s Long Jump (Saturday, 4:33 p.m. ET)
Olympic and world champion Tara Davis-Woodhall puts a two-year, 17-meet win streak on the line. In her first competition of 2026, Davis-Woodhall leaped a personal best 7.20 meters, the world’s best wind-legal jump in two years. At Pre, she faces Malaika Mihambo of Germany, the Tokyo Olympic gold medalist who took silver to Davis-Woodhall at the most recent Olympics and worlds.
Men’s 100m (Saturday, 4:37 p.m. ET)
World champion Oblique Seville of Jamaica takes on Olympic 200m silver medalist Kenny Bednarek, who on June 14 became the second-fastest American in history across all wind conditions. Bednarek ran 9.72 with a 2.4 meter/second tailwind (just above the legal limit of 2.0). Trayvon Bromell, who beat Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles at the Paris Diamond League last Sunday, is also in the Pre field.
Women’s 100m Hurdles (Saturday, 5:04 p.m. ET)
Like in the men’s 110m hurdles, the world record is under threat here. Olympic gold medalist Masai Russell ran 12.14 on May 23, just two hundredths off the world record set by Nigerian Tobi Amusan at Hayward at the 2022 Worlds. Amusan is in this field, as is the woman who held the record before her, American Keni Harrison.
Women’s 100m (Saturday, 5:29 p.m. ET)
The field of 17 (to be narrowed in earlier heats) includes the last two world champions (Americans Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Sha’Carri Richardson) and the last two world silver medalists (Jamaicans Tina Clayton, Shericka Jackson). Plus Adaejah Hodge of the British Virgin Islands, who at NCAAs at Hayward ran 10.63 to become the fifth-fastest woman in history.
Women’s Mile (Saturday, 5:37 p.m. ET)
Last year at Pre, Kenyan Faith Kipyegon broke the 1500m world record for a third time (3:48.68). Kipyegon also owns the mile world record (4:07.64 from 2023). She is on a five-year, 20-plus-race win streak over the 1500m/mile on the track. This is the 32-year-old Kipyegon’s first race at the distance of 2026. She’ll put the streak on the line against Australian Jessica Hull (Olympic silver medalist), Brit Georgia Hunter Bell (Olympic bronze medalist), Kenyan Dorcus Ewoi (world silver medalist) and Nikki Hiltz (U.S. champion).
Men’s Bowerman Mile (Saturday, 5:50 p.m. ET)
No American has won this race since Bernard Lagat in 2006, but this is a prime opportunity to break the drought. The field includes Olympic gold medalist Cole Hocker, eyeing his first Diamond League victory, and Olympic bronze medalist Yared Nuguse, who already won two Diamond League 1500m races in 2026. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Cam Myers, who won the most recent Diamond League 1500m in Australian record time (3:28.00), can become the youngest man to win this race since 2009 (Asbel Kiprop).
