From the anticipation of teenage sensation Cameron Myers in the Dream Mile to the Diamond League debut of Sarah Carli and return of Stewart McSweyn, Oslo’s Bislett Games look set to only add to what has been a historic year to date for Australian athletics.
The Oslo meeting is the sixth of 15 in the Wanda Diamond League Series in 2025, culminating with the final in Zurich prior to the World Athletics Championships. With the stream set to kick off at 4:00am AEST, Friday 13 June, Australian viewers can tune in live and free via the Diamond League YouTube channel.
Read on for a full preview of the Australian action awaiting in Oslo, Norway. Full start lists can be found HERE.
A busy European campaign for Kurtis Marschall (Paul Burgess) got underway with a 5.82m clearance in Germany last week.
The World Championships medallist has established himself as one of the regulars on the global pole vault circuit headed by world record holder Armand Duplantis (SWE), with Marschall set to meet his friend again in Oslo alongside a host of other six-metre vaulters including the in-form Emmanouil Karalis (GRE).
With a seasons best of 5.91m, the Australian finds himself right in the thick of the action.
World Championships medallist Mackenzie Little (Angus McEntyre) is persisting with her regular international appearances, confident that her throw will click soon against the world’s best.
Enduring a slow start to the season by her lofty standards, the doctor by day will look to build on her seasons best of 59.77m from the Sydney Track Classic, facing tough opposition in the form of Olympic champion Haruka Kitaguchi (JPN) and world leader Adriana Vilagos (SRB).
The Oslo Dream Mile is a race marked in the schedules of the world’s best distance runners, with 2025’s instalment set to feature rising star Cameron Myers (Dick Telford) and Commonwealth champion Oliver Hoare (Dathan Ritzenhein).
Myers is already the fastest Under 20 athlete in history over the distance with his 3:47.48 clocked at the Millrose Games earlier this year, but the professional 19-year-old will be eyeing the biggest win of his career when he arrives in Oslo.
The star-studded affair includes Olympic medallist Timothy Cheruiyot (KEN) and Dutch sensation Niels Laros (NED), with Myers and Hoare set to fly the flag for the Australians – Hoare on the rise after a seasons best of 3:31.15 over 1500m last week to qualify for the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
Making his return to the global circuit, Stewart McSweyn (Nic Bideau) finds himself in a race set up to take down Johsua Cheptegei’s world record of 12:35.36.
Casually returning to racing at the Launceston Running Festival earlier this month where he took out the 10km road event in a time of 27:58, the King Island product now lands at one of his favourite tracks as a winner of the 2021 Dream Mile.
McSweyn’s career-best stands at 12:56.07, narrowly outside Craig Mottram’s 12:55.76 national record, but with the chase pack likely to include American rivals Cooper Teare, Graham Blanks and Nico Young – the Australian will have company.
The World Athletics Championships qualifying standard is set at 13:01.00.
After a dominant Australian summer which saw her set a personal best of 54.29-second en route to the national title, Sarah Carli (Abbie Taddeo) has been rewarded with her Diamond League debut in Oslo.
The two-time Olympian kept the ball rolling with her recent Grand Slam Track double in Miami, now heading to Europe to answer the Diamond League’s call for both Oslo and Stockholm this week.
The Australian won’t just settle for her debut in what looms as a wide-open contest, ranked third on seasons best behind American trailblazer Deliliah Muhammed (53.81) and Italy’s Ayomide Folorunso (54.21), with the field also featuring 7000-point heptathlete Anna Hall (USA).
Set to take place the day before the main program, the Women’s 10,000m will feature the Australian duo of Rose Davies (Scott Westcott) and Isobel Batt-Doyle (Nic Bideau) as they chase the 30:20.00 qualifying standard for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, while Callum Davies (Collis Birmingham) lines up in the Men’s 1500m in the pre-program.
By Lachlan Moorhouse, Australian Athletics
Posted 10/6/2025
