The 2023

Prefontaine Classic The Prefontaine Classic is a track and field meet held at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Organized by the Oregon Track Club, it was previously one of the IAAF Grand Prix events, and ...

was the 48th edition of the annual outdoor

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meeting in

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. Held on 16-17 September at

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, it served as the finals of

2023 Diamond League The 2023 Diamond League was the 14th season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The number of Diamond Discipline events is 32, and the series ended with a single final at the Prefontaine Classi ...

– the highest-level international track and field circuit. It was the first time that the

Diamond League The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fifteen invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics one-day meet competitions. The inaugural season was ...

finals were held in the United States.

Highlights

The first day of competition was highlighted by

Jakob Ingebrigtsen Jakob Asserson Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) is a Norwegian Middle-distance running, middle- and Long-distance running, long-distance runner who is the world record holder in the short track 1500 metres, short track Mile run, mile, 2000 ...

running 3:43.73 in the Bowerman Milethe fastest mile in 24 yearsfollowed by

Yared Nuguse Yared Nuguse ( ; born June 1, 1999) is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 meters and mile. He was the 2019 NCAA Division I champion and bronze medalist from the 2024 Summer Olympics in the former. Nuguse is the Nort ...

in 3:43.97. In the women's steeplechase, Winfred Yavi ran the #2 time in history to win.

Grant Fisher Grant Jackson Fisher (born April 22, 1997) is an American middle- and long-distance runner who is the world record holder in the short track 3000 m and 5000 m. Fisher also holds American records in the 3000 m, two mile, and 10,000 m events. ...

broke his own American record in the 3,000 Meters, finishing in 3rd place with a time of 7:25:47. On the final day, Ingebrigtsen won his second 2023 Diamond League title in the

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

while running the third-fastest time in history. Second-place finisher

Yomif Kejelcha Yomif Kejelcha Atomsa (born 1 August 1997) is an Ethiopian distance runner. He formerly held world records in the short track mile (3:47.01 from 2019 to 2025) and the half marathon (57:30 from 2024 to 2025). Yomif won the silver medal in the 1 ...

, who was beat by just 0.01 seconds, was upset with the Diamond League hosting the finals over 3000 m instead of the standard

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta ...

distance, saying that benefitted Ingebrigtsen.

Gudaf Tsegay Gudaf Tsegay Desta (Amharic: ጉዳፉ ፀጋይ ደስታ; born 23 January 1997) is an Ethiopian Middle-distance running, middle- and Long-distance running, long-distance runner. She is the current women’s world record holder for 5,000 m (1 ...

also broke the

5000 metres world record The official world records in the 5000 metres, or 5000-metre run, are held by Joshua Cheptegei with 12:35.36 for men and Gudaf Tsegay with 14:00.21 for women. The first world record in the men's 5000 m was recognized by World Athletics (forme ...

by five seconds, running 14:00.21. The record was noted to be impressive because it occurred in sunny sunny weather with wind.

Results

While Diamond League points were used to gain entry into the finals, they were not used to determine Diamond League champions. Regardless of points accumulated throughout the season, winners of the were crowned

champions in their respective events, with the exception of Athing Mu who was a National Wildcard and thus ineligible for the Diamond League trophy.

Diamond Discipline

References

; Results *

External links

Official Diamond League Prefontaine Classic website
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