04 May 2024 | Athletics

Peruth Chemutai will take the track of the Heyward Field at the University of Oregon to compete in her second meet of the 2024 Wanda Diamond League season.

The 2020 Olympic champion will take on some of the best and rising steeplechasers in the world including African and World Champion Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya on Saturday, 25th May at the Eugene meeting.

Chemutai clocked 9:05.54 the last time she ran on this track in 2022 and will be looking to better her performance as she continues to prepare for the Paris Olympics.

The 24-year-old Ugandan competed in the Xiamen meeting last month. She clocked her season best 9:12.99 finishing in 3rd place behind Chepkoech and Faith Cheroitich who will also line up in Eugene.

A silver medalist at the African Games, Chemutai will be running in her fourth major event this year.

USA's Courtney Frerichs who ran a personal best of 8:57.77 on the same track back in 2021 as well as Winfred Mutile Yavi of Bahrain who also registered a personal 8:50.66 at the same venue last year are the other top athletes on the entry list.

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