Luckily for Chinese track and field fans, most of the athletes that competed in Xiamen are sticking around for the week, making the 600-mile trip up the coast to Shanghai for the second Diamond League meet of the year on Saturday, April 27th.

The meet will be streamed on Peacock (subscription required) for U.S. fans beginning at 7am E.T. and on the World Athletics YouTube channel for most other countries. You can follow along with live results and a full entry list here.

Here are some of the top events to keep an eye on:

American sprint stars look to bounce back from Xiamen

Heading into Xiamen, the men’s 100m and the women’s 200m were the two events with the most pre-race hype. On the men’s side, we got a clash between two of the fastest men ever in Christian Coleman and Fred Kerley, and the women’s race ended in upset, with the relatively unheralded Aussie Torrie Lewis taking down reigning Sha’Carri Richardson with a late charge from an outside lane.

These three superstars will all get another crack at the same events in Shanghai this weekend on a historically fast track. The meet record in the men’s 100m is Tyson Gay’s American Record of 9.69 from 2009, and Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo ran 22.06 for 200m in the 2018 edition of the meet.. After clocking relatively pedestrian winning times of 10.13 and 22.95, respectively, the sprint crew will surely appreciate a second shot at a shinier season’s best.

On the men’s side, Jamaican Ackeem Blake, World Indoor medalist over 60m and last week’s third-placer, will be taking to the track, as well as South African Akani Simbine (9.84 PB). Known for perennially finishing just off the podium in major championships, Simbine is coming off a 10.01 run into a headwind last week to win the South African Championship. If Coleman and Kerley once again can’t find the good stuff this week, Simbine could very well take home his first Diamond League win of the season.

Lewis won’t compete in the women’s race this week, but the field still includes strong competition for Richardson in the form of Tamara Clark, TeeTee Terry, Daryll Nieta, and Anthonique Strachan. Terry in particular ran a phenomenal bend in Xiamen but ran out of gas on the homestretch, so if and when she finds the second half of her race she could be a real threat.

Stacked women’s throwing fields matchup once again

The first international event on Saturday’s schedule is basically a rerun of a very strong women’s discus competition from last weekend. Unfortunately, this won’t be a Diamond League event in Shanghai, so a win won’t count towards the Diamond League points table, but we are still set to see some massive performances.

Four of the top ten women on the world list this year threw their season’s best in Xiamen, led by reigning Olympic champion Valarie Allman. Allman, currently 2nd in the world with her mark of 69.80m, will be running (or spinning?) it back in Shanghai, alongside 2019 World champion and current world leader Yaime Pérez and last year’s World champion Lagi Tausaga-Collins. Xiamen wasn’t ideal for Tausaga, as she only recorded one legal mark of 60.61m and finished in 10th, but her season’s best of 65.38m has her at 8th in the world. I’d expect something much bigger from the champ this time out. And it’s a shame that Perez, a Cuban expat who defected to the U.S. in 2022, is ineligible to compete at this year’s Olympics – so get your fill of her matchups with Allman et al. while you can.

2022 World champion Feng Bin will also be back in the circle in her home country after a 3rd-place finish in Xiamen moved her to 4th in the world this season. And one final athlete to watch in this incredibly deep field is Jorinde Van Klinken, the Dutch former NCAA star for both Oregon and Arizona State. One of only five active throwers with a PB over 70 meters, the two-time 4th-place finisher at the World Championships will be looking to improve on her 9th-place finish from last week.

The shot put field will be just as stacked as the discus field, with the exact same ten athletes from Xiamen competing again. Last week’s winner was 13-time global medallist Gong Lijiao, opening her season with a mark of 19.72m. After passing on World Indoors in March, it’s a strong start to Gong’s Olympic title defense. Saturday’s field will also feature each of the top seven finishers from Glasgow, led by World Indoor champion Sarah Mitton of Canada and reigning two-time World Outdoor champion Chase Jackson of the U.S. Despite only finishing 3rd in Xiamen at 19.62m, Jackson’s mark of 19.88m from Miramar on April 6th is currently the farthest throw in the world outdoors this year.

On the javelin runway, 2023 World champion Haruka Kitaguchi will heading over from Japan to make her season debut against her 2023 rivals from last year’s podium, Colombian Flor Denis Ruiz Hurtado and Aussie Mackenzie Little. Current world leader Ziyi Yan is not in the competition, but her 64.28m mark will be a target for the women competing to hit.

World record holders highlight distance races

Last week, world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech dominated the women’s 3000m steeplechase in Xiamen, winning with the 11th-fastest time in history of 8:55.40. She’s back this week to do battle with a very deep group of athletes, which includes TokyoOlympic champion Peruth Chemutai of Uganda. Chemutai and Chepkoech have squared off twice already this year, with Chepkoech taking wins at both the African Games in March and the DL opener.

Also in the field are the young stars Jackline Chepkoech and Sembo Alamayew. Last year, at only 19 years old, Chepkoech became the 7th-fastest woman ever in the event with her clocking of 8:57.35. Alamayew, at 18, became the 13th-fastest ever in 2023 at 9:00.71. Both women have gotten off to slightly slower starts in 2024, with the younger Chepkoech sitting 4th on the world list at 9:19.64 and Almayew’s season’s best only 9:30.19, but the steeplechase is one event where big time jumps over short periods are not uncommon as athletes find their rhythms.