Seven Olympic Champions and Twelve World Champions Heading to Bislett on June 10

This year’s field at the Oslo Bislett Games features seven Olympic champions and twelve world champions who have collectively won more than 70 medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships.

“It’s an impressive number,” says meeting director Steinar Hoen.

And these are not achievements from the distant past. Four of the Olympic champions are reigning champions: Julien Alfred in the 100 meters, Letsile Tebogo in the 200 meters, Emmanuel Wanyonyi in the 800 meters, and Thea LaFond in the triple jump.

In addition, sixteen of the Olympic medals held by Bislett participants have been won since 2020.

Of the World Championship gold medals represented in the field, five were won at last year’s championships in Tokyo: Emmanuel Wanyonyi in the 800 meters, Isaac Nader in the 1500 meters, Pedro Pichardo in the triple jump, Jessica Schilder in the shot put, and Juleisy Angulo in the javelin.

Here too, we are primarily talking about recent achievements beyond the reigning champions, with more than thirty of the medals having been won since 2022.