The István Gyulai Memorial takes place on Tuesday in Budapest, serving as the ultimate cease of the 2026 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold collection. Also called the Hungarian Grand Prix, the assembly options a number of world-class dash matchups, highlighted by Olympic champion Julien Alfred of St. Lucia taking over Jamaican multi-Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah within the ladies’s 100m. The lads’s 110m hurdles additionally brings one of many deepest fields assembled this season.
Though the Hungarian Grand Prix doesn’t carry Diamond League standing, the Continental Tour finale has attracted lots of the world’s quickest athletes and will ship high-quality races that monitor followers gained’t wish to miss.
These ladies can dash
Alfred arrives in Budapest after a dominant efficiency within the ladies’s 200m on the Monaco Diamond League meet on Friday, the place she clocked 21.51 seconds to maneuver to quantity three on the all-time checklist. She returns to the 100m on Tuesday to face the 2021 100m and 200m Olympic champion Thompson-Herah and fellow Jamaican Tina Clayton, the 2025 World Championship 100m silver medallist.
The ladies’s 200m is led by U.S. Olympic champion Gabby Thomas, who made her Diamond League season debut in Monaco on Friday, posting a fast 21.84 and ending third. She’s going to line up alongside compatriot Kayla White and 400m specialist Nikisha Pryce of Jamaica, who’s dropping down half a lap for the occasion.
Within the ladies’s 100m hurdles, we get one other likelihood to see Masai Russell, who stays unbeaten this season. She has persistently challenged the world report of 12.12 and owns 5 of the ten quickest performances within the occasion this 12 months.
Males’s sprints
Reigning Canadian 200m champion Aaron Brown leads the lads’s 200m after working a wind-aided 19.88 on the Ed Murphy Traditional in Tennessee on Friday. He’ll face Morocco’s Yassine Hssine and Zimbabwe’s Makanakaishe Charamba, each of whom have dipped underneath 20 seconds this season.
The lads’s 110m hurdles incorporates a sturdy American contingent in Jamal Britt, Ja’Kobe Tharp, Cordell Tinch and Trey Cunningham. Britt has been probably the most dominant sprinter throughout the monitor and area circuit this 12 months, successful 4 Diamond League occasions and reducing his PB to 12.86. Tharp shocked the world when he set a 110m hurdles world report of 12.75 on the NCAA championship semi-finals, earlier than making his skilled debut on the Prefontaine Traditional, the place he completed second behind Britt.
Cunningham has not raced a lot this season, however has made every outing depend. In his season opener on the Gold Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome, he took down Britt and broke 13 seconds for the primary time with a PB of 12.98. Rounding out the sphere is the 2025 Tokyo 110m hurdles champion, Tinch. Whereas he hasn’t damaged 13 seconds this season, he stays a contender in what might be one of many quickest 110m hurdle races of the season.
