Uganda’s Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai will face one of her toughest fields of the season when she lines up for the women’s 3000m steeplechase at the Jetour Doha Meeting on Friday, May 16, the third leg of the 2025 Wanda Diamond League.
Chemutai, who made history by becoming Uganda’s first female Olympic gold medallist in 2021, returns to Doha to take on Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi, the reigning Olympic and world champion, and Kenya’s Faith Cherotich, the bronze medallist from the Paris Games.
The race will also feature Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew, the World Athletics Rising Star award winner, who placed fifth in Paris.
The high-profile showdown promises to be one of the highlights of the meeting, as Chemutai seeks to reassert herself against the top tier of global steeplechasers.
With the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo later this year, the race offers a key test of form heading into the heart of the outdoor season.
Doha has previously been a happy hunting ground for distance runners, and Chemutai will hope the fast conditions at the Qatar Sports Club help her lay down a strong early-season marker.
Also in action at the Diamond League meet are several Olympic and world medallists across events, including Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo in the 200m, Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100m, and javelin stars Neeraj Chopra and Jakub Vadlejch.
