The Diamond League circuit hits the Qatari capital today with a strong presence of British athletes set to compete

The 2024 Diamond League season kicked off last month (April), with Xiamen and Suzhou being the first cities to see athletes chase Olympic standards.

We are now about to hit the meat of the schedule as five Diamond League meets will be held over the next 24 days, starting with todays competition (May 10) in Doha.

With the European Championships in Rome a little over a month away, and of course the Olympics fast approaching, athletes will be using this competition to finalise their preparations and put their rivals on notice.

There will be a number of Brits in action, including world indoor pole vault champion Molly Caudery and 800m silver medallist Jemma Reekie.

With a current world-leading mark of 4.86m, Caudery will be looking to build on her impressive indoor season and edge closer to not just the British record of 4.90m but also the 4.91m achieved by USAs Katie Moon and Australias Nina Kennedy as they shared gold at last years World Championships.

The joint champions will also be present in Doha, where Tokyo Olympic champion Moon will attempt to make her way back to the top after injury hampered her indoor season, albeit she still came away from Glasgow with a bronze medal.

Kennedy, meanwhile, arrives in Qatar after securing the Australian title with a clearance of 4.65m last month.

On the track, the womens 800m is another event which is full of promise as Reekie opens her outdoor season up against world champion Mary Moraa.

The Kenyan record-holder over 400m (50.38) has become a force to be reckoned with over the two-lap event in recent years, taking the Commonwealth and Diamond League titles in 2022, while her PB of 1:56.03 arrived on the way to gold in Budapest. Reekies best of 1:56.90 was set back in 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics, which saw her finish fourth.

Reekies fellow Olympic finalist Alexandra Bell, as well as Isabelle Boffey, have also made the trip to Doha and will toe the start line.

There will also be a healthy British presence in the womens 1500m, with national indoor champion Georgia Bell joined by Melissa Courtney-Bryant and Revee Walcott-Nolan. Bell will also be going up against her training partner, Irelands Sarah Healy.

However it wont be an easy race, with a strong Ethiopian field making the trip. World silver medallist Dribe Welteji, who has already run 3:55.47 this year, will race against current indoor champion, Freweyni Hailu.

In the mens event, Britains Elliot Giles faces the likes of Tokyo silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot, 2022 world indoor bronze medallist Abel Kipsang and Spains Adel Mechaal.

Kenyan World cross country champion Beatrice Chebet will return to track action for the first time since the Diamond League final in September. The 24-year-old clocked 14:05.92 in that race to finish second to Gudaf Tsegays world record of 14:00.21.

She will face Ethiopias world U20 champion Medina Eisa and world 10,000m bronze medallist Ejgayehu Taye.

When it comes to sprinting, Daryll Neita enters the womens 100m with the third-fastest time in field of 10.90. Those quicker than her on paper are Jamaicas Natasha Morrison (10.85) and USAs Tamari Davis (10.83).

However, the Briton has already sampled Diamond League success this year, clocking 22.62 in the 200m in Suzhou last month to beat a field which included world 100m champion ShaCarri Richardson of the United States.

British indoor champion Amy Hunt will also return to Doha to compete in her second ever Diamond League in the 100m.

In the field, British record-holder Lawrence Okoye will compete in the discus after appearances in Australia, New Zealand and America this year. He became the first ever British athlete to win a medal in the discipline at a European Championships during Munich 2022.

In the long jump the current world champion indoors and out, Miltiádis Tentóglou, will make his first appearance in Doha. The Greek will hope to establish himself as the favourite for the gold medal in Paris.

Reigning Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra will also be looking to set his standards for Paris in the javelin.

In the womens high jump, Britains Morgan Lake takes on Yuliia Levchenko of Ukraine and Eleanor Patterson of Australia.

The event is set to be shown on BBC Two for UK viewers at 5pm, and the timetable is here.