Hunter Woodhall, Ezra Frech headline 100m Para races at Eugene Diamond League

Power couple Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis-Woodhall will both be in action at this year's Prefontaine Classic, the ninth leg of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League, on Friday and Saturday (3-4 July) in Eugene, USA. 

Paralympic champion in the men’s 400m T62, Woodhall will join men’s 100m T63 and high jump T63 Paris gold medallist Ezra Frech and 14 other USA athletes in the men’s and women’s 100m Para sprint races. The starting blocks will feature athletes who collectively own 88 Paralympic and World Championship medals.

Woodhall and Frech face a strong field that includes Jaidyn Blackwell (T38) – double gold medallist at Paris 2024 and the New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships – and Noah Malone (T12), a five-time Paralympic medallist and Paris 2024 champion. 

Korban Best (T47), Blake Leeper (T62), Derek Loccident (T64), Ryan Medrano (T38) and newcomer Abuchi Osuala complete the men’s lineup.

In the women’s 100m multi‑class race, Brittni Mason, the T47 world record holder (11.89), headlines the field alongside fellow Paris 2024 medallist Jaleen Roberts (T37) and World Championships medallists Kim Crosby (T13) and Sydney Barta (T64).

Mason is a five-time Paralympic medallist, including a gold medal in the 4x100m universal relay at Tokyo 2020. She also won the 100m world title at Dubai 2019 and the 200m crown at Paris 2023.

Roberts is a four-time Paralympic medallist and eight-time Worlds medallist accross the 100m, 200m and long jump T37. She was also part of the USA’s universal relay world champion team at Dubai 2019.

A three-time Paralympic bronze medallist (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020), Crosby has earned six World Championships medals, most recently bronze in the 100m T13 and 200m T13 at New Delhi 2025.

Barta is a two-time Worlds medallist in the 200m T64 (silver at Kobe 2024 and bronze at New Delhi 2025) and is the first Paralympian to compete for Stanford University’s traditional track and field team.

Chloe Chavez (T64), Kerragan Johnson (T47) and Erin Kerkhoff (T13) round off the women’s field.

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Elsewhere in the able-bodied programme, Olympic and world long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall will aim for back-to-back wins at her home Diamond League meeting. The 27-year-old enters Eugene as the world number one, having claimed gold at both the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Para athletics tradition

The Prefontaine Classic first added Para events to its lineup in 1989 and is the fourth Diamond League meeting this season to feature Para athletics.

Rome’s Golden Gala Pietro Mennea hosted 100m multi-class races won by Germany’s Felix Streng (men) and Spain’s Fiona Pilar (women).

A week later, Oslo’s Bislett Games saw Ireland’s Orla Comerford take the women’s 100m Para race ahead of Dutch star Fleur Jong and home favourite Ida-Louise Overland.

Last week, the Meeting de Paris staged 400m Para races, with Alice Metais and Ayoub Sadni winning the women’s and men’s events at Charlety Stadium, host of the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships.

More information about the 51st edition of the Prefontaine Classic - Eugene Diamond League can be found here.