Following her run in Ostrava of 1:57.13, Femke Broeders-Bol has been invited to her first Diamond League 800m with the Dutch star taking to the two-lap race in Paris on 28 June.
But first, she will compete on 21 June at the FBK Games in Hengelo, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet, for her second outdoor 800m of her career.
She’ll come up against reigning European indoor champion Anna Wielgosz from Poland, Uganda's 2019 world champion Halimah Nakaayi and 2024 European silver medallist Gabriela Gajanova from Slovakia.
Niels Laros, the 1500m and 800m European U23 champion, will make his season debut at the FBK Games as he races in the men’s 800m. He faces a field including European indoor champion Samuel Chapple and Ireland's Cian McPhillips who finished fourth at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo last year.
Reigning European champions Jessica Schilder and Yaroslava Mahuchikh, and world indoor champion Lurdes Gloria Manuel will also be in action in Hengelo. Manuel will go head-to-head with reigning European indoor champion and home favourite Lieke Klaver in the 400m.
When Broeders-Bol returns to Paris she will face familiar rival , Audrey Werro who continues to target the oldest standing world record in athletics, the 1:53.28 set by Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983.
It will also be the first time since 2021 that Broeders-Bol will compete in the Paris Diamond League, having taken fourth in the 400m in 50.59 just weeks after taking her first Olympic medal, with bronze in the 400m hurdles.