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2026 Prefontaine Classic

athletics meeting in Eugene, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ140611354 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2026 Prefontaine Classic was the 51st edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Held on 3–4 July at Hayward Field, it was the 9th leg of the 2026 Diamond League – the highest-level international track and field circuit.

Diamond+ events results

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Women's

Diamond events results

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Women's

Promotional events results

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Women's

See also

2026 Diamond League

References

Results

"2026 Prefontaine Classic". World Athletics.

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“2026 Prefontaine Classic” enters the record as athletics meeting in Eugene, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Prefontaine, Classic and athletics can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2026 Prefontaine Classic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.