First Headliners Revealed for Rabat

Published by IAAF on April 22, 2016

The newest meeting on the IAAF Diamond League circuit has confirmed the first wave of top athletes set to compete at the Meeting International Mohammed VI in Rabat on 22 May.

The men’s 800m is set to be a highlight of the meeting as Ethiopia’s 2013 world champion Mohammed Aman will take on Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos of Botswana, world bronze medallist Amel Tuka of Bosnia and Herzegovina, world silver medallist Adam Kszczot of Poland and Algeria’s Olympic 1500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi.

Aman won in Rabat in 2012, setting a Moroccan all-comers’ record of 1:43.58, and then returned to the meeting one year later to win again.