Olympic champ Katie Nageotte set for Thursday's Weltklasse Zürich Diamond League finals...

The last major track meet of the 2021 season finishes Thursday as the Weltklasse Zürich meet hosts the Wanda Diamond League finals.

The Weltklasse Zürich actually began Wednesday, as the men's and women's shot put, men's and women's long jump, women's high jump and men's and women's 5000 were contested on a unique setting that featured a 560 meter temporary track on Sechselautenplatz, one of the city's most famous squares on the shore of Lake Zürich.

Former Pullman resident Katie Nageotte (Paul Merca photo), University of Washington alum Gianna Woodruff, and former Renton resident Devon Allen are entered in the Diamond League finals, which carries a $30,000 prize for the winner of each event, along with a possible bye into next year's world championships in Eugene.

Reigning Olympic champ Nageotte is one of six entries in the field that includes the 2019 world champion Anzhelika Sidorova of Russia, Olympic silver medalist Holly Bradshaw of Great Britain, and former Olympic champ and Stanford alum Katerina Stefanidi of Greece.

Woodruff, the Panamanian national record holder and Olympic finalist, runs in a field that includes four other Tokyo finalists, including bronze medalist Femke Bol of the Netherlands.

Allen, who was fourth in Tokyo, runs in a field that includes Olympic champion Hansle Parchment and bronze medalist Ronald Levy of Jamaica.

The Wanda Diamond League finals at the Weltklasse Zürich will be shown starting at 10 am Pacific on NBCSN.

The start lists as well as the results of day 1 are available here.

NOTE: World Athletics and the Wanda Diamond League contributed to this report.

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