Diamond League to increase prize money to highest ever level from 2025
The Wanda Diamond League will increase athlete prize money to the highest levels in the series’ history beginning with the 2025 season, the league offices announced today.
The Wanda Diamond League will increase athlete prize money to the highest levels in the series’ history beginning with the 2025 season, the league offices announced today.
Herpasa Negasa of Ethiopia remains the favourites in the field with his world-class personal best of 2:03:40, while Kenyan Elisha Rotich, with a PB of 2:04:21, is among the new additions.
The 2024 track and field season concluded with the thrilling Wanda Diamond League finale at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on Saturday.
Faith Kipyegon claimed her fifth Diamond League title, and with her compatriot Beatrice Chebet, broke the meeting records in their events on the second day of the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on Saturday.
The announcement of the marathon and race walk courses forms part of the local organising committee’s celebrations marking one year to go to the global event.
Kenya’s Amos Serem shocked Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali to win his first men’s 3000m Steeplechase Diamond League title at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme – Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels.
The reigning Olympic 200m champion, who has been in excellent form since the end of Paris 2024, said in Brussels that he’s prepared to run in any weather conditions.
The Jesse Owens Rising Star Award will honour the best performing male and female athletes aged 23 or under at each Wanda Diamond League Final, starting with this year’s edition in Brussels on 13-14 September.
Ethiopia’s Lemlem Hailu and Kenya’s Grace Loibach Nawowuna to head the 2024 tRUNsylvania 10K women’s field.
These medallists from Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will make the two-day Memorial at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on 13-14 September exceptional.
Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet set a world-leading 14:09.52 meeting record at the 2024 Weltklasse Zurich, the penultimate Wanda Diamond League event of the season.
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was admitted to hospital in Eldoret, Kenya for treatment for 80% burns on Sunday, has died from ‘organ failure’.
Paris 2024 Olympic medallist Ronald Kwemoi and defending champion Weldon Langat on the start line for 2024 tRUNsylvania 10K on Sept 22.
The future of the sport, on and off the field of play, has been shaped during the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
World champion Mary Moraa clocks world 600m best at the 2024 ISTAF – a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting – in Berlin.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo cruises to a 9.87 (+0.3) win over a packed men’s 100m field at the Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Rome.
World U20 100m champion, Bayanda Walaza of South Africa clinched victory in the men’s 200m on Friday, adding to his 100m title from earlier in the week.
Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew sets a championship record in the 3000m steeplechase and South Africa’s Udeme Okon wins the 400m gold on third day of action at the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
Ethiopia’s Medina Eisa secured the world U20 5000m title with record-breaking performance on first day of action at the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
As an Official World Athletics Supplier, Mondo will be actively involved in all World Athletics Series stadium events from 2025 to 2029.
Among the runners targeting fast times are Kenya’s Eric Kiptanui, Ethiopia’s Herpasa Negasa, and Kenya’s 2009 World 10,000m Champion Linet Masai.
A record number of 1700 athletes from more than 130 teams are preparing to compete at the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke Kenya’s Daniel Komen’s 28-year-old men’s 3000m world record of 7:20.67 in Silesia, Poland on Sunday.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) responds to a Reuters story of 7 August 2024 exposing a scheme whereby the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years without sanction.
Kenya’s Julius Yego, the 2015 world Javelin champion and 2016 Olympics silver medalist, reached the javelin final at the ongoing Olympic Games in Paris with an 85.97 metres throw on his third attempt.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei finally secured Olympic gold in the men’s 10,000m event, breaking a 16-year-old Olympic record after a fierce competition with Ethiopian top runners and USA’s Grant Fisher.
World Athletics Council approves the timetable and qualification system for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 and the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25.
Nigerian champion Favour Ofili says Team Nigeria officials failed to register her for the women’s 100m event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
On 28 August, the eyes of the world will be on the French capital as the Opening Ceremony begins.
Yay! It’s our 20th anniversary today. Two-decades of dedication, passion and commitment to the promotion, upliftment and development of African Athletics.
The first competitors in three events at the Weltklasse Zürich 2024 – 110m hurdles, shot put men, and high jump women – have been confirmed.
Athletes will compete for gold, silver and bronze medals in 45 events between 27-31 August, when Lima will become the first city in Peru to host a World Athletics Series event.
Entry lists published for Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Athletics will take place between 1-11 August in the French capital.
Commonwealth Games champions Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume are among the 35 athletes named on the Nigerian team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from 1-11 August.
Accra, Ghana has been selected as host of the 24th African Athletics Senior Championships in 2026.