IAAF Diamond League reaches agreement on meetings for 2020 season
The Diamond League General Assembly has today agreed on 14 meetings and 1 final for the 2020 season, which includes all current meetings.
The Diamond League General Assembly has today agreed on 14 meetings and 1 final for the 2020 season, which includes all current meetings.
World champions Caster Semenya and Luvo Manyonga were the standout performers, leading a large group of South African athletes by successfully defending their titles at the first of two finals in the IAAF Diamond League series in Zurich, Switzerland on Thursday
South African and World Long Jump champion Luvo Manyonga was in spectacular shape, smashing the Meeting record to win the event in 8.53m at the 2018 IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Birmingham, UK.
Kenya’s Emmanuel Korir ran the fastest 800m since 2012, clocking 1:42.05 to light up the second day of the Anniversary Games in London – the 11th meeting of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League Series of meetings, on Sunday 22 July.
Luvo Manyonga and race walker Lebogang Shange were the best of a large South African contingent at the 11th leg of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League series held in London, England 21-22 July.
On a night of sensational running at a hot and humid Stade Louis II, Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech produced the crowning performance of the tenth IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season as she took more than eight seconds off the women’s world 3000m steeplechase record, coming home, alone and triumphant, in 8:44.32.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech broke the world record to win the 3000m steeplechase at the Herculis meeting on Friday, clocking 8:44.32 for victory, at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
Caster Semenya broke another national record in Rabat, Morocco on Friday evening, surging to a comfortable victory in the women’s 1000m race at the ninth leg of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League series.
Caster Semenya broke her own South African record with a gun-to-tape victory in the women’s 800m event at the 2018 IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Paris, France on Saturday.
With the first IAAF Diamond League 2018 meeting on European soil just around the corner, here are five things to look out for when the Road To The Final continues in Rome this week.
South African Caster Semenya produced another peerless display of middle-distance running to set a meeting record and world lead of 1:55.92 in the women’s 800m at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on Saturday
CIV’s World silver medallist Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Team Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba and Mutaz Barshim were impressive as eight world leads and five meeting records were set at Doha’s opening of 2018 IAAF Diamond League season.
Caster Semenya and Carina Horn produced historic performances, smashing their South African records, at the opening leg of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League series in Doha, Qatar on Friday.
Team Qatar will be out in full force at this year’s Doha Diamond League at the Qatar Sports Club on Friday 4 May when the 2018 IAAF Diamond League Series gets underway.
Luvo Manyonga and Caster Semenya added the 2017 IAAF Diamond League series crowns to the world titles they recently won in London on Thursday evening.
As it happens… Live updates from the 2017 Weltklasse Zürich – the 13th stop of the IAAF Diamond League series from the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich, Switzerland. #ZurichDL – Thursday 24 August, 2017
Rising Botswana’s 400m star Baboloki Thebe said missing out on the 2017 IAAF Diamond League Finals after sustaining a grade two rectus femoris tear was a serious setback in his athletics career.
Ethiopians Habitam Alemu and Dawit Seyaum won the women’s 800m and 1500m respectively at the 2017 Muller Grand Prix, the 12th IAAF Diamond League meeting, in Birmingham on Sunday 20 August.
Watch the video interview with Botswana’s Isaac Makwala after he finished in fourth place at the 2017 Muller Birmingham Grand Prix – IAAF Diamond League meeting on Sunday 20 August,
Watch the video interview with Marie-Josee Ta Lou (Côte D’Ivoire) after she finished second (10.97) in the women’s 100m at the 2017 Muller Birmingham Grand Prix – IAAF Diamond League meeting.
Follow our Live updates from the Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2017 – the 12th stop of the IAAF Diamond League series from the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, UK
Watch Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk from South Africa edged out Botswana’s Isaac Makwala 43.73 to 43.84 to win the men’s 400m at the IAAF Diamond League in Monaco on Friday 21 June, 2017.
Watch South Africa’s Caster Semenya blitzed to an amazing 1:55.27 to win the women’s 800m race at the 2017 Meeting Herculis, IAAF Diamond League in Monaco on Friday 21 July, 2017.
Caster Semenya broke her own South African record, taking a superb victory in the Women’s 800m race at the 11th leg of the IAAF Diamond League series in Monaco on Friday.
South African jumper Ruswahl Samaai emerge victorious in the men’s long jump at the 2017 IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday 16 July.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri won the Women’s 1 Mile race at the 2017 Müller Anniversary Games leg of the IAAF Diamond League in London on Sunday, breaking her national record and setting a new meeting record of 4:16.56.
South Africa’s Olympic 400m champion, Wayde van Niekerk clocked the fastest time in the world in 2017 and broke the long-standing meeting record at the eighth leg of the IAAF Diamond League series in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday 6 June.
From next season, athletes will earn points in the first 12 IAAF Diamond League meetings to qualify for two final meetings where $100,000 will be at stake in each of the 32 Diamond Disciplines, including $50,000 for each winner.
South Africa’s Caster Semenya coasted to victory in the 800m at the Monaco IAAF Diamond League on Friday smashing her own national record in the process.
Complete results of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League meeting held at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, United Kingdom on Sunday 5 June, 2016.
The first four IAAF Diamond League meetings of 2016 have now been held, meaning every Diamond Race discipline has been contested at least once.
Ruth Chebet and Hyvin Kiyeng missed the existing record by only one second in Eugene, but have another chance at at BAUHAUS-galan – Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium.
Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris sped to his second consecutive Diamond Race victory of 2016 at the Prefontaine Classic IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on Saturday.
Kenyans World champion Hyvin Kiyeng and World silver medalist Faith Chepng’etich Kipyegon shatter their national records at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on Saturday.
The 9th Meeting International Mohammed VI d’athlétisme, which held in Rabat on Sunday, was the first African stage in the history of the IAAF Diamond League and it brought its share of sports performance with seven meeting records.