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IAAF Diamond League 2014 media guide1

Contents2......................... Introduction

Diamond Race

3......................... Basic information – how it works, points, prize money

5......................... Diamond Race winners (2010-2013)

9......................... Diamond Race all-time statistics (2010-2013)

18....................... Competition review: 2013 highlights

34....................... TV figures (2010-2013)

2014 season

35....................... Calendar

36....................... Event disciplines

38....................... Host broadcasters

39....................... Preview

40....................... Contact details – DL AG, IAAF, IMG, meeting organisers and press chiefs

46....................... Media accreditation


Introduction

W ith the creation of the IAAF Diamond League, we set out to reinvent the one-day meeting structure of our sport to bring clarity to the top-tier circuit of international invitational competition which takes place outside the

IAAF World Championships and Olympic Games.

While there remain many challenges ahead, if we are to make further advances and cement the IAAF Diamond League’s position as one of the world’s major sports series, we firmly believe that we have made an exceptionally good start in the first four years of the new competition structure.

The IAAF Diamond League has a worldwide audience and a broadcasting reach undreamt of by the Golden League series which preceded it. Thanks to a 14-meeting circuit which covers Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, a competition programme that includes virtually the full spectrum of Olympic track and field disciplines, the guarantee of the world’s greatest athletes battling to win 8 million dollars in prize money, accumulating points season-long to win their event’s Diamond Race Trophy, the IAAF Diamond League has captured the public’s imagination like no other non-championship athletics competition.

I eagerly look forward to the 2014 season of the IAAF Diamond League which commences in Doha and concludes at the end of August and beginning of September with the finals in Zurich and Brussels.

Lamine Diack IAAF President and Chairman of the Board of Diamond League AG


How it worksThe IAAF Diamond League comprises 14 of the best invitational track and field meetings in the world. The meetings are spread across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, and compose the top tier of the IAAF’s global one-day meeting competition structure.

This series of 14 meetings, which began in 2010, showcases 32 event disciplines which are carefully distributed among the meetings. In each of the 32 event disciplines there is a “Diamond Race” with points available throughout the 14-meeting season. Winners of each Diamond Race receive a USD $40,000 cash prize and a spectacular Diamond Trophy. But more importantly, they will have shown season-long consistency to earn the unchallenged honour of being the world No.1.

Each of the 32 event disciplines is staged seven times with the top three athletes being awarded the same amount of points at each meeting with the exception of the final where the points are doubled. The Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix, which takes place over two days, counts as one meeting.

PointsPoints per event discipline at each meeting:

1st place – 4 points (Final: 8 points) 2nd place – 2 points (Final: 4 points) 3rd place – 1 point (Final: 2 points)

The athlete with the highest number of points in each event

discipline at the end of the IAAF Diamond League season wins the “Diamond Race”.

In case of equality on points, the number of victories decides. If there still is a tie, the better result at the final decides.

For an athlete to win a Diamond Race and its associated prize, and/or to be ranked in the final points standings, he/she must compete in the final (Zürich or Brussels) of their event discipline.

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Prize moneyAt each of the 14 meetings, all 32 disciplines have the same prize money with a total of USD $30,000 x 16 = USD $480,000 per meeting.

Place – prize money

1st – USD $10,000 2nd – USD $6000 3rd – USD $4000 4th – USD $3000 5th – USD $2500 6th – USD $2000 7th – USD $1500 8th – USD $1000 plus rewards for 9th-12th place finishers in distance races and 9th lane runners in sprints.

The overall winner of each of the 32 Diamond Races will receive a USD $40,000 cash prize and a spectacular Diamond Trophy created by Beyer, one of the oldest and most respected jewellers in the world, which was established in Zurich in the 18th century.

The meeting prize money combined with the Diamond Race cash, the IAAF Diamond League is offering a total of USD $8 million in prize money in 2014.

Diamond Race winners – wild cards for the IAAF World ChampionshipsThe overall event winners of the 32 Diamond Races which compose the IAAF Diamond League from the previous year benefit from a wild card, much in the same way as already happens with the defending world champion.

However, only one or the other can participate as a wild card in case both are from the same country (so the maximum entry from a country will be limited to four in any individual event). The decision to finally enter the athlete still rests entirely with the National Federation, which maintains full control of the final entries.

Diamond Race winners – automatic invites for next seasonTo guarantee the strongest possible fields of competitors at each IAAF Diamond League meeting, all winners of the previous year’s Diamond Trophies automatically receive an invitation to compete in their event discipline during the following IAAF Diamond League season.


Diamond Race winners

2010Men Event Women

Tyson Gay (USA) 100m Carmelita Jeter (USA)

Wallace Spearmon (USA) 200m Allyson Felix (USA)

Jeremy Wariner (USA) 400m Allyson Felix (USA)

David Rudisha (KEN) 800m Janeth Jepkosgei (KEN)

Asbel Kiprop (KEN) 1500m Nancy Jebet Langat (KEN)

Imane Merga (ETH) 5000m Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)

Paul Kipsiele Koech (KEN) 3000m steeplechase Milcah Chemos Cheiywa (KEN)

David Oliver (USA) 110m/100m hurdles Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (CAN)

Bershawn Jackson (USA) 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

Ivan Ukhov (RUS) High jump Blanka Vlašic (CRO)

Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) Pole vault Fabiana Murer (BRA)

Dwight Phillips (USA) Long jump Brittney Reese (USA)

Teddy Tamgho (FRA) Triple jump Yargelis Savigne (CUB)

Christian Cantwell (USA) Shot put Nadezhda Ostapchuk (BLR)

Piotr Malachowski (POL) Discus Yarelis Barrios (CUB)

Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR) Javelin Barbora Špotáková (CZE)

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2011Men Event Women

Asafa Powell (JAM) 100m Carmelita Jeter (USA)

Walter Dix (USA) 200m Carmelita Jeter (USA)

Kirani James (GRN) 400m Amantle Montsho (BOT)

David Rudisha (KEN) 800m Jennifer Meadows (GBR)

Nixon Chepseba (KEN) 1500m Morgan Uceny (USA)

Imane Merga (ETH) 5000m Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)


Dayron Robles (CUB) 110m/100m hurdles Danielle Carruthers (USA)

David Greene (GBR) 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

Jesse Williams (USA) High jump Blanka Vlašic (CRO)

Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) Pole vault Silke Spiegelburg (GER)

Mitchell Watt (AUS) Long jump Brittney Reese (USA)

Phillips Idowu (GBR) Triple jump Olha Saladukha (UKR)

Dylan Armstrong (CAN) Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL)

Virgilijus Alekna (LTU) Discus Yarelis Barrios (CUB)

Matthias De Zordo (GER) Javelin Christina Obergföll (GER)


2012Men Event Women

Usain Bolt (JAM) 100m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

Nickel Ashmeade (JAM) 200m Charonda Williams (USA)

Kevin Borlée (BEL) 400m Amantle Montsho (BIT)

Mohammed Aman (ETH) 800m Pamela Jelimo (KEN)

Silas Kiplagat (KEN) 1500m Abeba Aregawi (SWE)

Isiah Kiplangat Koech (KEN) 5000m Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)


Aries Merritt (USA) 110m/100m hurdles Dawn Harper (USA)

Javier Culson (PUR) 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

Robbie Grabarz (GBR) High jump Chaunte Lowe (USA)


Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) Long jump Yelena Sokolova (RUS)

Christian Taylor (USA) Triple jump Olga Rypakova (KAZ)

Reese Hoffa (USA) Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL)

Gerd Kanter (EST) Discus Sandra Perkovic (CRO)

Vítezslav Veselý (CZE) Javelin Barbora Špotáková (CZE)


2013Men Event Women

Justin Gatlin (USA) 100m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

Warren Weir (JAM) 200m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

LaShawn Merritt (USA) 400m Amantle Montsho (BOT)

Mohammed Aman (ETH) 800m Eunice Jepkoech Sum (KEN)

Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI) 1500m Abeba Aregawi (SWE)

Yenew Alamirew (ETH) 5000m Meseret Defar (ETH)

Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 3000m steeplechase Milcah Chemos Cheiywa (KEN)

David Oliver (USA) 110m/100m hurdles Dawn Harper-Nelson (USA)

Javier Culson (PUR) 400m hurdles Zuzana Hejnová (CZE)

Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) High jump Svetlana Shkolina (RUS)


Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) Long jump Shara Proctor (GBR)

Christian Taylor (USA) Triple jump Caterine Ibargüen (COL)

Ryan Whiting (USA) Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL)

Gerd Kanter (EST) Discus Sandra Perkovic (CRO)

Vítezslav Veselý (CZE) Javelin Christina Obergföll (GER)

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Diamond Race statistics 2010-2013

Most Diamond Race wins all-time – overallMen (141 athletes from 43 countries)

Wins Athlete NAT Event(s)

17 Renaud Lavillenie FRA Pole vault

15 Usain Bolt JAM 100m/200m

11 David Rudisha KEN 800m

10 Reese Hoffa USA Shot put

10 Asbel Kiprop KEN 800m/1500m/mile

10 David Oliver USA 110mH

10 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR Javelin

9 Gerd Kanter EST Discus

8 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 3000mSC

8 Walter Dix USA 200m

8 Tyson Gay USA 100m/200m

8 Javier Culson PUR 400mH

Women (120 athletes from 33 countries)


17 Valerie Adams NZL Shot put

16 Milcah Chemos KEN 3000mSC

15 Sandra Perkovic CRO Discus

13 Allyson Felix USA 100m/200m/400m

13 Carmelita Jeter USA 100m/200m

12 Amantle Montsho BOT 400m

12 Kaliese Spencer JAM 400mH

12 Blanka Vlašic CRO High jump

11 Christina Obergföll GER Javelin

10 Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot KEN 3000m/5000m

10 Zuzana Hejnová CZE 400mH

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Most Diamond Race wins all-time – single disciplineMen








9 Asbel Kiprop KEN 1500m/mile

8 Usain Bolt JAM 200m


8 Walter Dix USA 200m


Women







12 Blanka Vlašic CRO High jump


10 Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot KEN 3000m/5000m


10 Carmelita Jeter USA 100m


Most Diamond Race scoring (top-3) finishes all-time – overallMen (327 athletes from 63 countries)









17 Dylan Armstrong CAN Shot put

17 Usain Bolt JAM 100m/200m

16 Malte Mohr GER Pole vault








21 Fabiana Murer BRA Pole vault




19 Olha Saladukha UKR Triple jump

19 Barbora Špotáková CZE Javelin


Most Diamond Race scoring (top-3) finishes all-time – single eventMen








17 Dylan Armstrong CAN Shot put

16 Asbel Kiprop KEN 1500m/mile

16 Malte Mohr GER Pole vault


Women









19 Barbora Špotáková CZE Javelin

18 Olga Rypakova KAZ Triple jump


17 Silke Spiegelburg GER Pole vault


Most appearances in Diamond Races all-time – overallMen (1048 athletes from 92 countries)




25 Dylan Armstrong USA Shot put

25 Tomasz Majewski POL Shot put




23 Churandy Martina NED 100m/200m

22 Mekonnen Gebremedhin ETH 1500m/mile


22 Angelo Taylor USA 200m/400m/400mH


22 Jesse Williams USA High jump



28 Blessing Okagbare NGR 100m/200m/long jump

27 Viola Jelagat Kibiwot KEN 1500m/3000m/5000m



25 Michelle Carter USA Shot put



23 Sofia Assefa ETH 3000mSC




Most appearances in Diamond Races all-time – single disciplineMen



25 Dylan Armstrong USA Shot put

25 Tomasz Majewski POL Shot put




22 Mekonnen Gebremedhin ETH 1500m/mile



22 Jesse Williams USA High jump




25 Sofia Assefa ETH 3000mSC

25 Michelle Carter USA Shot put





23 Funmi Jimoh USA Long jump


21 Emma Green Tregaro SWE High jump





21 Aretha D. Thurmond USA Discus

21 Sunette Viljoen RSA Javelin


Most Diamond Race points all-time – overallMen











41 Tero Pitkämäki FIN Javelin

Women













Diamond Race records – men (at end of 2013 season)

Event Result Wind Athlete Born Nat Venue Date

100m 9.76 -0.1 Usain Bolt 86 JAM Roma (ITA) 31.05.12

200m 19.26 +0.7 Yohan Blake 89 JAM Bruxelles (BEL) 16.09.11

400m 43.96 Kirani James 92 GRN Paris (FRA) 06.07.13

800m 1:41.54 David Rudisha 88 KEN Paris (FRA) 06.07.12

1500m 3:28.88 Asbel Kiprop 89 KEN Monaco (MON) 20.07.12

Mile 3:49.09 Haron Keitany 83 KEN Eugene (USA) 04.06.11

3000m 7:27.26 Yenew Alamirew 90 ETH Doha (QAT) 06.05.11

5000m 12:46.81 Dejen Gebremeskel 89 ETH Paris (FRA) 06.07.12

110m hurdles 12.80 +0.3 Aries Merritt 85 USA Bruxelles (BEL) 07.09.12

400m hurdles 47.62 Bershawn Jackson 83 USA Lausanne (SUI) 08.07.10

3000m steeplechase 7:53.64 Brimin Kiprop Kipruto 85 KEN Monaco (MON) 22.07.11

High jump 2.41 Bohdan Bondarenko 89 UKR Lausanne (SUI) 04.07.13

Pole vault 5.96 Renaud Lavillenie 86 FRA Monaco (MON) 19.07.13

Long jump 8.54 +1.7 Mitchell Watt 88 AUS Stockholm (SWE) 29.07.11

Triple jump 17.98 +1.2 Teddy Tamgho 89 FRA New York (USA) 12.06.10

Shot put 22.41 Christian Cantwell 80 USA Eugene (USA) 03.07.10

Discus 69.83 Piotr Małachowski 83 POL Gateshead (GBR) 10.07.10

Javelin 89.88 Andreas Thorkildsen 82 NOR Bruxelles (BEL) 27.08.10


Diamond Race records – women (at end of 2013 season)

Event Result Wind Athlete Born Nat Venue Date

100m 10.70 +2.0 Carmelita Jeter 79 USA Eugene (USA) 04.06.11

200m 21.98 +1.4 Veronica Campbell-Brown 82 JAM New York (USA) 12.06.10

400m 49.33 Amantle Montsho 83 BOT Monaco (MON) 19.07.13

800m 1:56.59 Francine Niyonsaba 93 BDI Bruxelles (BEL) 07.09.12

1500m 3:56.15 Mariem Alaoui Selsouli 84 MAR Paris (FRA) 06.07.12

3000m 8:28.41 Sentayehu Ejigu 85 ETH Monaco (MON) 22.07.10

5000m 14:20.87 Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot 83 KEN Stockholm (SWE) 29.07.11

100m hurdles 12.40 0.0 Sally Pearson 86 AUS Paris (FRA) 06.07.12

400m hurdles 52.79 Kaliese Spencer 87 JAM London (GBR) 05.08.11

3000m steeplechase 9:05.02 Yuliya Zaripova 86 RUS Stockholm (SWE) 17.08.12

High jump 2.05 Anna Chicherova 82 RUS Bruxelles (BEL) 16.09.11

Pole vault 4.83 Yarisley Silva 87 CUB London (GBR) 26.07.13

Long jump 7.25 +1.6 Brittney Reese 86 USA Doha (QAT) 10.05.13

Triple jump 15.09 +0.2 Yargelis Savigne 84 CUB Monaco (MON) 22.07.10

Shot put 21.03 Valerie Adams 84 NZL Roma (ITA) 31.05.12

Discus 68.96 Sandra Perkovic 90 CRO Lausanne (SUI) 04.07.13

Javelin 69.57 Christina Obergföll 81 GER Zürich (SUI) 08.09.11


Competition review – 2013 season

Doha, 10 MayDavid Rudisha produced an 800m victory of characteristic majesty in contributing one of 11 world-leading performances as the 2013 IAAF Diamond League got off to a hugely successful launch on a warm and balmy night when fellow Olympic champion Brittney Reese earned victory in the women’s long jump with 7.25m.

The US jumper’s fourth-round effort was the best in the world for nine years, and an improvement of six centimetres on her personal best, set two years earlier. Not only was it a meeting record, it was the best jump in the history of the Diamond League. Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria was second with 7.14m (2.2m/s).

Rudisha, in his first appearance of the season, floated over the line in 1:43.87 ahead of the 19-year-old Ethiopian Mohammed Aman, second in 1:44.21, who had been the only runner to find a way of beating the Kenyan in the previous couple of years.

Apart from Rudisha and Reese, the Doha world-leaders club numbered Sandra Perkovic in the discus (68.23m, MR), Ryan Whiting in the shot put (22.28m MR), Konstantinos Filippidis in the pole vault (5.82m), Abeba Aregawi in the 1500m (3:56.60), Dawn Harper-Nelson in the 100m hurdles (12.60), Lidya Chepkurui in the 3000m steeplechase (9:13.75 MR), Amantle Montsho (49.88) in the 400m – thus preventing Olympic 200m champion Allyson Felix (50.19) from earning an 11th consecutive victory on this track – Asbel Kiprop in the 1500m (3:31.13) and Hagos Gebrhiwet in the 3000m (7:30.36).

In a 1500m race which fully engaged the noisy and flag-waving contingents of Ethiopian and Kenyan supporters, Sweden’s Aregawi was challenged by the diminutive figure of Faith Kipyegon – still a junior – who moved past the tiring figure of Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba to finish second in a Kenyan record of 3:56.98, with Dibaba earning a personal best of 3:57.54.

Perkovic threw a world lead and meeting record of 67.37m and continued in demoralising fashion with throws of 66.36m, 65.70m and 67.13m before reaching 68.23m on her last attempt with all five valid efforts being unmatched by any of her competitors.

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Shanghai, 18 MayLong jumper Li Jinzhe rose to the challenge of a home meeting which produced four meeting records and nine world leads as he defeated a field which included the three past Olympic champions in Dwight Phillips, Irving Saladino and Greg Rutherford to win with 8.34m, finishing three centimetres clear of Russia’s Aleksandr Menkov.

On an evening when, but for a brief shower at the start, competition was unhindered by the rain which had fallen for the previous few days, the other world leads came from Kirani James in the 400m (44.02), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100m (10.93), Francine Niyonsaba in the 800m (2:00.33, outdoor lead), Genzebe Dibaba in the 5000m (14:45.92), Conseslus Kipruto in the 3000m steeplechase (8:01.16), Zuzana Hejnova in the 400m hurdles (53.79), Caterine Ibarguen in the triple jump (14.69m) and Tero Pitkamaki in the javelin (87.60m).

There was also injury drama, with Olympic champion and world record-holder Aries Merritt pulling up before the first hurdle in the 110m hurdles, Carmelita Jeter exiting the track on a stretcher after

finishing third in the 100m and Rutger Smith suffering a severe leg injury in the discus. Merritt pulled up largely as a precautionary measure after feeling cramping sensations in his right hamstring in the warm-up to a race won by 2011 world champion Jason Richardson in 13.23, while Jeter clutched the back of her thigh as she hobbled through the last few steps of her 100m.

James, the world and Olympic champion, faced London minor medallists Luguelin Santos and Lalonde Gordon, as well as former world and Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt, who finished second in 44.60 as his successor recorded the fastest ever Diamond League time.

Dibaba earned her victory by sprinting clear of her compatriot, Olympic champion Meseret Defar, who was second in 14:48.29.

Pitkamaki finished narrowly clear of the Czech Republic’s Viteslav Vesely, who threw 86.67m, while in the men’s high jump another duel took place between Mutaz Essa Barshim and Bohdan Bondarenko, with the former taking the win on count-back, having cleared 2.33m on the first attempt. In Doha the previous Friday Bondarenko had beaten his rival on home territory.


New York, 25 MayUnseasonably cold and rainy conditions did not prevent some big performances in the field events as Olympic discus champion Sandra Perkovic obliterated the meeting record and improved her world lead to 68.48m at the adidas Grand Prix, while her friend and compatriot Blanka Vlasic, the former world champion, earned victory with a meeting record of 1.94m in her first high jump competition for 20 months following injury and illness.

Other highlights included Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet securing his second Diamond League victory of the season with a world-leading 13:10.03 in the 5000m, and US long jumper Janay DeLoach Soukup beating her compatriot, Olympic champion Brittney Reese, with a meeting record of 6.79m.

Perkovic’s first throw was a meeting record of 64.00m, but after a near 45-minute delay between the first two rounds that left the competitors stranded in the cold and damp, her second throw went only to 62.50m and she contemplated finishing her competition. However a third effort of 66.31m changed her mind.

The Croatian, who left her coach Ivan Ivancic after winning the Olympic title to let her boyfriend Edis Elkasevic guide her, sent her fourth effort into the cage but then produced her best throw in the fifth round having taken time out to warm herself up with hot water.

In her first competition since recovering from achilles tendon surgery and a serious bacterial infection, Vlasic was apprehensive

coming up against a field featuring the meeting record-holder in Sweden’s Emma Green Tregaro and the USA’s Olympic silver medallist Brigetta Barrett.

However, her fears turned out to be unfounded as she cleared the first six heights of the competition with her first attempts, including one at 1.94m which equalled Green Tregaro’s meeting record set in 2011.

“I cannot explain to you how scared I was before this competition,” said Vlasic. “I was jumping around 1.90m in my training and still feeling a lot of pain. This is just a dream come true.”


Eugene, 1 JuneQatar’s 21-year-old Olympic bronze medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim set an Asian high jump record of 2.40m, contributing one of 10 world leads to the Prefontaine Classic meeting.

He was the first man to scale that height outdoors since Russia’s Vyacheslav Voronin in 2000, beating a mark of 2.39m which, when it was set in 1984 by China’s Zhu Jianhua, was also the world record.

The USA’s Olympic silver medallist Erik Kynard and Canada’s Olympic bronze medallist Derek Drouin cleared personal best heights of 2.36m for second and third place respectively.

France’s Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie won with a world-leading 5.95m, while in the discus, Germany’s world and Olympic champion Robert Harting extended his winning streak to 35 competitions with a massive world-leading 69.75m.

The women’s triple jump saw Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen win with a slightly wind-assisted 14.93m, with Ukraine’s Olha Saladhua second with a legal 14.85m – a world-leading legal mark.

The women’s 400m hurdles and the men’s 110m hurdles produced world-leading performances from, respectively, Zuzana Hejnova,

who clocked 53.70, and Jamaica’s Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment, who ran a national record of 13.05.

Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba won the women’s 800m in a meeting record and world-leading 1:56.72, while fifth-placed Mary Cain, just 17, moved to third on the world youth all-time list over two laps with 1:59.51.

Silas Kiplagat beat fellow Kenyan Asbel Kiprop in the Bowerman mile, clocking a world-leading 3:49.48, with the former Olympic champion second in 3:49.53.

Another Kenyan win came from Edwin Soi, who out-sprinted Britain’s double Olympic champion Mo Farah to win the 5000m in a world-leading time of 13:04.75. For Farah, second in 13:05.88, it was a first defeat in a track final since finishing fourth in the 2012 World Indoor Championships 3000m.

Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba supplanted her younger sister Genzebe at the head of the 2013 world lists for 5000m with a time of 14:42.01.

LaShawn Merritt inflicted the first 400m defeat Kirani James had suffered since winning the Olympic title the previous year, the US sprinter finishing in 44.32. Double Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the women’s 100m in a wind-assisted 10.71.


Rome, 6 JuneJustin Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100m champion, arrived in Italy saying that he wanted to make a statement by beating the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion Usain Bolt.

The US sprinter proved as good as his word as he shocked the world record-holder – and most of the 53,305 crowd in the Olympic Stadium – by winning in 9.94, with Bolt clocking 9.95.

“That was ridiculous, a perfect start and then I just cropped off,” said Bolt. “I think it was the perfect start that threw my game off. I have to do more strength work, I guess. I think it needs just some time to get it all back together.”

The other major upset of the night came in the women’s 200m,

where the Ivory Coast’s US-based Murielle Ahoure set a national record of 22.38 and left Olympic champion Allyson Felix a distant second in 22.64.

There were three world-leading times on the track. Ethiopia’s Mohammed Aman won the 800m in 1:43.61, just ahead of another fast-rising young talent, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse. The 21-year-old Frenchman was second in a personal best of 1:43.91.

Botswana’s 2011 world champion Amantle Montsho won her 400m in a world-leading 49.87, and the last of the world-leading times came from Ethiopia’s Yenew Alamirew, who clocked 12:54.96 in the 5000m. Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic earned a third consecutive Diamond League victory in the discus with 68.25m, almost four metres better than anyone else.

Germany’s Christina Obergfoll was equally impressive, despite being tired after flying in from the west coast of the United States after winning in Eugene the previous Saturday, taking victory in the javelin with 66.45m. And Germany’s Olympic and European bronze medallist Raphael Holzdeppe equalled his personal best of 5.91m in winning the pole vault.

In the women’s high jump, there was a rare dead heat for first place between the Russian pair of Anna Chicherova and Svetlana Shkolina after both had cleared 1.98m with identical records and then performed identically in the jump-off down, where they agreed to split the prize money and Diamond Race points after successful attempts at 1.97m.


Oslo, 13 JuneUsain Bolt produced a world-leading performance of 19.79 in the 200m at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games despite cold conditions, with a capacity crowd witnessing his eclipse of the meeting record of 19.82 set by Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks in 1996.

After European champion Churandy Martina had been disqualified for a false start, Bolt got out of his blocks cautiously at the second time of asking with a reaction time of 0.182, but he was soon into his stride, finishing more than half a second clear of home runner Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, who clocked a season’s best of 20.36.

“It was very chilly today, but I ran as fast as I could, and as I promised,” said Bolt, competing for the first time since his 100m defeat in Rome. “My goals are the same – to be the best in the world and win three gold medals in Moscow. And my dream is to break 19 seconds in the 200m.”

Two-time Olympic 5000m champion Meseret Defar earned the fourth victory of her career on the Bislett track where she had set a world record of 14:16.63 in 2007. Defar ran the sting out of her Ethiopian compatriot

Genzebe Dibaba, who had beaten her at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting, and covered the final 400m in 61.7 to finish in 14:26.90.

Vitezslav Vesely, the European javelin champion, led the competition from start to finish, improving on his opening throw of 83.98m with a second-round effort of 85.96m that was not bettered.

The withdrawal of Kenya’s world champion Asbel Kiprop threw the Dream Mile wide open and Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman grabbed the opportunity to take his first ever Diamond League win in 3:50.53 ahead of Kenya’s Nixon Chepseba who set a personal best of 3:50.95.

A clearance of 1.97m enabled Svetlana Shkolina to end the unbeaten 2013 run put together by fellow Russian Anna Chicherova, the Olympic high jump champion.

After her surprise defeat of Olympic 200m champion Allyson Felix in Rome the previous week, Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure suffered an unexpected defeat herself over 100m by Ivet Lalova, who recorded a season’s best of 11.04 to Ahoure’s 11.06.


Birmingham, 30 JuneOn a warm afternoon when many leading performers suffered defeats, home runner Mo Farah was one of the few to resist the trend. He brought the meeting to a rousing close with a super-fast final 100m to beat Ethiopia’s Yenew Alamirew and Hagos Gebrhiwet at the end of a tactical 5000m.

Among the major names who relinquished unbeaten records were Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the women’s 200m and Sally Pearson in the 100m hurdles, while two other Olympic champions, Aries Merritt and Felix Sanchez, were left adrift in their hurdles races. Sandra Perkovic, however, remained undefeated in the women’s discus after winning with 64.43m.

Elsewhere, Amantle Montsho suffered her first 400m Diamond League loss of the season behind Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu, who won by 0.01 in 50.63.

Milcah Chemos set a meeting record of 9:17.43 in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, and Bohdan Bondarenko matched Javier Sotomayor’s 20-year-old meeting record in the high jump as he improved his personal best by three centimetres to 2.36m.

The earliest cheers of the day were for Christian Taylor, the Birmingham-based US triple jumper who finished clear of France’s Teddy Tamgho with a best of 17.66m. “I knew it was going to be a special day,” said Taylor. “I live down the street now so I can almost call it home.”

Fraser-Pryce’s first defeat of the year after six straight wins came at the hands of Blessing Okabare, who clocked 22.55 in the 200m with the Jamaican second in 22.72.

Pearson, recovering from early season injury problems, endured her worst defeat for three years as she finished fourth in the 100m hurdles behind US pair Dawn Harper-Nelson (12.64) and Kellie Wells (12.67), with Britain’s Tiffany Porter third.

Merritt also had injury problems and was second with 13.22 behind former world champion Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados, who clocked 13.13.


Lausanne, 4 JulyJust a week after adding three centimetres to his high jump personal best in Birmingham, where he had won with 2.36m, Bohdan Bondarenko raised the bar to a dramatic new level as he produced a winning leap of 2.41m that lifted him to equal third on the all-time lists and bettered by one centimetre the Ukrainian record set in 1985 by Rudolf Povaritsyn, who was the first man to jump 2.40m. The mark was also the best recorded since 1994, and a Diamond League record.

Most of the field exited the competition at 2.33m but Bondarenko passed that height and cleared 2.35m on his first attempt. Olympic silver medallist Erik Kynard, the only other athlete left in the competition, then took the lead with a first-time clearance at 2.37m, a personal best.

His rival responded straight away by jumping 2.39m with a huge clearance over the bar. It was clear to Kynard that he had to go higher. After one failure at 2.39m, Kynard then missed twice at 2.41m.

Bondarenko, whose exploits by now had captured the full attention of the capacity crowd, then sailed over 2.41m on his final

attempt before making three good attempts at a world record height of 2.46m.

“It’s difficult to take in, jumping 2.41m really is something,” said Bondarenko, whose best before this year was 2.31m. “I know that improving on that will be very difficult, but I do feel I will get there.”

Aided by a perfect 2.0m/s tailwind, Tyson Gay held off a strong challenge from Jamaica’s former world record-holder Asafa Powell to win the 100m in 9.79.

Sandra Perkovic, Croatia’s Olympic discus champion, confirmed victory in the Diamond Race with a fifth consecutive win, although she had to work hard to surpass Cuba’s two-time world silver medallist Yarelis Barrios, who led temporarily with 67.36m, the second-best mark of her life.

With the next throw of the competition, Perkovic responded with 68.96m, just 15cm short of her personal best, and breaking her

own Diamond League record of 68.77m from Stockholm in 2012.

Abeba Aregawi also secured the Diamond Race win in the 1500m after an easy victory in 4:02.11.


Paris, 6 JulyUsain Bolt produced a world-leading 200m time of 19.73 at the Stade de France, witnessed by a capacity crowd of more than 52,000 spectators. Fellow Jamaican Warren Weir was second in 19.92 with France’s former European champion Christophe Lemaitre third in 20.07.

“I love Paris, I always feel wonderful here. As you see, I’m getting there,” said Bolt, clearly still sensitive about the criticism he suffered earlier in the season immediately before and after his surprise 100m defeat at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome.

There were also world-leading performances from Kirani James in the 400m (43.96), Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba in the 5000m (14:23.68), Ezekiel Kemboi in the 3000m steeplechase (7:59.03) and Zuzana Hejnova, who secured the Diamond Race victory in the 400m hurdles with a national record of 53.23.

James held off his predecessor as world and Olympic champion, LaShawn Merritt, with the second-best time of his career, while Merritt finished in 44.09, his fastest time since winning the 2009 world title.

Dibaba’s winning 5000m time was also a meeting record and the seventh-fastest ever run over the distance.

Kemboi waited until 250m from the finish before taking the lead from the Frenchman who had finished behind him in silver medal position at the London 2012 Olympics, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad.

The eccentric Kenyan would have finished even faster had he not supplied one of his show-boat finishes 20m from the line, drifting into the second lane with his arms held wide.

Mekhissi-Benabbad held his form to set a European record of 8:00.09, an improvement on the former continental standard of 8:01.19, which had been held since 2009 by his compatriot Bouabdellah Tahri.

Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman won the 1500m in 3:32.55, 0.01 ahead of Ethiopia’s Aman Wote, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce held off the challenge of Blessing Okagbare to win the 100m in 10.92, with the Nigerian clocking 10.93.

Russia’s world and Olympic champion Anna Chicherova won the high jump with 2.01m.


Monaco, 19 JulyAsbel Kiprop became the fourth-fastest 1500m runner of all time as he won in 3:27.72, with Britain’s Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Mo Farah setting an astonishing European record of 3:28.81 behind him on a night which produced seven world-leading performances.

Within the Diamond League framework, Kenyan Edwin Soi’s 5000m time of 12:51.34 and Vitezslav Vesely’s javelin throw of 87.68m joined the world-leading efforts of Renaud Lavillenie, who won the pole vault with 5.96m and Amantle Montsho, who won the 400m in a national and Diamond League record of 49.33.

The men’s 1500m was not a Diamond Race-counting event on this occasion, and nor were the two sprint relays which began the track action and produced world-leading times of 37.58 and 41.75 respectively for the US men’s and women’s quartets.

A near-capacity crowd at the Stade Louis II witnessed an exceptional 1500m race which saw Farah follow the tall and upright Kenyan home, thus breaking the European record of 3:28.95 set by Spain’s Fermin Cacho in 1997, and the British record of 3:29.67 set just along the coast in Nice in 1985 by Steve Cram.

Kiprop, meanwhile, was “happy and excited” about his performance, adding: “I’m very surprised about Mo Farah and his mark of 3:28.81 – that’s crazy! Now I want to give my best in Moscow.”

Brigetta Barrett celebrated victory in the high jump – where she defeated Russia’s Olympic champion Anna Chicherova with an effort of 2.01m – by performing a well-rehearsed version of For Once In My Life before the final firework display.

The women’s long jump was also a competition of the highest quality as Russia’s European indoor champion Darya Klishina produced a second-round leap of 6.98m, just seven centimetres off her personal best, only to see Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare outdo her with successive seven-metre jumps – a wind-assisted 7.04 (2.1m/s) in round two and a third-round personal best of 7.00m (0.0m/s).

The men’s 5000m was won in dramatic style by Soi, who passed Bahraini junior Albert Rop as they came into the final straight and maintained his lead under heavy pressure to cross in 12:51.34, the best in the world this year and a meeting record. Rop’s reward for his persistence was a senior Asian record of 12:51.96.


London, 26-27 JulyA year on from the London 2012 opening ceremony, a capacity crowd of 60,000 witnessed the Olympic stadium celebrate its birthday with two world-leading marks and Usain Bolt’s fastest 100m time of the year. Newly branded as the London Anniversary Games, this meeting was an opportunity to see two days of action before the stadium’s shutdown for two years of re-configuring ahead of the 2017 IAAF World Championships.

Of the 11 Olympic champions on show on Friday and Saturday, two of them enjoyed ‘encore’ wins on day one, and none attracted more attention than the 100m gold medallist Usain Bolt, who crowned the evening by running his the 100m in 9.85 despite what he described as a “horrifying start”.

World-leading times came from the Czech Republic’s Zuzana Hejnova in the women’s 400m hurdles, where she lowered her national record to 53.07 ahead of home runner Perri Shakes-Drayton, who ran a personal best of 53.67, and the United States’ Shannon Rowbury, who won the 3000m in 8:41.46.

Bohdan Bondarenko provided one of the highlights of Friday night by winning the high jump with 2.38m after another close battle with Olympic silver medallist Erik Kynard.

Yarisley Silva achieved her second consecutive Diamond League victory over Jenn Suhr and Fabiana Murer, beating the Olympic and world champions with a Diamond League record of 4.83m.

Bolt wasn’t the only Jamaican sprinter reliving London 2012 glories, for Olympic bronze medallist Warren Weir led compatriot Jason Young to the 200m line in 19.89, as both men dipped under 20 seconds.

Kirani James produced a well-paced piece of 400m running to become the only other London 2012 winner apart from Bolt to repeat his Olympic victory, clocking 44.65.


Stockholm, 22 AugustEthiopia’s Meseret Defar would have preferred to have raced over 5000m, the distance at which she had won consecutive Olympic and world titles, but she made the very best of the scheduled 3000m race to win in 8:30.29.

At the bell, Defar had her compatriot Genzebe Dibaba, the world indoor champion, on her shoulder, with the Kenya’s world silver medallist Mercy Cherono also close. However, Defar turned the screw as they entered the final bend and crossed five metres clear of Cherono, who clocked a personal best of 8:31.23.

On a chilly evening, but with a near-capacity crowd in the 1912 Olympic Stadium, eight of the top nine high jump finalists from the Moscow did battle here again – and once again Svetlana Shkolina came out on top to continue her unbeaten record this season as her fellow Russians Anna Chicherova and Mariya Kuchina took second and third place.

Shkolina had first-time clearances at 1.90m, 1.94m and 1.98m before failing at 2.01m, but only Chicherova joined her in attempting that height, and the Olympic champion’s earlier failed attempt at 1.94m saw her take second place on count-back.

Moscow bronze medallist Mariya Abakumova became a member of Stockholm’s Diamond Club after bettering Trine Hattestad’s 13-year-old javelin stadium record of 67.92m with a winning effort of 68.59m.

The Czech Republic’s world 400m hurdles champion Zuzana Hejnova joined her as winner of a 1-carat, US$10,000 diamond after beating the meeting record of 53.74 set in 2011 by Jamaica’s Kaliese Spencer, as she won in 53.70.

The final race of the night, over 800m, involved Sweden’s world 1500m champion Abeba Aregawi but was conclusively won by the Kenyan who won the world title at that distance in Moscow, Eunice Sum, in 1:58.84.

World shot put champion Valerie Adams secured her 40th consecutive competition victory with a third-round effort and stadium record of 20.30m.


Zurich, 29 AugustMeseret Defar’s outstanding 5000m win over her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba and Bohdan Bondarenko, bringing the Letzigrund Stadium to a standstill as he attempted again to improve the high jump world record, provided the highlights of the first of the 2013 IAAF Diamond League finals.

In total, there were 15 Diamond Race trophies awarded along with the US$40,000 first prize that accompanies them – the women’s shot put winner Valerie Adams was crowned on the previous day – before another sell-out crowd of 26,000 in Zurich.

Defar and Dibaba, the 5000m and 10,000m gold medallists respectively from the World Championships, were brought together to battle for supremacy over the shorter distance, something that had not happened in Moscow. It was just their fourth race against each other since the Beijing Olympics five years ago.

Dibaba may have come in as the world record-holder and 2013 world leader, but it was Defar who prevailed in a thrilling last lap, finishing just under two seconds in front of her Ethiopian compatriot and rival in 14:32.83.

Defar’s win meant that she was also victorious in the Diamond Race and added a $US40,000 first prize as well as the Diamond Trophy, which all winners received at the end of the meeting.

Usain Bolt won the 100m in 9.90, but the Diamond Race went to US sprinter Justin Gatlin, third on the night in 9.96, a reflection of his season-long consistency.

In the women’s 200m, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won in 22.40 with Murielle Ahoure second in 22.66.

Bondarenko had already secured the Diamond Race after winning the high jump with an effort of 2.33m, and he then asked for the bar to be set at 2.46m before requesting silence from the crowd for his 11th attempt in the last two months at Javier Sotomayor’s two-decade-old standard of 2.45m. However, the record abides.

Silas Kiplagat won the 1500m in 3:30.97. Djibouti’s world 800m bronze medallist Ayanleh Souleiman finished second in


3:31.64 but had already won the Diamond Race thanks to his performances earlier in the season.

Zuzana Hejnova won her 400m hurdles race in 53.22 to take her unbeaten run to 11 races in this event this season, and another world champion hurdler, David Oliver, won the 110m hurdles in 13.12. It was the third consecutive Diamond League win for Oliver and helped him regain the Diamond Race he had won in its inaugural year of 2010.

Fellow US athlete LaShawn Merritt was another man who added US$40,000 to his bank balance after winning the 400m in 44.13.

Maria Abakumova won the javelin with 66.91m but world champion Christina Obergfoll, second with 63.36m, had already secured the Diamond Race.

World long jump champion Aleksandr Menkov had also secured the Diamond Trophy before the meeting, and finished sixth in a competition which marked the final competitive appearance of four-time world champion Dwight Phillips, who was given a special award by IAAF President Lamine Diack in honour of his achievements.

Gerd Kanter, the 2008 Olympic champion, could only take the Diamond Trophy if he won the discus and Piotr Malachowski finished outside the top three and that is exactly what happened after the Estonian threw a season’s best of 67.02m in the third round while Malachowski was seventh with 63.70m.

World champion Robert Harting reached 66.83m in the fourth round but it was just 19cm short of the mark which would have given him the win and, instead, made him the Diamond Trophy recipient.

Diamond Trophies in the women’s pole vault and long jump went respectively to Silke Spiegelburg and Shara Proctor.

Kenya’s Eunice Sum won the 800m Diamond Trophy after winning in 1:58.82, just 0.11 ahead of the Russian she beat the to the world title, Maria Savinova.

In the men’s 3000m steeplechase, Conseslus Kipruto secured the Diamond Trophy with third place.


Brussels, 6 SeptemberUsain Bolt was upstaged by fellow Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the final IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season.

Fraser-Pryce had won the 200m Diamond Trophy with victory in Zurich the previous week, and her overall victory was already guaranteed in the 100m, but that didn’t stop her from going all-out in the Belgian capital.

Her winning time of 10.72 – into a -0.3m/s headwind, no less – was the third-fastest clocking of her career and broke the 16-year-old meeting record. She thus achieved something that even Bolt has not yet managed to do – winning the Diamond Race in both the 100m and 200m in the same season.

The men’s 100m was not a Diamond League discipline in Brussels on this occasion but Bolt made it a third win in a row as he stopped the clock in 9.80, just 0.04 shy of his own meeting record from two years ago.

World silver medallist Warren Weir was the third sprint winner from Jamaica, edging ahead of compatriot Nickel Ashmeade to win the 200m in 19.87 to succeed Ashmeade as the Diamond Race title-holder.

World champion Mohammed Aman came to Brussels with a lead in the 800m Diamond Race that could not be beaten, but pushed

himself to a national record of 1:42.37, bettering the previous mark by almost a full second.

By winning the 3000m steeplechase in Brussels, world champion Milcah Chemos became the first athlete in history to win four Diamond Race titles in a row in the same event. Moments later, pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie replicated her achievement.


There were just two athletes left in the hunt for the Diamond Trophy in each of the men’s 5000m, 400m hurdles and women’s high jump.

The Ethiopian pair of Hagos Gebrhiwet and Yenew Alamirew were vying to cross the line first in the 5000m, and the latter managed it to secure the big prize, winning in 12:58.75.

Third place in the 400m hurdles – one ahead of his Diamond Race rival – was enough for Javier Culson, and in the women’s high jump the world champion Svetlana Shkolina continued her unbeaten run this season to beat fellow Russian Anna Chicherova to the Diamond Trophy.

Sandra Perkovic, already Diamond Race winner in the discus, earned victory with 67.04m, thus joining 400m hurdler Zuzana Hejnova as the only athletes to win all seven Diamond League competitions this season.

World shot put silver medallist Ryan Whiting also had an unassailable lead in the Diamond Race, but won nevertheless with 21.45m.

Also assured of the overall prize were 100m hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson and Sweden’s world 1500m champion Abeba Aregawi, The former won with a season’s best of 12.48; the latter maintained her unbeaten run in a time of 4:05.41.

World triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen was another athlete who simply had to turn up in Brussels to confirm that she would receive her Diamond Trophy, but the Colombian also ended her season on a victorious note, recording 14.49m.

Vitezslav Vesely and Christian Taylor finished second in the javelin and triple jump respectively, but secured Diamond Trophies nevertheless. Vesely was beaten by World silver medallist Tero Pitkamaki, 87.32m to 86.67m, while Taylor gave best to France’s Teddy Tamgho.

Amantle Montsho, beaten in the women’s 400m, was also a winner overall.


TV figures

Meeting Broadcaster2010 live audience in domestic market

2011 live audience in domestic market



Doha Al Jazeera Sports 810,600 860,300 895,400 981,400

Shanghai CCTV5 7,628,000* 31,229,000 8,426,500* 1,714,500*

Oslo NRK1 629,000 603,500 613,000 759,000

Rome Rai3 1,210,200 1,022,100 1,260,500 2,030,000

New York NBC 1,218,000 1,271,000 1,787,000 3,067,000

Eugene NBC 1,218,000 1,111,000 390,000 1,961,000

Lausanne TSR2, RSI LA 184,600 193,200 141,700 184,000

Birmingham BBC2 (+BBC HD) 1,007,800 1,939,000 1,176,000 1,041,000

Paris Canal+ 584,300 662,200 609,700 1,742,000

Monaco Canal+ 420,100 470,500 387,459 1,372,000

Stockholm SVT1 / SVT2 1,020,000 950,200 1,223,600 1,403,000

London Day 1 BBC2 (+BBC HD) 1,613,500 1,541,400 1,471,600 5,325,000

London Day 2 BBC1 1,306,400 1,373,500 1,446,500 1,971,000

Zurich SF Zwei / RSI LA 2 (SRG) 373,600 408,300 441,800 411,000

Brussels VRT 311,700 534,500 418,800 531,000

Total 19,535,800 44,169,700 20,659,559 24,492,000

Golden League 2009: 5.7millions Note: LIVE only inclusive of parallel on HD channels - *Rating for CCTV5 is cumulative


2014 calendar

Doha, QAT Friday 9 May

Shanghai, CHN Sunday 18 May

Eugene, USA Saturday 31 May

Rome, ITA Thursday 5 Jun

Oslo, NOR Wednesday 11 Jun

New York, USA Saturday 14 Jun

Lausanne, SUI Thursday 3 Jul

Paris, FRA Saturday 5 Jul

Glasgow, GBR Friday 11 - Saturday 12 Jul

Monaco, MON Friday 18 Jul

Stockholm, SWE Thursday 21 Aug

Birmingham, GBR Sunday 24 Aug

Zurich, SUI Thursday 28 Aug

Brussels, BEL Friday 5 Sep


2014 Diamond Race disciplines – men100m Shanghai

17 MayEugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

200m Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

400m Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

800m Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

New York 14 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

1500m Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

Oslo 11 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

3000m/ 5000m

Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

3000m steeplechase

Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

Oslo 11 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

110m hurdles

Doha 9 May

Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Brussels 5 Sep

400m hurdles

Shanghai 17 May

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

High jump Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

Pole vault Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Paris 5 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

Long jump Doha 9 May

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

Triple jump Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Rome 5 Jun

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Zurich 28 Aug

Shot put Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

Discus Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

Javelin Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug


2014 Diamond Race disciplines – women100m Doha

9 MayRome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug


Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep


Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

800m Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

Oslo 11 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep


Eugene 31 May

New York 14 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

3000m/ 5000m

Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

3000m steeplechase

Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

New York 14 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

100m hurdles

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Birmingham 24 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

400m hurdles

Doha 9 May

Eugene 31 May

Rome 5 Jun

Oslo 11 Jun

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

High jump Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

Pole vault Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

Long jump Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

Triple jump Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

Shot put Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep

Discus Shanghai 17 May

Eugene 31 May

Oslo 11 Jun

Paris 5 Jul

Glasgow 11-12 Jul

Stockholm 21 Aug

Zurich 28 Aug

Javelin Doha 9 May

Rome 5 Jun

New York 14 Jun

Lausanne 3 Jul

Monaco 18 Jul

Birmingham 24 Aug

Brussels 5 Sep


Host broadcasters

Birmingham BBC

Brussels VRT

Doha Al Jazeera

Eugene NBC

Glasgow BBC

Lausanne RTS, SRG SSR

Monaco Canal +

New York NBC

Oslo NRK

Paris Canal +

Rome RAI

Shanghai CCTV

Stockholm SVT

Zurich SF


2014 seasonThe fourth season of the IAAF Diamond League will blast out of the blocks on 9 May 2014 in Doha, Qatar.

The structure of the IAAF Diamond League follows the successful format of the first four seasons. With no major senior global outdoor championships this year, the IAAF Diamond League will take on extra importance as athletes do battle each month in the hunt for the Diamond Race Trophy.

World’s top stars guaranteedThe top stars of athletics will once again be taking part in the IAAF Diamond League in 2014. After four seasons, the goal of ensuring head-to-head competition between the best athletes in the world has been achieved in almost every event discipline. The names of the participating athletes in 2014 will be announced on a meeting-by-meeting basis, as was the case during the first four seasons.

Get set for a new season of the very best of the best of track and field. Get set for the IAAF Diamond League 2014.

Follow all the news and live results on www.diamondleague.com.

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Meeting director, Tom Jordan: [email protected]

Press chief, Jeff Oliver: [email protected]

GlasgowSainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix British Athletics Alexander Stadium Walsall Road Birmingham West Midlands B42 2BE UK


Meeting director, Cherry Alexander: [email protected]

Press chief, Craig Gundersen: [email protected]

LausanneAthletissima Case postale 56 1041 Poliez-le Grand Switzerland


Meeting director, Jacky Delapierre: [email protected]

Press chief, Pierre-André Pasche: [email protected]



MonacoHerculis Fédération Monégasque d’Athlétisme Stade Louis II 98000 Monaco


General media email: [email protected]

Meeting director, Jean-Pierre Schoebel: [email protected]

Press chief, Lydie Calvas: [email protected]

New YorkAdidas Grand Prix Global Athletics & Marketing 437 Boylston Street Floor #4 Boston MA 02116 USA


Meeting director, Mark Wetmore: [email protected]

Press chief, Andy Martin: [email protected]

ParisMeeting Areva Fédération Française d’Athlétisme Bureau du MEETING AREVA Stade de France ZAC du Cornillon Nord 93216 Saint-Denis La Plaine cedex France


Meeting director, Laurent Boquillet: [email protected]

Press chief, Laurence Dacoury: [email protected]



RomeGolden Gala Federazione Italiana Di Atletica Leggera Via Flaminia Nuova 830 00191 Roma Italy


Meeting director, Luigi D’Onofrio: [email protected]

Press chief, Marco Sicari: [email protected]

OsloExxonMobil Bislett Games Bislett Alliansen PO Box 5889 Majorstua 0308 Oslo Norway


Meeting director, Steinar Hoen: [email protected]

Press chief, Anne Kullebund: [email protected]

ShanghaiIAAF Diamond League Shanghai Snelliusstraat10 6533 NV Nijmegen Netherlands


Meeting director, Jos Hermens. Event coordinator, Ellen van Langen (Global Sports Communication): [email protected]

Press chief co-ordinator (from the Netherlands), Marleen Vink-Rennings: [email protected]



StockholmDN Galan Stadionklubbarnas Service Stockholm AB PO Box 26099 S-100 41 Stockholm Sweden


Meeting director, Anders Tallgren: [email protected]

Press chief, Johan Storåkers: [email protected]

Accreditation and technical media manager, John-Eric Ericsson: [email protected]

ZurichWeltklasse Zürich Geschäftsstelle Baslerstrasse 30 8048 Zurich Switzerland


Meeting director, Patrick Magyar: [email protected]

Press chief, Janine Geigele: [email protected]


Media accreditationThe IAAF Diamond League operates a centralised online media accreditation system for all 14 meetings. Accreditation for the 2014 season begins on 14 March 2014.

http://www.diamondleague.com/en/Media/Accreditation1/

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