Although it is a relatively new race, it is still something of a surprise that before this year no Kenyan athlete had ever won the Lanzhou Marathon. But in the fourth edition of the IAAF Bronze Label Road Race on Sunday (1), both races were won by Keny... [Read More]
Ashton Eaton, widely regarded as the world s greatest athlete, will make his Norwegian debut at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games on 11 June in what will be his first appearance at an IAAF Diamond League meeting in European soil. [Read More]
World indoor 60m hurdles champion Nia Ali is returning to the heptathlon. It s a vow that Ali made after winning the 2011 NCAA 100m hurdles title during her last season at the University of Southern California. [Read More]
European 800m champion Lynsey Sharp will compete at the Sainsbury s Glasgow Grand Prix at Hampden Park on 11-12 July, the first of two IAAF Diamond League meetings to be held in Britain. [Read More]
Jamaica s 2013 IAAF World Athlete of the Year Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bounced back from her disappointing eighth place over 200m at the at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene at the weekend with a 100m win at the fourth edition of the Gal dei Ca... [Read More]
World records are hard to come by in athletics and elite competitors usually avoid such talk, but such has been the depth of the men s high jump in the past two years that nobody would be surprised if Bohdan Bondarenko or Ivan Ukhov or even perhaps M... [Read More]
There have been nine world records in the history of the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea since the meeting came into being in 1980 and there are quiet hopes that at the fourth in the 2014 IAAF Diamond League series such a tally will reach double figures on T... [Read More]
Top Athletes Announced for Swiss Meeting
Published by the Diamond League on June 2, 2014
The jumping events will not be the only exciting competitions to take place on July 3 at the Pontaise stadium for what will be the 39th of IAAF Diamond League A... [Read More]
Two-time world champion Trey Hardee overcame a minor scare to win the decathlon at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting in Gotzis, while Katarina Johnson-Thompson achieved the best mark in the world for two years to win the heptathlon at the Hypo... [Read More]
Kirani James s 400m victory over LaShawn Merritt in Eugene last weekend was one of the most exciting races of the meeting, and the pair will do battle once again over one lap of the track at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 3 July. [Read More]
Olympic champion Allyson Felix will be looking to put an injury-plagued 2013 behind her and re-establish herself as the dominant force in 200m running at the Bislett Games on 11 June, the fifth leg of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League. [Read More]
Ashton Eaton, widely regarded as the world s greatest athlete, will make his Norwegian debut at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games on 11 June in what will be his first appearance at an IAAF Diamond League meeting in European soil. [Read More]
At this time last year, David Rudisha was hoping to make it out on the track at Hayward Field for the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, but was instead destined back to Kenya and on the shelf for the season with a knee injury. [Read More]
With almost everyone's eyes fixated on the clock on Friday (30) on the eve of the main competition programme for the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Galen Rupp remained focused on competing, unmoved by time. [Read More]
Germany s Kai Kazmirek and Canada s defending Gotzis champion Brianne Theisen-Eaton led overnight at the famous Hypo Meeting, the third leg of this year s IAAF Combined Events Challenge, on Saturday (31). [Read More]
Kenya s Lucy Kabuu, fourth at the 2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in March, came home ahead of the more than 4000 at the 36th running of the Freihofer s Run for Women over 5km on Saturday (31). [Read More]
China s world bronze medallist Liu Hong and Guatemala s Olympic silver medallist Erick Barrondo captured respective 20km victories in 1:27:39 and 1:21:14 at the ‘28th Gran Premio Cantones de Marcha , the Spanish leg in the 2014 IAAF Race Walking ... [Read More]
Despite feeling a bit fatigued, Kenya's Hellen Obiri was confident in the strength and duration of her kick at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on Saturday (31). [Read More]
It was a good afternoon for France at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene as Renaud Lavillenie lived up to expectations in the pole vault and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde exceeded them in the 110m hurdles on Saturday (31). [Read More]