Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Diamond League | |
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| Sport | Athletics |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| CEO | Petr Stastny[1] |
| Continent | Europe, Asia, North America, Africa |
| Official website | diamondleague.com |
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fifteen invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics one-day meet competitions.
The inaugural season was in 2010.[2] It was designed to replace the IAAF Golden League, which had been held annually since 1998.[3] The full sponsorship name is the Wanda Diamond League, the result of an agreement with Wanda Group that was announced in December 2019.[4]
While the Golden League was formed to increase the profile of the leading European athletics competitions, the Diamond League's aim is to "enhance the worldwide appeal of athletics by going outside Europe for the first time."[2] In addition to the original Golden League members (except Berlin) and other traditional European competitions, the series now includes events in China, Qatar, Morocco, and the United States.
Beginning in March 2022, after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Diamond League excluded Russian and Belarusian athletes from all of its track and field meetings.[5]
- ^ "Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Will Not Be Allowed To Compete In Diamond League 200m/400m Finals". LetsRun.com. 2024-09-04. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ a b "IAAF to launch global Diamond League of 1 Day Meetings". IAAF. 2 March 2009. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
- ^ "IAAF secures future of Diamond League". SportBusiness Group. 2014-05-08. Archived from the original on 2017-12-09. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
- ^ "The Wanda Diamond League is here!". Diamond League. 23 December 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
- ^ "Russian and Belarusian athletes banned from Diamond League meetings". www.insidethegames.biz. March 18, 2022. Archived from the original on June 5, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2022.