14.05.2010 - Doha - Review: Women’s events

Felix crowns first DL with seventh Doha victory  Doha (May 14) – Diamond League Ambassador Allyson Felix brought the first ever DL meeting to a rousing conclusion tonight as she continued her love affair with the Qatar Sports Club stadium where she has won six times in the past.

  After victories here in 100m and 200m in recent years, Felix elected to run 400m tonight and she again produced a commanding performance to win in 50.15 and go to the top of the 2010 world rankings.   Felix, three times a world 200m champion, started fast and, despite a challenge over the final bend from Jamaica’s Novlene Williams-Mills, emerged strongest in the straight as Botswanan Amantle Montsho came through for second in 50. more

14.05.2010 - Shanghai - Star athletes to shine in Shanghai

2010 IAAF Diamond League Shanghai, after confirming in April the participation of Jamaica’s Usain “Lightening” Bolt and China’s “Flying Man” Liu Xiang, today announced 29 more top athletes will join the event on May 23.

As a world-class track and field event, the list of athletes announced by the sponsor of IAAF Diamond League Shanghai included many 2009 World Champions and 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medallists.  The Diamond League Shanghai is also seen as a great opportunity for outstanding Chinese athletes to compete head to head against the world’s top athletes. more

05.06.2010 - Oslo - Moments to remember

There were almost five hours of World class athletic action to watch at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo yesterday evening. Some of the finest athletes disappointed because of external factors like the wind or because of their personal performances.

But the moments to remember were in large number superior. These are 10 of them. 1
David Rudisha’s new meeting record over 800m. For 31 years, the crowd at the Bislett stadium had to wait for a performance which would break Sebastian Coe’s record from 1979. more

09.06.2010 - Rome - Golden Gala, press conference quotes

Some of the stars of the Golden Gala which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year spoke in front of the media on the eve of what promises to be another fantastic edition of the major Italian meeting.

US high jump record holder Chauntie Howard Lowe was upbeat after her recent 2.04 national record set last week in Cottbus and her 2.01 in Oslo where she lost on a countback to Blanka Vlasic. About her ambitions for tomorrow’s competition? more

12.06.2010 - New York - World Leading Marks and Meet Records Highlight adidas Grand Prix

NEW YORK (June 12, 2010) — Four world-leading marks and several meet records made for an entertaining afternoon at Saturday’s adidas Grand Prix, the first of two American stops on the inaugural IAAF Diamond League circuit.

Women’s Pole Vault
National record-holder and former United States team member Jillian Schwartz achieved a 4.60 today, just ahead of Jenn Suhr’s 4.50. Suhr, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist who set an American record at this meet in 2007, competed for the first time this year. more

02.07.2010 - Eugene - PRE W400: FAVORITE FELIX VS. REDHOT DUNN

July 2, 2010
For Immediate Release            

    Eugene , Oregon —With defending World Champion Sanya Richards unable to compete due to an injury suffered while attending the USA Championships last weekend, one might think that 200-meter multi-gold medalist Allyson Felix would be the odds-on favorite.

After all, she has a PR of 49.70, and has won many one-lap races against the world’s best, including the Doha Diamond League stop.

    Not so fast, my friend. Enjoying a breakthrough year at age 32, World Indoor Champion Debbie Dunn scorched the track in Des Moines last weekend with a world-leading 49. more

09.07.2010 - Lausanne - ATHLETISSIMA 2010 - Report

Bolt storms back with 9.82 win, one of eight world leads in Lausanne.

ATHLETISSIMA 2010 - Report more

06.07.2010 - Gateshead - Powell tips British athletes ahead of 2012

The world’s fastest man in 2010, Jamaica’s Asafa Powell, has tipped the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for success at London 2012 ahead of the Aviva British Grand Prix in Gateshead on July 10.

The former 100m world record holder commented on the standard of British athletics prior to the Aviva British Grand Prix and sees them as a viable threat in what is the greatest athletic competition. He said: “Seeing that London 2012 will be at the British athletes’ home, they should shine. more

16.07.2010 - Paris - An awe-inspiring final

It was in the final hour of the Meeting Areva 2010 that the organisers concentrated the most highly awaited track events, such as the men’s 100m and 110m hurdles, those whose protagonists were presented as the evening’s stars.

However, before seeing Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell square up to each other in the last race on the programme, the public were given the chance to enjoy the numerous other top level confrontations between the best athletes of our time. The first of these were the men’s pole vault competition and the women’s high jump, both run concurrently with similar scenarios punctuated by a score of position switches, fierce duels and final attempts. more

13.07.2010 - Monaco - D-Day – 10: Herculis Monaco finalizes its lists – Samsung Diamond League

July 12 - Monaco – 10 days prior to the meeting, more Champions are being confirmed to compete in Stade Louis II on July 22.

  On the 110m Hurdles, the audience will watch the best confrontation this event offers: Olympic Champion and World Record Holder Dayron Robles, 13. more

03.08.2010 - Stockholm - A revenge meeting in the women´s long jump

The women’s long jump at DN Galan Friday, August 6 at Stockholm Olympic Stadium looks like a revenge meeting between European Champion Ineta Radevica, Latvia and Naide Gomes, Portugal.

Both jumped 6.92 in Barcelona and may threaten Galina Tjistiakovas 21 year old Stadium record 7.05.
 
But the same could be said about Russians Olga Kucherenko and Lyudmila Kolchanova and American Brittney Reese.
 
Kucherenko is the world leader with 7. more

02.08.2010 - London - European success rolls into London

The Aviva GB and NI team will be returning home to be welcomed as heroes by the British crowd as the most successful team of all time, and next stop is the Aviva London Grand Prix.

So far European Championship British medallists Michael Bingham, Martyn Rooney, Michael Rimmer, Mo Farah, Chris Thompson, Andy Turner, Dai Greene, Rhys Williams, Chris Tomlinson, Phillips Idowu, Marilyn Okoro, Jenny Meadows, and Perri Shakes Drayton will all be competing at the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on the 13 and 14 August. more

19.08.2010 - Zurich - A Fascinating Athletics Show, World Leading Times and Promising Swiss Performances

The first Samsung Diamond League final offered a night of fascinating athletics at a sold-out Letzigrund Stadium. There were two world leading performances, as well as a number of Swiss athletes offering hints of a very promising future.

The two world leading results (one by Jeremy Wariner in the men’s 400m in 44.13 and the other by Team USA in the 4x100m Zurich Trophy in 37.45), David Oliver’s energetic show in the high hurdles, and a gripping 5000m race were among an entire series of Weltklasse highlights. more

29.08.2010 - Brussels - Wilfried Meert: 'Five degrees too cold'

Event organiser Wilfried Meert proved more than satisfied with 34th Belgacom Memorial Van Damme. "Pity that the temperature wasn't like five degrees higher, because it would have upped some powerful performances even more.

" "Tyson Gay could have knocked off a few hundredths off his 9.79 and Blanka Vlasic might have jumped a few centimeters higher. And maybe then Andreas Thorkildsen breaks the 90 meters threshold at the javelin. more