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A Close-Up on Paris
Has three weeks ever felt so long? With the last IAAF Diamond League meeting having taken place back on June 13th, the world’s best athletes finally return for meeting number eight of the 2015 season in Paris this weekend. Following national team appearances and trials for this summer’s World Championships, attention rightly turns back to the tricky business of securing Diamond Race points, with five Diamond League meetings taking place between July 4th and July 30th.
Monaco: World Champions Simpson, Perkovic And Holzdeppe To Star
A handful of world champions and Diamond Race winners will head to the Herculis meeting at the Stade Louis II on 17 July to compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
Paris: Provisional Entry Lists Online
The provisional entry lists for the 2015 Meeting AREVA in Paris on Saturday, 4th July, are now online.
Paris: Ayana & Dibaba To Clash
Both women have already come close to breaking the 5000m world record in recent weeks, but at the Meeting Areva on 4 July Almaz Ayana and Genzebe Dibaba will face each other for the first time this year in a bid to run faster than 14:11.15 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris.
Lausanne: Farah, Perkovic, Simpson and Stowers Among the Lastest Additions
The 40th edition of Lausanne’s famous Athletissima meeting on 9 July, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, continues to add to its star-studded fields and the meeting organisers announced a host of top distance runners, sprint hurdlers and field event exponents on Thursday (21).
Stockholm: Bengtsson To Face Murer
Sweden’s local star Angelica Bengtsson will face 2011 world champion Fabiana Murer at the Stockholm BAUHAUS Athletics meeting, the IAAF Diamond League meeting in the Swedish capital on 30 July.
Paris: An explosive, festive edition packed with surprises !
The 2015 edition of the MEETING AREVA, on Saturday 4 July at the Stade de France, promises to be explosive on the track. With a line-up gathering together some of the top stars from world athletics (Usain Bolt, Renaud Lavillenie, Kirani James, Aries Merritt, Asafa Powell, Mutaz Barshim, Almaz Ayana and Valerie Adams…), records will be in peril in a fair few events. In addition to Renaud Lavillenie, the presence of France’s top names, (Jimmy Vicaut, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Kafétien Gomis…), will add a sumptuous French twist to the Paris event.
Monaco: Array of European Champions to compete at Herculis
HERCULIS has already announced Renaud LAVILLENIE, Benjamin COMPAORE and Mo FARAH ; they are going to be joined by other European Champions from Zurich, and they will all come with high ambitions.
London: Britain's best 100m men face top international opposition
British sprinters European 100m champion James Dasaolu, and world and European indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty, will take on an international line up that will include former 100m world champion Kim Collins and 2014 Commonwealth Games 100m champion Kemar Bailey-Cole at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games in London on 24-25 July.
Monaco: Clash of Giants on 1500m
Kiprop, Farah and Makhloufi confirmed for Herculis.