It was another year of historic performances and big numbers in the Wanda Diamond League in 2025, as athletics’ premier one-day series once again rewrote the track and field history books.
The 17th Diamond League season broke new ground in both sporting and financial terms, cementing its status as one of the biggest global series in world sport and the backbone of the international athletics calendar.
So from world records on the track to a prize money revolution off it, here are the key facts and figures from 2025.
Global series
With 15 different meetings in 13 countries across four continents, the Diamond League has always delivered world-class competition to fans and athletes in every corner of the world.
2025 was no exception, as the greatest athletes on the planet set out once again on a globe-trotting road to glory in the sport’s most prestigious international series.
A total of 1085 athletes competed in the Diamond League this year, with 92 different countries represented.
In the men’s events, the total was 569 athletes from 77 different countries, while in the women’s events, there were 516 competitors from 66 countries.
The 32 Diamond League champions hailed from 18 different countries and five different continents.
The series also welcomed around 400,000 spectators to its stadiums in Asia, Africa, Europe and the USA, and was broadcast in 170 different countries.
World-class performances
With the biggest stars in world athletics competing week in, week out, records are par for the course in the Wanda Diamond League.
Three new world records and two new world bests were set at Diamond League meetings in 2025, confirming the trend of recent seasons.
In Eugene, Faith Kipyegon beat her own 1500m world record with 3:48.68 while her fellow Kenyan Beatrice Chebet became the first woman to run the 5000m in under 14 minutes.
Mondo Duplantis celebrated his first ever world record on home soil wiht 6.28m in Stockholm, while Karsten Warholm clocked back-to-back 300m hurdles world bests in Xiamen and Oslo.
There were also 43 world leads set across the course of the Diamond League season, as the world’s best honed their title-winning form in the build-up to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
The series’ own history books were also given a makeover with 12 new Diamond League records, including Mykolas Alekna’s 71.70m in the men’s discus in London and Masai Russell’s 12.19 in the women’s 100m hurdles in Silesia.
A total of 69 national records and 20 area records were also broken in the course of the season, including Nicola Olyslagers title-winning Oceania record of 2.04m in the women’s high jump at the final in Zurich.
Rewriting history
2025 also saw both individual athletes and the series itself reach new milestones, as the Diamond League continued to carry athletics into a new era.
The series broke new ground in 2025 with the largest prize money pool in Diamond League history.
A total of 9.84 million US dollars were awarded in prize money across the season, with 2.24 million on offer at the Diamond League Final alone.
New dynasties were built on the track as the likes of Femke Bol and Noah Lyles extended their extraordinary Diamond League dominance.
Lyles’ win in the 200m at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich saw him claim a sixth series title, becoming the most successful track athlete ever in the series history.
Bol, Mondo Duplantis and Valarie Allman also all edged closer to the record of seven titles, as they claimed a fifth Diamond Trophy in 2025.
Not only that, but Bol also celebrated her fifth undefeated campaign in a row, extending her remarkable unbeaten streak to 30 successive Diamond League races.
