World record holders to headline 5,000m at 2025 Pre Classic
The middle-distance race will feature the current world record holders in the women’s 5,000m and 10,000m, both of which were set at The Prefontaine Classic.
The middle-distance race will feature the current world record holders in the women’s 5,000m and 10,000m, both of which were set at The Prefontaine Classic.
Forty-five medallists from the 2024 Olympics and 2023 World Athletics Championships will compete at the Jetour Doha Meeting, the third Diamond League series on Friday.
Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, three-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of two world records, will compete at Hayward Field on 5 July seeking her seventh Pre Classic 1500m title.
View the photos from the Wanda Diamond League Shanghai/Keqiao meeting held at the newly rebuilt stadium in Keqiao, China on May 3, 2025.
Tsige Duguma smashed the Ethiopian record in the 800m with 1:56.64, Berihu Aregawi ran the fastest outdoor 5000m of the year in 12:50.45, and Akani Simbine clocked 9.98 to win the 100m at the Wanda Diamond League in Shanghai/Keqiao on Saturday.
WATCH – Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo on his first 100m race of the season at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China.
South African Akani Simbine takes the men’s 100m, crossing the line in 9.99 (0.2m/s) ahead of Ferdinand Omanyala (10.13) and Jeremiah Azu (10.17) in Xiamen 25.
Slide to view the photos from the Wanda Diamond League Xiamen held at the Egret Stadium in Xiamen, China on 26 April 2025
Watch the highlights of the press conference for the Wanda Diamond League Xiamen 25 from the Egret stadium in Xiamen, China on Friday 25 April, 2025.
How to Watch: The 2025 Wanda Diamond League kicks off in Xiamen, China with an incredible line-up on Saturday 26 April 2025.
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana will make his debut at the Jetour Doha Meeting – the third fixture in the 2025 Wanda Diamond League – in the Qatari capital on Friday 16 May.
The 2025 Wanda Diamond League continues to take shape as the world’s biggest track and field stars plot their route to the series final in Zurich on August 27-28.
From 2025, there will also be a select number of Diamond+Disciplines – four at the series meetings and eight at the Final – in which athletes can earn higher prize money.
The Prefontaine Classic is set to dedicate the women’s 800m to Maria Mutola (Mozambique). Henceforth, the event will be named the “Mutola 800m”.
The calendar and the allocation of disciplines for the 2025 Wanda Diamond League season have now been published
The Prefontaine Classic returns to Hayward Field at the University of Oregon on Saturday, July 5, 2025 for the 50th edition of the meet.
The Wanda Diamond League will increase athlete prize money to the highest levels in the series’ history beginning with the 2025 season, the league offices announced today.
The 2024 track and field season concluded with the thrilling Wanda Diamond League finale at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on Saturday.
Faith Kipyegon claimed her fifth Diamond League title, and with her compatriot Beatrice Chebet, broke the meeting records in their events on the second day of the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on Saturday.
Kenya’s Amos Serem shocked Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali to win his first men’s 3000m Steeplechase Diamond League title at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme – Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels.
The reigning Olympic 200m champion, who has been in excellent form since the end of Paris 2024, said in Brussels that he’s prepared to run in any weather conditions.
The Jesse Owens Rising Star Award will honour the best performing male and female athletes aged 23 or under at each Wanda Diamond League Final, starting with this year’s edition in Brussels on 13-14 September.
These medallists from Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will make the two-day Memorial at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on 13-14 September exceptional.
Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet set a world-leading 14:09.52 meeting record at the 2024 Weltklasse Zurich, the penultimate Wanda Diamond League event of the season.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo cruises to a 9.87 (+0.3) win over a packed men’s 100m field at the Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Rome.
Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke Kenya’s Daniel Komen’s 28-year-old men’s 3000m world record of 7:20.67 in Silesia, Poland on Sunday.
The first competitors in three events at the Weltklasse Zürich 2024 – 110m hurdles, shot put men, and high jump women – have been confirmed.
Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati cements No.3 on the men’s 800m list with 1:41.46 on a great night for African Athletes at the 2024 Herculis EBS Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon shatters her own women’s 1500m world record of 3:49.11, racing to an incredible 3:49.04 finish at the 2024 Paris Diamond League.
Athletes will compete for points in their chosen discipline at the 14 series meetings between April and September.
The Kenyan runner ran 4:07.64 to break her third world record of the summer at Stade Louis II in Monaco on Friday
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon secured the world record she had been targeting, winning the women’s 1500m in an impressive 3:49.11 at the Golden Gala in Florence.
WATCH: We caught up with Timothy Cheruiyot after he finished his first race of the season at the Doha Diamond League on Friday.
WATCH – Nigerian hurdler Tobiloba Amusan chats with journalists after her second place finish at the Wanda Diamond League 2022 season opener in Doha, Qatar.
Photo Gallery of the Ooredoo Doha Meeting, first leg of the Wanda Diamond League 2022, held on Friday 13 May 2022 in Doha, Qatar.
The Wanda Diamond League announced that due to travel restrictions and strict quarantine requirements for entry into China, the Diamond League meetings in Shanghai and Shenzhen will not take place this year.
Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba took more than two seconds off Genzebe Dibaba’s world 2000m record with a brilliant run of 5:21.56 at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb.
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