“When I have the chance to sleep in your own bed, I prefer that” – Mondo Duplantis

Ahead of his home Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, Mondo Duplantis admitted that he was relishing a rare chance to sleep and eat at home, rather than in a hotel. It obviously did wonders for him, as he went on to break the world record on home soil for the first time in his career.

“Within the next month” – Gabriel Tual

Asked in Paris when the men’s 800m world record would fall, Gabriel Tual stuck his neck out. In the end, it wasn’t to be, but 2025 was still a vintage year over two laps, as Tual and co. kept the heat on eventual champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi throughout the season.

“Business is booming, I’m booming!” – Tara Davis-Woodhall

Anyone who says there is no future in the field events should probably talk to Tara Davis-Woodhall. Ahead of her world-lead-equalling Diamond League victory in Eugene, the Olympic long jump champion reminded everyone why she and her event have been front and centre in recent years.

“This is the time I was expecting” – Faith Kipyegon

After five world records in the last three Diamond League seasons, Faith Kipyegon was supremely unfazed when she smashed the 1500m world record for the third year in a row with 3:48.68 in Eugene.

“I’ve been saying it time and time again: I’m here to stay” – Melissa Jefferson-Wooden

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden claimed her first ever Diamond League win with a stunning 10.75 victory over Olympic champion Julien Alfred in Eugene, and she followed it up with a statement of intent ahead of her World Championships triumph in Tokyo.

“I just want to go out there and see what I can do” – Gout Gout

Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout marked his first ever Diamond League appearance with a bang in the pre-programme U23 200m in Monaco. After storming to victory, he was already setting his sights on future battles with the likes of Noah Lyles and Letsile Tebogo.

“I’ll either have taken over the track world or have three Olympic gold medals” – Noah Lyles

With only three years to go until the next Olympic Games, six-time Diamond League champion Noah Lyles was asked in London where he saw himself a year after LA 2028. As it turned out, he has big plans.

“I think he likes the whisky here…” – Femke Bol

Femke Bol stormed to yet another world lead and meeting record in Silesia this year. But as she accidentally let slip during the press conference, it seems her coach has another reason for heading to the Polish Diamond League meeting.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day” – Letsile Tebogo

Fresh from his Olympic triumph in Paris the previous year, Letsile Tebogo was asked if he add any advice for young athletes when he kicked off his Diamond League campaign in Xiamen. His answer? Patience.

“We are not curing cancer, we are entertaining people” – Karsten Warholm

Karsten Warholm may have set two world bests and won his third Diamond League title in 2025, but he also retained his unshakeable sense of perspective. In Keqiao, he reminded us why sport is the simultaneously the best and least important thing in the world.

“When women turn 30 and have a child, people put them in a box. I think of Doha as a place where I defied the odds.” – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made her first Diamond League appearance in three years in Doha last May. As she noted at the time, that meant returning to the site of perhaps the greatest and most inspiring triumph of her storied career.

“It’s a little bit bittersweet” – Neeraj Chopra

After years of trying, Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra finally broke the 90-metre mark in Doha. But the triumph proved bittersweet, as German rival Julian Weber pipped him to victory.

“The world record is possible” – Beatrice Chebet

Amid a flurry of early-season records, Kenyan distance star Beatrice Chebet was in a buoyant mood after her victory in Rabat. It proved also to be a clairvoyant mood, as she later smashed the 5000m world record in Eugene.

“The ring is my stage” – Valarie Allman

Once a ballerina always a ballerina. For five-time Diamond League champion and lifelong dancer Valarie Allman, the discus is just another art form.

“I can be a role model like Usain” – Julien Alfred

St. Lucia’s 100m Olympic champion Julien Alfred met up with fellow Caribbean sprint legend Usain Bolt after her victory in Oslo in June.

“I put my ***** on the line” – George Mills

George Mills’ father Danny Mills was one of the toughest footballers of his generation. In Oslo, his son had to dig deep to break Mo Farah’s 5000m British record.

From world records on three continents to the rise of a new generation of world champions, athletics’ premier one-day series had it all as the sport’s biggest names went head to head in packed out stadiums across the world.

But which was your favourite moment of the 2025 season? Get involved and cast your vote for the Wanda Diamond League Moment of the Year 2025.

How it works

Voting for the Wanda Diamond League Moment of the Year 2025 will open on December 8.

The shortlist of eight moments will be revealed on Facebook, Instagram and X. Fans can cast their vote by reposting or liking their favourite moment.

The final winner will be decided based on both the fan vote and a separate vote by a panel of experts, with each weighted at 50 percent.

Voting will close on December 15 and the winner will be announced on December 18.

Shortlist

The shortlist for the Wanda Diamond League Moment of the Year 2025 is as follows.

Doha: Weber and Chopra break 90 metres

Prior to 2025, neither Julian Weber nor Neeraj Chopra had ever broken the 90-metre mark. In Doha, they both did so on a single night, delivering one of the greatest javelin competitions of all time.

Stockholm: Duplantis breaks the world record on home soil

Mondo Duplantis may have 14 pole vault world records to his name, but few have meant more to him than the 6.28m he jumped in Stockholm in June. It was the first time ever that the Swedish sensation had broken the record on home soil.

Eugene: Chebet takes world record under 14 minutes in the 5000m

After a dominant start to the season, Kenyan distance star Beatrice Chebet broke the 5000m world record in style in Eugene, becoming the first woman ever to go under 14 minutes.

Eugene: Kipyegon breaks own world record 1500m

Five-time Diamond League champion Faith Kipyegon broke the 1500m world record at a Diamond League meeting for the third season in a row in Eugene with 3:48.68.

Silesia: Jefferson-Wooden equals Fraser-Pryce’s meeting record

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden picked up three Diamond League wins ahead of her 100m world title in 2025. The pick of the bunch came in Silesia, when she equalled Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s meeting record of 10.66 and picked up her first overseas Diamond League victory in the process.

Silesia: Warholm sets new Diamond League record

After beginning his season with back-to-back world leads in the 300m hurdles, Karsten Warholm showed his class in the 400m hurdles with a Diamond League record of 46.28 in Silesia.

Lausanne: Seville stuns Lyles in the rain

In a statement victory ahead of his 100m world title, Jamaica’s Oblique Seville defied torrential rain to clock 9.87 in Lausanne and land the second of two eyecatching victories over Olympic champion Noah Lyles.

At the World Athletics Championships in Japan, the 24-year-old lived up to her billing as favourite when she clocked a championship record of 10.61 to win gold in the women’s 100m, becoming the fourth-fastest woman in history.

It was the crowning moment of a perfect season for the US sprinter, who has steadily established herself as one of the best in the world in the Wanda Diamond League in recent seasons.

The American got her first taste of elite level competition when she made her Diamond League debut in Silesia back in 2022.

At just 21, she finished a respectable seventh as Jamaican legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stormed to a meeting record of 10.66 at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial.

It was a record which Jefferson-Wooden would later match, but only after soaking up a few more hard knocks in athletics’ premier one-day series.

The US star picked up two more seventh place finishes in Doha and London the following year, before coming in fifth on her first Diamond League appearance on home soil in Eugene in 2024.

Defeats at the highest level only make you stronger, and in 2025, Jefferson-Wooden finally stepped out of the shadows to establish herself as the biggest name in female sprinting.

Returning to Eugene last July, she claimed her first ever Diamond League win with a thumping, 10.75 victory over Olympic champion Julien Alfred.

She followed that up a few weeks later in Silesia, equalling Fraser-Pryce’s meeting record of 10.66 to take her first overseas victory in the series.

In Brussels, she then completed a hat-trick of Diamond League wins with an impressive 10.76.

That was her ninth straight victory in the 100m in 2025, and the sixth time she had gone under 10.8 seconds.

It was also the perfect dress rehearsal for Tokyo, where she arrived as favourite, and walked away as a world champion.

A two-time Olympic gold medallist, three-time world champion and five-time Diamond League champion, Duplantis will be one of the headline acts when athletics’ premier one-day series returns to Poland for the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial on August 23.

It will be Duplantis’ fifth consecutive appearance at the Silesia meeting, which has proved a happy hunting ground in recent seasons.

“I feel really appreciated and loved here. I like the stadium, I appreciate the crowd. But, honestly speaking, I like everything in Silesia. I love it all: the venue, the city, even the sushi restaurant close to the hotel that I visit when I am here,” said Duplantis at his last appearance in Silesia earlier this year.

His most memorable performance at the meeting came in 2024, when he broke the world record with 6.26m.

It was the tenth time in his career that the Swedish star had broken the world record, and he has since done so four more times, taking the mark to an astonishing 6.30m.

That mark will no doubt be in his sights yet again next season, as he looks to extend his title-winning streak in the Diamond League.

With five series titles so far, Duplantis is closing in on the record of seven, held by his fellow pole-vaulter Renaud Lavillenie.

His 2026 campaign will also take him to London, where he will make his first appearance since 2018.

Five-time series champion and serial world record breaker Duplantis will headline the men’s pole vault at the London Athletics Meet, the 11th leg of the 2026 Diamond League season, on July 18.

It will be Duplantis’ first appearance in London since 2018, when he finished third behind Sam Kendricks and Renaud Lavillenie aged just 18.

Since then, the Swedish superstar has become one of biggest names in global sport, rewriting the athletics history books and raising the bar in the pole vault to once unthinkable new heights.

As well as two Olympic gold medals and three outdoor world titles, Duplantis has also broken the world record 14 times since 2020.

Last season, he broke the record for the first time on home soil at the Stockholm Diamond League in June, before increasing it again with 6.30m at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Duplantis has also dominated the Diamond League like fewer other athletes in recent years, notching up 41 wins and five titles in athletics’ premier one-day series.

He will be chasing a sixth straight Diamond League title in 2026, which would leave him just one short of Lavillenie’s overall record of seven Diamond Trophies.

Duplantis was named Men’s World Athlete of the Year after another record-breaking season which saw him claim a fifth straight Diamond League title and break the world record on home soil for the first time in Stockholm.

The Swedish superstar also defended his world title in Tokyo in September, rewriting the history books yet again with an astonishing world record of 6.30m.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was crowned Women’s World Athlete of the Year after setting a championship record in the women’s 400m final in Tokyo.

That win, the second-fastest time ever, crowned another season of dominance for the American, which included victory at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene in July.

Duplantis and McLaughlin-Levrone were also named Men’s Field Athlete of the Year and Women’s Track Athlete of the Year respectively.

They were joined by Wanda Diamond League champions Nicola Olyslagers and Emmanuel Wanyonyi, who won Women’s Field Athlete of the Year and Men’s Track Athlete of the Year.

Olyslagers claimed her first ever Diamond League title in 2025, beating three-time champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh with an Oceania record of 2.04m at the series final in Zurich.

She went on to win the world title in Tokyo, completing a season which saw her take no fewer than four Diamond League victories.

Wanyonyi won his third straight title in the men’s 800m, once again coming out as top dog in a fiercely competitive discipline.

The Kenyan superstar claimed five Diamond League wins in the course of 2025, including a world-leading 1:41.44 in Monaco.

If you are competing in the Diamond League, it means you have made it to the global stage – and that you are ready to lock horns with the greatest athletes in the world.

So when Gout Gout touched down in Monaco last July, he knew the whole world would be watching.

Australia’s 17-year-old sprint sensation had been making headlines for months, smashing countless national records and even earning comparisons with Jamaican legend Usain Bolt.

In Monaco, he was now set to headline his first race at a Diamond League meeting: a pre-programme Under-23 200m.

Though there were no Diamond League points on offer, this was still a chance for Gout to make a statement and prove he was ready for the very pinnacle of global track.

At a meeting which also included the likes of Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo and Julien Alfred, the teenage star now found himself sharing a stage with a whole host of Olympic and world champions.

Yet if he was feeling the pressure, he didn’t show it in the slightest.

Roared on by the passionate crowd at the Stade Louis II, the Australian stormed to an impressive 20.10, winning the race comfortably and kickstarting a night of thrilling drama in Monaco.

“Today was just about getting relaxed and focusing on what I’ve been doing in training, and that’s what I did,” he said.

“My first race in the Diamond League was about just getting my feet out there. Obviously I’m feeling very excited to race everyone out in the big league – Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo – so I just want to go out there and see what I can do.”

Gout certainly showed that, and his win in Monaco proved to be yet another step on his apparently inexorable rise to the top.

By the end of the season, he had hit another milestone, reaching the 200m semi-final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

It won’t be long, no doubt, before the Australian is back on the global stage in the Wanda Diamond League.

For anyone who is anyone in the men’s javelin, 90 metres has long been the mark by which greatness is measured.

Yet when they began their 2025 Diamond League seasons in Doha last May, both India’s Chopra and Germany’s Weber were still chasing the elusive milestone.

Chopra had won Olympic gold in 2021, been crowned world champion in 2023 and had become the first Indian ever to win the Diamond League title in 2022.

Weber, meanwhile, was the 2022 European champion and had only narrowly missed out on a medal at both the last two World Championships and Olympic Games.

Neither man, however, had managed to add the 90-metre feather to their cap. Weber’s PB stood at 89.54m, while Chopra had come even closer with 89.94m. But the blot in their copybook remained: always an eighty, never a ninety.

In Doha, they both had a date with destiny.

All eyes were on Chopra in particular ahead of the season opener in the javelin, with the Indian hoping for some home support in a city with plenty of Indian fans.

“I’m always overwhelmed by the support I get from Indian people in Qatar,” he said. The crowd at the Qatar Sports Club is always loud, and I think that brings out the best in all of us. I know the fans expect big things from me when I compete here – and with good conditions and a great atmosphere that’s definitely possible.”

Doha, after all, has traditionally been one of the most javelin-friendly Diamond League meetings. As well as Thomas Röhler’s series record of 93.90m back in 2017, the Qatari capital had also seen 90-metre throws from Jakub Vadlejch and Anderson Peters in 2022.

Buoyed by that history and a passionate Indian fanbase, Chopra knew he would rarely get a better to chance to break the barrier. And he took it.

In the second round, the Indian landed an enormous 90.23m, shattering his own PB and with it the Indian record.

It was a moment of elation and relief for Chopra. Had it not been for what happened next, it would have been the moment of the night.

With victory seemingly certain for the Indian star, Weber suddenly also started firing on all cylinders.

Having crept towards the lead with 89.94m in the fifth, the German then unleashed an astonishing 91.06m with his final throw, stealing Chopra’s thunder and completing one of the greatest competitions in javelin history.

“I was really happy for Neeraj because he had been fighting for that 90-metre throw for some time and it was really special to achieve it tonight,” said Weber, after inviting his rival to join him for a photo at the OMEGA board after the competition.

A few months later, Weber joined Chopra in the Diamond League hall of fame, snapping up a further victory in Brussels before clearing 90 metres at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich.

The German’s title-winning 91.51m was the furthest throw ever at a Diamond League Final, cementing his status as one of the greatest javelin throwers in the series’ history.

When the Dutch 400m hurdles star crossed the line in first at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich last August, it was her fifth straight Diamond League title.

In almost two decades of series history, only a few athletes – from Valerie Adams to Mondo Duplantis – had ever won the Diamond Trophy five years in a row. Bol was the first to do so in a track discipline.

Yet the win in Zurich also marked an even more impressive milestone for Bol, one which underlines her extraordinary consistency over the past five years.

The world champion and Olympic bronze medallist has now won 30 Diamond League competitions in a row – the longest winning streak in series history.

Bol headed into the season with 24 wins under her belt already, having won every single 400m hurdles race she had started since her Diamond League debut in 2020.

She began her fifth title defence with back-to-back meeting records in Rabat and Stockholm, before turning her attention to a new challenge Monaco.

Before 2025, Monaco was one of the few meetings where Bol had never won in the 400m hurdles. In July, she set the record straight in style with a meeting record and world lead of 51.95.

It was the first of two sub-52 times in Bol’s 2025 campaign, with the Dutch star winning in London before storming to another world lead of 51.91.

With five wins in five, she once again headed to the Diamond League Final as firm favourite, and didn’t disappoint in Zurich.

In a perfect dress rehearsal for her world title in Tokyo, Bol cruised to 52.18, winning the final a full second ahead of the chasing pack.

“It always helps to have people around to push you through the last hurdles, but I also know how to push
myself,” she said. “I always have my own race to do, and you have your own 10 hurdles on the way, so the focus is to hold on tight and enjoy it.”

After five Diamond League titles and 30 Diamond League wins in a row, she knows better than most how to lead from the front.