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Eugene: Stanford Selected as Site of 2019 Pre Classic
Stanford University’s Cobb Track & Angell Field (California) will be the venue for this year’s 45th NIKE Prefontaine Classic/IAAF Diamond League meet on Sunday, June 30th.
Six of the Best: Sprint Hurdles
There have been some jaw-dropping 100/110m Hurdles races in the ten years since the Diamond League began, and we've collated six of the very best for your pre-weekend delectation.
Renaud Lavillenie: Mr. Diamond League
Renaud Lavillenie is the most successful athlete in Diamond League history, and his finest moment on the circuit came back in 2015, when he broke all manner of records.
The 8 Biggest Javelin Throws in Diamond League History
The last few IAAF Diamond League seasons have seen several athletes, most but not all of them German, set new marks for brilliance in the men's javelin. We take a look back at the biggest throws in Diamond League history.
Aries Merritt: World Record Breaker
2012 was a special year for USATF sprint hurdles star Aries Merritt. Having sparkled his way to the gold medal at the London Olympics earlier in the summer, Merritt lined up at the Diamond League Final in Brussels with just one thing on his mind: the world record.
Thomas Röhler's 93.90m in Doha
In the latest in our series of flashbacks, we take a look back at Thomas Röhler's 93.90m Diamond League record throw in Doha in 2017, which kickstarted a glistening season for German javelin throwers.
David Rudisha's Diamond League Record
2012 was the year of David Rudisha, as the Kenyan stormed to a world record and a gold medal at the London Olympics. Yet just a few weeks before that career-defining performance, the middle distance legend had already smashed the Diamond League record with a fabulous run in Paris.
Barshim's brilliance in Brussels
Back in 2014, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Bogdan Bondarenko delivered a legendary, season-long battle for the Diamond Trophy. The drama came to head at the IAAF Diamond League Final in Brussels, where Barshim hit record-breaking form.
The Fastest Diamond League 100m Ever
Usain Bolt may have hogged the headlines in 2012, but it was his compatriot Yohan Blake who ran the fastest ever 100m in Diamond League history when he soared down the track to an astonishing victory in Lausanne.
Bolt and the Flower Girl
2012 was Usain Bolt's finest season in the IAAF Diamond League, as the Jamaican superstar rampaged around the circuit to claim the Diamond Trophy in the 100m. Yet his most memorable Diamond League moment came in Oslo, a few seconds after he crossed the finish line.