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“Think of the shot put like the high jump”
Two-time Diamond Trophy winner and reigning Wanda Diamond League champion Joe Kovacs talks us through the ins and outs of the shot put.
“The steeplechase is unpredictable”
Two-time world championship bronze medallist and Wanda Diamond League stalwart on what it takes to master the 3000m steeplechase at the highest level of athletics.
“The Diamond League has so much value in an Olympic year”
In part one of our exclusive interview with Katie Moon, the reigning Olympic, World and Wanda Diamond League champion talks about her Diamond League debut in 2016, broken poles and battling the post-Olympic blues.
“The 5000m is all in the mind”
US Olympic bronze medallist Paul Chelimo on the tactical, technical and psychological challenge of winning a Wanda Diamond League 5000m race.
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Valerie Adams' Diamond League record
Valerie Adams is not just one of the most successful athletes in Diamond League history, she is also a Diamond League record holder, thanks to a superb performance in Rome back in 2012
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.