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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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Zurich: Genzebe Dibaba Joins Star-Studded Fields
Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) is the latest star to sign up for Weltklasse Zürich 2015. The 3000m race with the 1500m world record holder will be one of the great highlights of the IAAF Diamond League final event on 3 September. In addition, pole vaulter Jennifer Suhr (USA), another world record holder (indoor), has been added to the meeting’s entry lists.
Diamond Race: 5 of the best moments of 2015 so far
As the IAAF Diamond League season enters into its final stages, we take a moment to look back on what has been thrilling, unpredictable year in the Diamond Race. There have been immense turnarounds, shock defeats, and the finest of fine margins, all adding up to create some thrilling Diamond Races. Here are our top 5 Diamond Race moments of 2015 so far.
Zurich: Entry Lists Sparkle with Stars
With four weeks to go until the 2015 edition of the meeting, Weltklasse Zürich announces the sparkling entry lists for another three events. The previews of the women’s 800m, the men’s 3000m SC, and the men’s high jump promise first-class competitions among the most skilful protagonists of our days. In all three disciplines the five top-ranked athletes of the current season will compete at Letzigrund Stadium on 3 September 2015.
Diamond Race Update
The season-long marathon is nearly over. It is time for the sprint on the home straight. In London and Stockholm, the last few points were gathered before September's IAAF Diamond League finals, and the scene is set for an exhilarating climax to the 2015 season. Events in the past week have provided proof that, in the Diamond Race, anything can happen.
Stockholm: Fraser-Pryce shows off her speed
In the last event of a chilly Thursday evening at Stockholm’s 1912 Olympic stadium, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce offered further convincing evidence of how hard it will be for anyone to deprive her of her world 100m title next month, or indeed this year’s 100m Diamond Race, in which she now has a four-point lead as she proceeds towards the final in Zurich on 3 September.
Stockholm: Schwanitz Moves Closer To Diamond Trophy
Christina Schwanitz effectively secured her first Diamond Race title as she won the shot put with a best effort of 20.13m, throwing in persistent and occasionally heavy rain in Stockholm’s Kungstradgarden square on Wednesday (29) on the eve of the main IAAF Diamond League meeting in the Swedish capital.
Stockholm: Press Conference Highlights
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who competes tomorrow for the first time since winning the 100m in Paris in 10.74 over three weeks ago – the fastest run in the world this year – revealed ahead of the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm that she may change her plans next month and defend both her 100m and 200m world titles after all.
Stockholm: Oliver, Ibarguen and Barshim seek final flourish before the Championships
Stockholm’s staging of the last IAAF Diamond League meeting before the IAAF World Championships get underway in Beijing just over three weeks from now offers some of the favourites to succeed in the Chinese capital a final opportunity to lay down their markers.
A Close-Up on Stockholm
All of the venues used for IAAF Diamond League meetings have their own special character, regardless of the age of the stadium or the iconic previous events that have taken place there.
Diamond Race Update
Following two days of action in London, just one meeting remains for athletes in 16 Diamond Race disciplines to score points ahead of September’s finals in Zurich and Brussels.