The last Wanda Diamond League season produced some unforgettable performances in 2021 as the world’s finest athletes battled it out for the Diamond Trophy for the first time in two years.
As the year comes to an end, we are running a series of social media polls to decide which was your favourite Wanda Diamond League moment of 2021.
In the first four polls, you can vote for your favourite moment in the distance events, sprints and hurdles, jumps and throws respectively. The winners of each poll will face off in the semi-final and final a week later.
Whether it’s Karsten Warholm’s Oslo world record, Thompson-Herah’s Eugene heroics or one of the many series records broken this season, make sure you vote for your favourite performance via the blog below.
Quarter-final 4: Throws
Daniel Ståhl broke his own men’s discus Diamond League record with an impressive 69.31m effort in Brussels last September, before going on to defend his Diamond Trophy in Zurich a week later.
Five-time Diamond League champion Barbora Spotakova showed she’s still got it even at 40 years old as she claimed her 21st career Diamond League win in the women’s javelin Monaco.
Olympic champion in the men’s shot put already, Ryan Crouser finally added the Diamond Trophy to his impressive array of titles this year. The highlight of his dominant season was breaking two Diamond League records in a single competition in Eugene.
Vote for your favourite throws moment here.
Quarter-final 3: Jumps
In Lausanne, Yulimar Rojas continued her fine form from the Olympics to break a Diamond League record and continue her charge towards a first ever Diamond Trophy in the women’s triple jump.
Another first-time Wanda Diamond League champion, Mondo Duplantis, crowned his incredible season with a men’s pole vault meeting record in Zurich.
Also in Zurich, Anzhelika Sidorova picked up her first series title by becoming only the second woman in Diamond League history to jump over five metres in the women’s pole vault.
Quarter-final 2: Sprints and hurdles
Elaine Thompson-Herah made sprinting history with the second-fastest time ever in the women’s 100m in Eugene.
Karsten Warholm broke the first of his two 400m hurdle world records on home soil at his first Wanda Diamond League appearance of 2021 in Oslo.
Christine Mboma became the first Namibian athlete to win the Diamond Trophy when she ran an African record in the 200m in Zurich.
But which was your favourite sprint and hurdles moment of 2021? Watch all the clips below and vote in Tuesday’s Twitter poll.
Quarter-final 1: Middle and long distance
You can vote for your favourite distance performance of 2021 in the first of four quarter-final polls this Monday.
On the shortlist: Jakob Ingebrigtsen‘s 3000m European record in Florence in June, Sifan Hassan‘s stunnning 1500m victory over Faith Kipyegon on the same evening, and Kipyegon’s own 1500m meeting record in Monaco.
Watch all three races below and vote for your favourite in Monday’s Twitter poll.
Vote for your best moment of 2021
The last Wanda Diamond League season produced some unforgettable performances in 2021 as the world’s finest athletes battled it out for the Diamond Trophy for the first time in two years.
As the year comes to an end, we are running a series of social media polls to decide which was your favourite Wanda Diamond League moment of 2021.
In the first four polls, you can vote for your favourite moment in the distance events, sprints and hurdles, jumps and throws respectively. The winners of each poll will face off in the semi-final and final a week later.
Whether it’s Karsten Warholm’s Oslo world record, Thompson-Herah’s Eugene heroics or one of the many series records broken this season, make sure you vote for your favourite performance via the blog below.