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As Olympic athletes begin to prepare for their shot at world glory in 2025, the 16th Diamond League season kicks off in Xiamen, China on Saturday, live on the BBC.
In order to advance to the winner-takes-all two-day finals in Zurich in August, athletes will compete for points in 32 disciplines over 14 meetings.
The World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan will begin in September just over two weeks before that.
The Diamond League must compete for athletes’ attention for the first time with Michael Johnson’s new Grand Slam Track.
Only one of the three Grand Slam Track competitions, which will take place on May 2 through May 4, coincide with the meet in Keqiao, China, on May 3rd, will take place directly opposite to the Diamond League competition.
With a total prize pot of $9.24 million (£6.95 million) available across the series, The Diamond League has raised its prize money to the highest level in its history.
That includes $500, 000 (£375, 000) at each of the 14 series meetings, and $2.2m (£1.7m) at the Diamond League final.
On Saturday, from 12:00 to 14:00 BST, watch the Diamond League action on the BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC Sport website and app.
Whom should you keep an eye on in Xiamen?
In a stacked race, the 23-year-old will compete against South Africans Akani Simbine, American Christian Coleman, and Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo.
Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, a pole vault champion from Sweden, broke the men’s world record 11th time in February with a men’s pole vault victory.
Before moving on to claim a fourth trophy in Xiamen, Duplantis set the earliest world record in a Diamond League season with the win in Xiamen a year earlier.
Three-time Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon will compete in the women’s 1, 000m in Xiamen after revealing this week that she will attempt to run a sub-four-minute mile in June.
Olympic 800m silver medalist Tsige Duguma and GB’s Erin Wallace compete in the same race, just 0.17 seconds behind the world record of two minutes and 28.98 seconds.
In other competitions, Morgan Lake faces Ukraine’s Olympic high jump champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who is competing against Jamaica’s two-time world champion Shericka Jackson.
timings for the Key Diamond League
- Morgan Lake, a GB national, and Yaroslava Mahuchikh, an Olympic champion, compete in the women’s high jump at 10:15 BST.
- Men’s pole vault at 10:35 BST featuring Mondo Duplantis, the male world record holder, and world record holder.
- Olympic champion Grant Holloway and 11:40 BST – Men’s 110-meter hurdles
- Amy Hunt, a GB athlete, and Shericka Jackson, a Jamaican, are competing in the women’s 200m at 11:50 BST.
- Jeremiah Azu, a GB national and 200-meter champion, and Letsile Tebogo, an Olympic 200m champion, compete in the men’s 100m at 12:01 BST.
- Women’s 1, 000m competition at 12:10 BST featuring GB’s Erin Wallace and three-time Olympic gold medalist Faith Kipyegon.
- Men’s 300m hurdles competition 12:52 BST featuring Karsten Warholm, a Norwegian record holder, and world champion.
The Diamond League’s operation is how?
The 14 regular series meetings, which will take place from April through August, will feature athletes competing for points.
On a scale of eight to one for the eighth place, points are given.
The top six athletes in the field events, the top eight in the track events, and the top 10 in the distances from 1500m upwards, are eligible for the final after the 14th meeting in Brussels.
Calendar for the 2025 Diamond League
Xiamen, China, April 26
China’s Keqiao on May 3rd.
Doha, Qatar, May 16
Rabat, Morocco, on May 25,
Rome, Italy, on June 6,
Oslo, Norway, June 12
Stockholm, Sweden, on June 15th.
Paris, France, June 20,
Eugene, USA, on July 5, 2005
Monaco, 11-07
London, England, on July 19,
Silesia, Poland, on August 16th.
Lausanne, Switzerland, on August 20,
Brussels, Belgium, August 22
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Source: BBC
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