A total prize purse of USD $1.4million will be paid by the IAAF for the men’s and women’s races at the inaugural IAAF World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas, on 24-25 May. [Read more…]
2014 World Juniors set for Oregon
May 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Monaco – With the deadline for the preliminary entries now closed, the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships, which will be held between 22-27 July in Eugene, Oregon, is set to be the biggest ever IAAF event to be held on US soil. [Read more…]
Diamond League 2014 Calendar
May 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The IAAF Diamond League is composed of 14 of the best invitational track and field meetings in the world. The meetings are spread across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, and compose the top tier of the IAAF’s global one-day meeting competition structure. [Read more…]
One month to inaugural World Relays
April 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The excitement is starting to mount with exactly one month to go until the first gun goes at the inaugural IAAF World Relays, which will be held in Nassau, The Bahamas, on 24-25 May 2014. [Read more…]
David Rudisha returns in Doha 2014
April 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Olympic 800m champion and world record-holder David Rudisha will return to IAAF Diamond League action at the Doha 2014 meeting on Friday 9 May. [Read more…]
Doha 2014 prepares for Diamond League
March 17, 2014 By 1 Comment
Reigning World and Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will kick off her 2014 IAAF Diamond League campaign at the Doha 2014 meeting on 9 May, organisers announced on Sunday (16). [Read more…]
Olympic champions for Shanghai
April 27, 2013 By 1 Comment
Meseret Defar
Three more Olympic gold medallists and one world champion have been added to the star-studded roster for the 2013 Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 18 May. Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, British long jumper Greg Rutherford, and Ethiopian distance legend Meseret Defar have joined the entry lists for the second meeting in the IAAF’s 2013 Diamond League calendar, while world sprint hurdles champion Jason Richardson has been lined up to face Olympic champion and world record holder Aries Merritt. [Read more…]
The Beast, sprint power to Shanghai
March 7, 2013 By 1 Comment
Yohan Blake – The Beast
Yohan Blake, “The Beast”, bringing sprint power to Shanghai
The second fastest man of all time in the 200m, Yohan Blake, will head to Asia for his start of the summer season. Blake confirmed his participation on the 200m at the Samsung Diamond League in Shanghai, May 18 2013. It will be the first time for “the beast” to come to the Chinese metropolis. The introduction of Blake to the fast track in the Shanghai stadium will be a great sprint spectacle. [Read more…]
