I’d booked myself a ticket to the Diamond League Athletics at the London Stadium without knowing too much about it. I’ve been to the athletics a few times and have always enjoyed it. A little about the Diamond League – it’s an all round competition with some of the biggest and best talents in athletics. Here’s the schedule for this year –
Calendar 2023
| MEETING | COUNTRY | DATE |
| Doha | QAT | 5th May 2023 |
| Rabat | MAR | 28th May 2023 |
| Rome/Florence | ITA | 2nd June 2023 |
| Paris | FRA | 9th June 2023 |
| Oslo | NOR | 15th June 2023 |
| Lausanne | SUI | 30th June 2023 |
| Stockholm | SWE | 2nd July 2023 |
| Silesia | POL | 16th July 2023 |
| Monaco | MON | 21st July 2023 |
| London | GBR | 23rd July 2023 |
| Zurich | SUI | 31st August 2023 |
| Shenzhen | CHN | 2nd September 2023 |
| Brussels | BEL | 8th September 2023 |
| Eugene | USA | 16th – 17th September 2023 |
This is going to be more of a Photo dump than a blog I saw –
- Men’s Shot Putt
- Women’s Pole Vault
- Men’s High Jump
- Women’s Long Jump
- Women’s 100m
- Men’s 200m
- Women’s 200m
- Men’s 400m
- Women’s 400m
- Men’s 1500m
- Women’s 1500m
- Men’s 100m Hurdles
- Women’s 400m Hurdles
The men’s 200 Metres featured 2 of the most exciting 100 Metre runners – Noah Lyles- USA and Charnel Hughes – GB. Lyles won the race in 19.47 and Hughes came 3rd with a British record of 19.73
As I have before I found watching all that was going on hard at times and can only presume that fans of a particular field event knew where to sit for the best view. It really did feel that those taking part were ignored at times.
The Long Jump was won by Quanesha Burks – USA with a jump of 6.98
Wilma Murto – Finland, won the Pole Vault with 4.80 her Season’s Best. Katie Moon – USA also reached 4.80
Ryan Crouser – USA – won the Shot Put with 23.07 – a Meeting Record
Jackline Chepkoech – Kenya won the 300m Steeplechase with a time of 8:57:35 a Meeting Record, Personal Best and World Lead
Bol Femke – Netherlands won the 400m Hurdles with a time of 51.45 a Meeting Record, Diamond League Record, Area Record
Tsegay Gudar won the 5000m in 14:12:29 a Meeting Record and Personal Best
Yared Nuguse won the 1500m in 3:30:44
Marie-Josee Talou won the 100m in 10:75 a Meeting Record and Season Best.
Max Burgin – GB – won the 800 m in a time of 1:43:85 a Season Best, Ben Pattison- GB. was second with a time of 1:44:02 a Personal Best – both qualify for the World Championships
Jemma Reekie won the 800m in a time of 1:57:30 a Meeting Record and Season Best.
The London Stadium hosts the meet on July 2oth in 2024 as athletes are preparing for the Olympics in Paris, I enjoyed my afternoon can recommend the experience. Here the link to the Diamond League site https://www.diamondleague.com/home/
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