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Athletics 18 Sept 2024 | 10:47 AM

Athletics-Diamond League raise 2025 prize money to over $9 million

(Reuters) - Annual multi-sport event Diamond League will increase its prize money to more than $9 million in 2025, the highest in the history of the series, the organisers said on Wednesday.

Athletics 14 Sept 2024 | 08:43 PM

Athletics-Kenya's Kipyegon, Chebet cap season with Diamond League titles

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Kenya's Faith Kipyegon padded her remarkable winning streak over 1,500 metres with her fifth Diamond League season title at the series finale, while compatriot Beatrice Chebet nearly crashed into a photographer en route to her 5,000 victory on Saturday.

Athletics 21 Aug 2024 | 08:09 PM

Athletics-Duplantis soars to another Diamond League win two weeks after world record

LAUSANNE (Reuters) - Two-times Olympic champion Armand Duplantis soared to another victory in his illustrious resume, winning the city pole vault competition on Wednesday to open the Lausanne Diamond League meeting.

Athletics 6 Sept 2024 | 07:45 AM

Athletics-Nuguse wins stacked Diamond League 1,500 metres, Chebet misses world record

ZURICH (Reuters) - American Yared Nuguse fought off a high-calibre field to win the 1,500 metres at the Weltklasse Diamond League in Zurich on Thursday, on a night when the weather dampened world record expectations at the Letzigrund Stadium.

Athletics 30 Aug 2024 | 11:28 PM

Athletics-Yavi narrowly misses world record in Diamond League victory

ROME (Reuters) - Olympic champion Winfred Yavi of Bahrain won the 3,000 metres women's steeplechase in impressive fashion at the Rome Diamond League meeting on Friday, coming agonisingly close to breaking the world record with the second-fastest ever time.

Athletics 25 Aug 2024 | 04:28 PM

Athletics-Duplantis breaks own pole vault world record at Silesia Diamond League

(Reuters) -Sweden's Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record when he cleared 6.26 metres at the second attempt at the Silesia Diamond League meeting on Sunday.

Aseanplus News 26 Aug 2024 | 10:44 AM

Can't stop soaring - Swede sensation Duplantis breaks own pole vault world record at Silesia Diamond League

High flying Sweden's Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record when he cleared 6.26 metres at the second attempt at the Silesia Diamond League meeting on Sunday.

Aseanplus News 20 Apr 2024 | 12:21 PM

Going higher and higher - Duplantis breaks pole vault record again in Xiamen Diamond League

Sweden's Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a 6.24 metres effort in the first Diamond League meeting of the 2024 season on Saturday.

Athletics 2 June 2024 | 06:59 PM

Athletics-Duplantis wins at Stockholm Diamond League but falls short of record

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Armand Duplantis failed in another attempt to break his own pole vault world record but continued to impress ahead of the Paris Olympics at the Diamond League meet at Stockholm's Olympic Stadium on Sunday.

World 20 Apr 2024 | 04:37 PM

Duplantis sets pole vault world record, Gong claims shot put title at Xiamen Diamond League

XIAMEN, China, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Sweden's pole vault star Armand Duplantis improved his own world record by one centimeter as China's Gong Lijiao took the women's shot put victory at the opening meeting of the 2024 Diamond League here in Xiamen on Saturday.

Athletics 21 July 2023 | 08:44 PM

Athletics-Kipyegon smashes mile world record, Warholm sparkles at Monaco Diamond League

(Reuters) -Kenya's Faith Kipyegon shattered the women's mile world record, while compatriot Ferdinand Omanyala won the men's 100 metres in a photo finish at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday.

Athletics 16 Sept 2023 | 10:18 PM

Athletics-Coleman, Jackson upset world champions in Diamond League final

(Reuters) -American Christian Coleman stunned world champion Noah Lyles to win the men's 100 metres at the Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday as Jamaican Shericka Jackson took the women's sprint title.

Athletics 9 June 2023 | 06:20 AM

Athletics-UK Athletics to receive 150,000 pounds to help stage Diamond League meet

(Reuters) - UK Sport has pledged up to 150,000 pounds ($188,000) to help UK Athletics stage next month's Diamond League meeting at the London Stadium, it said on Thursday.

Athletics 16 July 2023 | 05:22 PM

Athletics-Ingebrigtsen sets new European record at Silesia Diamond League

SILESIA, Poland (Reuters) -Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke his own European 1500 metres record at Sunday's Diamond League meeting in Silesia, clocking 3:27.14.

Philippines 18 Sept 2023 | 12:22 PM

Philippine pole vault superstar EJ Obiena wins silver in Diamond League final ahead of Asian Games

EJ Obiena duplicated his silver finish on the global stage at the finals of the 2023 Diamond League in Eugene, Oregon behind the record-shattering performance of world pole vault champion Armand “Mondo” Duplantis.

Athletics 6 Sept 2023 | 10:38 AM

Athletics-Lyles changes mind, will race at Diamond League Final

(Reuters) - Top American sprinter Noah Lyles has decided to race one more time this season after all having won three gold medals at the World Championships last month.

Football 19 Feb 2025 | 11:00 PM

JDT handsomely rewarded for rich vein of form in AFC Champs League

KUALA LUMPUR: Johor Darul Ta'zim (JDT) not only secured their place in the AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 but also earned a financial windfall following their emphatic 5-2 victory over Pohang Steelers at the Sultan Ibrahim Stadium on Tuesday night.

Athletics 26 May 2023 | 03:09 AM

Athletics-Jacobs pulls out of Diamond League showdown with Kerly

(Reuters) - Olympic gold medallist Lamont Jacobs said he has been forced to "postpone" his 100 metres showdown with world champion Fred Kerley at the Diamond League meet in Rabat this weekend due to a back issue.

Athletics 21 July 2023 | 07:45 PM

Athletics-Kipyegon shatters mile world record at Monaco Diamond League

(Reuters) - Kenya's Faith Kipyegon shattered the women's mile world record by almost five seconds at the Monaco Diamond League on Friday.

Athletics 30 June 2023 | 09:05 PM

Athletics-Ingebrigtsen holds off Girma to win 1,500m at Diamond League in Lausanne

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen held off Lamecha Girma in a battle of world record holders to win the much-anticipated men's 1,500 metres at the Athletissima Diamond League meet on Friday.

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