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