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2027 Shanghai Diamond League Disciplines Announced
The disciplines for the 2027 Wanda Diamond League meeting in Shanghai have been announced earlier today. Taking place on 15 May 2027, the meeting will bring together some of the world’s best athletes for a thrilling day of world-class athletics, featuring a mix of sprinting, middle-distance running, hurdles and field events. Next year’s Wanda Diamond … <a href="https://shanghai.diamondleague.com/2027-shanghai-diamond-league-disciplines-announced/">Continued</a>
The Diamond Dream: Manolo Karalis’ Journey from Chasing Greatness to Claiming His Own
He arrived in Shanghai with a dream. He ended the season with a diamond in his hands. In between lay a journey of ambition, persistence, personal breakthroughs and the courage to believe that one day, his moment would come. Every athlete has a dream that feels just a little too big to say out loud. … <a href="https://shanghai.diamondleague.com/2027-shanghai-diamond-league-disciplines-announced/">Continued</a>
Date Announced for 2027 Shanghai Diamond League!
The 2027 Shanghai Diamond League will take place on May 15, 2027. The season will begin in Doha on May 7 and end at the two-day final in Zurich on August 25-26. One of the most testing journeys in global sport will begin again next May as the Wanda Diamond League returns for its 18th … <a href="https://shanghai.diamondleague.com/2027-shanghai-diamond-league-disciplines-announced/">Continued</a>
From Shanghai to Brussels: A Diamond League Season of Champions
The road to the Diamond League crown began in Shanghai/Keqiao and almost four months later the season reached its dramatic conclusion in Brussels. The 2026 Wanda Diamond League season came to a spectacular close at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme, where the world’s leading athletes battled for Diamond Trophies across two unforgettable nights. With 32 … <a href="https://shanghai.diamondleague.com/2027-shanghai-diamond-league-disciplines-announced/">Continued</a>
News Archive
Shanghai stars are ready to meet their rivals
The latest chapter in the serial saga of high jump rivalry between Mutaz Barshim and Bohdan Bondarenko is about to be written at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on Sunday, 17 May, and rivalries were the hot topic at the first pre-event press conference on Friday when five of the meeting’s big name stars faced the media at the Shanghai Stadium.
Bondarenko bounds in to take on Barshim at Shanghai Diamond League
Bohdan Bondarenko will renew his high jump rivalry with Mutaz Essa Barshim at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on Sunday 17 May, the second stop on this year’s IAAF Diamond League calendar.
A farewell to Liu Xiang
The men’s 110m hurdles is always a special event at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting, usually providing a fittingly close-fought climax to a thrilling night’s athletics.
Event Previews – WOMEN
Triple world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce takes on her compatriot Veronica Campbell-Brown in a mouth-watering 100m clash that also includes world 200m and long jump medallist Blessing Okagbare in a field containing no fewer than six women who have run the dash in under 11 seconds.
Event Previews - MEN
Mutaz Barshim will renew his high jump rivalry with Bohdan Bondarenko in Shanghai on a night of head-to-heads that also pitches Kirani James against LaShawn Merritt, Greg Rutherford against Aleksandr Menkov and Aries Merritt against David Oliver.
David Oliver expects maximum points in Shanghai
The reigning 110m hurdles champion David Oliver will begin his 2015 Diamond League campaign in Shanghai on 17 May when he takes on a world class field including world record holder Aries Merritt, 2011 world champion Jason Richardson and China’s Asian Games champion Xie Wenjun. Here he speaks about his expectations ahead of the meeting, his desire to retain his world title in Beijing this summer, and the retirement of Liu Xiang.
40 Amateur Runners Ready to Debut at Diamond League Shanghai Track
2015 Jiayin Mini Diamond Race Preliminary Rounds complete
Jamaican sprinters set to dazzle at a star-studded Shanghai Diamond League
Two of Jamaica’s greatest ever women sprinters are among a glittering array of world and Olympic track and field champions set to shine at the 2015 Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 17 May, the event organisers announced today.
Merritt and James to meet at Shanghai Diamond League
The world’s two greatest one-lap runners will go head-to-head for Diamond League points for the first time in 2015 at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 17 May.
Barshim set to soar at Shanghai Diamond League
Asian high jump record holder Mutaz Essa Barshim will launch his 2015 IAAF Diamond League campaign in Shanghai on 17 May.