- The 2024 calendar will feature 15 of the most prestigious one-day meetings in global track and field.
- The season will begin with a Chinese double bill, with meetings in Xiamen on April 20 and Shanghai a week later.
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The 2024 Wanda Diamond League calendar will begin in Xiamen on April 20th and finish at the two-day season finale in Brussels on September 13-14.
After a historic season came to a dramatic climax in Eugene earlier this month, athletes and fans can now set their sights on the 15th edition of the competition to start next year.
The 2024 calendar will feature 15 of the most prestigious one-day meetings in global track and field.
As in previous years, athletes will compete for points at 14 series meetings, with the most successful in each discipline qualifying for the Wanda Diamond League Final at the end of the season.
The season will begin with a Chinese double bill, with meetings in Xiamen on April 20 and Shanghai a week later.
Following meetings in Doha, Rabat, and Eugene, the series will then head to Oslo and Stockholm for the first European meetings on May 30 and June 2.
In July, meetings in Paris, Monaco, and London will give athletes the chance to prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
After the Olympics, there will be four more chances to earn points in Lausanne, Silesia, Rome, and Zurich before the season finale on September 13-14.
2024 will see the Wanda Diamond League Final return to Brussels for the first time since 2019, with all 32 Diamond League champions set to be crowned over one weekend at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme.
The 14th edition of the Diamond League began on May 5 in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The campaign saw athletes head to Florence in the north of Italy, return to London - which hadn't hosted the series since 2019 - and make a first appearance in Xiamen, China.
After the stop at the iconic London stadium that hosted the 2012 Olympic Games, the world's best track and field athletes went to Budapest for the 2023 World Athletics Championships before the battle for the Diamond Trophy resumed in Zurich at the end of August.
Multiple world champion Faith Kipyegon captured the Diamond League title in Oregon, USA a week ago to crown an incredible season.
Kipyegon powered to her fourth 1500m Diamond League title after clocking 3:50.72 at the Prefontaine Classic — the final leg of the Diamond League.
The Kenyan track sensation made short work of a talent-laden field, beating world silver medallist Diribe Welteji of Ethiopia to second in 3:53.93.