17.06.2009

IAAF announces Diamond League dates for 2010

The IAAF has this week announced that the new Diamond League series will include meets in 14 cities across the globe next year, in America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

At a meeting of the General Assembly of IAAF Diamond League held in Berlin, Germany, the 2010 calendar was confirmed.

As well as the 12 meetings that were confirmed in Monte Carlo on March 2, when the new circuit of elite athletics meetings was announced, three other cities - Berlin, Doha and Rome - had expressed an interest in becoming part of the IAAF Diamond League. Of this trio, the meetings in Doha and Rome fulfilled the necessary criteria of membership and were accepted into the IAAF Diamond League.

An official launch of the 2010 IAAF Diamond League will take place on Saturday August 22 in Berlin, the penultimate day of the 12th IAAF world championships in athletics.

IAAF Diamond League 2010 calendar:

Doha (QAT) – Friday, May 14
Shanghai (CHN) – Sunday, May 23
Oslo (NOR) – Friday, June 4
Rome (ITA) – Thursday, June 10
New York (USA) – Saturday, June 19
Eugene (USA) – Saturday, July 3
Lausanne (SUI) – Thursday, July 8
Gateshead (GBR) – Sunday, July 11
Paris (FRA) – Friday, July 16
Monaco (MON) – Thursday, July 22
Stockholm (SWE) – Friday, August 6
London (GBR) – Friday, August 13 and Saturday, August 14
Zürich (SUI) – Thursday, August 19
Brussels (BEL) – Friday, August 27