Renaud Lavillenie Steals Diamond League

Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie Steals Diamond League Show in Lausanne and Paris

 July 8, 2014   R K Gupta

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7th and 8th IAAF Diamond League meetings took place with just a day separating them. On July 3, Lausanne hosted the 7th meeting and many athletes hopped over to Paris to participate in 8th DL meeting on July 5, 2014. Fans in Europe had a perfect week to watch their heroes and even the Brazil […]

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Bondarenko, Barshim Steal Hearts by Historical High Jumps at New York Diamond League

 June 20, 2014   R K Gupta

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Annual Adidas Grand Prix at New York on June 14, 2014 was also an IAAF Diamond League event, after Oslo DL on June 11. The week also had several other world athletic events, bunched close together and top athletes made choices of their own on where to go. Justin Gatlin didn’t turn up at New […]

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Four World Leads & Other Fine Performances Bring the Oslo Diamond Meet Alive

 June 15, 2014   R K Gupta

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The fifth edition of 2014 IAAF Diamond League at Norwegian capital Oslo on June 11, 2014 produced four world leads with great performances by Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, Yenew Alamirew, Jarius Kipchoge-Birech and Tianna Bartoletta. Martinot-Lagarde, the winner in Eugene Diamond League clocked 13.12 seconds in 110m hurdles, Alamirew finished 5000m in 13:01.57 minutes; Kipchoge-Birech followed his […]

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Barshim, Rollins, Spencer, Didaba Light up the Starry Athletic Night at Rome Diamond League

 June 7, 2014   R K Gupta

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In keeping with pre-event expectations, young Qatari sensation, Mutaz Essa Barshim jumped 2.41 meters to set a new Asian record and establish world seasonal best performance at IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Rome on Thursday night. Barshim was not alone as there were a few more world seasonal best performances in the fourth edition of […]

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Gatlin, Williams-Mills, Obiri, Rupp and Perkovic Excel at Eugene Diamond League Meet

 June 4, 2014   R K Gupta

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The third Diamond League 2014 meeting in Eugene was spread over two days on May 30 and 31, 2014 with 23 combined athletic events in men’s and women’s categories. Men’s events were 100m, 400m, 800m, 1 mile, Bowerman mile, 5000m, 10000m, 110m hurdles, Pole Vault, Triple jump, shot put and javelin. Women’s events included; 200m, […]

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IAAF’s Sparkling Shanghai Diamond-League Ends With High-Voltage Athletic Action

 May 23, 2014   R K Gupta

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IAAF’s Diamond-League season’s second event of was staged in Shanghai on Sunday May 18, 2014. The meeting concluded with seven world leads and 10 meeting records in eight events. The highlight of the grand athletic night was a super sprint hurdle from Xie Wenjun of China and a great performance in men’s javelin event by […]

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IAAF’s Season Opener Doha Diamond League Marks Super Athletic Performances

 May 12, 2014   R K Gupta

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14-meeting IAAF Diamond League Season got off to a grand start at Qatari capital Doha on May 9, 2014. In 5 days from now, the second meeting comes up at Shanghai and the League will conclude 116 days later in Brussels on September 5, 2014. Race athletes can score 4 points by winning an event […]

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