August 2024 marked the start of Running for Clean Air in Lagos. Nigeria&rsquo;s largest city is the second location to host this <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletics-better-world/air-quality/running-for-clean-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initiative</a>, through which World Athletics activates local running communities in addressing urban air pollution.&nbsp;
The National Stadium Surulere hosted the official launch of Running for Clean Air, with more than 100 people attending to support the idea of exercising in clean environments. Local partner organisations came from different sectors, showcasing that multi-stakeholder cooperation is necessary if city-level change is to be achieved.&nbsp;
The local efforts in Lagos are being led by Nilayo Sports Management Limited, the owner and organiser of the annual Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, and UrbanBetter, an advocacy platform for healthy urban environments. Additional support comes from the Lagos State Office of Climate Change and Circular Economy, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, and National Institute for Sports.&nbsp;
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66db1857703e6a277fb9b91c.jpg" alt="The launch of Running for Clean Air in Lagos" />
The launch of Running for Clean Air in Lagos
</div>
<h2>Advocating for cleaner air through hyperlocal data&nbsp;</h2>
National Stadium Surulere now hosts an air quality monitor which measures hyperlocal occurrence of air-polluting gases (CO2, CO, NO2, NO, O3), particulate matters (PM10, PM4, PM2.5, PM1), and climate-related data (temperature, humidity, dew point, wind direction, WBGT index). For the benefit of the local community, <a href="https://kunakcloud.com/widgets/wa/wa3.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a widget</a> has been created so that everyone can see the current conditions online.
&ldquo;Clean air is an important precondition for runners to have a pleasant experience with our race,&rdquo; says Ebidowei Oweifie, Chief Operating Officer at Nilayo Sports Management Limited. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t fix it alone, but we hope that our marathon can serve as a platform for all local players to come together and advocate for a healthier environment.&rdquo;&nbsp;
With Nilayo&rsquo;s support, World Athletics will conduct dynamic monitoring during the Access Bank Lagos Marathon on 8 February 2025. This will result in a map of the marathon route that identifies polluted and heat-prone areas. &ldquo;We plan to use this data to inform our decision about future alternations to the marathon route,&rdquo; adds Oweifie.
<h2>Project ambassadors lead the local campaign&nbsp;</h2>
To amplify the campaign&rsquo;s messages, 10 project ambassadors have been selected from the local community of runners. Their role is, among other things, to engage their communities on the topic and to lead monthly training sessions at the National Stadium.&nbsp;
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66db175b703e6a277fb9b919.jpg" alt="Running for Clean Air launches in Lagos" />
Running for Clean Air launches in Lagos
</div>
&ldquo;Finding people committed to the cause was one of our priorities before we could even start the project, and I think we were very successful here. We have a group of 10 runners, from a banker to a high school student, from a running beginner to an Olympic gold medallist (Enefiok Udo-Obong), and we rely on them to get the message to as many people as possible," says Waziri Mainasara, Coordinator from UrbanBetter Lagos Cityzens Hub. &nbsp;
Lagos is the second city to host the Running for Clean Air project. It follows Warsaw <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletics-better-world/news/air-quality-running-clean-air-warsaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">where the initiative was launched in March 2024</a>.&nbsp;
Running for Clean Air&nbsp;
Running for Clean Air is a World Athletics initiative, funded by the Clean Air Fund. Its objective is to address air pollution in urban areas. World Athletics cooperates with local stakeholders to measure hyper-local air quality and share the data in a large awareness campaign, using city marathons as the key platform to leverage existing running communities, spark positive transformations within cities, and increase awareness of air quality issues. Visit the <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletics-better-world/air-quality/running-for-clean-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project website</a> to learn more.&nbsp;

Nigeria’s largest city is the second location to host this initiative, through which World Athletics activates local running communities in addressing urban air pollution

Running for Clean Air launches in Lagos

Multiple Olympic rematches and an attack on the men&rsquo;s world 1000m record indicate that the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold season should end on a high at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb.
Three days of action in the Croatian capital kicks off with the long jump events on Friday (6) before the men&rsquo;s shot put on Saturday (7) and the main in-stadium programme on Sunday (8).
The Olympic champions star in four of the throws events in Zagreb and among the rematches is the shot put, in which five of the top six from the Paris Games are entered in a contest at the Zagreb Fountains, while two-time Olympic gold medallist Valarie Allman will renew her rivalry with home favourite and Olympic bronze medallist Sandra Elkasevic in the women&rsquo;s discus. Roje Stona goes in the men's discus, and Ethan Katzberg in the men's hammer.
On the track at the city&rsquo;s Sports Park Mladost on Sunday, Canada&rsquo;s world 800m champion Marco Arop will take a step up to target the world 1000m record. The 25-year-old currently sits fourth on the world all-time list for his specialism, having run a North American 800m record of 1:41.20 to secure Olympic silver in Paris. Now he aims to improve his 1000m PB of 2:14.35 set in Monaco in 2022, to challenge the world record of 2:11.96 set by Kenya&rsquo;s Noah Ngeny in Rieti in 1999.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66daf6993419f6d5e0e9c4a8.jpg" alt="Marco Arop in Silesia" />
Marco Arop in Silesia (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
</div>
&ldquo;After some great 800m races, I will be running 1000m at the meeting in Zagreb, and I want to break the world record in the event,&rdquo; he told organisers. &ldquo;After that, I am heading to Brussels to break the 800m world record as well. The record is definitely going down.&rdquo;
Speaking at the pre-event press conference, he added: "This will be my second world record attempt of the year, the first was an indoor 1000m. I know I'm in great shape. I wasn&rsquo;t expecting the crazy fast times in Lausanne and Silesia, so I&rsquo;m really excited to take advantage of this fitness."
Arop has dipped under 1:42 for 800m three times this season, including 1:41.72 in Lausanne and 1:41.86 in Silesia, and he ran 2:14.74 for 1000m indoors in February, putting him at No.2 all time indoors. Joining him in action will be Olympic 1500m finalist Stefan Nillessen.
USA&rsquo;s Cooper Teare, Belgium&rsquo;s Isaac Kimeli and Kenya&rsquo;s Daniel Munguti feature in the field for the men&rsquo;s 2000m, while Kenya&rsquo;s world fourth-place finisher Leonard Bett races the 3000m steeplechase against Olympic finalists Ahmed Jaziri of Tunisia and Morocco&rsquo;s Mohamed Tindouft.
Australia&rsquo;s Linden Hall, who has run 3:56.40 this season, lines up in the women&rsquo;s 1500m alongside Ethiopia's Axumawit Embaye and Habitam Alemu, plus Britain's Katie Snowden and Italy&rsquo;s Sintayehu Vissa. In the women&rsquo;s 800m, Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule-Toppin races Kenya&rsquo;s Nelly Chepchirchir and USA&rsquo;s Sage Hurta-Klecker.
<h2>Titans at the fountains</h2>
World record-holder Ryan Crouser heads the shot put clash on the eve of the main meeting, for the Ivan Ivancic Memorial held at the Zagreb Fountains.
USA&rsquo;s Crouser claimed a third consecutive Olympic gold in Paris and he is joined in Zagreb by bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell of Jamaica. In fact, five of the top six from Paris are all entered, as the two medallists are joined by Payton Otterdahl, Leonardo Fabbri and Chukwuebuka Enekwechi. Crouser returns on the hunt for a sixth shot put victory in Zagreb, where he set the meeting record of 22.84m in 2021. Since winning that unprecedented third consecutive Olympic men&rsquo;s shot put title despite a series of injury struggles this year, he has won at the Diamond League meetings in Rome and Zurich, and finished second in Silesia.
"I feel good," said Crouser. "I was very happy with the last meet (Zurich). I was actually surprised a little bit, given the conditions, to throw 22.66m in rainy conditions, plus another 22.50m and a 22.30m. Coming off of Rome, as well, I&rsquo;ve been very consistent. Any time I get consistent, I know that a big throw is possible, so it has me excited.
"It has been a bit of a different season for me &ndash; missing the first half with injury, I feel like I am in a better place than I normally would be because I&rsquo;m more engaged and it still feels like it&rsquo;s early in the season, although it is late. For me, I&rsquo;m more engaged, and I&rsquo;m happy with where I&rsquo;m at physically."
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/613fb5b32e593221d0294306.jpg" alt="Ryan Crouser in action in Zagreb" />
Ryan Crouser in action in Zagreb (&copy; Organisers)
</div>
Another throws highlight is the women&rsquo;s discus, which will see Olympic gold and bronze medallists Allman of USA and Elkasevic of Croatia compete again, against their fellow Olympic finalists Vanessa Kamga and Daisy Osakue.
"The dearest meeting of the season is always the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial and this is why I had a break after the Olympics and I prepared for this competition," said&nbsp;Elkasevic, making her&nbsp;17th appearance at the meeting since her first in 2006. "I feel great and as you could see, three days ago I threw a season&rsquo;s best. It will be a great competition."
She is on the hunt for her 12th&nbsp;Boris Hanzekovic Memorial win, but will face a strong challenge from Allman.
"Zagreb really is a competition that showcases our event," said Allman. "I know that if I come to this meeting, I need to be in great form."
The Olympic champion is also in action in the men&rsquo;s event, as Jamaica&rsquo;s Stona &ndash; who is coached by shot put star Crouser &ndash; faces bronze medallist Matthew Denny and 2022 world champion Kristjan Ceh, who finished fourth in Paris but won at the Rome Diamond League a week ago ahead of Stona, with Denny finishing fourth.
The men&rsquo;s hammer returns to the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial for the first time in 11 years. Canada&rsquo;s Katzberg threw 84.12m to add the Olympic title to the world gold he claimed in Budapest last year and become, at the age of 22, the youngest men&rsquo;s world and Olympic hammer champion. The meeting record stands at 81.77m, set by 2008 Olympic champion Primoz Kozmus.
Katzberg will compete against Ukraine&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Mykhaylo Kokhan and Poland&rsquo;s five-time world champion Pawel Fajdek.
"This is my first time having competitions after a major games or championships, so it&rsquo;s a bit of a new experience but I think my coach and I handled it well," said Katzberg. "I am getting my energy back now, finally, and I&rsquo;m feeling good.
"The meet record is definitely something I&rsquo;ll strive for, to try to end the season on a good note."
Olympic silver medallist Jo-Ane van Dyk of South Africa heads the women&rsquo;s javelin entries, along with Croatia&rsquo;s fourth-place finisher in Paris, Sara Kolak, who won the 2016 Olympic title. Two Olympic medallists feature in the men&rsquo;s pole vault, as silver medallist and two-time world champion Sam Kendricks renews his rivalry with bronze medallist Emmanouil Karalis.
USA&rsquo;s double Olympic bronze medallist Jasmine Moore tops the women&rsquo;s long jump field and she&rsquo;s joined by Shanieka Ricketts, who got triple jump silver ahead of Moore in Paris, as well as the recently crowned world U20 heptathlon champion Jana Koscak. Home stars Filip Pravdica and world U20 winner Roko Farkas will be among those fighting for the title in the men&rsquo;s event during the street competition.
<h2>Sprint showdowns</h2>
After securing Olympic 100m hurdles silver in front of a home crowd in Paris, Cyrena Samba-Mayela goes on the hunt for victory as she forms part of a field that also features Jamaica&rsquo;s Ackera Nugent, who won in Rome and Silesia, and USA's Kendra Harrison.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66d247043349602ff23c3f1e.jpg" alt="Ackera Nugent wins the 100m hurdles in Rome" />
Ackera Nugent wins the 100m hurdles in Rome (&copy; Matthew Quine)
</div>
The 110m hurdles&nbsp;Boris Hanzekovic memorial race includes Freddie Crittenden and Daniel Roberts, who respectively ran PBs of 12.93 and 12.96 at the US Olympic trials, plus Jamaica's Tokyo Olympic champion Hansle Parchment.
Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye of The Gambia goes in the women&rsquo;s 100m against Jamaica's Shashalee Forbes and USA's Jenna Prandini, while the men&rsquo;s 100m includes USA&rsquo;s Courtney Lindsey, Brandon Hicklin and Kyree King, plus Kenya&rsquo;s Ferdinand Omanyala.
The men&rsquo;s 200m features three men who have dipped under 20 seconds this season &ndash; USA&rsquo;s Olympic fourth-place finisher Erriyon Knighton,&nbsp;Lindsey and King &ndash; plus Liberia&rsquo;s Olympic finalist Joseph Fahnbulleh, the 2022 winner in Zagreb. Like King and&nbsp;Lindsey,&nbsp;Fahnbulleh is doubling up and also runs the 100m.
Two athletes who have gone sub-50 seconds this season clash in the women&rsquo;s 400m, as two-time world bronze medallist Sada Williams of Barbados races Norway&rsquo;s Henriette Jaeger, plus USA's world 400m hurdles silver medallist Shamier Little and Jamaica's Stacey Ann Williams.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

Multiple Olympic rematches and an attack on the men’s world 1000m record indicate that the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold season should end on a high at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial

Record attempts and rematches in store as stars zone in on Zagreb

Weltklasse Zürich

Pole vault world record-holder wins 100m showdown against world 400m hurdles champion

Nuguse topples Ingebrigtsen in Zurich as Chebet clocks 5000m world lead

World Athletics is shocked and deeply saddened to learn that Ugandan distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei died tragically on Thursday (5 September) as a result of an alleged domestic abuse attack.
Over the past 15 years, the 33-year-old had represented her nation at major championships on the track, roads, cross country and mountains. Her most notable achievement was her victory in the up and downhill race at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in 2022.
A talented teenager, Cheptegei represented Uganda at the 2010 World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, where she placed 15th individually and earned bronze in the team competition.
She competed in the senior race at the following year&rsquo;s edition in Punta Umbria, and went on to represent Uganda on the track at the World Military Games later that year.
She made her third World Cross Country Championships appearance in 2013 and competed at the African Cross Country Championships in 2014.
After making her marathon debut in 2021, she set a Ugandan record of 2:22:47 in 2022 in what was just her fourth race at the distance. That came just six weeks after her victory at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai.
Last year she finished 14th in the marathon at the World Championships in Budapest. She finished just outside of the medals in the half marathon at the African Games earlier this year, then went on to make her Olympic debut in Paris, placing 44th in the marathon in 2:32:14.
&ldquo;Our sport has lost a talented athlete in the most tragic and unthinkable circumstances,&rdquo; said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. &ldquo;Rebecca was an incredibly versatile runner who still had lots left to give on the roads, mountains and cross country trails.
&ldquo;I have been in touch with our Council Members in Africa to see how we can help not only in our capacity as governing body of the sport Rebecca competed in, but to assess how our safeguarding policies might be enhanced to include abuse outside of the sport, and bringing together stakeholders from all areas of athletics to combine forces to protect our female athletes to the best of our abilities from abuse of all kinds.&rdquo;
World Athletics

Rebecca Cheptegei, 1991-2024

Cheptegei, 2022 world mountain running champion, dies tragically

St Lucia's Julien Alfred, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Botswana's Letsile Tebogo are among the Olympic champions in Diamond League action this week, as the world's best athletes descend on Zurich for the last chance to earn points and qualify for the series final in Brussels next week.&nbsp;
The Diamond League action will start on Wednesday evening with the women's pole vault at Zurich Central Station, before the main programme at the Letzigrund Stadium on Thursday evening.&nbsp;
Thursday's action will start at 18:30 local time (GMT+2) with the women's high jump and the main two-hour broadcast window will begin at 20:00 local time with the men's 400m hurdles.
The pole vault city event will start at 17:30 local time (GMT+2) on Wednesday and will be livestreamed in various territories on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@diamondleague/streams" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wanda Diamond League YouTube page</a>.
Check out the information below to find out where you can follow and watch the meeting on TV, livestream and social media.&nbsp;
<a href="https://zurich.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results/programme-results/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live results, programme and entry lists</a> | <a href="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/66d884846f771b944d327c46.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media information sheets and athlete biographies</a>
<h3>Where to watch</h3>
The meeting will be streamed in a number of territories on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@diamondleague/streams" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wanda Diamond League YouTube page</a> from 20:00 local time (GMT+2).
The livestream will&nbsp;NOT&nbsp;be available in all territories.
To find out the broadcast rights holder in your country, check the list below. If your country does not appear on the list, please check local listings. The list is&nbsp;subject to change, and some broadcasters may only show highlights coverage, while others will show the meeting live.&nbsp;Please check your local listings to find out more information.&nbsp;
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" cellpadding="2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Territories</td>
<td>Broadcaster/ Rights holder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Africa (English language):&nbsp;Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, S&atilde;o Tom&eacute; and Pr&iacute;ncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland</td>
<td>Supersport (English)&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Africa (French language):&nbsp;Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, S&atilde;o Tom&eacute; and Pr&iacute;ncipe, Mayotte</td>
<td>New World TV</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Argentina</td>
<td>TeleRed, TyC Sports</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Australia</td>
<td>Stan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Azerbaijan</td>
<td>Saran Group, CBC Sport</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Baltics: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland</td>
<td>SIA All Media, Viasat Baltics, TV3 Sport</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Balkans:&nbsp;Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia</td>
<td>United Media - Sportklub</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belarus</td>
<td>Saran Group</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belgium</td>
<td>VRT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brazil</td>
<td>COB,&nbsp;TVN Sports, Globo Sport Brazil, Newco - BandSports</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bulgaria</td>
<td>Mobitel, A1 - Sport Max</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td>CBC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Caucasus/Central Asia:&nbsp;Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.</td>
<td>Saran</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barth&eacute;lemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bonaire, Bermuda, Cura&ccedil;ao, Sint Maarten</td>
<td>Flow Sports, CWC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Central America:&nbsp;Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname</td>
<td>Sky Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>China</td>
<td>CCTV</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chinese Taipei</td>
<td>Elta</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Czech Republic</td>
<td>Ceska Televize</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Denmark</td>
<td>TV3 Sport, Viasat Sport A/S Account</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td>MTV Katsomo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td>Sky Deutschland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Greece&nbsp;</td>
<td>TAF/ERT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hong Kong</td>
<td>PCCW</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hungary</td>
<td>ASC1, MTVA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>India</td>
<td>Viacom 18</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Israel</td>
<td>Charlton - Sport 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy&nbsp;</td>
<td>Sky Italy / Sportface / Rai</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Malaysia</td>
<td>Measat, Astro</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mongolia</td>
<td>SPS Mongolia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Morocco</td>
<td>SNRT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td>Liberty Global Content, Ziggo Sports, NOS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>New Zealand</td>
<td>TVNZ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td>NRK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Philippines</td>
<td>TAP DMV</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poland</td>
<td>Polsat</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Portugal</td>
<td>Sport TV Portugal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Qatar</td>
<td>ALKASS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovakia</td>
<td>RTVS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Singapore</td>
<td>Singtel, Starhub</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>South America: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela</td>
<td>Panam Sports</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>South Korea</td>
<td>KBS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spain</td>
<td>Telefonica</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td>TV4, SVT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td>SRG</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thailand</td>
<td>Cineplex, JKN</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turkey</td>
<td>Saran Group, Ssport</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United Kingdom</td>
<td>BBC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ukraine</td>
<td>Setanta</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>USA</td>
<td>NBC Sports</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bhutan, Cambodia, France, Iceland, Indonesia, Japan, Monaco, Myanmar (Burma), Romania, South Korea, Sri Lanka</td>
<td>Wanda Diamond League YouTube / Facebook</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Social media</h2>
- World Athletics: <a href="https://twitter.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/worldathletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@worldathletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> - Wanda Diamond League: <a href="https://twitter.com/diamond_league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DiamondLeague/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/diamondleagueathletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>
&nbsp;

The Wanda Diamond League continues on Thursday (5) in Zurich

How to watch and follow the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Zurich

Just 11 days after taking the running total of world record performances in this trailblazing Wanda Diamond League season up to a magnificent seven with their momentous marks in Silesia, Mondo Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen will be back in action in Zurich&rsquo;s stellar Weltklasse meeting on Thursday (5).
The last leg of the Diamond League campaign before the grand final in Brussels on 13-14 September has attracted 14 gold medal winners from last month&rsquo;s Paris Olympics &ndash; including four athletes who have got in on the world record fest since Duplantis kicked off the season with a new men&rsquo;s pole vault height of 6.24m in Xiamen on 20 April.
Duplantis, whose 6.26m clearance in Silesia on 25 August represented his third world record of the year, on the back of his 6.25m vault in Paris last month, will be joined by Ingebrigtsen, Beatrice Chebet and Yaroslava Mahuchikh on a night when the Weltklasse promises to live up to its traditional billing as &ldquo;the Olympics in one day&rdquo;.
The Letzigrund Stadion has not witnessed a world record since Yelena Isinbayeva&rsquo;s 5.06m pole vault back in 2009, and perhaps the 100m head-to-head that Duplantis has chosen to undertake with 400m hurdles world record-holder Karsten Warholm on the hallowed Zurich track on Wednesday evening (4) might sharpen the Swede&rsquo;s speed for a further attempt on the men&rsquo;s vault record on Thursday.
The sprint challenge &ndash; <a href="https://worldathletics.org/news/news/duplantis-warholm-sprint-showdown-zurich-live-stream" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to be streamed on Inside Track</a> &ndash; was laid down when the pair were training in the Stade Louis II the day before the 2023 Diamond League meeting in Monaco. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying I&rsquo;m going to kick your ass, but I&rsquo;ll give you a run for your money,&rdquo; Duplantis told his Norwegian friend.
Duplantis&rsquo; best 100m time, a windy 10.57, dates back to high school days in 2018. Warholm clocked 10.49 in 2017, the year he won the first of his three world 400m hurdles titles.
<div><a href="https://worldathletics.org/news/news/duplantis-warholm-sprint-showdown-zurich-live-stream" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66d5c8fc9e5d112aa43da492.jpg" alt="Warholm vs Duplantis 100m livestream" /></a></div>
A Duplantis defeat in any discipline would represent a track and field novelty. The 24-year-old has won 17 successive pole vault competitions since finishing fourth in that Monaco Diamond League meeting in July last year.&nbsp;
Chris Nilsen, the US vaulter who hit the unexpected jackpot that night in Monte Carlo, is joined in the Weltklasse field by compatriot Sam Kendricks and the emerging Greek Emmanouil Karalis, who earned Olympic silver and bronze respectively behind Duplantis in Paris.
As for Ingebrigtsen, having destroyed Daniel Komen&rsquo;s 3000m world record with a jaw-dropping 7:17.55 in Silesia, a 1500m race for the ages awaits.
The world and Olympic 5000m champion takes on the three men who swept past him to claim Olympic 1500m gold, silver and bronze in Paris: the inspired Cole Hocker of the US, Britain&rsquo;s Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse, also of the US.&nbsp;
The line up also includes Briton Elliot Giles, fresh from a 3:51.3 road mile world record ahead of Nuguse in Dusseldorf on Sunday (1).
Kerr outkicked Ingebrigtsen to land the world title in Budapest last year and did the same to win the Bowerman Mile in the Eugene Diamond League meeting in May but the 24-year-old Norwegian has not lost a 1500m race on the Diamond League circuit since he finished runner-up to Kenya&rsquo;s Timothy Cheruiyot in Zurich three years ago.
He finished comfortably clear of Hocker at the distance in his first post-Olympic outing in Lausanne on 22 August and completed his preparations for Paris with a European record 3:26.73 in Monaco, 0.73 shy of Hicham El Guerrouj&rsquo;s 1998 world record.
Just for the record, there has only been one global mark for the men&rsquo;s 1500m made in Zurich: in 1979, when the long-time Weltklasse promoter Res Brugger famously barred Steve Ovett from facing Sebastian Coe because he didn&rsquo;t want the rivalry to interfere with the latter&rsquo;s shot at a third world record in 41 days, which Coe duly achieved in 3:32.1.
Chebet &ndash; who bagged two Olympic golds in five days in Paris, her 5000m and 10,000m successes the only individual double in the French capital &ndash; may well be motivated to chase a second global mark in four months in the women&rsquo;s 5000m in Zurich.
In the Eugene Diamond League 10,000m in May, the 24-year-old Kenyan clocked 28:54.14, becoming the first woman to crack 29 minutes for 10,000m, a feat first achieved on the men&rsquo;s side by Emil Zatopek in 1954.
She stands third on the all-time list at 5000m with the 14:05.92 she clocked in the wake of Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay&rsquo;s world record 14:00.21 at the Diamond League Final in Oregon a year ago.
However, only two other women on the Zurich start list have broken 14:20.&nbsp;
World 10,000m bronze medallist Ejgayehu Taye, who finished sixth in the Olympic 5000m final, has a best of 4:12.98. Fellow Ethiopian Tsigie Gebreselama, second to Chebet in the 2023 World Cross Country Championships, has run 14:18.76.
Mahuchikh remains unbeaten in the 2024 outdoor season, two months on from her 2.10m high jump world record in the Paris Diamond League meeting at Stade Charlety.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/668aaf135e7b38f835e73def.JPG" alt="Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the high jump in Paris" />
Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the high jump in Paris (&copy; Christel Saneh)
</div>
The 22-year-old faces the three women who joined her on the Ukrainian-Australian Olympic podium in Stade de France: silver medallist Nicola Olyslagers and joint bronze medallists Eleanor Patterson and Iryna Gerashchenko.
The women&rsquo;s pole vault in Zurich&rsquo;s Hauptbanhof, Main Train Station, on Wednesday (4), pits Australia&rsquo;s Olympic golden girl Nina Kennedy against fellow medal winners Katie Moon of the US and Canada&rsquo;s Alysha Newman &ndash; plus Switzerland&rsquo;s European champion Angelica Moser, who was fourth in Paris.
Another Swiss star who just missed the podium in the French capital, Simon Ehammer, takes on Olympic men&rsquo;s long jump medallists Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece, Jamaican Wayne Pinnock and Italian teenager Mattia Furlani, as well as Norway&rsquo;s surprise Olympic decathlon champion Markus Rooth, who will be making his Diamond League debut.
Three other events also feature a full set of Olympic medal winners.&nbsp;&nbsp;
In the men&rsquo;s shot, Ryan Crouser rejoins battle with US teammate Joe Kovacs and Rajindra Campbell of Jamaica, while in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles Masai Russell of USA faces France&rsquo;s Cyrena Samba-Mayela and Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn. In the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles Grant Holloway takes on US colleague Daniel Roberts and Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica.
St Lucian sprint sensation Julien Alfred tackles her first race since storming to 100m gold and 200m silver in Paris, lining up at the shorter distance against Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson, who took 100m silver behind her and 4x100m relay gold.&nbsp;
The field also includes Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita, members of Britain&rsquo;s silver medal-winning 4x100m quartet, and Switzerland&rsquo;s European 200m champion Mujinga Kambundji.
The men&rsquo;s 200m features the Olympic one and two &ndash; Botswana&rsquo;s Letsile Tebogo and Kenny Bednarek of the US &ndash; plus Fred Kerley, the US sprinter who finished third over 100m.
Fresh from her 600m world best of 1:21.63 in Berlin on Sunday (1), world champion Mary Moraa of Kenya takes on Tsige Duguma, the Ethiopian who claimed Olympic 800m silver one place ahead of her, and Britain&rsquo;s 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Bell.
In the men&rsquo;s javelin, Grenada&rsquo;s two-time world champion Anderson Peters, a bronze medallist in Paris, will be challenging for a second Diamond League win of the season against Germany&rsquo;s 2022 European champion Julian Weber and Kenya&rsquo;s 2015 world champion Julius Yego.
Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell of the US lines up in the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles, while the men&rsquo;s event features the silver and bronze medal winners from Paris. Warholm, fresh from his 100m showdown with Duplantis, takes on Brazil&rsquo;s 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos.
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics

The last leg of the Diamond League campaign before the grand final in Brussels on 13-14 September has attracted 14 gold medal winners from last month’s Paris Olympics

Olympic medallists and world record-holders ready to light up Zurich

Four months after the first season launched, season two of <a href="https://worldathletics.org/videos/sprint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPRINT</a> &ndash; the Netflix sports docuseries starring the fastest athletes on the planet &ndash; will launch on 13 November.
The second instalment of SPRINT is centred around the recent Paris 2024 Olympic Games and features an even wider array of the world&rsquo;s leading sprinters, following their journey throughout the 2024 season.
Olympic 100m champions Noah Lyles and Julien Alfred are featured, as are 200m gold medallists Gabby Thomas and Letsile Tebogo. Marcell Jacobs, Fred Kerley and Shericka Jacksons &ndash; all of whom starred in season one &ndash; will feature in the second season, alongside Kishane Thompson, Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Kenny Bednarek and Oblique Seville.
Created by the team behind Drive to Survive, the latest edition of the docuseries shows what it takes to dig deep, pull out your personal best on a global stage, and then get back into training to continue dominating on the track.
Season 2 of SPRINT is executive produced by Paul Martin, James Gay-Rees, and Warren Smith at Box to Box Films.
In its first week of being released, the first season of SPRINT ranked sixth on the list of the most-watched shows on Netflix worldwide.

Season two of SPRINT – the Netflix sports docuseries starring the fastest athletes on the planet – will launch on 13 November

Second season of SPRINT ready to race back on to screens in November

Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and Norwegian 400m hurdler Karsten Warholm will clash over 100m in Zurich on Wednesday 4 September, and fans can watch the mouth-watering action for free on <a href="https://worldathletics.org/videos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics Inside Track</a>.
The sprint battle marks the culmination of a long-standing back-and-forth between the two athletics icons, which has been simmering for more than a year.
Warholm is the world 400m hurdles record holder, 2021 Olympic gold medallist and three-time world champion, while Duplantis is the double Olympic champion and has broken the world pole vault record a staggering 10 times.
The two titans will run for glory in front of a sold-out arena, Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, the evening before the Wanda Diamond League meeting. This is a sporting event that will go down in the history books, thanks to the arranging partners Weltklasse Zurich, Puma and Red Bull.
To access the stream on Wednesday, which starts at 9:30pm CEST, ensure you&rsquo;re <a href="https://worldathletics.org/videos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed up to Inside Track</a>.

Fans can watch the mouth-watering action on World Athletics Inside Track

Duplantis-Warholm sprint showdown to be streamed on Inside Track

For many Peruvian athletes, the opportunity to compete in international competitions is rare. Hosting the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24 was not only a golden opportunity but also a profoundly emotional experience, as athletes competed in front of their fans, family members and friends.
Among the <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/lima24/country/peru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30 Peruvian athletes</a> who took part was 16-year-old Ximena Vasquez, who set a national U20 record in the 400m hurdles.
&ldquo;Competing here? I&rsquo;m obviously nervous &ndash; of course I will be &ndash; but I&rsquo;m immensely proud that this competition is being held in Peru,&rdquo; said Vasquez.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just important for us, but also for the next generation.&rdquo;
Russell Cjuro, who ran in the 3000m steeplechase heats, added: &ldquo;The crowd comes to cheer you on, raising the stakes for us. It&rsquo;s not just about competing; it&rsquo;s a thrilling experience, full of emotions that strengthen us.&rdquo;
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66d4f3f3e213962b985edbb1.JPG" alt="Russell Cjuro contests the steeplechase at the WU20 Lima 24" />
Russell Cjuro contests the steeplechase at the WU20 Lima 24 (&copy; Oscar Munoz Badilla)
</div>
Another delighted Peruvian was Jeffrey Cajo, who finished seventh in heat three of the 400m.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Competing at home is probably the most beautiful experience I&rsquo;ll have in my entire career,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The love and support from all the Peruvians here, day after day, is incredible. We&rsquo;re all fighting together.&rdquo;
In the stands was Cajo&rsquo;s father.&nbsp;
&ldquo;He was the only one who could make it here, but my family in Pisco has been supporting me every day,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;The event is wonderful, but it&rsquo;s even more special because it&rsquo;s happening at home.&rdquo;
For another proud father, the excitement was twofold. Javier Chirinos, President of the local organising committee, couldn&rsquo;t contain his emotions as he watched his 16-year-old daughter, Cayetana, compete in the 100m and 4x100m relay.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s part of the learning process &ndash; not just for her as an athlete, but for me as a father,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;
&ldquo;The nerves in the stands are far greater than those involved in organising the event. Everything went smoothly, and we look forward to hosting more events like this in Peru.&rdquo;
Jose Rivasplata of the Media Development Programme for World Athletics

World Athletics U20 Championships

Peru hosting the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24 was not only a golden opportunity but also a profoundly emotional experience for the nation's athletes

Peruvian athletes relish WU20 Lima 24 experience

Germany&rsquo;s Felix Wolter and Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek-Schubert lived up to expectations as the pre-event favourites for the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial as they claimed victories at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting in the Polish town of Naklo nad Notecia on Sunday (1).
Wolter scored a meeting record of 8068 after being pushed all the way by Japan&rsquo;s Yuma Maruyama and Estonia&rsquo;s Risto Lillemets, both of whom also scored in excess of 8000 points.
Sulek-Schubert, meanwhile, retained her title from 2022 with 6007 to win comfortably from Ukraine&rsquo;s Yuliya Loban.
Wolter led from the outset, clocking 10.63 in the 100m and leaping 7.64m in the long jump, the best marks of the day for those disciplines. His opponents made a dent on his lead in the shot put as the German managed 13.49m while Zsombor Galpal topped the event with 15.09m.
A 1.94m leap in the high jump kept Wolter in the lead ahead of Czechia&rsquo;s Vilem Strasky and Maruyama, then he ended the first day with a 48.39 victory in the 400m to increase his lead to 120 points.
Wolter started the second day with a 14.52 run in the 110m hurdles, an event in which Lorenzo Naidon (14.12) and Maruyama (14.20) produced the fastest times.
Lithuania&rsquo;s Edgaras Benkunskas, the strongest thrower in the field, topped the discus with a PB of 49.89m, while Wolter managed 44.06m. Lillemets then climbed up the leader board into fifth after clearing 5.00m in the pole vault with Wolter &ndash; still the overall leader &ndash; vaulting 4.70m and Maruyama managing 4.80m.
Benkunskas, Lillemets and Maruyama all threw beyond 60 metres in the javelin to make a small dent on Wolter&rsquo;s lead. But his 56.43m throw kept him in pole position going into the 1500m.
Naidon was the fastest in the final discipline (4:31.99) and he was closely followed by Lillemets (4:32.24) and Maruyama (4:36.59) but Wolter did enough to hold on to his lead (4:43.61), ending with a score of 8068.
Maruyama scored 8021 for second place, just ahead of Lillemets (8012).
Like Wolter, Sulek-Schubert led the heptathlon from start to finish.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66d593e3c135065377afe554.JPG" alt="Adrianna Sulek-Schubert at the Czapiewski Memorial" />
Adrianna Sulek-Schubert at the Czapiewski Memorial (&copy; Organisers)
</div>
The European indoor silver medallist opened with a 13.44 victory in the 100m hurdles and then cleared 1.77m, the best of the day, in the high jump.
Yuliya Loban produced the best throw in the shot put, 14.86m, but Sulek-Schubert&rsquo;s 13.75m kept the Pole in the lead. Sulek-Schubert then increased her leading margin to 166 points at the end of the first day thanks to a 24.28 victory in the 200m.
Sulek-Schubert and Loban produced the exact same mark in the long jump, 5.79m, then the Ukrainian out-threw Sulek-Schubert in the javelin by almost five metres, 42.22m to 37.81m, but it wasn&rsquo;t enough to displace the leader.
A 2:16.95 run in the 800m sealed the victory for Sulek-Schubert, giving her a winning score of 6007. Loban was second with 5861.

Germany’s Felix Wolter and Poland’s Adrianna Sulek-Schubert lived up to expectations as the pre-event favourites for the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial

Wolter and Sulek-Schubert win in Naklo nad Notecia

World champion Mary Moraa fought for every hundredth of a second on the home straight of the 600m at the ISTAF &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting &ndash; in Berlin on Sunday (1) and was rewarded with a world best of 1:21.63.
Running in front of 40,500 spectators, the Olympic bronze medallist from Kenya took 0.14 off the previous world best, finishing 1.35 seconds ahead of Shafiqua Maloney.
&ldquo;I am feeling so well and happy,&rdquo; said Moraa. &ldquo;To achieve this record on my first attempt is just overwhelming. I am so satisfied about the way I ran today.&rdquo;
Germany&rsquo;s 2022 European champion Julian Weber gave himself a belated birthday present, winning the javelin with a season&rsquo;s best of 88.64m just three days after turning 30.
&ldquo;It was wonderful, just as I imagined it would be,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There were so many fans here in the stadium. It was so much fun. The people were so into it. The great series is awesome.&rdquo;
USA&rsquo;s Sam Kendricks won the men&rsquo;s pole vault with 6.01m, the first six-metre vault at ISTAF in 25 years. Dutch vaulter Menno Vloon was also left in the competition at that height but was unsuccessful, ending with a best of 5.92m.
Olympic silver medallist Leo Neugebauer won a three-discipline combined events contest, clocking 10.77 in the 100m, throwing 53.13m in the discus and ending with a 4:38.10 run in the 1500m. The final discipline was held using the Gundersen method with athletes starting based on their points tally ahead of that event, meaning the first athlete to finish the 1500m was the overall winner.
World and Olympic champion Grant Holloway notched up another win in the 110m hurdles, clocking 13.14 to finish 0.07 ahead of Japan&rsquo;s Rachid Muratake.
European champion Jessica Schilder achieved a decisive win over Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye in the women&rsquo;s shot put, throwing 19.70m to the German&rsquo;s 18.65m.
German champions Gina Luckenkemper and Emil Nana Kwame Agyekum set lifetime best performances to win their respective disciplines.
Luckenkemper made the most of a strong start in the 100m to win in a PB of 10.93 (1.0m/s) ahead of USA&rsquo;s Jenna Prandini (11.09). Kwame Agyekum, meanwhile, produced the run of his life in the 400m hurdles to win comfortably in 48.21 from 2022 world bronze medallist Trevor Bassitt.

World champion Mary Moraa fought for every hundredth of a second on the home straight of the 600m in Berlin and was rewarded with a world best of 1:21.63

Moraa clocks world 600m best in Berlin

A range of new competition formats were put to the test at the Track Lab &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting &ndash; in the Swiss city of Fribourg on Sunday (1).
The Track Lab Fribourg featured a variety of athletics disciplines. Some, such as the mile steeplechase, were completely new. Others had minor adjustments made, such as in the sprints where the allowed reaction time was reduced to 0.000 instead of 0.10. While a few &ndash; like the 800m &ndash; were unchanged.
The field events, meanwhile, were trialling more significant changes. The pole vault was held as a mixed competition where the absolute effective height over the bar was measured. The long jump had a 40-centimetre long take-off zone, from which the full distance jumped was measured. And in the javelin, an athlete's throw was only measured and recorded if it was an improvement on their previous best.
All of these new formats were being tested for the first time and form part of a consultation process for the future of the sport to see if such changes can enhance the enjoyment and excitement of a competition. Further testing and consultation with various stakeholders will be undertaken in the aftermath of this event. Anything that doesn't pass extensive consultation will not be implemented.
Aside from the tweaks to the disciplines, there was also a team element to the competition.
Fans at home were able to benefit too, as the live stream tested out filming angles shot by drones that had never been used for live coverage before.
European pole vault champion Angelica Moser, competing on home soil, received a great welcome from the Swiss crowd. She cleared a best of 4.47m to finish second overall in her event, and the leading woman, behind compatriot Fabio Kissling.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Abrham Sime was a convincing winner of the mile steeplechase, clocking 4:14.36 to finish comfortably ahead of Nicolas-Marie Daru of France.
World bronze medallist Alina Rotaru-Kottmann of Romania produced the best long jump of the day, leaping 6.64m to finish five centimetres ahead of Slovenia&rsquo;s Neja Filipic. With athletes taking off from a 40-centimetre take-off zone, all 18 jumps in the competition were valid and measured.
Two-time world champion Anderson Peters won a javelin contest in which throws were only measured and recorded if they were an improvement on a previous throw. The Grenadian opened with 74.52m, then extended his lead with 78.78m in round two before finishing with 81.18m in the third and final round.
He was part of the triumphant &lsquo;Team Black&rsquo; that won the overall team contest. Dutch sprint hurdler Nadine Visser was another winner on that team, taking the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles in 12.67 from Australia&rsquo;s Liz Clay (12.82).
Elsewhere, Switzerland&rsquo;s Audrey Werro won the women&rsquo;s 800m in 1:58.79 to win by more than a second, while Dylan Borlee took the men&rsquo;s 400m in 45.87 in a race in which Brazilian 400m hurdles Alison dos Santos placed third (46.07).

A range of new competition formats were put to the test at the Fribourg Track Lab

Duplantis and Mahuchikh aim to hit the heights on first day of Diamond League Final in Brussels

Surprise world U20 long jump champion Farkas switches focus back to decathlon

World and Olympic champion Martín retires

Kerr breaks long-standing race record to win 5th Avenue Mile

Crouser, Arop, Vissa and Bett among meeting record-breakers in Zagreb