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Strong Wanda Diamond League 2021 Season takes Shape in Olympic Year

by Lachlan Rayner
April 30, 2021
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Strong Wanda Diamond League 2021 Season takes Shape in Olympic Year

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A strong Wanda Diamond League season planned as athletes prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and World Athletics Championships Oregon22.

This year’s Wanda Diamond League will now begin in Gateshead on 23rd May following a few minor alterations to the 2021 season calendar.

The Wanda Diamond League season opener will be held in the UK for the first time in 2021, with Gateshead stepping in to replace Rabat as the first host city on this year’s circuit.

The season launch on 23rd May was initially scheduled to be the Meeting International Mohammed VI in the Moroccan capital, an event which has now been cancelled due to ongoing coronavirus restrictions.

The 2021 campaign will instead begin at the Gateshead International Stadium, which will host a Diamond League meeting for the first time since the series’ inaugural year in 2010.

In further changes to the 2021 calendar, Rome’s Pietro Mennea Golden Gala will this year relocate to Florence, while Oslo’s Bislett Games will be postponed until July to comply with local coronavirus restrictions.

As Rome’s Stadio Olimpico is already a host venue for this summer’s European Championships in football, the meeting traditionally based in the Italian capital will instead be held at the Stadio Luigi Ridolfi in Florence. The date of this year’s meeting will also be changed from 4th June to 10th June.

The Norwegian Government announced a four-step plan for reopening last week including the suspension of major cultural and sporting events until mid-June, which means that the second Wanda Diamond League meeting in Europe must be postponed from 10th June and will now take place on 1st July.

The new date positions the Oslo meeting just three days before Stockholm’s BAUHAUS Galan on 4th July, allowing athletes competing in both meetings to minimise travel around the Scandinavian events.

Diamond League Chair, Sebastian Coe said: “This is an incredibly important year for our athletes as they prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and less than a year later the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. Competition and training are two very different things so the Wanda Diamond League and our other one-day meetings around the world will give athletes the opportunity to qualify for events, earn World Ranking points and prize money and benchmark their performances against the competition they will face in Tokyo and then Oregon in 2022. We are all working hard, in extraordinarily difficult and fast-changing circumstances, to deliver events for the athletes rather than cancelling them. I would like to thank all our meeting organisers and the Diamond League Board for everything they are doing to deliver what is promising to be a strong and much-needed programme of competition from April through to the final event in Zurich in September. Their passion for the sport and flexible and collaborative approach to the challenges should be applauded, Thank you!”

Unlike in 2020, this year’s Wanda Diamond League will be a full, structured series in which athletes compete for a place in the Final and a shot at the Diamond Trophy.

In the first 13 meetings, athletes will earn points in a bid to qualify for the Final in Zurich on September 8th and 9th, where they have the chance to be crowned Wanda Diamond League Champion in their chosen discipline.

The 2021 calendar remains subject to further changes depending on the global health situation in the coming months.

Given the continuing pandemic situation, particularly within Europe, the Diamond League Board continues to monitor all the meetings and is committed to finding alternative dates or venues wherever possible to ensure athletes have good competition options in the lead up to the Tokyo Olympic Games and afterwards in the build-up to Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich and next year’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon.

Click here to view the 2021 calendar in full.

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Lachlan Rayner

Lachlan Rayner

Lachlan is the Founder of Athletics Exclusive. His athletic background is basically made up of distance running, who competes in a range of events, varying from the 400m up to 3000m.

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