2023 Diamond League season: Full list of disciplines and results for each World Athletics track and field top tier event
Here are the key competitions and all the dates and start times you need to know for the 2023 track and field athletics calendar.
Athletics
The 2023 Diamond League, the top tier track and field athletics series, is over with the finals in Eugene, Oregon witnessing a flurry of high-class performances including world records from Gudaf Tsegay and Mondo Duplantis on the final day.
Athletes competed over nine track and seven field disciplines per gender, although not all were included in each stop on the Diamond League tour.
Diamond League 2023 season structure
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.
Brussels was the last of the 13 one-day events where athletics stars could earn points that earns them qualification for the two-day Diamond League Finals.
This year's Diamond League Final took place at Hayward Field in Eugene in September, the first time it was staged on US soil having always been held in Europe previously.
2023 Diamond League - Round 1: Doha, Qatar (Friday 5 May) - Discipline schedule and results
The opening event of the Wanda Diamond League season in Doha, Qatar, featured a total of 14 Diamond League disciplines with six for women and eight for men.
Sha'Carri Richardson won a hotly contested women's 100m with Fred Kerley, Neeraj Chopra, Lamecha Girma, Faith Kipyegon and Kristjan Ceh also producing world-class performances.
Find out what happened here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 2: Rabat, Morocco (Sunday 28 May) - Discipline schedule and results
The second event of the Wanda Diamond League season, the Meeting International Mohammed VI, featured 14 Diamond League disciplines, split evenly between men's and women's events.
Fred Kerley won the first men's 100m of the campaign with Shericka Jackson dominating the women's 200m and world and Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali delighting the home fans by winning the 3000m steeplechase in a new personal best.
Read the report here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 3: Florence, Italy (Friday 2 June) - Discipline schedule and results
The third event of the season was the Golden Gala which was staged at Florence's Stadio Luigi Ridolfi while the Stadio Olimpico in Rome is being upgraded ahead of hosting the 2024 European Championships. Florence also hosted the 2021 Golden Gala.
The highlight of the first European leg of the Diamond League was Faith Kipyegon breaking the 1500m world record in the final track event of the night.
There were 15 Diamond League disciplines - eight women's and seven men's - with Fred Kerley, Erriyon Knighton and Femke Bol among the winners.
Find out what happened on a historic night in Florence here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 4: Paris, France (Friday 9 June) - Discipline schedule and results
The fourth event of the season was in Paris, a year before the 2024 Olympic Games are also held in the French capital.
The Paris Diamond League event for 2023, also known as the Meeting de Paris, took place in the 20,000 capacity Stade Charléty.
Two new world records were set on a stunning night for athletics - Faith Kipyegon in the women's 5000m and Lamecha Girma in the men's 3000m steeplechase.
Read the recap here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 5: Oslo, Norway (Thursday 15 June) - Discipline schedule and results
The fifth event of the season was in Oslo's Bislett Stadium where home favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen set a new European record in the men's 1500m.
Norway's other Olympic track champion from Tokyo 2020, Karsten Warholm, set a new Diamond League record in the men's 400m hurdles while Femke Bol set a new world lead time in the women's version.
World record holder Wayde van Niekerk showed his wellbeing with victory in the flat 400m.
Read the recap here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 6: Lausanne, Switzerland (Friday 30 June) - Discipline schedule and results
The Lausanne Diamond League meet, also known as the Athletissima, was the sixth event of the 2023 season.
There were three meeting records in Diamond League events courtesy of Berihu Aregawi in the men's 5000m, Femke Bol in the women's 400m hurdles and Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men's 1500m.
Marie-Josée Ta Lou won the 100m before helping Cote d'Ivoire set a new national record - and meeting record - in the women's 4x100m relay.
And Botswana's Letsile Tebogo took the men's 200m with Olympic champion Andre De Grasse back in sixth.
Read the meet recap here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 7: Stockholm, Sweden (Sunday 2 July) - Discipline schedule and results
The seventh event of the season was the Stockholm Diamond League meet, the BAUHAUS-galan, headlined by home hero Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis clearing 6.05m despite wet weather conditions in the Swedish capital.
Norwegian 400m hurdles sensation Karsten Warholm triumphed despite an on-track protest blocking the finish line, while Nigerian sprint hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan eased to another win through the rain.
Read the meet recap here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 8: Silesia, Poland (Sunday 16 July) - Discipline schedule and results
The eighth event of the season was the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial meeting in Silesia, Poland.
Sha'Carri Richardson toppled Shericka Jackson in a thrilling women's 100m after Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the European 1500m record.
There was a world lead for Yulimar Rojas in the triple jump with Japan's Kitaguchi Haruka doing likewise in the women's javelin, throwing a national record in the final round.
A day after celebrating his 31st birthday, world record holder Wayde van Niekerk showed he was right back to his best in the 400m.
And there was a first defeat of 2023 for men's 100m world champion Fred Kerley who was edged out by South Africa's Akani Simbine.
Read the meet recap here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 9: Monaco (Friday 21 July) - Discipline schedule and results
Faith Kipyegon stole the show at the ninth Diamond League meet of the season, the Herculis, in Monaco's Stade Louis II.
The Kenyan took four and a half seconds off the previous best for the mile set by Sifan Hassan at this meeting four years ago to set her third world record of the year.
Karsten Warholm was almost as impressive in the men's 400m hurdles as he easily saw off the challenge of reigning world champion Alison dos Santos with the fourth fastest time in history.
There was a rare defeat for Mondo Duplantis as Chris Nilsen took the pole vault, but Shericka Jackson won the women's 200m and Nia Ali set a new world lead time in the 100m hurdles.
Ferdinand Omanyala capped an excellent night for Kenyan athletes with his first Diamond League victory in the 100m.
Find out what happened here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 10: London, Great Britain (Sunday 23 July) - Discipline schedule and results
Femke Bol ran the third-fastest women's 400m hurdles in history to light up the 10th Diamond League meet of the season in the London 2012 Olympic Stadium.
Bol's fellow Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan also set a new European record in the 5000m, but that was only good enough for third place with Ethiopia's Olympic bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay winning in the fifth-fastest time in history from Kenya's Beatrice Chebet.
On an afternoon featuring a number of world-class performances, Noah Lyles clocked the fastest 200m of the year with Botswana's Letsile Tebogo breaking the African record and Zharnel Hughes setting a new British best.
Wayde van Niekerk maintained his unbeaten record in the men's 400m with the evergreen Marie-Josée Ta Lou getting the better of Dina Asher-Smith and Shericka Jackson in the women's 100m.
Read the meet recap here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 11: Zurich, Switzerland (Thursday 31 August) - Discipline schedule and results
After the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the Diamond League resumed in Zurich.
Newly-crowned women's 100m world champion Sha'Carri Richardson was a comfortable winner in Switzerland with Shericka Jackson obliging with similar ease in the 200m.
Despite admitting to being "pretty tired" after his three golds in Budapest, Noah Lyles held off Erriyon Knighton in the 200m.
Yulimar Rojas was back to her normal dominant self in the triple jump after her last-gasp world title triumph, while Mondo Duplantis had three attempts at what would have been a new world record after winning the pole vault.
Read the meeting recap here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 12: Xiamen, People's Republic of China (Saturday 2 September) - Discipline schedule and results
Former world 100m champion Christian Coleman ran a world lead-equalling 9.83, beating Fred Kerley and Olympic gold medallist Marcell Jacobs, to light up the Diamond League's inagural stop in Xiamen.
Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment ran a season's best to take the 110m hurdles with three-time world champion Grant Holloway only third.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh backed up her world title win in the high jump, clearing 2.02m to match the best height in 2023.
Grenada's 212 Olympic champion Kirani James rolled back the years in the 400m, as Emmanuel Wanyonyi reversed the form from Budapest with Canada's world champion Marco Arop in the 800m.
Home favourite Feng Bin upset reigning world champion Laulauga Tausaga and double Olympic gold medallist Sandra Perkovic in the discus, as Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali extended his winning streak in the 3000m steeplechase.
Find out what happened here.
2023 Diamond League - Round 13: Brussels, Belgium (Friday 8 September) - Discipline schedule and results
The 13th and final regular Diamond League meeting of 2023 was the last chance for athletes to earn qualification points towards a place in the season Finals.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen delighted the crowd in the King Baudouin Stadium by breaking the 24-year-old 2000m world record previously held by Hicham El Guerrouj.
And Mondo Duplantis almost finished the night in grand style but just failed by a whisker to set a new pole vault world record.
Elsewhere, Shericka Jackson ran the fourth-fastest women's 200m in history while fellow Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah claimed her first Diamond League win of a difficult season in the 100m.
Read the meeting recap here.
2023 Diamond League Final: Eugene, USA (Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September) - Discipline schedule and results
The Diamond League Finals 2023 featured all of the events that athletes have been competing in during the 13 stops on the season's world tour. The field will be limited to only the top ranked competitors who have gained the most qualifying points throughout the year.
Day 1 was highlighted by standout performances by Jakob Ingebrigtsen - who just missed out on the mile world record - and Shericka Jackson taking the women's 100m with Sha'Carri Richardson in fourth.
Christian Coleman ran a world lead-equalling 9.83 for the second time in quick succession to beat world champion Noah Lyles, while there were rare respective defeats for world and Olympic champions Karsten Warholm and Neeraj Chopra to Rai Benjamin and Jakub Vadlejch.
Ingebrigtsen and Jackson completed quick doubles on the Sunday, but the headlines went to Ethiopian runner Gudaf Tsegay who smashed the women's 5000m world record, and Mondo Duplantis who broke the absolute pole vault world record for a seventh time.
Athing Mu showed she was back to her best by setting a new American record in the 800m, although the Diamond Trophy went to runner-up Keely Hodgkinson with the home favourite competing as a guest.
2023 Diamond League athletics - full events calendar and venues list
- Doha, Qatar - Friday 5 May - Qatar Sports Club stadium.
- Rabat, Morocco - Sunday 28 May - also known as the Meeting International Mohammed VI - Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium.
- Rome/Florence, Italy - Friday 2 June, - also known as the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea - Stadio Luigi Ridolfi.
- Paris, France - Friday 9 June - also known as the Meeting de Paris - Stade Sébastien Charléty.
- Oslo, Norway - Thursday 15 June - also known as Bislett Games - Bislett Stadion.
- Lausanne, Switzerland - Friday 30 June - also known as Athletissima - Stade de la Pontaise.
- Stockholm, Sweden - Sunday 2 July - also known as Bauhaus Galan - Stockholm Stadion.
- Silesia, Poland - Sunday 16 July - also known as Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Meeting - Silesian Stadium.
- Monaco - Friday 21 July - also known as Herculis EBS Meeting - Louis II Stadium.
- London, Great Britain - Sunday 23 July - formerly known as the Anniversary Games - London Stadium.
- Zurich, Switzerland - Thursday 31 August - also known as Weltklasse Zürich - Letzigrund stadium.
- Xiamen, People's Republic of China - Saturday 2 September - Egret Stadium
- Brussels, Belgium - Friday 8 September - also known as Allianz Memorial Van Damme - King Baudouin Stadium.
- Eugene, USA - Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September - also known as the Wanda Diamond League Final at the Nike Prefontaine Classic - Hayward Field, University of Oregon.