The 2010 Diamond League season was the first season of the Diamond League, an annual series of fourteen one-day track and field meetings. The series began on 14 May in Doha, Qatar and ended on 27 August in Brussels, Belgium.
Superseding the European-centred IAAF Golden League, the Diamond League was the IAAF's first intercontinental series of one-day track and field meetings. Expanding upon the idea of the former Golden League jackpot, there were 32 separate Diamond Races, involving 16 men's and 16 women's track and field events – each of the events featured seven times only over the course of the fourteen meetings of the 2010 Diamond League, and the best athlete in each event won a Diamond Trophy. League winners were decided via a points system, with four points going to the winner, two to the runner-up, and one to the third place finisher, with points doubled at the final two meetings in Brussels and Zurich. The total available prize money for the series was US$6.63 million.
For infrastructure reasons the men's and women's hammer throw events were not included in the IAAF Diamond League. For this reason the IAAF created a Hammer Throw challenge.
For the first time, some of the world's foremost track and field athletes were centrally contracted to an athletics meeting series. For the 2010 series the contracted athletes – called Diamond League Ambassadors – included figures such as Usain Bolt, Kenenisa Bekele, Yelena Isinbayeva and Blanka Vlašić.
Prior to the series, former World Champion Steve Cram stated that he believed that, through greater television exposure, and mutual responsibility between the IAAF and promoters, the 2010 Diamond League would raise the profile of the sport of athletics.
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|The winners of the 2010 Diamond League Trophies.
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|Crystal Palace in London will be one of the venues for the series.
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|The Bislett Games have been held at Bislett Stadion since 1965.
Ambassadors
A total of fourteen athletes were given Diamond League Ambassador status, with the intention of bringing attention to some of the sport's foremost competitors. There are seven male and seven female athletes, and the division between track and field specialists is also evenly divided.
In Oslo, Eugene and London, mile races are counted to the Diamond League standings for the 1500m.
Field
Overall winner
Dwight Phillips
Teddy Tamgho
Ivan Ukhov
Renaud Lavillenie
Christian Cantwell
Piotr Małachowski
Andreas Thorkildsen
Women
Track
Overall winner
Carmelita Jeter
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
Janeth Jepkosgei
Nancy Langat
Vivian Cheruiyot
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep
Kaliese Spencer
Milcah Cheywa
In Lausanne and Monaco, 3000m races are counted to the Diamond League standings for the 5000m.
Field
Overall winner
Brittney Reese
Yargelis Savigne
Blanka Vlašić
Fabiana Murer
Valerie Vili
Yarelys Barrios
Barbora Špotáková
Results
Women's Javelin Throw
Mariya Abakumova
cnci DQ
Barbora Špotáková
cnci 67.33 m
Martina Ratej
cnci 67.16 m
Christina Obergföll
cnci 64.38 m
Zahra Bani
cnci 57.29 m
Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir
cnci 54.74 m
Maria Nicoleta Negoiţă
cnci 54.21 m
Elisabeth Pauer
cnci 52.97 m
Women's Shot Put
Nadezhda Ostapchuk
cnci DQ
Valerie Adams
cnci 19.72 m
Lijiao Gong
cnci 19.60 m
Michelle Carter
cnci 18.79 m
Jillian Camarena-Williams
cnci 18.56 m
Xiangrong Liu
cnci 18.49 m
Nadine Kleinert
cnci 18.44 m
Misleydis González
cnci 18.08 m
Women's Discus Throw
Nadine Müller
cnci 63.93 m
Żaneta Glanc
cnci 62.16 m
Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 61.80 m
Yarisley Collado
cnci 61.20 m
Nicoleta Grasu
cnci 60.86 m
Sandra Perković
cnci 59.71 m
Anna Söderberg
cnci 58.47 m
Grete Etholm
cnci 52.66 m
Women's Javelin Throw
Barbora Špotáková
cnci 68.66 m
Sunette Viljoen
cnci 63.04 m
Vera Markaryan
cnci 62.44 m
Christina Obergföll
cnci 62.36 m
Linda Stahl
cnci 62.02 m
Martina Ratej
cnci 62.01 m
Goldie Sayers
cnci 61.23 m
Jarmila Jurkovičová
cnci 59.48 m
Women's Discus Throw
Sandra Perković
cnci 61.96 m
Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 61.19 m
Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová
cnci 60.71 m
Gia Lewis-Smallwood
cnci 59.70 m
Becky Breisch
cnci 59.55 m
Summer Pierson
cnci 58.75 m
Anna Jelmini
cnci 58.67 m
Stephanie Brown-Trafton
cnci 55.67 m
Women's Javelin Throw
Kara Winger
cnci 65.90 m
Martina Ratej
cnci 64.40 m
Barbora Špotáková
cnci 61.12 m
Rachel Buciarski
cnci 58.42 m
Madara Palameika
cnci 53.37 m
Alicia Deshasier
cnci 50.77 m
Women's Discus Throw
Yarelis Barrios
cnci 65.92 m
Becky Breisch
cnci 64.53 m
Dani Stevens
cnci 62.05 m
Żaneta Glanc
cnci 61.53 m
Nadine Müller
cnci 61.14 m
Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 60.77 m
Sandra Perković
cnci 60.18 m
Stephanie Brown-Trafton
cnci 58.81 m
Women's Javelin Throw
Sunette Viljoen
cnci 64.32 m
Kara Winger
cnci 63.11 m
Barbora Špotáková
cnci 62.02 m
Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir
cnci 60.72 m
Jarmila Jurkovičová
cnci 56.21 m
Laura Whittingham
cnci 51.90 m
Jessica Ennis-Hill
cnci 46.15 m
Tatjana Mirković
cnci DNS m
Women's Discus Throw
Yarelis Barrios
cnci 65.53 m
Nicoleta Grasu
cnci 63.78 m
Sandra Perković
cnci 63.62 m
Dani Stevens
cnci 62.10 m
Nadine Müller
cnci 61.73 m
Becky Breisch
cnci 60.86 m
Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 60.83 m
Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová
cnci 59.36 m
Women's Javelin Throw
Barbora Špotáková
cnci 65.76 m
Kara Winger
cnci 64.21 m
Sunette Viljoen
cnci 59.93 m
Madara Palameika
cnci 59.64 m
Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir
cnci 59.55 m
Mareike Rittweg
cnci 57.18 m
Rachel Buciarski
cnci 55.95 m
Elisabeth Pauer
cnci 55.33 m
Women's Long Jump
Darya Klishina
cnci 6.78 m
Brittney Reese
cnci 6.75 m
Naide Gomes
cnci 6.72 m
Lyudmila Kolchanova
cnci 6.70 m
Ineta Radēviča
cnci 6.70 m
Funmi Jimoh
cnci 6.61 m
Carolina Klüft
cnci 6.57 m
Olga Kucherenko
cnci 6.46 m
Women's Javelin Throw
Barbora Špotáková
cnci 63.50 m
Kara Winger
cnci 63.41 m
Linda Stahl
cnci 59.60 m
Christina Obergföll
cnci 58.45 m
Madara Palameika
cnci 58.31 m
Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir
cnci 54.92 m
Laura Whittingham
cnci 53.94 m
Rachel Buciarski
cnci 51.69 m
Women's Javelin Throw
Christina Obergföll
cnci 67.31 m
Barbora Špotáková
cnci 65.34 m
Linda Stahl
cnci 63.30 m
Mariya Abakumova
cnci DQ
Katharina Molitor
cnci 62.21 m
Madara Palameika
cnci 61.75 m
Sunette Viljoen
cnci 59.95 m
Vera Markaryan
cnci 59.78 m
Women's Discus Throw
Sandra Perković
cnci 66.93 m
Yarelis Barrios
cnci 65.96 m
Yanfeng Li
cnci 64.74 m
Dani Stevens
cnci 62.13 m
Nicoleta Grasu
cnci 61.68 m
Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 61.58 m
Becky Breisch
cnci 59.77 m
Joanna Wiśniewska
cnci 58.42 m
References
;Results
Results Archive. IAAF Diamond League (archived). Retrieved on 2015-05-17.
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