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2025 Doha Diamond League
The 2025 Doha Diamond League was the 27th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Doha, Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b .... Held on 16 May at the Suheim bin Hamad Stadium, it was the third leg of the 2025 Diamond League – the highest level international track and field circuit. Diamond+ events results Starting in 2025 a new discipline of events was added called Diamond+, these 4 events per meet awarded athletes with increased prize money whilst keeping the standard points format to qualify for the Diamond league finals. First place earns 8 points, with each step down in place earning one less point than the previous, until no points are awarded in 9th place or lower. In the case of a tie, each tying athlete earns the full amount of poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doha
Doha ( ) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor (city), Al Khor and Lusail, it is home to most of the country's population. It is also Qatar's fastest growing city, with over 80% of the nation's population living in Doha or its surrounding suburbs, known collectively as the Doha Metropolitan Area. Doha was founded in the 1820s as an offshoot of Al Bidda. It was officially declared as the country's capital in 1971, when Qatar gained independence from being a History of Qatar#British protectorate .281916.E2.80.931971.29, British protectorate. As the commercial capital of Qatar and one of the emergent financial centers in the Middle East, Doha is considered a beta-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Metropolitan Doha includes parts of Al Rayyan such as Education City, an area devoted to research and education, and Hamad Medical C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelby McEwen
Shelby McEwen (born April 6, 1996) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. From 2015 to 2017, McEwen attended Northwest Mississippi Community College; he was a member of their basketball team and competed unattached in track and field. He then started competing for the Alabama Crimson Tide, and participated in the indoor and outdoor track seasons in 2018 and 2019. In 2019, he jumped 2.31 m indoor and then 2.30 m outdoor, as second at 2019 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships, qualifying for the 2019 World Championships in Doha, where he was the first non-qualifier for the final. On May 22, 2021, he jumped 2.33 m at Roy P. Drachman Stadium, Tucson, Arizona, the qualifying standard for the 2020 Summer Games, before finishing third with 2.30 m at the 2020 US Olympic Trials. He finished twelfth at the 2020 Summer Olympics with a jump of 2.27 m. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, McEwen jumped 2.36 m and was tied for the lead with New Zealand's Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saron Berhe
Saron Berhe Tareke (born 27 August 2007) is an Ethiopian middle-distance runner. She is the world under-18 record-holder in the short track 1500 metres and mile run with a mile time of 4:24.23. Career Saron started her career competing in the 800 metres, finishing 6th behind Werkuha Getachew at the 2021 Pepsi Meet in Addis Ababa. In 2022, she contested both the Ethiopian U18 Championships and the senior Ethiopian Athletics Championships in that event; she won the silver medal at the U18 championships in a 2:04.6 best, and finished 8th at the senior championships. Running as a professional under Juan Pedro Pineda, Saron made her international debut placing 8th at the 2023 Metz Indoor Meeting. At the Meeting Desafio Nerja in Spain, she finished runner-up in a personal best of 2:02.26. Despite the 800 m time being a world under-18 lead, Saron would see her greatest success in the 1500 m, which she made her international debut for at the ''Meeting Pro Athlé Tour Stanislas de Nan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemma Reekie
Jemma Reekie (born 6 March 1998) is a Scottish middle-distance runner who competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. Career Reekie was born in Scotland in 1998. Reekie competed at the 2017 European U20 Championships in July, winning the gold medal in the 1500 metres and finishing fourth in the 3000 metres. At the 2018 European Championships in August, Reekie competed in the 1500 metres, failing to make the final. Reekie competed at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in March, failing to make the final of the 1500 metres. In July, she achieved a rare double at the 2019 European U23 Championships, winning gold medals in the 800 metres and 1500 metres. In October, she competed at the 2019 World Championships. She failed to make the final of the 1500 metres. In February 2020, Reekie broke three British indoor records within eight days, setting a new mark for the 800 metres, and then for the mile and 1500 metres. The 1500 metres record was broke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Ejore
Susan Ejore-Sanders (nee Ejore born November 9, 1995) is a professional long-distance runner. High School Susan Lokayo Ejore started running at St. Gabriel's Mission School in Nakuru, Kenya, where she completed in cross country and track and field. College Ejore graduated from the University of Oregon and Monroe College. In 2016, her first track season at Monroe College, Ejore won the mile and 1,000 m at the NJCCA Indoor Championships. She also ran on the winning distance medley relay team. She went on to win the 1,500 m at the NJCAA Championships, place second in the 800 m, and run on the winning 4 x 800 m relay team The next year, she repeated her 1,500 m and 4 x 800 m victories and added 800 m gold to her tally. Professional Ejore-Sanders is sponsored by Under Armour and is a member of Under Armor Dark Sky Distance. On February 11, 2024, Susan Ejori-Sanders set a Kenya National Record in the indoor mile (4:20.61). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelly Chepchirchir
Nelly Chepchirchir (born 4 June 2003) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner. She competed for Kenya at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and 2024 Olympic Games. Career Chepchirchir competed for Kenya at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colonbia, where she qualified for the final of the 800 metres. In the final, she ran a new personal best time of 2:01.42 to finish in fourth place overall. Chepchirchir ran a new personal best time of 1:58.23 for the 800 metres in Grosseto, Italy in May 2023. The following month, she set a new personal time best in the 1500 metres, running 3:58.96 in June 2023, in Hengelo, Netherlands. She won the 1500 metres title at the Kenyan national trials, running 3:59.77 in Nairobi, in July 2023. She then won the Gyulai Istvan Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary in July 2023, running a time of 4:00.18 for the 1500 metres. Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Thomas (high Jumper)
Donald Thomas (born 1 July 1984) is a Bahamian high jumper from Freeport, Bahamas. Biography Thomas initially played basketball at Bishop Michael Eldon School in Freeport, Bahamas, before taking up high jump in January 2006 while studying at Lindenwood University in Saint Charles, Missouri, where he played on the university's basketball team. He tried high jump for the first time when challenged by members of the track and field team, who were reacting to his claims about his ability to slam dunk. Thomas cleared on his first attempt and on his third-ever jump. The athletes then sought the head track coach, Lane Lohr, who entered Thomas in a meet two days later at Eastern Illinois University. At the meet, he cleared on his seventh-ever jump. In March 2006, Thomas placed second at the 2006 NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships with a height of . Later that month, just two months after taking up high jump, he finished fourth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Sioli
Matteo Sioli (born 1 October 2005) is an Italian high jumper. He won the Italian Indoor Championships and was a bronze medalist at the European Indoor Championships in 2025. Career He is from Paderno Dugnano in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy and is coached by Felice Delaini. He is a member of Paderno Dugnano of Euroatletica 2002. He finished sixth at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel in July 2023. He became Italian Junior champion both outdoors and indoors, and set a new personal best height of 2.21 metres in June 2024. He won the silver medal in the high jump at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships, in Lima, Peru, in August 2024, with a new personal best clearance of 2.23 metres. He improved his personal best to 2.25 metres whilst competing in Parma, Italy, in December 2024, the highest jump ever reached by an Italian junior athlete. He achieved that height again, competing in Udine, Italy, in February 2025. Later that month, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Rivera
Edgar Alejandro Rivera Morales (born 13 February 1991) is a Mexican athlete who specialize in the high jump. He represented his country at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the 2011 and 2013 World Championships without qualifying to the final. He finished fourth at the 2017 World Championships. He also competed in the World University Games Shenzhen 2011 and Kazan 2013, among other important meets representing his country (CAC Games 2014, PanAm Games 2011 and 2015, World Youth (2007) and World Junior (2008 and 2010) Championships. He studied at the University of Arizona. His older brother, Luis Rivera, is a world-class long jumper. Personal bests He has personal bests of 2.31 metres outdoors (2021) and 2.30 metres indoors (2016). Both are the current national records National Records was a record label that was started in New York City by Albert Green in 1945 and lasted until early 1951. Big Joe Turner was signed at the beginning and remained until 1947. Billy Eckstine was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Richards (high Jumper)
Raymond Richards (born 18 April 2001) is a Jamaican high jumper. He became Jamaican national champion in the high jump 2021. Career He won the Jamaican Athletics Championships in the high jump in June 2021. In July 2021, he won bronze at the NACAC U23 championships in Costa Rica. A member of the MVP Track and Field Club, he set a personal best height of 2.25 metres in February 2024. In May 2024, he cleared 2.24 metres to win the Jamaica Athletics Invitational meeting. In January 2025, he cleared a personal best height of 2.31 metres, the second highest ever made by a Jamaican athlete. However, the height is not recognised by World Athletics because the event he competed at was not on the official list of ratified events submitted ahead of the season by the JAAA. On 16 February 2025, he cleared 2.23 metres at the Tyson Invitational in Arkansas. On 1 March 2025, he cleared 2.30 metres competing in Spanish Town, Jamaica. He was named in the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Fassinotti
Marco Fassinotti (born 29 April 1989 in Turin) is an Italian high jumper. Biography He has a record of 2.29 m, obtained in Paris on 5 March 2011. He was a finalist (7th) at the World Junior Championships in Athletics in Bydgoszcz on 13 July 2008. After entering the sports group of Centro Sportivo Aeronautica Militare, he took part in the first European Championships in Barcelona 2010, reaching 9th place with 2.23 m. At the European indoor games of Paris in 2011, Fassinotti finished 6th, obtaining his personal best of 2.29 m. He trains at the ''Club Primo Nebiolo'' of Turin with the company SAFA. Personal life Fassinotti is engaged to Australian high jumper Eleanor Patterson. National records * High jump indoor: 2.34 ( Ancona, 23 February 2014) Achievements 1No mark in the final National titles Fassinotti won six national championships at individual senior level. *Italian Athletics Championships **High jump: 2013, 2015, 2021 (3) *Italian Athletics Indoor Championships **Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Turner (high Jumper)
Vernon Turner (born August 21, 1998) is an American track and field athlete who competes as a high jumper. He won the 2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Early life The son of Melonie Turner, Turner attended Yukon High School in Oklahoma. He was the youngest man to qualify for the 2024 US Olympic trials in the high jump. NCAA He spent his first year at University of Oklahoma. Turner attended the University of Arkansas before later transferring back to Oklahoma. Competing for the University of Oklahoma, Turner won the NCAA Indoor Championships in the high jump in 2022. Professional In July 2023, he finished third in the US national championships. He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. In February 2024, he was runner-up to Shelby McEwen at the US national indoor championships in New Mexico. In March 2024, he competed at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. He finished third at the 2024 Diamond League Shanghai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
