The 2021 Diamond League, also known as the 2021 Wanda Diamond League for sponsorship reasons, was the twelfth season of the annual series of outdoor

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meetings, organised by

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. The 2021 season sees an increase back to 32 Diamond Disciplines from the 24 originally planned for the

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. The final used a new format which took place over two days on 8–9 September in one final meet, the

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, as had been planned to be introduced in 2020 but was cancelled due to the

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pandemic. A new award will be introduced for the "Best Performing Athletes" which will recognize ten athletes (five men and five women) for consistent top placements. US$50,000 will be awarded to one man and one woman in each of the sprints, hurdles, distance runnings, jumps, and throws.

Schedule

Fourteen meetings were scheduled to be included in the 2021 season. Two of them did not take place: the Diamond League Shanghai (14 August) and a would be new Diamond League Shenzhen (22 August), both of which were cancelled due to restrictions related to the

pandemic.

The

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in Oslo were originally scheduled to be the fourth meeting on 10 June, but on 10 April was delayed to an undetermined date (later scheduled for 1 July). On April 16 the first meeting on the calendar, Meeting de Rabat, was cancelled and the

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was reintroduced to take its place on the same date. Additionally, the

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was relocated from Rome to Florence and pushed back to 10 June. On 7 May,

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announced the Anniversary Games will be relocated from the

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due to the prohibitive costs of repurposing the stadium for only the meeting."CHANGE OF VENUE FOR MÜLLER ANNIVERSARY GAMES"
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Results

Men

Track

Field

Women

Track

Field

Diamond League Final

Men

Women

References

External links

Official website
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Diamond League The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fifteen invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics one-day meet competitions. The inaugural season was ...