France’s athletes rally round the capital

With a little over two months until the Wanda Diamond League Meeting in Paris, due to be hosted on 18 June at the Charléty Stadium, France’s first headliners have been unveiled. Indeed, a series of elite French athletes has already confirmed its presence as we await the big reveal of the major international names they’ll be up against.

See you in Paris on 18 June

The 2022 edition of the Meeting de Paris, which counts towards the Wanda Diamond League, will set the Charléty Stadium alight on Saturday 18 June, with a dream programme on offer, including the men’s pole vault, the men’s 5,000 m and the women’s 100 m.

Duplantis and Thompson-Herah shine

Following a year’s interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Meeting de Paris, the eleventh leg of the Wanda Diamond League, made its big comeback at the Charléty Stadium this Saturday. The competition gave three athletes the chance to secure a Meeting record: Armand Duplantis in the pole vault (the Swede even having a crack at the world record at 6.19 m), Elaine Thompson-Herah in the 100 m and Francine Niyonsaba in the 3,000 m. Virtually across the board, the numerous Olympic medallists in Tokyo managed to hold rank in Paris.

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Back on home soil

Set to be hosted this Saturday afternoon at the Charléty Stadium by the Fédération Française d’Athlétisme (French Athletics Federation), the Parisian meeting is giving the usual pride of place to its French athletes, who will be competing alongside nearly 30 medal winners from the Tokyo Games. In front of an extremely supportive crowd, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Gabriel Tual, two men in great shape for this end of season meet, will rank among the athletes to watch from the French contingent, alongside bosses, Renaud Lavillenie and Mélina Robert-Michon.

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Meeting Wanda Diamond League de Paris : Allyson Felix and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, two sprint queens in Paris

Already very enticing, the line-up for the French leg of the Wanda Diamond League 2021 has been further fleshed out in recent days with invitations being accepted by the American Allyson Felix in the 400 m and Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100 m. The daring duo boast two of the finest track records in the history of athletics.

Olympic champions setting a course for the Charléty Stadium

After Tokyo comes Paris. Exactly three weeks after events drew to a close in the Olympic stadium in the Japanese capital, the heroes of the recent Games will be heading over to the Charléty Stadium, on Saturday 28 August. With some twenty or so days until the event itself, the line-up for the French meet in the 2021 Wanda Diamond League is already taking shape. In fact, it promises to be one of the richest in the history of the Meeting de Paris with eight reigning Olympic champions, plus ten silver medallists and eight bronze winners confirming their presence. In all, Paris will play host to nearly thirty of the athletes who gained a spot on the podium at the last Games in Tokyo, with the cast set to be further fleshed out over the next two weeks.

Meeting Wanda Diamond League in Oslo : Warholm goes down in legend

The Norwegian has written one of the finest pages in the history of athletics, securing the world record for the 400 m hurdles in 46’’70. Renaud and Valentin Lavillenie snatched third and fourth places in the pole vault, clearing 5.81 m and 5.71 m respectively.

Wanda Diamond League Meeting in Doha: A scare in the low hurdles

In the sweltering heat of Qatar, American Rai Benjamin took the win in a very compact lap of the track with obstacles. Other event favourites stepped up to the plate in Doha too, including Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas in the triple jump and Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100 m.