Birmingham To Host Diamond League
England’s opening Diamond League meeting in 2011 has been moved from Gateshead to Birmingham, athletics governing body the IAAF has announced.
This year’s inaugural Diamond League featured races in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
In 2011 there will still be 14 events across those continents but on 10th July the series will move to the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.
The Diamond League replaced the Golden League, which ran from 1998-2009.
The first Golden League event comprised six meetings, which became seven for the remainder of its existence.
There are 32 individual events in each of the 14 meetings in the current format, 16 for men and 16 for women, with points awarded at each to give an overall winner in every discipline.
Diamond League calendar 2011:
Friday 6 May – Doha, Qatar
Sunday 15 May – Shanghai, China
Thursday 26 May – Rome, Italy
Saturday 4 June – Eugene, USA
Thursday 9 June – Oslo, Norway
Saturday 11 June – New York, USA
Thursday 30 June – Lausanne, Switzerland
Friday 8 July – Paris, France
Sunday 10 July – Birmingham, Great Britain
Friday 22 July – Monaco
Friday 29 July – Stockholm, Sweden
Friday 5/Saturday 6 August – London, Great Britain
Thursday 8 September – Zurich, Switzerland
Friday 16 September – Brussels, Belgium
