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1 IAAF Diamond League 2015 media guide Contents 2......................... Introduction Diamond Race 3......................... Basic information – how it works, points, prize money 5......................... Diamond Race winners (2010-2014) 10....................... Diamond Race all-time statistics (2010-2014) 21....................... Competition review 2014 36....................... TV audiences 2015 season 37....................... Calendar 38....................... Event disciplines 40....................... Host broadcasters 41....................... Preview 42....................... Contact details – DL AG, IAAF, IMG, meeting organisers and press chiefs 48....................... Media accreditation 2 IAAF Diamond League 2015 media guide Introduction Welcome to the 2015 season of the IAAF Diamond League. During its first five seasons, the IAAF Diamond League has captured the public’s imagination like no other non-championship athletics competition. Spread across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, the 14-meeting series includes a competition programme of 32 events representing virtually the full spectrum of Olympic track and field disciplines, and offers a total of 8 million US dollars in prize money. At the core of the IAAF Diamond League is the Diamond Race with athletes battling season long to accumulate points in each of the 32 event disciplines to win a 40,000 USD cash prize, a spectacular Diamond Trophy and, having shown season-long consistency, the unchallenged honour of being their event’s world No.1. With the creation of the IAAF Diamond League in 2009, we set We look forward to working together in the next years to further out to reinvent the one-day meeting structure of our sport, to enhance the status, visibility and reach of athletics’ premier global bring clarity to the top tier of international invitational competition non-championship competition.
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