With just 18 days to go until the IAAF Athletics Awards 2017, the IAAF can reveal the names of the finalists for the 2017 IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards. The finalists are (in alphabetical order): Men – Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Mo Farah (GBR) Wayde van Niekerk (RSA) Women – Almaz Ayana (ETH) […]
via IAAF WORLD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 2017 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED — newfanzoneblog
The 2015 IAAF Diamond League gets underway this week with Doha (15) and Shanghai (17) playing host to the first two meetings in the series.
The dual nature of this season’s launch means that all 32 Diamond Race disciplines will be contested this week between the two Asian legs of the IAAF Diamond League. The series will then continue later this month with the remaining 12 fixtures divided between the USA and various European countries.
Press conferences from both Doha and Shanghai – featuring a selection of the top athletes set to compete this week – will be streamed live on the IAAF Diamond League website the day before each competition.
Doha press conference
14 May 11:30 local time (GMT +3)
IAAF President Lamine Diack, Asian Athletics President Dahlan Al Hamad and Qatar Athletics Federation General Secretary Mohamed Jassem Al Kuwari will be joined by double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah, Olympic 200m champion Allyson Felix, Olympic 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson and Asian Games sprint champion Femi Ogunode.
Shanghai press conference
16 May 14:00 local time (GMT +8)
Meeting director Jos Hermens will be joined by world 110m hurdles champion David Oliver, Olympic 110m hurdles champion Aries Merritt, Asian Games 110m hurdles champion Xie Wenjun and double world sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
Both press conferences will be streamed on this page of the IAAF Diamond League website. The streams will begin a few minutes before the start time of each conference.
2015 IAAF Diamond League calendar
Doha, QAT – 15 May
Shanghai, CHN – 17 May
Eugene, USA – 30 May
Rome, ITA – 4 June
Birmingham, GBR – 7 June
Oslo, NOR – 11 June
New York, USA – 13 June
Paris, FRA – 4 July
Lausanne, SUI – 9 July
Monaco, MON – 17 July
London, GBR – 24-25 July
Stockholm, SWE – 30 July
Zurich, SUI – 3 September
Brussels, BEL – 11 September
With just three days to go before the start of the 2015 IAAF Diamond League, the excitement is already starting to mount and the traditional opening meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha has already assembled some of the sport’s top stars to get proceedings underway for the sixth year of the series on Friday (15).
Mohammed Aman, Asbel Kiprop, Mo Farah, Christian Taylor, Allyson Felix, Sanya Richards-Ross, Sifan Hassan and Sandra Perkovic are just some of the sport’s star names that will be competing in Doha.
The likes of Kirani James, Jairus Birech, David Oliver, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Eunice Sum, Caterine Ibarguen and Yarisley Silva will be in action in Shanghai just two days later on Sunday (17).
The IAAF is also happy to announce the return of IAAF Fantasy Athletics.
The 2015 edition of the Fantasy Diamond Race is similar to last year and follows the athletes who compete in the 32 event disciplines of the Diamond Race at the 14 meetings of the IAAF Diamond League in 2015.
This provides players with the chance to compare their athletics knowledge against fellow track and field fans from around the world via the overall leader board, and players can also set up private leagues with their friends and colleagues.
Players have to identify nine athletes at each IAAF Diamond League meeting who they think will place highest in their events and, just as with the real Diamond Race itself, points are then awarded to those finishing in the podium positions.
There are unique prizes for those players whose teams have the highest scores at each of the 14 meetings, and for the season winner who accumulates the best overall points score across all meetings
Select your provisional team
The provisional entry lists for the opening meetings in Doha and Shanghai are now available, but it is recommended that players keep checking the start lists as changes sometimes occur and corrections can be made up to the start of a meeting.
Click here to login or register for the 2015 Fantasy Diamond Race
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The IAAF Diamond League is composed of 14 of the best invitational track and field meetings in the world. The meetings are spread across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, and compose the top tier of the IAAF’s global one-day meeting competition structure.
This series of 14 meetings, which began in 2010, showcases 32 event disciplines which are carefully distributed among the meetings.
In each discipline, there is a Diamond Race with points available throughout the 14-meeting season. Winners of each Diamond Race receive a USD$40,000 cash prize and a spectacular Diamond Trophy.
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2015 IAAF Diamond League calendar
Doha, QAT – 15 May
Shanghai, CHN – 17 May
Eugene, USA – 30 May
Rome, ITA – 4 June
Birmingham, GBR – 7 June
Oslo, NOR – 11 June
New York, USA – 13 June
Paris, FRA – 4 July
Lausanne, SUI – 9 July
Monaco, MON – 17 July
London, GBR – 24-25 July
Stockholm, SWE – 30 July
Zurich, SUI – 3 September
Brussels, BEL – 11 September
Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva and Great Britain’s Mo Farah named AIPS Europe Athletes of the year
The awards which started 32 years ago is giving by AIPS Europe to outstanding sports women and men in a particular calendar year, Isinbayeva is not new to this award as this is her 3rd award while this happens to be Farah’s first ever AIPS Europe ward, Farah garnered more votes than Rafael Nadal, Franck Ribery and Sebastien Vettel.
Isinbayeva on her own part polled more votes than Ruta Meilutyte, Tina Maze and Julia Efimova
Previous winners of this award include:
MEN
Novak Djokovic (Serbia) tennis 2012, Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Formula1 2010, Roger Federer (Switzerland) tennis 2009
Rafael Nadal (Spain) tennis
2008, Michael Schumacher (Germany) 2003
To name a few
For the Women past winners include
Jessica Ennis (Great Britain) athletics 2012, Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) tennis
2006, Martina Hingis (Switzerland) tennis
1997,
Steffi Graf (Germany) tennis 1995
, and Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) tennis
1991.
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