The 2019
Memorial Van Damme was the 43rd edition of the annual
track and field meeting in
Brussels, Belgium. Held on 5–6 September at the
King Baudouin Stadium
The King Baudouin Stadium (french: Stade Roi Baudouin , nl, Koning Boudewijnstadion ) is a sports ground in north-west Brussels, Belgium. Located in the Heysel district of the City of Brussels, it was built to embellish the Heysel Plateau in v ...
, it was the fourteenth leg of the
2019 IAAF Diamond League
The 2019 Diamond League was the tenth season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It featured fourteen meetings, with the final two meetings serving ...
– the highest level international track and field circuit – and the second half of the final for 2019 (the
first half being held during the
Weltklasse Zürich in
Zürich, Switzerland on 29 August).
[Gault, Jonathan (5 September 2019)]
2019 Brussels Diamond League Final Preview: Ajee Wilson Goes For It In the 800, Obiri Battles Hassan in the Final DL 5K + Kerley-Norman 400 Rematch
LetsRun.com. Retrieved 19 February 2020. It was the tenth and last edition of the meet to co-host the
Diamond League
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day mee ...
final with the Weltklasse Zürich; The Weltklasse Zürich will exclusively host the final in 2020.
Because of the late
World Athletics Championships, the Diamond League final was for the first time held before the World Athletics Championships in the same year. 16 Diamond League champions (8 men and 8 women) were determined and received wild cards to compete at the
2019 World Athletics Championships
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...
.
[Smythe, Steve (5 September 2019)]
Brussels gets set for Diamond League final
Athletics Weekly
''AW'' (formerly ''Athletics Weekly'') is a monthly track and field magazine published in the United Kingdom by Athletics Weekly Limited. The magazine covers news, results, fixtures, coaching and product advice for all aspects of track and field, ...
. Retrieved 19 February 2020. 18 more events were contested outside the Diamond League.
Diamond League champions
Diamond League results
Men
Women
Non-Diamond League results
Men
Women
Boys
Girls
See also
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2019 Weltklasse Zürich
The 2019 Weltklasse Zürich was an outdoor track and field meeting in Zürich, Switzerland. Held on 28–29 August 2019 at the Letzigrund, it was the thirteenth leg of the 2019 IAAF Diamond League – the highest level international track and fiel ...
(previous meet and first half of the final in the 2019 IAAF Diamond League)
References
;Results
Results AG Memorial Van Damme IAAF Diamond League (6 September 2019). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
External links
Official Diamond League Memorial Van Damme website
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Memorial Van Damme
Memorial Van Damme