The 2020

Golden Gala Golden Gala is an annual track and field event normally held at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy. Previously one of the IAAF Golden League events, it is now part of the Diamond League. Following the 2013 death of Italian sprinting legend Pie ...

was the 40th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in

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, Italy. Held on 17 September at the

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, it was the seventh leg of the

2020 Diamond League The 2020 Diamond League was the eleventh season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The competition marked the first major revision to the top level athletics series since its foundation in 2010 ...

– the highest level international track and field circuit. Originally meant to be staged in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, Italy in the month of May, the meet had been delayed and was closed to in-stadium spectators due to the

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. After fourteen attempts prior to the meeting during the outdoor season, the world indoor record holder for Sweden,

Mondo Duplantis Armand Gustav "Mondo" Duplantis (born 10 November 1999) is an American-born Swedish pole vaulter, the current world outdoor and indoor record holder ( and ), the current Olympic and World outdoor and indoor champion, the current European outd ...

, set the outdoor world best in the men's

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

with a height of 6.15 metres. Though the mark was 0.03 less than his indoor record, it was 0.01 more than the previous outdoor best set by

Sergey Bubka Sergey Nazarovych Bubka ( uk, Сергій Назарович Бубка; born 4 December 1963) is a Ukrainian former pole vaulter. He represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. Bubka was twice named Athlete of the Year by ''Tr ...

Ben Broeders Ben Broeders (born 21 June 1995) is a Belgian athlete specialising in the pole vault. He won the gold medal at the 2017 European U23 Championships. In addition, he finished fourth at the European Championships The European Championships is ...

placed second with a height of 5.80 metres, a Belgian record. A world leading time was also set in the men's

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

by Jacob Kiplimo, winning in 7:26.64 which was also a Diamond League record, a meeting record, and a Ugandan record. The time made the 19-year old #8 on the all-time list, with second place Jakob Ingebrigtsen, also 19 years old, going #9 all-time with a Norwegian record (7:27.05). Australian

Stewart McSweyn Stewart McSweyn (born 1 June 1995) is an Australian long-distance runner. He competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and managed to qualify for the Men's 1500m final. He came third in his heat with a time of 3:36.39 and qualified for the semifinals. ...

set an Oceanian record (7:28.02) to place third, with fourth place Yemaneberhan Crippa also setting an Italian record (7:38.27). Karsten Warholm clocked his fifth sub-48 seconds in the men's

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

in the 2020 season, winning in 47.07 seconds to set a meeting record and the top five times in the event that year.Snider-McGrath, Ben (2020-09-17)
"Warholm, Kiplimo and others dazzle at Rome Diamond League"
''Canadian Running Magazine''. Retrieved 2021-05-05. In the women's events,

Elaine Thompson-Herah Elaine Sandra-Lee Thompson-Herah OD (née Thompson; born June 28, 1992) is a Jamaican sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres. Regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, she is a five-time Olympic champi ...

ran a world leading time in her first international race in the

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...

with a time of 10.85 seconds, taking one hundredth of a second off fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's previous world leading time of 10.86 seconds.

Results

Because of the disrupted season with several cancelled meets, no Diamond League points were awarded for athlete placements.Houston, Michael (2020-08-04)
"Doha Diamond League meeting given new date in 2020 calendar"
'' Inside the Games''. Retrieved 2021-05-05.

Men

Women

References

;Results
"Wanda Diamond League Rome (ITA) 17th September 2020 Results lists"
''Diamond League'' (2020-09-23). Retrieved 2021-05-05.

External links

Official Diamond League Golden Gala website
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Results

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Women

See also

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