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2011 Diamond League

Field	Value
Name	2011 IAAF Diamond League
Logo
Size	240
Edition	2nd
Dates	6 May–16 September
Meetings	14
Diamond Races	32
Ambassadors	13
previous	2010
next	2012

The 2011 IAAF Diamond League (also known as the 2011 Samsung Diamond League for sponsorship purposes) was the second edition of the Diamond League, an annual series of fourteen one-day track and field meetings. The series began on 6 May in Doha, Qatar and ended on 16 September in Brussels, Belgium.

Meeting calendar

Crystal Palace]] in [[London]]. One of the venues for the series.

The [[Bislett Games]] have been held at [[Bislett Stadion]] since 1965.

Meet	Stadium	City	Country
Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix	Qatar SC Stadium	Doha	Qatar
Shanghai Golden Grand Prix	Shanghai Stadium	Shanghai	China
Golden Gala	Stadio Olimpico	Rome	Italy
Prefontaine Classic	Hayward Field	Eugene	United States
Bislett Games	Bislett Stadion	Oslo	Norway
Adidas Grand Prix	Icahn Stadium	New York City	United States
Athletissima	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise	Lausanne	Switzerland
Meeting Areva	Stade de France	Saint-Denis	France
Aviva British Grand Prix	Alexander Stadium	Birmingham	United Kingdom
Herculis	Stade Louis II	Fontvieille	Monaco
DN Galan	Stockholm Olympic Stadium	Stockholm	Sweden
London Grand Prix	Crystal Palace	London	United Kingdom
Weltklasse Zürich	Letzigrund	Zürich	Switzerland
Memorial van Damme	King Baudouin Stadium	Brussels	Belgium

Ambassadors

A total of fourteen athletes were given Diamond League Ambassador status, with the intention of bringing attention to some of the sport's foremost competitors. There are seven male and seven female athletes, and the division between track and field specialists is also evenly divided.

World record]] holder [[Usain Bolt]] is the most prominent ambassador.

Athlete	Country	Event(s)
Usain Bolt		100 metres/200 metres
Tyson Gay		100 metres/200 metres
Asafa Powell		100 metres
Shelly-Ann Fraser		100 metres
Allyson Felix		200 metres/400 metres
Sanya Richards		400 metres
Kenenisa Bekele		5000 metres/10,000 metres
Steven Hooker		Pole vault
Yelena Isinbayeva		Pole vault
Blanka Vlašić		High jump
Valerie Vili		Shot put
Andreas Thorkildsen		Javelin throw
Tero Pitkämäki		Javelin throw
Barbora Špotáková		Javelin throw

Diamond Race winners

Winners in blue defended their 2010 Diamond Race title

Event	Men	Women
100 metres	Asafa Powell	Carmelita Jeter
200 metres	Walter Dix	Carmelita Jeter
400 metres	Kirani James	Amantle Montsho
800 metres	David Rudisha	Jenny Meadows
1500 metres/
Mile run	Nixon Chepseba	Morgan Uceny
5000 metres/
3000 metres	Imane Merga	Vivian Cheruiyot
110 m hurdles/
100 m hurdles	Dayron Robles	Danielle Carruthers
400 m hurdles	Dai Greene	Kaliese Spencer
3000 m s'chase	Paul Kipsiele Koech	Milcah Chemos Cheywa

Event	Men	Women
Long jump	Mitchell Watt	Brittney Reese
Triple jump	Phillips Idowu	Olha Saladukha
High jump	Jesse Williams	Blanka Vlašić
Pole vault	Renaud Lavillenie	Silke Spiegelburg
Shot put	Dylan Armstrong	Valerie Adams
Discus throw	Virgilijus Alekna	Yarelis Barrios
Javelin throw	Matthias de Zordo	Christina Obergföll

Winners

Women	100 m	200 m	400 m	800 m	1500 m	5000 m	100 m hurdles	400 m hurdles	3000 m steeplechase

Women	Pole vault	High jump	Long jump	Triple jump	Shot put	Discus throw	Javelin throw

Men

Track

Overall winner	Asafa Powell	Walter Dix	Kirani James	David Rudisha	Nixon Kiplimo Chepseba	Imane Merga	Dayron Robles	Dai Greene	Paul Kipsiele Koech

In Eugene, Oslo and London, mile races are counted to the Diamond League standings for the 1500 m.
In Doha, 3000 metre race is counted to the Diamond League standings for the 5000 m.

Field

Overall winner	Mitchell Watt	Phillips Idowu	Jesse Williams	Renaud Lavillenie	Dylan Armstrong	Virgilijus Alekna	Matthias de Zordo

Women

Track

Overall winner	Carmelita Jeter	Carmelita Jeter	Amantle Montsho	Jenny Meadows	Morgan Uceny	Vivian Cheruiyot	Danielle Carruthers	Kaliese Spencer	Milcah Cheywa

Field

Overall winner	Brittney Reese	Olha Saladuha	Blanka Vlašić	Silke Spiegelburg	Valerie Adams	Yarelys Barrios	Christina Obergföll

Results

Women's Long Jump	Funmi Jimoh
cnci 6.88 m	Maurren Higa Maggi
cnci 6.87 m	Anna Klyashtornaya
cnci 6.77 m	Tatyana Kotova
cnci 6.74 m	Éloyse Lesueur-Aymonin
cnci 6.66 m	Ivana Vuleta
cnci 6.63 m	Yuliya Pidluzhnaya
cnci 6.59 m	Ineta Radēviča
cnci 6.55 m

Women's Discus Throw	Yanfeng Li
cnci 62.73 m	Dani Stevens
cnci 61.98 m	Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 60.98 m	Gia Lewis-Smallwood
cnci 60.64 m	Tan Jian
cnci 60.50 m	Taifeng Sun
cnci 60.04 m	Żaneta Glanc
cnci 59.68 m	Becky Breisch
cnci 57.05 m

Women's Javelin Throw	Mariya Abakumova
cnci DQ	Christina Obergföll
cnci 63.97 m	Barbora Špotáková
cnci 63.32 m	Kara Winger
cnci 62.76 m	Martina Ratej
cnci 60.84 m	Sunette Viljoen
cnci 60.61 m	Zahra Bani
cnci 59.28 m	Madara Palameika
cnci 58.75 m

Women's Javelin Throw	Christina Obergföll
cnci 65.48 m	Mariya Abakumova
cnci DQ	Barbora Špotáková
cnci 64.87 m	Martina Ratej
cnci 61.16 m	Sunette Viljoen
cnci 60.09 m	Kara Winger
cnci 58.39 m	Rachel Buciarski
cnci 56.39 m	Madara Palameika
cnci 54.98 m

Women's Shot Put	Valerie Adams
cnci 20.26 m	Nadezhda Ostapchuk
cnci DQ	Lijiao Gong
cnci 19.57 m	Jillian Camarena-Williams
cnci 19.14 m	Nadine Kleinert
cnci 18.50 m	Xiangrong Liu
cnci 18.08 m	Helena Engman
cnci 16.91 m	Kristin Sundsteigen
cnci 13.97 m

Women's Javelin Throw	Christina Obergföll
cnci 64.43 m	Sunette Viljoen
cnci 60.39 m	Rachel Buciarski
cnci 58.43 m	Jarmila Jurkovičová
cnci 57.17 m	Alicia Deshasier
cnci 55.70 m	Kara Winger
cnci 54.62 m

Women's Discus Throw	Yarelis Barrios
cnci 64.29 m	Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 63.85 m	Nadine Müller
cnci 63.58 m	Stephanie Brown-Trafton
cnci 61.94 m	Kateryna Karsak
cnci 60.99 m	Nicoleta Grasu
cnci 60.54 m	Melina Robert-Michon
cnci 59.37 m	Yarisley Collado
cnci 58.88 m

Women's Javelin Throw	Christina Obergföll
cnci 68.01 m	Barbora Špotáková
cnci 67.57 m	Mariya Abakumova
cnci DQ	Goldie Sayers
cnci 62.14 m	Kimberley Mickle
cnci 61.97 m	Sunette Viljoen
cnci 61.74 m	Katharina Molitor
cnci 61.74 m	Kara Winger
cnci 58.21 m

Women's Discus Throw	Nadine Müller
cnci 65.75 m	Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 62.65 m	Dani Stevens
cnci 62.33 m	Nicoleta Grasu
cnci 61.18 m	Stephanie Brown-Trafton
cnci 60.25 m	Joanna Wiśniewska
cnci 59.60 m	Jade Lally
cnci 58.64 m	Melina Robert-Michon
cnci 57.80 m

Women's Javelin Throw	Barbora Špotáková
cnci 69.45 m	Christina Obergföll
cnci 64.86 m	Madara Palameika
cnci 62.06 m	Goldie Sayers
cnci 60.97 m	Sunette Viljoen
cnci 59.94 m	Vera Markaryan
cnci 59.45 m	Zahra Bani
cnci 57.04 m	Kara Winger
cnci 55.67 m

Women's Shot Put	Valerie Adams
cnci 20.57 m	Nadezhda Ostapchuk
cnci DQ	Jillian Camarena-Williams
cnci 19.87 m	Cleopatra Borel
cnci 19.15 m	Christina Schwanitz
cnci 19.14 m	Michelle Carter
cnci 19.06 m	Nadine Kleinert
cnci 18.98 m	Misleydis González
cnci 18.53 m

Women's Javelin Throw	Christina Obergföll
cnci 66.74 m	Barbora Špotáková
cnci 66.41 m	Goldie Sayers
cnci 63.41 m	Madara Palameika
cnci 60.72 m	Kara Winger
cnci 58.25 m	Jarmila Jurkovičová
cnci 58.05 m	Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir
cnci 57.77 m	Esther Eisenlauer
cnci 56.50 m

Women's Javelin Throw	Christina Obergföll
cnci 69.57 m	Sunette Viljoen
cnci 67.46 m	Mariya Abakumova
cnci DQ	Barbora Špotáková
cnci 63.56 m	Goldie Sayers
cnci 62.25 m	Katharina Molitor
cnci 61.85 m	Martina Ratej
cnci 61.46 m	Madara Palameika
cnci 59.76 m

Women's Discus Throw	Yanfeng Li
cnci 66.27 m	Yarelis Barrios
cnci 65.33 m	Żaneta Glanc
cnci 62.78 m	Tan Jian
cnci 61.64 m	Stephanie Brown-Trafton
cnci 60.82 m	Nadine Müller
cnci 59.50 m	Aretha D. Thurmond
cnci 59.01 m	Kateryna Karsak
cnci 58.24 m

References

;Results

Results Archive. IAAF Diamond League (archived). Retrieved 2015-05-17. ;Reviews
Rowbottom, Mike (2011-01-04). 2011 Samsung Diamond League REVIEW – Part 1. IAAF. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
Rowbottom, Mike (2011-01-05). 2011 Samsung Diamond League REVIEW – Part 2. IAAF. Retrieved 2012-01-05.

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