The Diamond League season approaches its finale in Rome on Friday – the penultimate event before September’s grand conclusion.
On 5th September, Rome will give athletes their final chance to gather points and secure a spot in the winner-takes-all Diamond League final in Brussels from 13-14 September.
Besides claiming the Diamond Trophy, each of the 32 victors across the 16 disciplines in the Belgian capital will pocket £24,000 in prize money.
You can catch the Rome action on BBC Two from 20:00 to 21:00 BST and BBC Three from 21:00 to 22:00 on Friday, as well as on the BBC Sport website and app.
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Daryll Neita is among the British talents competing as Rome hosts the 13th meet in the 2024 series, which has spanned four continents since kicking off in Xiamen, China in April.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen obliterated the 28-year-old 3,000m world record by more than three seconds and Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record at the Silesia Diamond League last week.
Who is competing at Rome Diamond League?
As athletes aim to finish the Olympic year strong, the Italian capital is set to host high-quality competition – not least in the men’s 100m, the final event of the evening.
Paris 2024 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson and bronze medallist Fred Kerley come up against 200m champion Letsile Tebogo over the shorter distance, in a race which also features Italy’s Tokyo champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Great Britain’s Jeremiah Azu.
Neita and Amy Hunt line up in the women’s 200m against Olympic bronze medallist Brittany Brown, while Charlie Dobson goes in the men’s 400m.
Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon and runner-up Jessica Hull headline a women’s 1500m featuring GB’s Revee Walcott-Nolan, while Lina Nielsen contests the women’s 400m hurdles against Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell.
Aimee Pratt races in a women’s 3,000m steeplechase which reunites Olympic medallists Winfred Yavi, Peruth Chemutai and Faith Cherotich.
Home favourite Gianmarco Tamberi will hope to star in the men’s high jump, while Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy and shot put gold medallist Ryan Crouser are also both in action.
How does the Diamond League work?
Athletes compete for points at the 14 regular series meetings from May to September.
Those points are awarded on a scale from eight for first place to one for eighth place.
After the 14th meeting in Zurich, the top six ranked athletes in the field events, the top eight in track events from 100m-800m, and the top 10 in distances from 1500m upwards qualify for the final.
In each discipline, one athlete may also qualify by a national or global wildcard.
The two-day final in Brussels is a winner-takes-all competition to be crowned Diamond League champion.
