Vinco – News – Entire 1500m Field Qualifies for World Championships as the Diamond League’s Euro Summer Begins

This week in Athletics we have major diamond League performances in Rome as well as a preview of a seismic clash taking place in Stockholm and UK Athletes call on the government to back a World Championships hosting bid.

Athletes back London Bid

Over 100 current and former British Athletes have called on the UK government to support a bid for London to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships.

The Athletes which include the likes of Keely Hodgkinson MBE, Sir Mo Farah and, Dame Jessica Ennis Hill have won over 750 international medals between them have proposed that the hosting of the competition will require one single instalment of £40 million pounds in 2028 with a potential economic impact of £400 million. 

An excerpt from the letter states:

We write as athletes who have had the honour of representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the world stage. Among us are World, Olympic, European and Commonwealth champions and medallists. We’ve stood on podiums with pride but there is nothing like competing in front of a home

crowd. For many athletes, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. For our country, it’s an opportunity we must not let pass us by.

That’s why we are calling on the UK Government to back the bid to host the World Athletics

Championships in 2029.

World Athletics launched the official bidding period last month with the first submissions due in October. 

The winning bid will officially be selected in September 2026.

Rome Kicks off Diamond League’s Euro Summer

After stops in China, Qatar and Morocco the Diamond League officially arrived in Europe with Rome’s Stadio Olympico playing host to the Golden Gala on Friday night. 

Normal service was resumed for the likes of Anavia Battle who took her third win of the DL season in the women’s 200m and Beatrice Chebet who clocked the second fastest 5000m time in history 14:03.69. There were many stand out results under the lights in the Italian capital. 

Brit Amy Hunt, fresh from securing the World Relay’s 4x100m title in Guangzhou last month took an impressive second behind Anavia Battle in the 200m with a time of 22.67. 

All sixteen finishers in the Men’s 1500m ran a World Championships qualifying standard time. With 14 achieving the feat in the Women’s 5000m, including Nadia Batocletti who clocked the second fastest time by a European in history with 14:23.15. 

There was also an…