Diamond League 2026 - everything you need to know
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Keely Hodgkinson will compete in her first outdoor 800-meter race of the season at Sunday's Stockholm Diamond League meet, with coverage on the BBC. The Diamond League, track and field's premier international circuit, continues its 2026 schedule with elite athletes competing across multiple distances and disciplines. The Stockholm stop represents a key early-season test for middle-distance runners preparing for summer championships. The meeting draws top global talent to compete in what has become one of the sport's marquee annual events.
Keely Hodgkinson would like to run a sub-50 second 400m and sub-four minute 1500m in her career, alongside her sub-two minute 800m time [Getty Images]
Keely Hodgkinson will run her first outdoor 800m of the season on Sunday at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting, which is live on BBC Two from 16:00 BST.
Britain's Olympic 800m champion started her outdoor season by running a personal best time of 51.14 seconds to finish seventh in the 400m at the Rome Diamond League on Thursday.
The 24-year-old, who smashed the world indoor 800m record in February, is aiming to beat Jarmila Kratochvilova's 43-year-old outdoor world record this season, ideally on home soil at the London Diamond League event in July.
Sunday's race will give a clear indication how close she is to achieving that goal.
Watch coverage live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app from 16:00 BST on Sunday.
The Diamond League - athletics' premier one-day meeting series - consists of 15 stops, this year culminating in a two-day final in Brussels in September, which will precede the inaugural season-ending World Athletics Ultimate Championship.
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Key events and timings at Stockholm Diamond League
Sunday, 7 June (All times BST)
15:14 - men's pole vault
16:04 - men's 400m (Charlie Dobson, Matthew Hudson-Smith)
16:36 - men's 800m (Ben Pattison, Jake Wightman)
16:45 - women's 100m (Dina Asher-Smith, Amy Hunt)
17:30 - men's 200m (Jeremiah Azu)
17:41 - women's 800m (Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie)
17:51 - women's 1500m (Ben Claridge, Jake Hayward)
What to watch out for in 2026 Diamond League
After Stockholm, Hodgkinson will race over 800m at Diamond League meetings in Eugene and London.
Training partner Hunter Bell and reigning world 800m champion Lilian Odira will also be competing at the Prefontaine Classic as the three medallists from Tokyo are reunited in Eugene.
Josh Kerr has announced he will attempt to break the long-standing men's mile world record at the London Diamond League meeting this summer.
The London Athletics Meet will be a key date in the diary of many British stars, with a women's 200m showdown between relay team-mates Hunt, Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita among the standout events.
After improving the pole vault world record for the 15th time by clearing 6.31 metres in March, the unstoppable Duplantis returns to Stockholm - where he set his first world record on home soil last year - with Paris, London and a city event in Lausanne also among his targets.
Australia's teenage sensation Gout Gout will take on Olympic champion Tebogo over 200m in his Diamond League debut in Oslo.
Meanwhile, Olympic 100m gold and silver medallists Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson meet in Silesia.
How does the Diamond League work?
Athletes compete for points across 32 Diamond League disciplines at the 14 regular series meetings in a bid to qualify for the finals in Brussels in September.
After the 14th stop in Zurich in August, the top six athletes in field events, top eight in track events from 100m up to 800m, and top 10 in distances from 1500m upwards, will qualify for the finals.
The two-day finals are a winner-takes-all showdown to be crowned Diamond League champion in each event.
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All Diamond League events will be shown on the BBC until 2030 after a new multi-year deal was agreed last year.
The total prize money remains the same as 2025, when it was increased to $9.2m (£6.8m) - including $500,000 (£370,000) at each of the 14 series meetings, and $2.2m (£1.6m) at the Diamond League final.
However, the prize money structure has been altered to provide higher earnings to the winners of eight selected 'Diamond+' disciplines' at each meet, which offer $20,000 (£14,800) at series meetings and up to $60,000 (£44,400) at the finals.
Diamond League calendar 2026
16 May - Shanghai/Keqiao, China
23 May - Xiamen, China
31 May - Rabat, Morocco
4 June - Rome, Italy
7 June - Stockholm, Sweden
10 June - Oslo, Norway
19 June - Doha, Qatar
28 June - Paris, France
4 July - Eugene, USA
10 July - Monaco
18 July - London, England
21 August - Lausanne, Switzerland
23 August - Silesia, Poland
27 August - Zurich, Switzerland
4-5 September - Brussels, Belgium