With six world records and 14 first-time champions, 2024 was another vintage season in the Wanda Diamond League. As the dust settles on this year's campaign, we take a look back at all the action from the series' 15 meetings. Next up: Eugene, Oslo and Stockholm.
2024 Season Review: Rivalries and returning champions
Eugene: Records and brilliant Brits
Kenya's Beatrice Chebet stole the show at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene this year, setting a new world record and becoming the first woman to go under 29 minutes with a staggering 28:54.14 in the non-Diamond League 10,000m.
There were also some historic performances in the Diamond League events, however, with British athletes in particular lighting up the track at Hayward Field.
Reigning Diamond League champion Keely Hodgkinson raced to a world lead of 1:55.79 to beat Kenya's Mary Moraa in a battle which many had billed as a dress rehearsal for the Olympic final.
Her compatriot Josh Kerr, meanwhile, resumed his fierce rivalry with Jakob Ingebrigtsen, beating the Norwegian with a British record and world lead of 3:45.34 to land the first blow in a battle which would take centre stage for much of the rest of the season.
Other standout performances came from Joe Kovacs, who delighted the home crowd with a world lead of 23.13m in the men's shot put, and Uganda's Peruth Chemutai, who clocked a national record and world lead of 8:55.09 in the women's 3000m steeplechase.
Oslo: Ingebrigtsen bounces back
On the final weekend of May, the Wanda Diamond League touched down in Oslo for the first European meeting of the season, hitting a fourth continent in the space of just six weeks.
Not for the first time in the meeting's long and illustrious history, it was the distance events which took centre stage at the Bislett Games.
All eyes were on home hero Jakob Ingebrigtsen after his defeat to Kerr in Eugene, and the 24-year-old did manage to deliver a victory for the home crowd - though only just.
Ingebrigtsen was forced to dive for the line after a gruelling battle with three-time Diamond League champion Timothy Cheruiyot, finishing just 0.03 seconds ahead of the Kenyan with 3:29.74.
His was one of several standout performances on the track, as Ethiopia's Hagos Gebrhiwet threatened a world record in the men's 5000m and Australia's Georgia Griffith became Oceania's fastest woman ever in the 3000m.
Gebrhiwet defied the pre-race favourites Joshua Cheptegei, Yomif Kejelcha and Jacob Kiplimo to win the 5000m in 12:36.73, just 1.37 seconds shy of Cheptegei's world record set at the Monaco Diamond League in 2020.
Griffith, meanwhile, clocked an area record of 8:24.20 to claim her first ever Diamond League win.
Stockholm: Mahuchikh and Bol enter the stage
With all eyes set firmly on the Paris Olympics in 2024, many of the sport's biggest names elected to start their Wanda Diamond League campaigns a little later than usual.
That included Ukrainian high jump star Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Dutch 400m hurdles ace Femke Bol, who both made their first appearance of the season at the seventh leg of the series in Stockholm at the end of June.
The late start meant that the two women, both of them reigning Diamond League champions in their respective disciplines, were under pressure to pick up points when they joined the action at the BAUHAUS-Galan.
Neither of them showed even a shred of nerves, however, as both stormed to consummate victories to once again nail down their status as title favourites in the both the Diamond League and the Olympics.
Mahuchikh opened her title defence with an impressive 2.00m in the high jump, while Bol raced to a season's best of 53.07 in the 400m hurdles, claiming victory in Stockholm for the fourth time in five years.
Elsewhere, Mondo Duplantis delivered a strong 6.00m effort in front of his home crowd, while Cameroon's Emmanuel Eseme continued a golden year for Africa in the sprints. Eseme's 10.16 was his second Diamond League win of the season, and meant that four of the first six men's 100m races had been won by African athletes.