2016 Diamond League

The 2016 IAAF Diamond League was the seventh season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
The 2016 series saw three changes to the format. One of the two American meetings, the Adidas Grand Prix held in New York, was dropped from the calendar in favour of the Rabat Meeting in Morocco. This was the first meeting on the calendar to be held in Africa, which had previously been the only northern hemisphere continent not represented on the Diamond League. The second major change was an amendment to the point scoring system. The former model of four points for the winner, two for runner-up and one for third was overhauled with a broader points system giving ten to the winner, six the runner-up and progressively fewer points down to sixth place. The system of double points for the event finals was retained. A third change was the compression of the field events – throws and horizontal jumps allowed three attempts for all athletes, then the top four athletes at that point of the competition were permitted an additional three attempts.

Format

Diamond Race events

The programme for Diamond Race events remained unchanged, with a total of 32 events divided evenly between the sexes. On the track, six running events were included for each of the sexes, from 100 metres up to 5000 metres, and all Olympic hurdles and steeplechase events featured. In the field events, all traditional four jumps were contested and three of the four traditional throwing events were held. Hammer throw remained absent due to restrictions of stadium size. The parallel IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge series catered for that event.
The attempt format for throws and horizontal jumps was amended so that each athlete received three attempts, then the top four athletes received an additional three attempts. This change followed a similar arrangement that was introduced at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The announcement of the change received a mixed reaction from athletes and fans.

Points

Performances in each of the Diamond Races events received points according to the finishing position of the athletes. The winner of the Diamond Race is the athlete with the greatest number of points by the end of the series. In the event of a tie on points, the victor is the athlete with the most race wins that year. The series winners receive a Diamond Trophy and US$40,000.

Place	Points	Points
1st	10	20
2nd	6	12
3rd	4	8
4th	3	6
5th	2	4
6th	1	2

Schedule

The following fourteen meetings are scheduled to be included in the 2016 season:

Date	Meet	Stadium	City	Country
	Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix	Qatar SC Stadium	Doha	Qatar
	Shanghai Golden Grand Prix	Shanghai Stadium	Shanghai	China
	Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat	Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium	Rabat	Morocco
	Prefontaine Classic	Hayward Field	Eugene	United States
	Golden Gala – Pietro Mennea	Stadio Olimpico	Rome	Italy
	British Athletics Grand Prix	Alexander Stadium	Birmingham	United Kingdom
	Bislett Games	Bislett Stadium	Oslo	Norway
	Stockholm Bauhaus Athletics	Stockholm Olympic Stadium	Stockholm	Sweden
	Herculis	Stade Louis II	Monaco	Monaco
	Muller Anniversary Games	London Stadium	London	United Kingdom
	Athletissima	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise	Lausanne	Switzerland
	Meeting de Paris	Stade de France	Paris	France
	Weltklasse Zürich	Letzigrund	Zürich	Switzerland
	Memorial Van Damme	King Baudouin Stadium	Brussels	Belgium

Winners

Events not included in the Diamond League are marked in grey background.

Men

Track

Field

Women

Track

Field

Results

Rankings

Men

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Asafa Powell	26
2	Ben Youssef Meïté	24
3	Akani Simbine	18
4	Mike Rodgers	13
5	Kim Collins	10

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Alonso Edward	44
2	Churandy Martina	27
3	Julian Forte	25
4	Christophe Lemaitre	15
5	Adam Gemili	12

Rank	Athlete	Points
	LaShawn Merritt	50
2	Bralon Taplin	24
3	Isaac Makwala	20
4	Nery Brenes	10
4	Steven Gardiner	10

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	39
2	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	29
3	Adam Kszczot	27
4	Alfred Kipketer	18
5	Amel Tuka	13

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Asbel Kiprop	42
2	Elijah Manangoi	28
3	Abdalaati Iguider	21
4	Timothy Cheruiyot	20
5	Robert Biwott	14

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Hagos Gebrhiwet	35
2	Muktar Edris	30
3	Yomif Kejelcha	22
4	Abdalaati Iguider	13
5	Paul Chelimo	12

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Conseslus Kipruto	70
2	Abraham Kibiwot	20
2	Paul Kipsiele Koech	20
4	Nicholas Kiptonui Bett	12
4	Evan Jager	12

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Orlando Ortega	60
2	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde	23
3	Dimitri Bascou	21
4	Wilhem Belocian	16
5	Balázs Baji	4
5	David Omoregie	4

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Kerron Clement	51
2	Javier Culson	35
3	L. J. van Zyl	17
4	Rasmus Mägi	8
5	Kariem Hussein	5

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Erik Kynard	46
2	Mutaz Essa Barshim	36
3	Robert Grabarz	31
4	Bohdan Bondarenko	29
5	Andriy Protsenko	8

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Renaud Lavillenie	72
2	Sam Kendricks	50
3	Piotr Lisek	15
4	Stanley Joseph	10
5	Thiago Braz da Silva	8

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Fabrice Lapierre	36
2	Gao Xinglong	30
3	Luvo Manyonga	20
4	Damar Forbes	19
5	Jarrion Lawson	8

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Christian Taylor	60
2	Alexis Copello	32
3	Chris Carter	28
4	Troy Doris	21
5	Chris Benard	13

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Tomas Walsh	58
2	Joe Kovacs	42
3	Kurt Roberts	22
4	Ryan Crouser	19
5	Konrad Bukowiecki	11

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Piotr Małachowski	54
2	Daniel Ståhl	34
3	Philip Milanov	26
4	Robert Urbanek	25
5	Lukas Weisshaidinger	14

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Jakub Vadlejch	50
2	Thomas Röhler	46
3	Julian Weber	15
4	Keshorn Walcott	14
5	Vítězslav Veselý	8