{"id":3101,"date":"2025-10-21T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:06:50","slug":"athletics-shine-in-rome-golden-gala-2026-confirmed-for-june-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/athletics-shine-in-rome-golden-gala-2026-confirmed-for-june-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics stars set to shine in Rome on June 4, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thursday, June 4, Rome\u2019s Stadio Olimpico: the official date for the 2026 Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, the fifth leg of the Wanda Diamond League, has been announced. The top-tier one-day event circuit has unveiled its calendar for the upcoming year, featuring fourteen stages where athletes will compete for points to qualify for the Wanda Diamond League Final, set for September 4\u20135 in Brussels, where the &#8216;Diamond Thophies&#8217; will be awarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The season will kick off on May 8 in Doha, Qatar, before moving on to China for the double-header in Shanghai and Xiamen, and then continuing to Africa with a stop in Rabat, Morocco. Rome will be the first European leg, kicking off a June schedule that also includes Stockholm, Oslo, and Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tour will then cross the Atlantic to Eugene on July 4, before returning to Europe for events in Monaco and London. After that, the circuit will pause for the summer\u2019s major continental event: the European Championships in Birmingham, from August 10 to 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final stretch includes stops in Lausanne, Silesia, and Zurich, offering athletes a last chance to collect points ahead of the Brussels final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full dates for the 2026 Wanda Diamond League season are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 8 \u2013 Doha<br>May 16 \u2013 Shanghai<br>May 23 \u2013 Xiamen<br>May 31 \u2013 Rabat<br>June 4 \u2013 Rome<br>June 7 \u2013 Stockholm<br>June 10 \u2013 Oslo<br>June 26 \u2013 Paris<br>July 4 \u2013 Eugene<br>July 10 \u2013 Monaco<br>July 18 \u2013 London<br>August 21 \u2013 Lausanne<br>August 23 \u2013 Silesia<br>August 27 \u2013 Zurich<br>September 4-5 \u2013 Final in Brussels<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Wanda Diamond League<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in athletics. It comprises 15 of the most prestigious events in global track and field, crossing four continents and 13 different countries to reach athletics fans in all corners of the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series provides a unique opportunity for athletes across the full diversity of track and field to compete at the highest level throughout the outdoor season. In 32 different disciplines, athletes compete for points at the 14 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final, which will be held in Brussels on September 4-5 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Diamond League season will begin in Doha on May 8 and finish at the two-day series...","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}