From recent Olympic gold medalists, current and former world champions to top local players, there is some action worth watching from Poland at the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial/Diamond League Silesia 2024.
Nine of the competitions to be held in Silesia will feature gold medalists from the 2024 Olympic Games, while other participants will have their chance at redemption.
The 12th event of the 2024 Wanda Diamond League season will be held at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzow, Poland and will include a variety of competitions for athletes of all levels.
The first seven competitions of the 2024 Diamond League calendar took place between April 20 and June 2, followed by a month-long break during which many countries were able to finalise their teams and plans for the upcoming Olympic Games.
The Olympic Games took place in Paris from July 26 to August 11. The athletics competitions took place from August 1 to 11. The last stop of the Diamond League before the Olympic Games was London on July 20.
The first event after the Olympic Games will take the competition to the city most closely associated with the Olympics, namely Lausanne in Switzerland, seat of the International Olympic Committee (22 August).
The rest of the calendar includes Silesia, Rome (August 30), Zurich (September 5) and Brussels, Belgium (September 13-14).
About the Diamond League
The Diamond League, which is by invitation only, brings together the best athletes to demonstrate their skills, win prize money, collect points for the championship tournament at the end of the season and ultimately increase the reputation of athletics worldwide.
Traditionally, the Diamond League competitions include 16 disciplines, although not all of them are represented at every competition.
Points earned during the first 14 events of the season determine which athletes advance to the finals, where they compete for more prize money and Diamond League titles.
The disciplines represented in Silesia in 2024 are:
Men
- High jump
- Shot put
- Pole vault
- 200 meters
- 800 meters
- 3,000 meters
- 3,000-meter steeplechase
Women
- 100 meters
- 100-meter hurdles
- 400 meters
- 400-meter hurdles
- 1,500 metres
- Triple jump
- spear
About the Silesian Stadium
The Silesian Stadium underwent an extensive and lengthy renovation process from 2009 to 2017. The aim was to make it more modern and better equipped to host high-profile athletics events, although other competitions and shows also take place there.
While the modernization has reduced the facility to half its original capacity, there is still room for over 54,000 athletics fans to watch their favorite athletes, many of whom recently achieved success at the 2024 Olympic Games.
Among the participants will be Natalia Kaczmarek, who won Poland’s only athletics medal at the 2024 Olympics, a bronze in the women’s 400 metres. She will have the opportunity for a rematch against the two women who beat her in Paris – Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic (gold) and Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain (silver).
Polish hurdler Pia Skrzyszowska is scheduled to compete in the 100-meter hurdles, where she will face the entire Olympic podium – Masai Russell of the USA (gold), Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France (silver) and Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico (bronze).
The other winner of the 2024 Olympic Games in the women’s category in Silesia will be Japanese Haruka Kitaguchi (javelin throw).
The men’s champions of the recent Olympic Games, held in Poland, are New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr (high jump), American Ryan Crouser (shot put), Sweden’s Armand Duplantis (pole vault), Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali (3,000-meter steeplechase), Emmanuel Wanyonyi from Kenya (800) and Letsile Tebogo from Botswana (200).
The complete registration list for the Silesia meeting can be found HERE.
How to watch the Diamond League Silesia (Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial) 2024
For viewers in the United States, live coverage of the one-day event will be provided by Peacock and the action will begin at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. It is one of many Diamond League events that will be broadcast by Peacock and/or NBC or one of the other related networks this year.
Beginning in 2025, as announced on April 10, FloTrack will be the streaming home of the Diamond League for viewers in the United States and its territories (excluding all events held in the United States).
Read the full announcement: The Diamond League will be streamed on FloTrack from 2025
Schedule for the Diamond League Silesia
All times Eastern Time
25.08.
- 8 a.m. – Men’s hammer throw
- 8 a.m. – Women’s hammer throw
- 08:03 am – 1,500 m handbike, men
- 8:13 a.m. – Men’s Para Long Jump
- 08:15 am – 800 m wheelchair race women
- 08:26 am – 800 m wheelchair men
- 08:33 am – *Men’s high jump
- 8:37 am – 100 m Para, Men
- 08:49 am – Men’s 110 m hurdles
- 08:59 am – *100 m hurdles women (race A)
- 9:08 am – *100 m hurdles women (race B)
- 9:14 am – *Shot put, men
- 9:18 am – Para 200 m Women
- 09:27 am – 1,000 m women
- 9:34 am – *Men’s Pole Vault
- 9:41 am – 100 m men
- 9:52 am – Men’s 400 m hurdles
- 10:04 am – *400 m hurdles women
- 10:15 am – *3,000 m Men
- 10:26 am – *Women’s triple jump
- 10:34 am – *Women’s 100-metre hurdles, final
- 10:46 am – *400 m women
- 10:53 am – *Women’s javelin
- 10:57 am – *Men’s 3,000 m steeplechase
- 11:14 am – *800 m Men
- 11:28 am – *200 m Men
- 11:39 am – *1,500 m women
- 11:53 am – *100 m women
*Diamond League Event/Points
The schedule for each day and the start times (local time) can be found HERE.
*The time difference between Poland and the Eastern Time Zone is six hours.
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Results for the Diamond League Silesia (Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial) 2024
The results of the Diamond League event in Silesia can be found here.
The official website of the league can be found HERE.
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