How To Watch The Diamond League Shanghai / Suzhou 2024

The Diamond League Shanghai/Suzhou 2024 will take place April 27 as the second stop of the 15-event Diamond League season. Here’s how to follow the action.

Apr 24, 2024 by Matt Cannizzaro

How To Watch The Diamond League Shanghai / Suzhou 2024

The Wanda Diamond League action for 2024 continues April 27, and the circuit will remain in China for a second consecutive stop, this time heading to Shanghai. The season-opening event is being held in Xiamen on April 20.

The 15-event Diamond League schedule this year will take elite track and field athletes across the globe, with the season-ending championship event taking places in Brussels, Belgium, on Sept. 13-14. There will be a short break in the schedule for the 2024 Summer Olympics in early August.

The day in Shanghai for the Shanghai/Suzhou Diamond League 2024 will include seven men’s disciplines and seven women’s disciplines, as athletes continue collecting points toward the year’s final event in Belgium.

The invitation-only Diamond League brings together the most elite track & field athletes to showcase their skills, earn prize money, collect points toward the season-ending championship event and ultimately elevate the status of athletics across the globe.

Traditionally, Diamond League competition includes a slate of 16 disciplines. Points accumulated during the first 14 events of the season determine the athletes who advance to the final event, where they compete for more prize money and Diamond League titles.

The disciplines featured in Shanghai will be:

Men

100 Meters
800 Meters
5,000 Meters
110-Meter Hurdles
High Jump
Pole Vault
Long Jump

Women

200 Meters
400 Meters
100-Meter Hurdles
3,000-Meter Steeplechase
Long Jump
Shot Put
Javelin

To see who’s scheduled to compete in Shanghai, click HERE. The competition is expected to include 25 world and Olympic champions, many of whom are working toward appearances in the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

All competition will take place at Shanghai Stadium, which opened in 1997, covers 190,000 square meters and has a floor area of 170,000 square meters.

The venue has top-of-the-line technology to keep the competition area pristine, to provide a terrific spectator experience, to share that experience with the world via satellite and to make sure it all happens with the safety and security of all involved in mind.

The stadium received a complete makeover between 2020 and 2022 and now can fit 72,000 spectators. Ironically, the permanent running track was removed during this process to make the venue soccer-specific.

Shanghai Stadium is familiar with top-tier events, including the qualifying rounds of soccer for the 2008 Olympics, the Special Olympics and multiple editions of the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix and Golden League Shanghai.

How To Watch The Diamond League Shanghai 2024

For audiences in the United States, live coverage of the one-day season-opening event will be provided by Peacock, and the action will get underway at 6 a.m. Eastern. It is one of six Diamond League events this year being broadcast on the network.

FloTrack will provide results, editorial content and more and will do so for all Diamond League events in 2024.

Starting in 2025, which was announced April 10, FloTrack will be the streaming home of the Diamond League for audiences in the United States and its territories (with the exception of any events being held in the United States.

Read the entire announcement: The Diamond League Is Streaming On FloTrack Starting In 2025

Schedule For The Diamond League Shanghai 2024

The order of events for the day and their starting times (local time) can be found HERE.

*The time difference from Shanghai to the Eastern Time Zone is 12 hours.

To follow the FloTrack coverage, click HERE.

Results For The Diamond League Shanghai 2024

Results for the Diamond League event in Shanghai will be available here.

What Is The Diamond League Schedule For 2024?

The 2024 season, the 15th edition of the Diamond League, is getting started a little earlier, and the overall champions will be determined over two days in Brussels, Belgium.

The break in the schedule below from late July into late August is due to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The athletics events there are scheduled to take place Aug. 1-11.

Based on past releases, the schedule for the 2025 season will be announced in late September 2024.

April 20 – Xiamen, China
April 27 – Shanghai/Suzhou, China
May 10 – Doha, Qatar
May 19 – Rabat/Marrakech, Morocco
May 25 – Eugene, Oregon (USA)
May 30 – Oslo, Norway
June 2 – Stockholm, Sweden
July 7 – Paris
July 12 – Monaco
July 20 – London
Aug. 22 – Lausanne, Switzerland
Aug. 25 – Silesia, Poland
Aug. 30 – Rome
Sept. 5 – Zurich
Sept. 13-14 – Brussels, Belgium

FloTrack Is The Streaming Home For Many Track And Field Meets Each Year

Don't miss all the track and field season action streaming on FloTrack. Check out the FloTrack schedule for more events.

FloTrack Archived Footage

Video footage from each event will be archived and stored in a video library for FloTrack subscribers to watch for the duration of their subscriptions.