Zurich Diamond League Athletics 2026 Full Schedule: Track times, prize money, how to watch - and when is Amy Hunt racing?
The word’s finest athletes are heading for Switzerland.
The penultimate meet of the Diamond League athletics is taking place this week, the first since the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
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Many of the Team GB athletes will be in action, including quadruple gold medalist Amy Hunt, who is not the firm favourite for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
Established in 2010 as the top annual athletics competion, Zurich is the 14th stop on the tour that will conclude with a two-day even in Brussels on September 4-5.
Here’s everything you need to know.
When is the Zurich Diamond League athletics meet?
The competition takes place at Zurich’s Letzigrund Stadium on Thursday, August 26.
What is the schedule for the Zurich Diamond League athletics meet?
Here’s when all the action will be happening in UK time:
- 6.08pm: Women’s 1500m
- 6.22pm: Men’s 400m
- 6.34pm: Men’s 110m hurdles
- 6.42pm: Women’s 200m
- 6.50pm: Men’s wheelchair 1500m
- 7.04pm: Women’s 400m hurdles
- 7.16pm: Men’s 3000m
- 7.32pm: Women’s 100m
- 7.42pm: Men’s 400m hurdles
- 7.50pm: Women’s 3000m steeplechase
- 8.08pm: Men’s 800m
- 8.19pm: Women’s 100m hurdles
- 8.26pm: Men’s 1500m
- 8.41pm: Women’s 800m
- 8.53pm: Men’s 200m
What is the prize money for the Zurich Diamond League athletics meet?
There are two levels of prize money for Diamond League events and Diamond League plus events. In Zurich the Diamond League Plus events are the women’s 100m, 800m, 100m hurdles and high jump, and the men’s 200m, 1500m, 400m hurdles and long jump.
Diamond League Prize Money
- 1st: $10,000
- 2nd: $6,000
- 3rd: $4,000
- 4th$3,000
- 5th$2,500
- 6th$2,000
- 7th$1,500
- 8th$1,000
- 9th+$500
Diamond League Plus Prize Money
- 1st: $20,000
- 2nd: $6,000
- 3rd: $4,000
- 4th: $4,000
- 5th: $2,500
- 6th: $2,000
- 7th$1,500
- 8th$1,000
- 9th+$500
When is Amy Hunt running?
Amy Hunt will be running in the women’s 100m scheduled to start at 7.32pm.
How can I watch the Zurich Diamond League on television?
Live coverage of the athletics will be shown live on BBC3 from 7pm.
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