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A sell-out crowd of 60,000 watched the 2024 London Athletics Meet, the tenth stop on the 15-meeting Wanda Diamond League circuit and the final event before the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
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London revisited: the London Athletics Meet in numbers

Across the Diamond League programme spectators witnessed two area records, four world-leading performances, seven meeting records, 11 national records and two national record-equalling performances.

This is the breakdown:

Area records

Name

Event/performance

Matthew Hudson-Smith (GBR)

Men’s 400m (43.74)

Australia women’s relay team (AUS)

Women’s 4 x 100m (42.48)

World-leading performances

Matthew Hudson-Smith (GBR)

Men’s 400m (43.74)

Nickisha Pryce (JAM)

Women’s 400m (48.57)

Keely Hodgkinson (GBR)

Women’s 800m (1:54.61)

Great Britain women’s relay team (GBR)

Women’s 4 x 100m (41.55)

Meeting records

Gabrielle Thomas (USA)

Women’s 200m (21.82/-0.9m/s)

Matthew Hudson-Smith (GBR)

Men’s 400m (43.74)

Nickisha Pryce (JAM)

Women’s 400m (48.57)

Keely Hodgkinson (GBR)

Women’s 800m (1:54.61)

Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu (SUI)

Men’s 3000m (7:27.68)

Femke Bol (NED)

Women’s 400m hurdles (51.30)

Great Britain women’s relay team (GBR)

Women’s 4 x 100m (41.55)

National records

Australia women’s relay team (AUS)

Women’s 4 x 100m (42.48)

Jochem Vermeulen (BEL)

Men’s 1 Mile (3:51.00)

Matthew Hudson-Smith (GBR)

Men’s 400m (43.74)

Keely Hodgkinson (GBR)

Women’s 800m (1:54.61)

Nickisha Pryce (JAM)

Women’s 400m (48.57)

Julien Alfred (LCA)

Women’s 200m (21.86/-0.9m/s)

Mike Foppen (NED)

Men’s 3000m (7:37.12)

Natalia Kaczmarek (POL)

Women’s 400m (48.90)

Adriana Vilagos (SRB)

Women’s javelin (65.58)

Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu (SUI)

Men’s 3000m (7:27.68)

Halimah Nakaayi (UGA)

Women’s 800m (1:57.26)

Equal national records

Letsile Tobago (BOT)

Men’s 100m (9.88/-0.3m/s)

Great Britain women’s relay team (GBR)

Women’s 4 x 100m (41.55)

There were also five national record-breaking performances in the non-Diamond League events, with athletes rising to the occasion ahead of the Paralympic Games:

National records

 

Name

Event/performance

Zak Skinner (GBR)

100m ambulant men – T13 (10.84/+0.9m/s)

Thomas Young (GBR)

100m ambulant men – T38 (10.92/+0.9m/s)

Kyle Keyworth (GBR)

100m ambulant men – T35 (12.44/+0.9m/s)

Mel Woods (GBR)

800m wheelchair women – T54 (1:46.85)

Shauna Bocquet (IRL)

800m wheelchair women – T54 (1:48.42)

Ready for more magic in 2025?

The London Athletics Meet – the UK’s biggest one-day athletics event – will return to the London Stadium on Saturday 19 July 2025. Buy your tickets now: britishathletics.org.uk/london-athletics-meet-2025