Rome hosts penultimate Diamond League event - live on BBC

The Diamond League play nears its conclusion successful Rome connected Friday - nan first of 2 events earlier September's final.

Zurich, connected 5 September, will connection athletes their past opportunity to gain points and suffice for nan winner-takes-all Diamond League last successful Brussels from 13-14 September.

In summation to winning nan Diamond Trophy, each of nan 32 champions crowned crossed nan 16 disciplines successful nan Belgian superior will person £24,000 successful prize money.

You tin watch nan action from Rome connected BBC Two from 20:00 to 21:00 BST and BBC Three from 21:00 to 22:00 connected Friday, arsenic good arsenic connected nan BBC Sport website and app.

Daryll Neita is among nan British stars successful action arsenic Rome hosts nan 13th gathering successful nan 2024 series, which has taken spot crossed 4 continents since opening successful Xiamen, China successful April.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen obliterated nan 28-year-old 3,000m world grounds by much than 3 seconds and Armand Duplantis collapsed his ain rod vault world grounds at nan Silesia Diamond League past week.

As athletes purpose to decorativeness nan Olympic twelvemonth strong, nan Italian superior is group to big high-quality title - not slightest successful nan men's 100m, nan last arena of nan evening.

Paris 2024 100m metallic medallist Kishane Thompson and bronze medallist Fred Kerley travel up against 200m champion Letsile Tebogo complete nan shorter distance, successful a title which besides features Italy's Tokyo champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Great Britain's Jeremiah Azu.

Neita and Amy Hunt statement up successful nan women's 200m against Olympic bronze medallist Brittany Brown, while Charlie Dobson goes successful nan men's 400m.

Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon and runner-up Jessica Hull header a women's 1500m featuring GB's Revee Walcott-Nolan, while Lina Nielsen contests nan women's 400m hurdles against Olympic metallic medallist Anna Cockrell.

Aimee Pratt races successful a women's 3,000m steeplechase which reunites Olympic medallists Winfred Yavi, Peruth Chemutai and Faith Cherotich.

Home favourite Gianmarco Tamberi will dream to prima successful nan men's precocious jump, while Olympic rod vault champion Nina Kennedy and changeable put golden medallist Ryan Crouser are besides some successful action.

Athletes compete for points astatine nan 14 regular bid meetings from May to September.

Those points are awarded connected a standard from 8 for first spot to 1 for eighth place.

After nan 14th gathering successful Zurich, nan apical six classed athletes successful nan section events, nan apical 8 successful way events from 100m-800m, and nan apical 10 successful distances from 1500m upwards suffice for nan final.

In each discipline, 1 jock whitethorn besides suffice by a nationalist aliases world wildcard.

The two-day last successful Brussels is simply a winner-takes-all title to beryllium crowned Diamond League champion.

You tin position nan existent standings successful each arena connected nan Diamond League website here, external.