The competition will be held for the first time before the Swedish midsummer holiday which means we can look forward to a typical Stockholm sunlit evening with athletes from all over the world leading into an especially intensive championship season. Although the event is six weeks earlier than last year, it will still be the eighth of fourteen meetings on the Diamond League schedule \u2013 time for the athletes to have reached their best form.
\u2013 It will be a real Scandinavian athletics week with Oslo\u2019s Diamond League meeting on Thursday 9 June. BAUHAUS-galan is a perfect opportunity for athletes to qualify for the European Championships in Amsterdam in mid-July and for the Olympic Games in Rio which will start one month later, says Jan Kowalski, chairman of Stadionklubbarna, who organise the competition.
Packed week of athletics<\/b>
However, BAUHAUS-galan is much more than the international track and field meeting; that is merely the highlight of a week which offers something for everyone. On Sunday 12 and Monday 13 June the BAUHAUS Kids will take place where young children can try out athletics as well as meet in person some of the Diamond League stars who have already arrived in the city. The Diamond League shot put, \u201dBig Shot\u201d, will once again take place outside of the Olympic stadium the day before the main competition. <\/p>\n
Diamond 1000 is a mass race which the general public can enter to experience running on the Olympic Stadium track the day after the Diamond League meeting. The events will conclude at the weekend with BAUHAUS Youth, the traditional two-day competition for youth and junior athletes.
BAUHAUS Kids Tour is following a successful launch in 2015 when almost three thousand children came to various Stockholm suburbs throughout the summer and tried out the travelling obstacle course. <\/p>\n
\u2013 We are organising a similar Tour this year and the obstacle course will be appearing in around ten different places around Stockholm leading up to the Diamond League meeting on 16 June. Jan Kowalski confirmed that dates and venues will be announced soon.
First Diamond League meeting on 6 May<\/b>
The worldwide series of athletics meetings will start in Doha on 6 May and then an intensive period will follow with eight competitions on four continents over six weeks. The first European meeting is in Rome on 2 June and this first part of the Diamond League series will close with BAUHAUS-galan on 16 June. After that there will be two competitions in July and two after the Olympic Games in August and then the two Diamond League finals in September. <\/p>\n
\u2013 Athletics at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will take place from 12 to 21 August and that will obviously be the focus of the year. But BAUHAUS-galan at the Stadium on 16 June is an important step on the way there, concluded Jan Kowalski.<\/p>\n
\u2028\u2028Jonas Hedman<\/i><\/p>\nYou can already buy your tickets for BAUHAUS-galan, 16 June!<\/link>\n
2016 IAAF Diamond League calendar<\/strong> There are just over three months to go till BAUHAUS-galan at Stockholm Olympic Stadium \u2013 16...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stockholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
6 May \u2013 Doha, QAT
14 May \u2013 Shanghai, CHN
22 May \u2013 Rabat, MAR
28 May \u2013 Eugene, USA
2 Jun \u2013 Rome, ITA
5 Jun \u2013 Birmingham, GBR
9 Jun \u2013 Oslo, NOR
16 Jun \u2013 Stockholm, SWE
15 Jul \u2013 Monaco, MON
22-23 Jul \u2013 London, GBR
25 Aug \u2013 Lausanne, SUI
27 Aug \u2013 Paris, FRA
1 Sep \u2013 Zurich, SUI
9 Sep \u2013 Brussels, BEL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"