2024 Memorial Van Damme

The 2024 Memorial Van Damme was the 48th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Brussels, Belgium. Held on 13–14 September^[1] at King Baudouin Stadium, it served as the finals of 2024 Diamond League – the highest-level international track and field circuit.

2024 Memorial Van Damme
Dates	13–14 September 2024
Host city	Brussels, Belgium
Venue	King Baudouin Stadium
Level	2024 Diamond League
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Highlights

On night one, Olympic champion and World Record holder Armand Duplantis vaulted 6.11 metres to win the men's pole vault title, which was a meeting record, as was the 69.96m winning throw of Matthew Denny in the men's discus.^[2] Night two saw a further three meeting records set by Faith Kipyegon with 3:54.75 in the women's 1500 metres, Beatrice Chebet winning the women's 5000 metres in 14:09.82 and Leonardo Fabbri taking the men's shot put with an effort of 22.98 metres.^[3]

Results

Whilst Diamond League points were used to gain entry into the finals, they were not used to determine Diamond League champions. Regardless of points accumulated throughout the season, winners of the 2024 Memorial Van Damme were crowned 2024 Diamond League champions in their respective events.^[4]

Diamond discipline

Men's events

Men's 100 Metres (+0.1 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Ackeem Blake  Jamaica 9.93 Christian Coleman  United States 10.00 Fred Kerley  United States 10.01 4 Emmanuel Eseme  Cameroon 10.09 5 Akani Simbine  South Africa 10.10 (.093) 6 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown  Japan 10.10 (.097) 7 Brandon Hicklin  United States 10.13 8 Rohan Watson  Jamaica 10.25 [5]

Men's 200 Metres (+0.7 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Kenneth Bednarek  United States 19.67 Letsile Tebogo  Botswana 19.80 Alexander Ogando  Dominican Republic 19.97 4 Courtney Lindsey  United States 20.21 (.201) 5 Fred Kerley  United States 20.21 (.204) 6 Kyree King  United States 20.45 7 Joseph Fahnbulleh  Liberia 20.53 8 Ryan Zeze  France 21.20 [6]

Men's 400 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Charlie Dobson  Great Britain 44.49 Kirani James  Grenada 44.63 Muzala Samukonga  Zambia 44.69 4 Vernon Norwood  United States 44.78 5 Bayapo Ndori  Botswana 45.59 6 Jonathan Sacoor  Belgium 45.93 7 Busang Kebinatshipi  Botswana 46.43 8 Matthew Hudson-Smith  Great Britain 2:37.21 [7]

Men's 800 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Emmanuel Wanyonyi  Kenya 1:42.70 Djamel Sedjati  Algeria 1:42.86 Marco Arop  Canada 1:43.25 4 Gabriel Tual  France 1:43.67 5 Eliott Crestan  Belgium 1:43.74 6 Wycliffe Kinyamal  Kenya 1:44.00 7 Andreas Kramer  Sweden 1:44.30 8 Tshepiso Masalela  Botswana 1:43.74 9 Ben Pattison  Great Britain 1:44.64 [8]

Men's 1500 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway 3:30.37 Timothy Cheruiyot  Kenya 3:30.93 Cole Hocker  United States 3:30.94 4 Azeddine Habz  France 3:31.97 5 Jochem Vermeulen  Belgium 3:32.15 6 Yared Nuguse  United States 3:32.30 7 Reynold Cheruiyot  Kenya 3:32.50 8 Narve Gilje Nordås  Norway 3:33.02 9 Brian Komen  Kenya 3:33.21 10 Oliver Hoare  Australia 3:34.13 11 Elliot Giles  Great Britain 3:34.76 [9]

Men's 5000 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Berihu Aregawi  Ethiopia 12:43.66 Hagos Gebrhiwet  Ethiopia 12:44.25 Telahun Haile Bekele  Ethiopia 12:45.63 4 Nicholas Kipkorir  Kenya 12:49.59 5 Yomif Kejelcha  Ethiopia 12:51.21 6 Isaac Kimeli  Belgium 12:58.16 7 Jacob Krop  Kenya 13:02.35 8 Cornelius Kemboi  Kenya 13:05.92 9 Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu  Switzerland 13:09.23 10 Ronald Kwemoi  Kenya 13:35.84 — Stewart McSweyn  Australia DNF [10]

Men's 110 Metres hurdles (+0.4 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Sasha Zhoya  France 13.16 Lorenzo Simonelli  Italy 13.22 Freddie Crittenden  United States 13.24 4 Cordell Tinch  United States 13.27 5 Michael Obasuyi  Belgium 13.31 6 Shunsuke Izumiya  Japan 13.33 7 Eric Edwards Jr.  United States 13.35 8 Daniel Roberts  United States 13.44 [11]

Men's 400 Metres hurdles Rank Athlete Nation Time Alison dos Santos  Brazil 47.93 Abderrahman Samba  Qatar 48.20 Rasmus Mägi  Estonia 48.26 4 CJ Allen  United States 48.68 5 Roshawn Clarke  Jamaica 49.08 6 Malik James-King  Jamaica 49.37 7 Gerald Drummond  Costa Rica 49.63 8 Wilfried Happio  France 50.19 [12]

Men's 3000 Metres steeplechase Rank Athlete Nation Time Amos Serem  Kenya 8:06.90 Soufiane El Bakkali  Morocco 8:08.60 Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui  Tunisia 8:09.93 4 Abraham Kibiwot  Kenya 8:10.51 5 Daniel Arce  Spain 8:10.88 6 Mohamed Tindouft  Tunisia 8:10.93 7 Getnet Wale  Ethiopia 8:14.66 8 Samuel Firewu  Ethiopia 8:15.86 9 Avinash Mukund Sable  India 8:17.09 10 Abrham Sime  Ethiopia 8:17.75 [13]

Men's High jump Rank Athlete Nation Mark Gianmarco Tamberi  Italy 2.34 m Oleh Doroshchuk  Ukraine 2.31 m Woo Sang-hyeok  South Korea 2.25 m 4 Romaine Beckford  Jamaica 2.22 m 5 Thomas Carmoy  Belgium 2.22 m 6 Shelby McEwen  United States 2.12 m [14]

Men's Pole vault Rank Athlete Nation Mark Armand Duplantis  Sweden 6.11 m Emmanouil Karalis  Greece 5.82 m Ben Broeders  Belgium 5.82 m 4 Sam Kendricks  United States 5.82 m 5 Thibaut Collet  France 5.62 m 6 Christopher Nilsen  United States 5.62 m 7 KC Lightfoot  United States 5.62 m [15]

Men's Long jump Rank Athlete Nation Mark Tajay Gayle  Jamaica 8.28 m (+0.4 m/s) Simon Ehammer  Switzerland 8.16 m (+0.4 m/s) Miltiadis Tentoglou  Greece 8.15 m (+0.2 m/s) 4 Mattia Furlani  Italy 7.88 m (+0.3 m/s) 5 Carey McLeod  Jamaica 7.85 m (±0.0 m/s) 6 Wayne Pinnock  Jamaica 7.43 m (−0.3 m/s) [16]

Men's Triple jump Rank Athlete Nation Mark Pedro Pichardo  Portugal 17.83 m (+0.4 m/s) Max Heß  Germany 17.20 m (+0.3 m/s) Hugues Fabrice Zango  Burkina Faso 17.05 m (+0.1 m/s) 4 Almir dos Santos  Brazil 16.79 m (+0.3 m/s) 5 Lázaro Martínez  Cuba 16.23 m (±0.0 m/s) 6 Jean-Marc Pontvianne  France 16.01 m (+0.1 m/s) [17]

Men's Shot put Rank Athlete Nation Mark Leonardo Fabbri  Italy 22.98 m Ryan Crouser  United States 22.79 m Rajindra Campbell  Jamaica 21.95 m 4 Payton Otterdahl  United States 21.48 m 5 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi  Nigeria 21.29 m — Joe Kovacs  United States NM [18]

Men's Discus throw Rank Athlete Nation Time Matthew Denny  Australia 69.96 m Mykolas Alekna  Lithuania 68.86 m Lukas Weißhaidinger  Austria 66.52 m 4 Daniel Ståhl  Sweden 66.26 m 5 Kristjan Čeh  Slovenia 65.40 m 6 Philip Milanov  Belgium 62.21 m 7 Fedrick Dacres  Jamaica 61.63 m [19]

Men's Javelin throw Rank Athlete Nation Time Anderson Peters  Grenada 87.87 m Neeraj Chopra  India 87.86 m Julian Weber  Germany 85.97 m 4 Andrian Mardare  Moldova 82.79 m 5 Roderick Genki Dean  Japan 80.37 m 6 Artur Felfner  Ukraine 79.86 m 7 Timothy Herman  Belgium 76.46 m [20]

Women's events

Women's 100 Metres (+0.2 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Julien Alfred  Saint Lucia 10.88 Dina Asher-Smith  Great Britain 10.92 Marie-Josée Ta Lou  Ivory Coast 11.05 4 Daryll Neita  Great Britain 11.14 5 Patrizia van der Weken  Luxembourg 11.16 6 Gina Bass  Gambia 11.19 7 Tamari Davis  United States 11.21 8 Sha'Carri Richardson  United States 11.23 9 Rani Rosius  Belgium 11.37 [21]

Women's 200 Metres (+0.2 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Brittany Brown  United States 22.20 Daryll Neita  Great Britain 22.45 Anavia Battle  United States 22.61 4 Tasa Jiya  Netherlands 22.95 5 Tamara Clark  United States 23.01 6 Amy Hunt  Great Britain 23.09 7 Maboundou Koné  Ivory Coast 23.33 — Marie-Josée Ta Lou  Ivory Coast DQ [22]

Women's 400 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Marileidy Paulino  Dominican Republic 49.45 Alexis Holmes  United States 50.32 Rhasidat Adeleke  Ireland 50.96 4 Lynna Irby  United States 51.50 5 Lieke Klaver  Netherlands 51.69 6 Amandine Brossier  France 51.94 7 Sada Williams  Barbados 52.68 — Salwa Eid Naser  Bahrain DQ [23]

Women's 800 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Mary Moraa  Kenya 1:56.56 Georgia Bell  Great Britain 1:57.50 Natoya Goule-Toppin  Jamaica 1:58.94 4 Rénelle Lamote  France 1:58.94 5 Jemma Reekie  Great Britain 1:59.13 6 Habitam Alemu  Ethiopia 1:59.81 7 Halimah Nakaayi  Uganda 1:59.87 8 Prudence Sekgodiso  South Africa 2:03.16 [24]

Women's 1500 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Faith Kipyegon  Kenya 3:54.75 Diribe Welteji  Ethiopia 3:55.25 Jessica Hull  Australia 3:56.99 4 Freweyni Hailu  Ethiopia 3:57.26 5 Nelly Chepchirchir  Kenya 3:58.05 6 Georgia Griffith  Australia 3:58.40 7 Georgia Bell  Great Britain 3:58.95 8 Birke Haylom  Ethiopia 3:59.27 9 Melissa Courtney-Bryant  Great Britain 3:59.75 10 Worknesh Mesele  Ethiopia 4:00.19 11 Elise Vanderelst  Belgium 4:01.26 [25]

Women's 5000 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Beatrice Chebet  Kenya 14:09.82 Medina Eisa  Ethiopia 14:21.89 Fotyen Tesfay  Ethiopia 14:28.53 4 Ejgayehu Taye  Ethiopia 14:29.70 5 Caroline Nyaga  Kenya 14:30.14 6 Nozomi Tanaka  Japan 14:30.14 7 Melknat Wudu  Ethiopia 14:36.65 8 Karissa Schweizer  United States 14:36.88 9 Tsigie Gebreselama  Ethiopia 14:49.79 [26]

Women's 100 Metres hurdles (+0.4 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Jasmine Camacho-Quinn  Puerto Rico 12.38 Nadine Visser  Netherlands 12.54 Ackera Nugent  Jamaica 12.55 4 Grace Stark  United States 12.59 5 Danielle Williams  Jamaica 12.62 6 Tonea Marshall  United States 12.71 7 Cyréna Samba-Mayela  France 12.78 8 Pia Skrzyszowska  Poland 13.16 [27]

Women's 400 Metres hurdles Rank Athlete Nation Time Femke Bol  Netherlands 52.45 Anna Cockrell  United States 53.71 Shiann Salmon  Jamaica 53.99 4 Shamier Little  United States 55.26 5 Ayomide Folorunso  Italy 55.37 6 Paulien Couckuyt  Belgium 55.66 7 Janieve Russell  Jamaica 55.94 8 Andrenette Knight  Jamaica 56.70 [28]

Women's 3000 Metres steeplechase Rank Athlete Nation Time Faith Cherotich  Kenya 9:02.36 Winfred Yavi  Bahrain 9:02.87 Peruth Chemutai  Uganda 9:07.60 4 Gesa Felicitas Krause  Germany 9:08.94 5 Gabrielle Jennings  United States 9:09.89 6 Marwa Bouzayani  Tunisia 9:10.19 7 Valerie Constien  United States 9:13.31 8 Lea Meyer  Germany 9:22.71 9 Olivia Markezich  United States 9:27.98 10 Lomi Muleta  Ethiopia 9:52.35 — Olivia Gürth  Germany DNF [29]

Women's High jump Rank Athlete Nation Mark Yaroslava Mahuchikh  Ukraine 1.97 m Nicola Olyslagers  Australia 1.97 m Iryna Herashchenko  Ukraine 1.92 m 4 Eleanor Patterson  Australia 1.88 m 5 Angelina Topić  Serbia 1.88 m 6 Lia Apostolovski  Slovenia 1.88 m [30]

Women's Pole vault Rank Athlete Nation Mark Nina Kennedy  Australia 4.88 m Sandi Morris  United States 4.80 m Alysha Newman  Canada 4.80 m 4 Molly Caudery  Great Britain 4.80 m 5 Angelica Moser  Switzerland 4.70 m 6 Roberta Bruni  Italy 4.65 m 7 Elien Vekemans  Belgium 4.40 m [31]

Women's Long jump Rank Athlete Nation Mark Larissa Iapichino  Italy 6.80 m (±0.0 m/s) Monae' Nichols  United States 6.68 m (±0.0 m/s) Jasmine Moore  United States 6.61 m (±0.0 m/s) 4 Quanesha Burks  United States 6.56 m (+0.1 m/s) 5 Milica Gardašević  Serbia 6.40 m (−0.1 m/s) 6 Marthe Koala  Burkina Faso 6.39 m (±0.0 m/s) [32]

Women's Triple jump Rank Athlete Nation Mark Leyanis Pérez  Cuba 14.37 m (−0.1 m/s) Shanieka Ricketts  Jamaica 14.22 m (±0.0 m/s) Ackelia Smith  Jamaica 14.11 m (−0.2 m/s) 4 Neja Filipič  Slovenia 14.04 m (+0.1 m/s) 5 Jasmine Moore  United States 13.89 m (−0.1 m/s) 6 Dariya Derkach  Italy 13.45 m (+0.1 m/s) [33]

Women's Shot put Rank Athlete Nation Mark Sarah Mitton  Canada 20.25 m Chase Jackson  United States 19.90 m Yemisi Ogunleye  Germany 19.72 m 4 Maddi Wesche  New Zealand 19.65 m 5 Danniel Thomas-Dodd  Jamaica 19.24 m 6 Song Jiayuan  China 19.00 m [34]

Women's Discus throw Rank Athlete Nation Mark Valarie Allman  United States 68.47 m Feng Bin  China 67.49 m Yaime Pérez  Cuba 66.96 m 4 Sandra Elkasević  Croatia 65.10 m 5 Jorinde van Klinken  Netherlands 64.38 m 6 Kristin Pudenz  Germany 57.74 m [35]

Women's Javelin throw Rank Athlete Nation Time Haruka Kitaguchi  Japan 66.13 m Adriana Vilagoš  Serbia 65.23 m Maggie Malone-Hardin  United States 62.40 m 4 Victoria Hudson  Austria 62.30 m 5 Mackenzie Little  Australia 61.50 m 6 Flor Ruiz  Colombia 54.59 m [36]

Promotional events

Men's

Men's 100 Metres (±0.0 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Ferdinand Omanyala  Kenya 10.07 Kobe Vleminckx  Belgium 10.29 Joshua Hartmann  Germany 10.30 4 Simon Verherstraeten  Belgium 10.33 5 Micheal Campbell  Jamaica 10.40 6 Elvis Afrifa  Netherlands 10.52 7 Antoine Snyders  Belgium 10.65 8 Ibrahim Camara  Belgium 10.80 [37]

Men's 400 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Daniel Segers  Belgium 45.38 Dylan Borlée  Belgium 45.59 Florent Mabille  Belgium 45.80 4 Efekemo Okoro  Great Britain 46.19 5 Rusheen McDonald  Jamaica 46.71 6 Kevin Borlée  Belgium 47.18 [38]

Women's

Women's 200 Metres (+0.1 m/s) Rank Athlete Nation Time Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone  United States 22.40 Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye  Gambia 23.01 Delphine Nkansa  Belgium 23.03 4 Boglárka Takács  Hungary 23.05 5 Lynna Irby-Jackson  United States 23.34 6 Maja Mihalinec Zidar  Slovenia 23.37 7 Rani Rosius  Belgium 23.56 [39]

Women's 400 Metres Rank Athlete Nation Time Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone  United States 49.11 Stacey-Ann Williams  Jamaica 50.53 Andrea Miklós  Romania 51.16 4 Stephenie Ann McPherson  Jamaica 51.24 5 Hanne Claes  Belgium 52.03 6 Helena Ponette  Belgium 53.08 7 Rebecca Borga  Italy 54.25 [40]