{"id":3705,"date":"2025-02-02T12:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T12:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-rome-2010-vlasic-and-spotakova-make-history\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:53:00","slug":"wdl-classics-rome-2010-vlasic-and-spotakova-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-rome-2010-vlasic-and-spotakova-make-history\/","title":{"rendered":"WDL Classics Rome 2010: Vlasic and Spotakova make history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Live from the archive every single Sunday on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@diamondleague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel<\/a>, the WDL Classics series revisits historical Diamond League meetings with a re-live stream of the full two-hour TV broadcast. This week: a flood of meeting records in Rome in 2010.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Pietro Mennea Golden Gala celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2010, and it marked the occasion with a flood of meeting records, two of which still stand today.<\/p>\n<p>The Rome meeting was the fourth leg of the Diamond League season, and the 30,000 who turned up to the Eternal City&#8217;s Stadio Olimpico were treated to a flurry of fantastic performances on the track and in the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jamaican star Asafa Powell set the tone as he continued his fine form in a non-Diamond League men&#8217;s 100m, clocking 9.82 to take one of five world leads set on the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another world leader was US hurdler Lashinda Demus, who streaked to 52.82 in the women&#8217;s 400m\u00a0 hurdles, claiming her second successive win on the new Diamond League circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Demus&#8217; was one of five meeting records, two of which are still standing today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s high jump, Croatia&#8217;s Blanka Vlasic equalled the meeting record with 2.03m, while in the women&#8217;s javelin, Czech star Barbora Spotakova swept to victory with an impressive 68.66m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rewatch the whole meeting in full on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel from 15:00 GMT this Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Watch WDL Classics from 15:00 GMT on Sunday: Rome 2010<\/h3>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 500\/281\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FlPMnUHbkRKI%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rome 2010 Full Broadcast - Wanda Diamond League Classics\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lPMnUHbkRKI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pietro Mennea Golden Gala in Rome celebrated its 30th anniversary with a flood of meeting...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[245,1109,6,282,118,36,1107,1115,624],"city":[1138],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashback","tag-245","tag-classics","tag-diamond-league","tag-golden-gala","tag-rome","tag-spotakova","tag-throwback","tag-vlasic","tag-wanda","city-rome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}