{"id":6231,"date":"2025-04-20T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T17:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:12:15","slug":"wdl-classics-brussels-2010-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-brussels-2010-season-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"WDL Classics Brussels 2010: Season Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Live from the archive every single Sunday on the\u00a0<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: the second leg of the first ever Diamond League Final.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the first 16 series champions were crowned in Zurich on August 19, 2010, the first ever Diamond League season came to an end in Brussels eight days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as in Zurich, the second half of the inaugural Diamond League final proved to be a thrilling affair, with victories for some of the biggest athletes of the age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allyson Felix crowned a title double, following up her 400m victory in Zurich with a 200m win in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyson Gay triumphed in the men&#8217;s 100m, deciding a season long battle with Jamaican rivals Asafa Powell and Usain Bolt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenyan distance legend David Rudisha claimed his fifth win of the season, becoming the first men&#8217;s 800m Diamond League champion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandra Perkovic (now Elkasevic) launched a then Croatian record of 66.93m in the women&#8217;s discus, winning the first of six Diamond League titles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of many magical Diamond League nights in Brussels, it was an evening which brought down the curtain on the series&#8217; first ever season, marking a new era in global track and field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch WDL Classics from 15:00 GMT on Sunday: Zurich 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n\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%2Fer0u75VWKLQ%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brussels 2010 Full Broadcast - Wanda Diamond League\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/er0u75VWKLQ?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>David Rudisha, Sandra Perkovic and Tyson Gay won their first ever Diamond League titles in...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[245,22,1109,6,298,624],"city":[1198],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashback","tag-245","tag-brussels","tag-classics","tag-diamond-league","tag-final","tag-wanda","city-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231","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=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}