The Samsung Diamond League encompasses 32 individual Event Disciplines, with a points scoring ‘Diamond Race’ which runs throughout the 14 meeting series. Winners of each Diamond Race will get a Diamond Trophy and a cash prize but more importantly, will have shown season long consistency to earn the unchallenged honour of being the World Number 1.
From the links on this page you can access the Rules, Points System and Prize Money Structure of the Diamond Race.
New in 2012: The overall Diamond Race winners will now benefit from a wild card to the IAAF World Championships much in the same way as already happens with the defending World champion. However, only one or the other can participate as a wild card in case both are from the same country (so the maximum entry from a country will be limited to four in any individual event). The decision to finally enter the athlete still rests entirely with the National Federation, which maintains full control of the final entries