McQueen won the first Diamond League men's high jump title in 2025, while Jamaica finished second in the women's 100m

Shelby McQueen of the United States won the men's high jump in the first Diamond League event of 2025. On the 17th, Beijing time, in the men's high jump competition of the 2025 World Athletics Federation Diamond League held in Doha, Qatar, McQueen jumped over 2.26 meters to win the championship.

Shelby McQueen of the United States won the men's high jump in the first Diamond League event of 2025

This year's Diamond League will feature 14 tournaments, culminating in a Grand Final on August 29 in Zurich, Switzerland. There are six sub-stations in the men's high jump, including Doha on the same day, Rabat in Morocco on May 26, Rome in Italy on June 7, Monaco on July 12, Silesia in Poland on August 17, and Brussels, Belgium on August 23. The top 8 players in each individual event will have a ranking point of 8 to 1 point. In the men's high jump, the top six players will advance to the finals.

McQueen, who won silver at the Paris Olympics last year, won the first stop in the men's high jump this year, the Diamond League. This is McQueen's second Diamond League win after Xiamen, China, in April last year. Paris Olympic champions Hamish Cole (New Zealand) and Yuichi Akamatsu (Japan) tied for second with 2.23m.

Tia Clayton won the women's 100m in the Doha Diamond League

Qatar's Barsim did not participate in the tournament. South Korea's Woo Sang-hyuk did not participate in the Diamond League in Doha in order to concentrate on competing in the Asian Athletics Championships, which opened on May 27. Woo Sang-hyuk won the men's high jump in four international competitions this year, including the Justopeche Indoor Championships (2.31m) in the Czech Republic, the Vanscavistricha Indoor Championships in Slovakia (2.28m), the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing (2.31m) in China, and the Walevitti Challenge in Doha (2.29m).

In the women's 100m in Doha, Jamaican twin sisters Tia Clayton and Tina Clayton took the top two. Tia crossed the finish line in 10.92 seconds, followed by Tina in 11.02 seconds. Best women's sprinter of all time, Shelly Ann Fraser Price (Jamaica), was fourth in 11.05 seconds, followed by British woman Amy Hunter in 11.03 seconds.