Winning athletes pose with their trophies Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann
Zurich: Not only did the 16 individual event winners at Thursday’s IAAF Diamond League final walked away from Zurich with a $50,000 bonus, they also earned a wild card entry to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, which will start four weeks from today, on September 27.
While all of the winners in Zurich had already qualified for the World Championships in at least one event, a wild card would, for some, pave the way to competing in another discipline in Doha or open up a fourth spot on their national team for a team-mate.
Wild cards are also awarded to winners of the 2017 IAAF World Championships as well as the leaders in the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, Race Walk Challenge and Combined Events Challenge.
If both are from the same country, only one of the two athletes can be entered as a wild card entry.
The acceptance of wild cards is at the discretion of member federations.
