{"id":2451,"date":"2025-03-18T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/about\/meeting-information\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:33:26","slug":"meeting-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/about\/meeting-information\/","title":{"rendered":"About Athletissima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Athletissima<\/strong>, now a fixture of Lausanne&#8217;s summer season, was first held on July 8, 1977 at the Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin under the impetus of former 800m runner Jacky Delapierre. Over the years, it has become a renowned international meeting, attracting the biggest stars in athletics to the Olympic capital. Now based at the Pontaise Olympic Stadium, Athletissima is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Wanda Diamond League<\/strong><\/a> circuit since 2010, making it one of the most prestigious <strong>track and field meetings<\/strong> in the world.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/20240822221758118-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/20240822221758118-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/20240822221758118-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/20240822221758118-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/20240822221758118-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/04\/20240822221758118-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletissima, now a fixture of Lausanne&#8217;s summer season, was first held on July 8, 1977 at...","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":2449,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-about.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"city":[],"class_list":["post-2451","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2451\/revisions\/2606"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}