Tickets for the famed London meeting have been sold out, as have those for both days of the Zurich series final. The attendance at the 2025 Diamond League has been outstanding. The Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial is also selling out at the fastest pace ever. This is the last moment to get into the best sectors. Tickets are available on the eBilet.pl website.
– There is nothing better than running for you. With you. Before you. As loud as possible – said Ewa Swoboda after finishing her 100 metres race in the Silesian Stadium last year.
It was for the World Indoor Championships runner-up and other athletics stars that 42 thousand fans turned up in the stands last summer – that was a record number for the sport in Poland in the era of numbered seats.
The positive trend in athletics is continuing. Since the start of the 2025 season, every Diamond League meeting has seen a large number of spectators. At both events in China, as well as Doha, Rabat and Rome, the fans filled up most of the sectors.
– You feel like what you do has a meaning. It is a completely different feeling. It is not just a cliche that when you see it, when you hear the noise in the stadium, you feel as if you have wings when you enter the blocks. You can do anything – stated Natalia Bukowiecka after setting a 400 metres national record (48.90) in London last year.
Just as it was last year, the Olympic Stadium in the British capital will be a sell-out. It will be filled with 60 thousand athletics fans. For the British people it is certainly a source of pride to achieve this long before the competition day. But they are not the only ones. The same is true of the circuit finale, taking place in Zurich. The famous Letzigrund Stadium can seat 25 thousand. The Swiss are certain that number will be achieved on both days of the competition. The meeting with nearly a century worth of history attracts fans, as it comes with a guarantee of quality. A guarantee of major stars and records, as confirmed by last year’s showdown between Armand Duplantis and Karsten Warholm in a 100 metres race.
– We think of this as a barter transaction: if the organisers can attract the sport’s greatest stars, as well as a great package of other attractions, people will want to live through it. That is when they spend money on tickets, create an atmosphere and can become a part of history – said Marek Plawgo, communications director of the Polish Diamond League meeting.
The statement is not accidental. This exact mechanism was at work last year in the Silesian Stadium. The 15th edition of the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial was seen live by exactly 42.357 spectators. They witnessed Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen set absolute world records. They saw what, according to the World Athletics rankings, was the best one-day meeting ever.
– It looks like the fans are trusting us after last year – said the happy Piotr Małachowski, sport director of the meeting. – The tickets are selling at record rates this year. As of now, twice as many have been sold compared to the same period last year.
Małachowski made it clear that the seats in the best sectors are starting to fill up.
– To put it clearly, this is the final call for those wishing to have the best view of the finish line or the pole vault, where the world record holder will appear once again – Plawgo stated.
Tickets to the Polish leg of the Diamond League circuit, planned for August 16th of this year, are available on the eBilet.pl website.
Apart from Duplantis, the lineup of stars already confirmed for this year’s Skolimowska Memorial includes Ingebrigtsen. The Norwegian enigmatically stated he asked the organisers for a 1500 metres race, for which he has „ambitious plans regarding the time”. In addition to the middle-distance star, Silesia will host the high jump greats – Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim, as well as hurdlers, headed by Grant Holloway, unbeaten indoors in his entire career. One of his rivals will be the European indoor champion from Apeldoorn, Jakub Szymański.The Polish contingent at the meeting will include many more stars. Those set to return to Silesia include Ewa Swoboda and Natalia Bukowiecka. Both broke their magical barriers in this very stadium – 11 seconds at 100 metres for the former, 50 seconds at 400 metres for the latter. The lineup naturally also includes the top hammer throwers, Wojciech Nowicki and Paweł Fajdek. The latter holds the record for the number of appearances at the Memorial.