IAAF World Indoor Tour

IAAF World Indoor Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2019 IAAF World Indoor Tour
Sport Athletics
Founded 2016
Continent Europe, North America

The IAAF World Indoor Tour is an annual series of track and field indoor meeting, held since 2016.[1] It was designed to create a IAAF Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field athletics.

The Tour was announced with initially four events, three in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon. Winners of the Tour enjoy similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to World Championships in Athletics. The Tour was initially in place for two years.

The Düsseldorf leg was added for the 2017 Tour, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland.[2] In 2018, the tour became a permanent fixture, and the Meeting Ville de Madrid was added as the sixth event on the tour.

The Tour is organized to allow for major indoor championships including the IAAF World Indoor Championships and the European Athletics Indoor Championships, and where appropriate, national championships and trials.

Editions

Scoring system

At each meeting a minimum of 12 events are to be staged. Included in the 12 events will be a core group of five or six events split across the two-season cycle.

For example: Tour events for 2016 and 2018 were the men’s 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, plus the women’s 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.

In 2017 and 2019 the tour events were the women’s 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, as well as the men’s 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.

Points will be allocated to the best four athletes in each event, with the winner getting 10 points, the runner up receiving seven points, the third-placed finisher getting five points and the athlete in fourth receiving three points.

The individual overall winner of each event will receive US $20,000 in prize money and, beginning with the 2016 edition in Portland, will automatically qualify for the next edition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships as a ‘wild card’ entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agrees to enter the athlete.[3]

Meetings

2016

The following four meetings were confirmed for the 2016 season:[4]

Meet Stadium City Country Date
Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Dm-Arena Karlsruhe / Rheinstetten  Germany 6 February
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center Boston  United States 14 February
Globen Galan Ericsson Globe Stockholm  Sweden 17 February
Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix Emirates Arena Glasgow  Scotland
 Great Britain		 20 February

2017

For the 2017 edition, the Stockholm meeting was removed, and two further meetings added.[5] In addition, as part of a long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix moved to Birmingham, England.[6]

Meet Stadium City Country Date
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center Boston  United States 28 January
PSD Bank Meeting Arena Sportpark Düsseldorf  Germany 1 February
Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Dm-Arena Karlsruhe / Rheinstetten  Germany 4 February
Copernicus Cup Arena Toruń Toruń  Poland 10 February
Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Barclaycard Arena Birmingham  England
 Great Britain		 18 February

2018

For the 2018 edition, the Meeting Madrid was added. In addition, as part of a long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Birmingham Grand Prix moved to Glasgow, Scotland, facilitating the hosting of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

Meet Stadium City Country Date
Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Dm-Arena Karlsruhe / Rheinstetten  Germany 3 February
PSD Bank Meeting Arena Sportpark Düsseldorf  Germany 6 February
Madrid Indoor Gallur Madrid  Spain 8 February
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center Boston  United States 10 February
Copernicus Cup Arena Toruń Toruń  Poland 15 February
Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix Emirates Arena Glasgow  Scotland
 Great Britain		 25 February

2019

Continuing the long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Glasgow Grand Prix returns to Birmingham, England, accommodating in this case the holding of the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.

Meet Stadium City Country Date
New Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston United States26 January
Weltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe Germany2 February
Copernicus CupTorun ArenaTorun Poland6 February
Madrid IndoorGallurMadrid Spain8 February
Müller Indoor Grand Prix BirminghamBarclaycard ArenaBirmingham, England England
 Great Britain		16 February
PSD Bank MeetingArena-SportparkDüsseldorf Germany20 February

Winners

The following table sets out the overall winners of World Indoor Tour disciplines in each year of the Tour.

Men's track

Year60 m400 m800 m1500 m3000 m60 m h
2016 Michael Rodgers (USA)– Adam Kszczot (POL)– Augustine Kiprono Choge (KEN)-
2017– Pavel Maslák (CZE)– Bethwell Kiprotich Birgen (KEN)– Orlando Ortega (ESP)
2018 Su Bingtian (CHN)– Adam Kszczot (POL)– Yomif Kejelcha (ETH)-
2019-–-–--

Men's field

YearLong jumpTriple jumpHigh jumpPole vaultShot put
2016– Omar Craddock (USA)– Shawnacy Barber (CAN) Tim Nedow (CAN)
2017 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (RSA)– Donald Thomas (BAH)–-
2018– Nelson Évora (POR)– Piotr Lisek (POL) Tomáš Staněk (CZE)
2019-–-–-

Women's track

Year60 m400 m800 m1500 m3000 m60 m h
2016– Lisanne de Witte (NED)– Axumawit Embaye (ETH)– Nia Ali (USA)
2017 Gayon Evans (JAM)– Joanna Jozwik (POL)– Hellen Onsando Obiri (KEN)-
2018– Léa Sprunger (SUI)– Genzebe Dibaba (ETH)– Sharika Nelvis (USA)
2019-–-–--

Women's field

YearLong jumpTriple jumpHigh jumpPole vaultShot put
2016 Lorraine Ugen (GBR)– Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch (GER)–-
2017– Patricia Mamona (POR)– Nicole Buchler (SUI) Anita Márton (HUN)
2018 Sosthene Moguenara-Taroum (GER)– Mariya Lasitskene (ANA)–-
2019-–-–-

IAAF World Indoor Tour Records

The following Tour records are correct as of the end of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour:

Men's Indoor Tour records
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Meet Place
60 m 6.43 Bingtian Su  China 2018 PSD Bank Meeting Dusseldorf
400 m 45.59 Pavel Maslák  Czech Republic 2017 Copernicus Cup Torun
800 m 1:45.11 Donavan Brazier  United States 2018 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Boston
1500 m 3:34.94 Abdalaati Iguider  Morocco 2016 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow
3000 m 7:38.74 Edward Cheserek  Kenya 2018 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Boston
60 m hurdles 7.43 Andrew Pozzi  Great Britain 2017 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham
High jump 2.31 Erik Kynard  United States 2017 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham
Long jump 8.13 Yuhao Shi  China 2018 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow
Triple jump 17.35 Almir dos Santos  Brazil 2018 Meeting Ville de Madrid Madrid
Pole vault 5.91 Renaud Lavillenie
Piotr Lisek		  France
 Poland		 2016
2018		 Weltklasse in Karlsruhe
Copernicus Cup		 Karlsruhe
Torun
Shot put 22.17 Tomas Stanek  Czech Republic 2018 PSD Bank Meeting Dusseldorf
Women's Indoor Tour records
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Meet Place
60 m 6.98 Elaine Thompson  Jamaica 2017 Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow
400 m 51.28 Lea Sprunger   Switzerland 2017 Copernicus Cup Torun
800 m 1:59.59 Joanna Józwik  Poland 2017 Copernicus Cup Torun
1500 m 3:57.45 Genzebe Dibaba  Ethiopia 2017 Weltklasse Karlsruhe
3000 m 8:26.41 Laura Muir  Great Britain 2017 Weltklasse Karlsruhe
60 m hurdles 7.76 Kendra Harrison  United States 2017 Weltklasse Karlsruhe
High jump 2.00 Mariya Lasitskene  Authorised Neutral Athletes 2018 Meeting Ville de Madrid Madrid
Long jump 6.92 Khaddi Sagnia  Sweden 2018 Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow
Triple jump 14.31 Viktoriya Prokopenko  Authorised Neutral Athletes 2018 Meeting Ville de Madrid Madrid
Pole vault 4.83 Jennifer Suhr  United States 2016 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Boston
Shot put 18.97 Anita Márton  Hungary 2017 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham
Other records
Record # Holder Events
Most World Indoor Tour titles 2 Adam Kszczot Poland 800 metres
(2016 and 2018).
Most World Indoor Tour event wins 6 Adam Kszczot Poland 800 metres.
Most World Indoor Tour event wins (women) 3 Léa Sprunger, Switzerland
Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia
Mariya Lasitskene, Authorised Neutral Athletes
Hellen Obiri, Kenya		 400 metres;
1500, 3000 metres
high jump
3000 metres.

References

  1. ↑ "IAAF to launch World Indoor Tour". IAAF. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "IAAF World Indoor Tour expands". IAAF. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "IAAF launches World Indoor Tour – Athletics Weekly". 7 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "IAAF: IAAF World Indoor Tour launched- News – iaaf.org".
  5. ↑ http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/iaaf-details-2017-world-indoor-tour-53104 Details of 2017 World Indoor Tour announced.
  6. ↑ "IAAF: IAAF World Indoor Tour 2017". IAAF. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
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