1998 IAAF Grand Prix

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1998 IAAF Grand Prix
Edition14th
Dates25 February – 19 September
Meetings26 (+1 final)
1997
1999

The 1998 IAAF Grand Prix was the fourteenth edition of the annual global series of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series changed format that year to incorporate the six 1998 IAAF Golden League meetings as the top tier, followed by the existing Grand Prix I and Grand Prix II level meetings, then finally the Permit level meetings. Grand Prix I featured nine meetings from 3 May to 25 August and Grand Prix II featured 11 meetings from 25 February to 30 August, making a combined total of 26 meetings for the series. [1] An additional 11 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meetings were attached to the circuit. [2] Permit Meetings originally scheduled for Jakarta and San Jose, California were later dropped. [3]

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Performances on designated events on the circuit earned athletes points which qualified them for entry to the 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final, held on 5 September in Moscow, Russia. [4] A further four IAAF Permit Meetings of non-Grand Prix status included point-scoring events in order to allow athletes full opportunities to compete in certain events. [5] Middle-distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj was the points leader for the series, taking 96 points from eight meetings. The highest scoring female athlete was Marion Jones on 88 points over eight meetings – a feat also achieved by men's runner-up Bryan Bronson.

Meetings

Key:  Non-Grand Prix, scoring meeting

#DateMeeting nameCityCountryLevel
125 February Melbourne Track Classic Melbourne AustraliaIAAF Grand Prix II
28 February Sydney Track Classic Sydney AustraliaIAAF Permit Meeting
20 March Engen Grand Prix Final Cape Town South AfricaIAAF Permit Meeting
227 March All Africa Invitational Johannesburg South AfricaIAAF Grand Prix II
1 May Meeting IAAF du Conseil de Général Fort-de-France MartiniqueIAAF Permit Meeting
33 May Grand Prix Brasil de Atletismo Rio de Janeiro BrazilIAAF Grand Prix I
47 May Qatar International Athletic Meet Doha QatarIAAF Grand Prix II
59 May Japan Grand Prix Osaka JapanIAAF Grand Prix I
16 May Adidas Oregon Track Classic Portland United StatesIAAF Permit Meeting
23 May Jamaica Invitational Kingston JamaicaIAAF Permit Meeting
630 May Gran Premio Diputacion Seville SpainIAAF Grand Prix II
731 May Prefontaine Classic Eugene United StatesIAAF Grand Prix I
81 June Adriaan Paulen Memorial Hengelo NetherlandsIAAF Grand Prix II
94 June St Denis – l'Humanité Saint-Denis FranceIAAF Grand Prix II
109 June Slovnaft Meeting Bratislava SlovakiaIAAF Grand Prix II
1113 June Ericsson GP Helsinki FinlandIAAF Grand Prix II
24 June Meeting di Atletica Leggera Torino Turin ItalyIAAF Permit Meeting
26–27 June ITC International Meet New Delhi New Delhi IndiaIAAF Permit Meeting
125 July Zipfer Gugl Grand Prix Linz AustriaIAAF Grand Prix II
5 July International Meeting Budapest Budapest HungaryIAAF Permit Meeting
139 July Bislett Games Oslo Norway 1998 IAAF Golden League
10 July Live Nuremberg Nuremberg GermanyIAAF Permit Meeting
11 July Meeting Lille-Métropole Lille FranceIAAF Permit Meeting
1414 July Golden Gala Rome Italy 1998 IAAF Golden League
1516 July Nikaia Nice FranceIAAF Grand Prix I
1619 July Grand Prix II Gateshead United KingdomIAAF Grand Prix II
1725 July US Open Meet St. Louis United StatesIAAF Grand Prix I
1829 July Meeting Gaz de France Paris FranceIAAF Grand Prix I
192 August British Grand Prix Sheffield United KingdomIAAF Grand Prix I
205 August DN Galan Stockholm SwedenIAAF Grand Prix I
218 August Herculis Monte Carlo Monaco 1998 IAAF Golden League
2212 August Weltklasse Zürich Zürich Switzerland 1998 IAAF Golden League
2325 August Athletissima Lausanne SwitzerlandIAAF Grand Prix I
2428 August Memorial Van Damme Brussels Belgium 1998 IAAF Golden League
2530 August Rieti Meeting Rieti ItalyIAAF Grand Prix II
261 September ISTAF Berlin Berlin Germany 1998 IAAF Golden League
F5 September 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final Moscow Russia 1998 IAAF Golden League
IAAF Grand Prix Final
19 September Toto International Super Meeting Tokyo JapanIAAF Permit Meeting

Points standings

Overall men

RankAthleteNationMeetsPoints
1 Hicham El Guerrouj Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 894
2 Bryan Bronson Flag of the United States.svg United States888
3 Jeff Hartwig Flag of the United States.svg United States879
4 Michael Johnson Flag of the United States.svg United States777
5 Denis Kapustin Flag of Russia.svg Russia876
6= Luke Kipkosgei Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 873
6= Laban Rotich Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 873
8 Haile Gebrselassie Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 672
9 Ruslan Mashchenko Flag of Russia.svg Russia870
10= Maurice Greene Flag of the United States.svg United States868
10= Tyree Washington Flag of the United States.svg United States868
12 Daniel Komen Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 866
13 Dinsdale Morgan Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 865
14= Frankie Fredericks Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 764
14= John Kibowen Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 864
16= Maksim Tarasov Flag of Russia.svg Russia763
16= Ato Boldon Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 863
16= Balázs Kiss Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 863
19 Alvin Harrison Flag of the United States.svg United States860
20 Jonathan Edwards Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain659
21 Sergey Klyugin Flag of Russia.svg Russia758.5
22= Mark Richardson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain757
22= Samuel Matete Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 857
24= Obadele Thompson Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 856
24= Jerome Young Flag of the United States.svg United States856
26 Pat Manson Flag of the United States.svg United States852.5
27= Assefa Mezgebu Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 652
27= Jon Drummond Flag of the United States.svg United States752
27= LaMark Carter Flag of the United States.svg United States852
27= Tom Nyariki Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 852

Overall women

RankAthleteNationMeetsPoints
1 Marion Jones Flag of the United States.svg United States888
2 Svetlana Masterkova Flag of Russia.svg Russia883
3 Trine Hattestad Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 880
4= Falilat Ogunkoya Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 877
4= Charity Opara Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 877
6 Melissa Morrison Flag of the United States.svg United States874
7 Michelle Freeman Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 871
8 Chryste Gaines Flag of the United States.svg United States867
9 Gabriela Szabo Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 766
10 Savatheda Fynes Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 865
11 Tanja Damaske Flag of Germany.svg Germany762
12= Zahra Ouaziz Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 761
12= Tatyana Shikolenko Flag of Russia.svg Russia861
14 Glory Alozie Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 659.5
15= Heike Drechsler Flag of Germany.svg Germany757
15= Kutre Dulecha Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 857
15= Sonia O'Sullivan Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 857
18= Jackline Maranga Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 856
18= Jearl Miles Clark Flag of the United States.svg United States856
20= Dionne Rose Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 855
20= Gete Wami Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 855
22 Inger Miller Flag of the United States.svg United States853.5
23= Grit Breuer Flag of Germany.svg Germany550
23= Carla Sacramento Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal650
25= Sandie Richards Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 747
25= Angie Vaughn Flag of the United States.svg United States747
25= Dawn Burrell Flag of the United States.svg United States847
25= Lorraine Graham Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 847
29 Fiona May Flag of Italy.svg Italy646
30 Keturah Anderson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada845.5

References

  1. 1998 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  2. 1998 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meeting. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. 1998 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meeting. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. IAAF Grand Prix Final. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  5. Scoring Events in IAAF Permit Meetings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
Points standings