2006 IAAF World Athletics Tour

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2006 IAAF World Athletics Tour
Edition1st
Start date9 March 2006
End date10 September 2006
Meetings24 (+1 final)
2005
2007

The 2006 IAAF World Athletics Tour was the first edition of the annual global circuit of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series featured 24 one-day meetings, consisting of the six meetings of the 2006 IAAF Golden League, six IAAF Super Grand Prix meetings, and twelve IAAF Grand Prix meetings. In addition, there were 25 Area Permit Meetings that carried point-scoring events. [1] The series culminated in the two-day 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final, held in Stuttgart, Germany from 9–10 September. [2]

The series replaced the IAAF World Outdoor Meetings series which had launched in 2003. As part of this change, the IAAF Grand Prix II category was dropped in favour of an Area Permit Meeting structure. [3] [4] In comparison to the preceding year's series, the Herculis meet returned to Super Grand Prix status, having hosted the IAAF World Athletics Final for three years. The British Grand Prix, Golden Spike Ostrava and Meeting de Atletismo Madrid all dropped down from Super to regular Grand Prix status. All previous Grand Prix II meetings were dropped from the main series, with the exception of the Melbourne Track Classic which was promoted to Grand Prix status. The Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar was included as a Grand Prix for the first time. Among other Grand Prix meets, the Meeting Lille-Métropole and Gugl Grand Prix were demoted to Area Permit Meeting and the Gran Premio Diputación was dropped from the circuit entirely. [5] [6]

Meetings

NumberDateMeetCityCountryLevelEvents (M+W)
19 March Melbourne Track Classic Melbourne Australia2006 IAAF Grand Prix
229 April Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar Dakar Senegal2006 IAAF Grand Prix
36 May Osaka Grand Prix Osaka Japan2006 IAAF Grand Prix
412 May Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix Doha Qatar2006 IAAF Super Grand Prix
521 May Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo Belém Brazil2006 IAAF Grand Prix
628 May Prefontaine Classic Eugene United States2006 IAAF Grand Prix
728 May Fanny Blankers-Koen Games Hengelo Netherlands2006 IAAF Grand Prix
830 May Golden Spike Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic2006 IAAF Grand Prix
92 June Bislett Games Oslo Norway 2006 IAAF Golden League
1011 June British Grand Prix Gateshead United Kingdom2006 IAAF Grand Prix
113 July Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria Athens Greece2006 IAAF Super Grand Prix
128 July Meeting Gaz de France Paris Saint-Denis France 2006 IAAF Golden League
1311 July Athletissima Lausanne Switzerland2006 IAAF Super Grand Prix
1414 July Golden Gala Rome Italy 2006 IAAF Golden League
1517 July Meeting de Atletismo Madrid Madrid Spain2006 IAAF Grand Prix
1625 July DN Galan Stockholm Sweden2006 IAAF Super Grand Prix
1726 July Helsinki Grand Prix Helsinki Finland2006 IAAF Grand Prix
1828 July London Grand Prix London United Kingdom2006 IAAF Super Grand Prix
1918 August Weltklasse Zürich Zürich Switzerland 2006 IAAF Golden League
2020 August Herculis Monte Carlo Monaco2006 IAAF Super Grand Prix
2125 August Memorial Van Damme Brussels Belgium 2006 IAAF Golden League
2227 August Rieti Meeting Rieti Italy2006 IAAF Grand Prix
2331 August Hanžeković Memorial Zagreb Croatia2006 IAAF Grand Prix
243 September ISTAF Berlin Berlin Germany 2006 IAAF Golden League
F9–10 September 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final Stuttgart Germany IAAF World Athletics Final

References

  1. Area Permit Meetings 2006. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. World Athletics Tour 2006. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  3. Turner, Chris (2005). IAAF - World Athletics Tour. International Sports Press Association. Retrieved on 2009-09-11.
  4. IAAF World Outdoor Meetings 2003. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  5. IAAF World Athletics Tour 2006. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  6. Area Permit Meetings 2006. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.