Points standings
Athletes earned points at meetings during the series. The following athletes were the top performers for their event prior to the World Athletics Final. [2] [3]
| 2007 IAAF World Athletics Tour | |
|---|---|
| Edition | 2nd |
| Start date | 2 March 2007 |
| End date | 16 September 2007 |
| Meetings | 24 (+1 final) |
← 2006 2008 → | |
The 2007 IAAF World Athletics Tour was the second 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 2007 IAAF Golden League, five IAAF Super Grand Prix meetings, and thirteen IAAF Grand Prix meetings. In addition, there were 27 Area Permit Meetings that carried point-scoring events. The series culminated in the two-day 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final, held in Stuttgart, Germany from 22–23 September. [1]
Four athletes achieved 100 points in the rankings in their event, all of them women: Sanya Richards (400 m), Maryam Yusuf Jamal (1500 m), Yelena Isinbayeva (pole vault) and Blanka Vlašić (high jump). The highest scoring male athlete was Asafa Powell in the 100 metres with 96 points – a total also reached by two athletes in the women's 100 metres hurdles (Susanna Kallur and Michelle Perry).
| Number | Date | Meet | City | Country | Level | Events (M+W) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 27 January | Canberra Athletics Grand Prix | Canberra | Australia | Oceania Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 17 February | Sydney Track Classic | Sydney | Australia | Oceania Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 22 February | New Zealand Grand Prix | Christchurch | New Zealand | Oceania Area Permit Meeting | |
| 1 | 2 March | Melbourne Track Classic | Melbourne | Australia | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| 2 | 28 April | Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar | Dakar | Senegal | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| 3 | 5 May | Osaka Grand Prix | Osaka | Japan | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| – | 5 May | Abuja CAA Super Grand Prix | Abuja | Nigeria | CAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 5 May | Jamaica International Invitational | Kingston | Jamaica | NACAC Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 6 May | Gold Meeting Sesi Caixa | Uberlândia | Brazil | CONSUDATLE Area Permit Meeting | |
| 4 | 11 May | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | Doha | Qatar | 2007 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
| – | 13 May | Gold Meeting Rio de Atletismo | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | CONSUDATLE Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 16 May | Gold Meeting Caixa Fortaleza | Fortaleza | Brazil | CONSUDATLE Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 19 May | Grand Premio Andalucía | Herrera | Spain | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 20 May | Adidas Track Classic | Carson | United States | NACAC Area Permit Meeting | |
| 5 | 20 May | Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo | Belém | Brazil | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| 6 | 26 May | Fanny Blankers-Koen Games | Hengelo | Netherlands | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| 7 | 2 June | Reebok Grand Prix | New York City | United States | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| – | 8 June | Meeting Lille Metropole | Villeneuve-d'Ascq | France | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 8 June | Memorial Primo Nebiolo | Turin | Italy | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 8 | 10 June | Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | United States | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| – | 10 June | European Athletics Festival | Bydgoszcz | Poland | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 13 June | Memorial Josefa Odlozila | Prague | Czech Republic | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 9 | 15 June | Bislett Games | Oslo | Norway | 2007 IAAF Golden League | |
| – | 17 June | Janusz Kusocinski Memorial | Warsaw | Poland | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 19 June | Asian AA Grand Prix | Bangkok | Thailand | AAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 21 June | Alger CAA Super Grand Prix | Algiers | Algeria | CAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 23 June | Asian AA Grand Prix | Guwahati | India | AAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 10 | 27 June | Golden Spike Ostrava | Ostrava | Czech Republic | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| – | 27 June | Asian AA Grand Prix | Pune | India | AAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 28 June | Spitzen Leichathletik | Lucerne | Switzerland | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 11 | 2 July | Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria | Athens | Greece | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| 12 | 4 July | Hanžeković Memorial | Zagreb | Croatia | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| 13 | 6 July | Meeting Areva | Paris Saint-Denis | France | 2007 IAAF Golden League | |
| 14 | 10 July | Athletissima | Lausanne | Switzerland | 2007 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
| 15 | 13 July | Golden Gala | Rome | Italy | 2007 IAAF Golden League | |
| 16 | 15 July | British Grand Prix | Sheffield | United Kingdom | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| – | 18 July | Vardinoyiannia | Rethymno | Greece | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 17 | 21 July | Meeting de Atletismo Madrid | Madrid | Spain | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| – | 22 July | Tallinn Meeting | Tallinn | Estonia | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 18 | 25 July | Herculis | Monte Carlo | Monaco | 2007 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
| – | 28 July | Gobierno de Aragón | Zaragoza | Spain | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 28 July | KBC Night of Athletics | Heusden-Zolder | Belgium | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 30 July | Olympic Meeting Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki | Greece | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 19 | 3 August | London Grand Prix | London | United Kingdom | 2007 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
| 20 | 7 August | DN Galan | Stockholm | Sweden | 2007 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
| 21 | 7 September | Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | Switzerland | 2007 IAAF Golden League | |
| 22 | 9 September | Rieti Meeting | Rieti | Italy | 2007 IAAF Grand Prix | |
| – | 11 September | Gugl-Meeting | Linz | Austria | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| – | 12 September | Palio Città della Quercia | Rovereto | Italy | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
| 23 | 14 September | Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | Belgium | 2007 IAAF Golden League | |
| 24 | 16 September | ISTAF Berlin | Berlin | Germany | 2007 IAAF Golden League | |
| F | 22–23 September | 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final | Stuttgart | Germany | IAAF World Athletics Final |
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