2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour | |
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Countries that hosted series meetings in 2009 Golden League meetings Super Grand Prix meetings Grand Prix meetings | |
Edition | 4th |
Meetings | 25 (+1 final) |
Start date | 20 September 2008 |
End date | 6 September 2009 |
← 2008 |
The 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour was the fourth and final 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 25 one-day meetings, consisting of the six meetings of the 2009 IAAF Golden League, five IAAF Super Grand Prix meetings, and fourteen IAAF Grand Prix meetings. In addition, there were 29 Area Permit Meetings that carried point-scoring events. The series culminated in the two-day 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final, held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 12–13 September. [1]
The IAAF World Athletics Tour was an annual global circuit of one day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Formed in 2006, it comprised two separate levels of athletics meetings: the first level being the IAAF Golden League and IAAF Super Grand Prix events, and the second comprising IAAF Grand Prix events and area permit meetings. It replaced the IAAF World Outdoor Meetings series, which had only started three years earlier.
Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events. Track and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running, and race walking.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded on 17 July 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation by representatives from 17 national athletics federations at the organization's first congress in Stockholm, Sweden. Since October 1993, it has been headquartered in Monaco.
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva scored the most points during the circuit, with a total of 106. Five other athletes achieved a total of 100 points: distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, hurdler Dayron Robles, sprinters Kerron Stewart and Sanya Richards, and high jumper Blanka Vlašić.
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, Cretans and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympic Games since 1896 for men and since 2000 for women.
Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a three-time World Champion, the current world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. Isinbayeva was banned from 2016 Rio Olympics after the appearance of an independent report about an extensive state-sponsored doping program in Russia, thus dashing her hopes of a grand retirement winning the Olympic gold medal. She retired from athletics in August 2016 after being elected to serve an 8-year term on the IOC's Athletes' Commission.
Long-distance running, or endurance running, is a form of continuous running over distances of at least 3 kilometres (1.8 miles). Physiologically, it is largely aerobic in nature and requires stamina as well as mental strength.
Number | Date | Meet | City | Country | Level | Events (M+W) |
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1 | 20 September 2008 | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | Shanghai | China | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 20 February | New Zealand Permit Meeting | Waitakere City | New Zealand | Oceania Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 28 February | Sydney Track Classic | Sydney | Australia | Oceania Area Permit Meeting | |
2 | 5 March | Melbourne Track Classic | Melbourne | Australia | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
3 | 18 April | Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar | Dakar | Senegal | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 2 May | Jamaica International | Kingston | Jamaica | NACAC Area Permit Meeting | |
4 | 8 May | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | Doha | Qatar | 2009 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
5 | 9 May | Osaka Grand Prix | Osaka | Japan | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 10 May | GP Caixa/Unifor de Atletismo | Fortaleza | Brazil | CONSUDATLE Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 16 May | Adidas Track Classic | Carson | United States | NACAC Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 16 May | Ponce Grand Prix | Ponce | Puerto Rico | NACAC Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 17 May | GP Rio Caixa de Atletismo | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | CONSUDATLE Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 20 May | GP Caixa/Sesi de Atletismo | Uberlândia | Brazil | CONSUDATLE Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 23 May | Asian AA Grand Prix | Suzhou | China | AAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 23 May | Rabat CAA Super Grand Prix | Rabat | Morocco | CAA Area Permit Meeting | |
6 | 24 May | Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo | Belém | Brazil | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 27 May | Asian AA Grand Prix | Kunshan | China | AAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 30 May | Asian AA Grand Prix | Hong Kong | China | AAA Area Permit Meeting | |
7 | 30 May | Reebok Grand Prix | New York City | United States | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
8 | 1 June | Fanny Blankers-Koen Games | Hengelo | Netherlands | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 4 June | Memorial Primo Nebiolo | Turin | Italy | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
9 | 7 June | Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | United States | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 7 June | Janusz Kusocinski Memorial | Warsaw | Poland | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 8 June | Memorial Josefa Odlozila | Prague | Czech Republic | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 10 June | European Athletics Festival | Bydgoszcz | Poland | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 10 June | Olympic Meeting Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki | Greece | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 11 June | Alger CAA Super Grand Prix | Algiers | Algeria | CAA Area Permit Meeting | |
10 | 14 June | ISTAF Berlin | Berlin | Germany | 2009 IAAF Golden League | |
11 | 17 June | Golden Spike Ostrava | Ostrava | Czech Republic | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 27 June | Meeting de Atletismo Málaga | Málaga | Spain | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 30 June | Meeting Lille Metropole | Villeneuve-d'Ascq | France | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 1 July | Moscow Open | Moscow | Russia | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
12 | 3 July | Bislett Games | Oslo | Norway | 2009 IAAF Golden League | |
13 | 4 July | Meeting de Atletismo Madrid | Madrid | Spain | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 5 July | Znamensky Memorial | Zhukovsky | Russia | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
14 | 7 July | Athletissima | Lausanne | Switzerland | 2009 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
15 | 10 July | Golden Gala | Rome | Italy | 2009 IAAF Golden League | |
16 | 13 July | Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria | Athens | Greece | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 15 July | Spitzen Leichathletik | Lucerne | Switzerland | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
17 | 17 July | Meeting Areva | Paris Saint-Denis | France | 2009 IAAF Golden League | |
– | 18 July | Abuja CAA Super Grand Prix | Abuja | Nigeria | CAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 18 July | Gobierno de Aragón | Zaragoza | Spain | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 18 July | KBC Night of Athletics | Heusden-Zolder | Belgium | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
– | 20 July | Vardinoyiannia | Rethymno | Greece | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
18 | 24–25 July | London Grand Prix | London | United Kingdom | 2009 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
19 | 28 July | Herculis | Monte Carlo | Monaco | 2009 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
20 | 31 July | DN Galan | Stockholm | Sweden | 2009 IAAF Super Grand Prix | |
– | 25 August | Tallinn Meeting | Tallinn | Estonia | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
21 | 28 August | Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | Switzerland | 2009 IAAF Golden League | |
22 | 31 August | British Grand Prix | Gateshead | United Kingdom | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
23 | 31 August | Hanžeković Memorial | Zagreb | Croatia | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
– | 1 September | Palio Città della Quercia | Rovereto | Italy | EAA Area Permit Meeting | |
24 | 4 September | Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | Belgium | 2009 IAAF Golden League | |
25 | 6 September | Rieti Meeting | Rieti | Italy | 2009 IAAF Grand Prix | |
F | 12–13 September | 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final | Thessaloniki | Greece | IAAF World Athletics Final |
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]
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