Globen Galan

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Globen Galan
DateFebruary
Location Stockholm, Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg
Event typeIndoor track and field
Established1990
Official site Globen Galan

The Globen Galan is an annual indoor athletics event held in February at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting was first held in 1990 and from 2000 to 2010 known as GE Galan, because General Electric was the official title sponsor. From 2011 to 2015 the official name changed to XL Galan and was sponsored by Swedish book-trade company XL-BYGG.

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The 2016 edition was part of the inaugural IAAF World Indoor Tour, but after a loss of sponsorship, was not held in 2017.

Meseret Defar made a world record run in the 5000 metres at the 2009 edition. She returned for a second record attempt in 2010 and finished just hundredths of a second short of the record, although Alemitu Bekele's second-place finish improved the European record indoors. [1]

World records

Yelena Isinbayeva after her world record 2012 Globen XL-galan2012 Jelena Isinbajeva02.jpg
Yelena Isinbayeva after her world record 2012

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the GE Galan.

World records set at the Globen Galan
YearEventRecordAthleteNationalityRef.
1996 1000 m 2:31.23 Maria Mutola Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique
1997 5000 m 12:59.04 Haile Gebrselassie Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia
1998 5000 m 12:51.48 Daniel Komen Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya
1999 1000 m 2:30.94 Maria Mutola Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique
1999 Pole vault 4.56 m Nicole Humbert Flag of Germany.svg Germany
2002 Pole vault 4.72 m Svetlana Feofanova Flag of Russia.svg Russia
2009 5000 m 14:24.37 Meseret Defar Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia
2012 Pole vault 5.01 m Yelena Isinbayeva Flag of Russia.svg Russia [2] [3]
2014 3000 m 8:16.60 Genzebe Dibaba Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia [4]
2015 5000 m 14:18.86 Genzebe Dibaba Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia [5]
2016 1000 m 2:14.20 Ayanleh Souleiman Flag of Djibouti.svg Djibouti [6]
2016 Mile 4:13.31 Genzebe Dibaba Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia [7]

Meeting records

Men

Women

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