IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings

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IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings
SportIndoor track and field
Founded1997
Ceased2015
ContinentGlobal

The IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings were an annual series of indoor track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) from 1997 until the end of 2015 season. [1] In 2016 IAAF launched the IAAF World Indoor Tour including four meetings which have all regularly held an IAAF Indoor Permit. [2]

Contents

The series was known as the World Indoor Meetings from 2003 to 2007 before returning to its original name in 2008. [3] [4] [5]

The IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings calendar was subject to change during its lifetime, with the number of meetings, the constituent meetings and the duration of the series all regularly changing from year to year. A total of seventeen meetings appeared in the history of the series, with dates ranging from mid-January to mid-March. The 2000 and 2001 series had the highest number of meetings (12) while the final series had the least (5). The Russian Winter Meeting in Moscow, Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham, and XL Galan in Stockholm were present in every edition of the series. The meetings were mostly in Europe, with the exceptions being the Millrose Games, Boston Indoor Games and Grand Prix d’Athlétisme de Montréal in North America, and the Gunma International in Japan.

Editions

EditionYearStart dateEnd dateMeetsRef.
1 1997 17 January23 February10 [6]
2 1998 3 February8 March11 [7] [8]
3 1999 5 February28 February10 [9]
4 2000 27 January20 February12 [10]
5 2001 27 January14 March12 [11]
6 2002 25 January24 February11 [12]
7 2003 30 January6 March11 [3]
8 2004 31 January28 February9 [13]
9 2005 23 January26 February10 [14]
10 2006 25 January3 March10 [15]
11 2007 28 January24 February9 [4]
12 2008 27 January24 February9 [5]
13 2009 30 January25 February10 [16]
14 2010 29 January5 March9 [17]
15 2011 28 January22 February8 [18]
16 2012 28 January23 February6 [19]
17 2013 2 February21 February6 [20]
18 2014 1 February15 February6 [21]
19 2015 31 January21 February5 [22]

Meetings

#MeetingArenaCityCountry'97'98'99'00'01'02'03'04'05'06'07'08'09'10'11'12'13'14'15
19 Russian Winter Meeting CSKA Arena Moscow Russia•••••••••••••••••••
19 Aviva Indoor Grand Prix National Indoor Arena Birmingham United Kingdom•••••••••••••••••••
19 XL Galan Ericsson Globe Stockholm Sweden•••••••••••••••••••
17 Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Europahalle Karlsruhe Germany•••••••••••••••••
16 Millrose Games Madison Square Garden New York City United States••••••••••••••••
16 Indoor Flanders Meeting Flanders Sports Arena Ghent Belgium••••••••••••••••
14 Meeting Pas de Calais Stade Couvert Régional Liévin France••••••••••••••
13 Sparkassen Cup Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle Stuttgart Germany•••••••••••••
10 Athina Peace and Friendship Stadium Athens Greece••••••••••
7 Samsung Cup Budapest Budapest Sports Arena Budapest Hungary•••••••
6 Memorial José María Cagigal Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Spain••••••
5 Reunión Internacional de Atletismo Luis Puig Palace Valencia Spain•••••
4 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix RLTAC Boston United States••••
4 IHS Grand Prix Meeting Helmut-Körnig-Halle Dortmund Germany••••
2 Gunma International Yamada Green Dome Maebashi Maebashi Japan••
2 Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken Leichtathletik Grand Prix IHS Glaspalast Sindelfingen Sindelfingen Germany••
1 Grand Prix d’Athlétisme de Montréal CSCR Montreal Canada•

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References

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  2. ↑ "IAAF to launch World Indoor Tour". IAAF. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 Calendar 2003 IAAF World Indoor Meetings. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  4. 1 2 Calendar 2007 IAAF World Indoor Meetings. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  5. 1 2 Permit Events 2008. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  6. ↑ 1997 Athletic Calendar. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  7. ↑ Calendar February 98. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  8. ↑ Calendar March 98. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  9. ↑ Calendar February - 1999. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  10. ↑ Calendar 2000 IAAF Permit Meeting. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  11. ↑ Calendar 2001 IAAF Permit Meeting. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  12. ↑ Calendar 2002 IAAF Permit Meeting. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  13. ↑ Calendar 2004 IAAF World Indoor Meetings. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  14. ↑ Calendar 2005 IAAF World Indoor Meetings. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  15. ↑ Calendar 2006 IAAF World Indoor Meetings. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  16. ↑ Permit Events 2009. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  17. ↑ Permit Events 2010. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  18. ↑ Permit Events 2011. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  19. ↑ Permit Events 2012. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  20. ↑ IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings Calendar 2013. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  21. ↑ IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings Calendar 2014. IAAF . Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  22. ↑ IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings Calendar 2014. IAAF . Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  23. ↑ Full fields announced for U.S. Open. IAAF (2012-01-18). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  24. ↑ Millrose Games to expand to ‘all day’ Saturday program, move to The Armory. Millrose Games (2011-05-14). Retrieved 2019-10-01.
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