ISTAF Berlin

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ISTAF Berlin
Berliner Olympiastadion night.jpg
The Olympic Stadium in Berlin
DateAugust–September
Location Olympiastadion, Berlin
Event type Track and field athletics
World Athletics Cat.B
Established1937
Official site ISTAF

The Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) is an annual track and field athletics meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was first held in July 1921 at the Deutsches Stadion, which was replaced from 1937 by the Stadium of the 1936 Olympic Games. Since 2006 ISTAF has been sponsored by DKB and officially known as the DKB-ISTAF and from 2010, had been part of the IAAF World Challenge, the second tier of global one day athletics events. Nowadays, the meeting is a part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver tier, the third ranked tier.

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History

On 3 July 1921 the Berliner Sport-Club (BSC), the Sport-Club Charlottenburg (SCC) and the Schwimm-Club Poseidon organised the first sports festival under the current name of Internationales Stadionfest or ISTAF. On 23 March 1937 the BSC, the Deutscher Sport-Club (DSC, later Olympischer Sport-Club OSC) and the SCC, agreed to hold international sports festivals together and organized the first meeting on 1 August 1937 at the Olympic Stadium, where the event is still held today. Four ISTAF meetings, in 1938, 1941, the first post-war in 1949, as well as 1953, were all held at the Mommsen Stadium, but since 1955 meetings have been held annually at Berlin's Olympic Stadium in Charlottenburg. The 2002 and 2003 ISTAF meetings were held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark instead, due to reconstruction of the Olympic Stadium in preparation for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

There were several ISTAF-free years during the Second World War and after: 1940, as well as 1943-48 and again in 1950 and 1951. A meeting wasn't held in 1972 because of the 1972 Summer Olympics and again in 1973, as a result of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympic Games. From 1993 to 1997, the IAAF classified ISTAF among the Golden Four meetings and from 1998 to 2009, it became part of the IAAF Golden League. When the Diamond League was conceived, it had been provisionally planned for Berlin to hold one of its meetings, but it was unable to meet the criteria set for the new elite series, therefore as from 2010, ISTAF became part of the second tier World Challenge circuit instead.

Indoor events

ISTAF was also held as an indoor meeting at the Deutschlandhalle for a few years until 1968, and from 2014 onwards as the ISTAF Indoor at the Mercedes Benz Arena (formerly O2 World Berlin), the first large indoor athletics event in Berlin for some time.

On 31 January 2021, the ISTAF Indoor Düsseldorf was held in Düsseldorf as the successor to the PSD Bank Meeting, against a larger backdrop at the ISS Dome. Meeting director and managing director of the ISTAF is Martin Seeber.

World records

Over the course of its history, many world records have been set at the ISTAF.

World records set at the ISTAF Berlin
YearEventRecordAthleteNationality
1937 100 m 11.6 h Stanisława Walasiewicz Flag of Poland.svg Poland
80 m hurdles 11.6 h Barbara Burke Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg South Africa
1939 3000 m 8:24.4 h Miklós Szabó Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
Long jump 6.12 m Christel Schulz Flag of Germany (1935-1945).svg German Reich
1970 3000 m steeplechase 8:22.0 h Kerry O'Brien Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
1975 100 m 9.9 h Steve Williams Flag of the United States.svg United States
110 m hurdles 13.0 h Guy Drut Flag of France.svg France
1977 High jump 1.97 m Rosemarie Ackermann Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany
High jump 2.00 m Rosemarie Ackermann Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany
1978 1000 m 2:32.0 h Ulrike Bruns Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany
400 m hurdles 55.44 Krystyna Kacperczyk Flag of Poland.svg Poland
1985 1500 m 3:29.46 Saïd Aouita Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco
1989 10,000 m 27:08.23 Arturo Barrios Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
1990 1000 m 2:30.67 Christine Wachtel Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany
1999 2000 m 4:44.79 Hicham El Guerrouj Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco
2010 800 m 1:41.09 David Rudisha Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya
2014 Hammer throw 79.58 m Anita Włodarczyk Flag of Poland.svg Poland
2015 2000 m steeplechase 6:02.16 Virginia Nyambura Nganga Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya
2017 600 m 1:21.77 Caster Semenya Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
2019 2000 m steeplechase 5:52.80 Gesa-Felicitas Krause Flag of Germany.svg Germany
2024 600 m 1:21.63 Mary Moraa Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya

Meeting records

Men

Men's meeting records of the ISTAF Berlin
EventRecordAthleteNationalityDateRef.
100 m 9.82 (−0.1 m/s) Yohan Blake Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica11 September 2011 [1] [2]
200 m 19.97 Frankie Fredericks Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia30 August 1996
400 m 43.94 Michael Johnson Flag of the United States.svg United States27 August 1993
800 m 1:41.09 David Rudisha Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya22 August 2010 [3]
1500 m 3:29.46 Saïd Aouita Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco23 August 1985
Mile 3:45.60 Hicham El Guerrouj Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco26 August 1997 [4]
2000 m 4:44.79 Hicham El Guerrouj Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco7 September 1999 [5]
3000 m 7:28.99 Tariku Bekele Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia22 August 2010 [6]
Two miles 8:17.6 h Rod Dixon Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand21 August 1974 [7]
5000 m 12:50.55 Moses Ndiema Masai Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya1 June 2008 [8]
10,000 m 27:08.23 Arturo Barrios Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico18 August 1989
110 m hurdles 12.97 (+1.2 m/s) Aries Merritt Flag of the United States.svg United States2 September 2012 [9]
400 m hurdles 47.08 Karsten Warholm Flag of Norway.svg Norway13 September 2020 [10]
3000 m steeplechase 8:04.48 Paul Kipsiele Koech Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya11 September 2011 [2] [11]
High jump 2.36 m Javier Sotomayor Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba30 August 1994
Pole vault 6.05 m Sergey Bubka Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine30 August 1994
Long jump 8.57 m (+0.5 m/s) Mike Powell Flag of the United States.svg United States21 August 1992
Triple jump 17.69 m (−0.5 m/s) Jonathan Edwards Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom30 August 1996
Shot put 21.61 m Ryan Whiting Flag of the United States.svg United States11 September 2011 [2] [12]
Discus throw 70.60 m Lars Riedel Flag of Germany.svg Germany30 August 1996
Hammer throw 82.84 m Heinz Weis Flag of Germany.svg West Germany18 August 1989
Javelin throw 93.52 m (old design) Bob Roggy Flag of the United States.svg United States20 August 1982
91.30 m (current design) Jan Železný Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia1 September 1995
4 × 100 m relay 37.65Team USA I:
Jon Drummond
Bernard Williams
Curtis Johnson
Maurice Greene
Flag of the United States.svg United States1 September 2000 [13]

Women

Women's meeting records of the ISTAF Berlin
EventRecordAthleteNationalityDateRef.
100 m 10.78 Marion Jones Flag of the United States.svg United States1 September 2000 [14]
200 m 21.96 (+0.2 m/s) Katrin Krabbe Flag of Germany.svg Germany10 September 1991
400 m 49.07 Tonique Williams-Darling Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas12 September 2004 [15]
600 m 1:21.63 Mary Moraa Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya1 September 2024 [16]
800 m 1:54.99 Pamela Jelimo Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya1 June 2008 [17]
1000 m 2:30.67 Christine Wachtel Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany17 August 1990
1500 m 3:57.40 Laura Muir Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain13 September 2020 [10]
Mile 4:22.45 Marta Pen Freitas Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal2 September 2018 [18]
3000 m 8:46.66 Natalya Artyomova Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union18 August 1989
5000 m 14:08.79 Letesenbet Gidey Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia3 September 2023 [19]
100 m hurdles 12.37 (+1.4 m/s) Yordanka Donkova Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria15 August 1986
400 m hurdles 53.26 Deon Hemmings Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica26 August 1997
2000 m steeplechase 5:52.80 Gesa-Felicitas Krause Flag of Germany.svg Germany1 September 2019 [20]
3000 m steeplechase 9:03.70 Norah Jeruto Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya27 August 2017 [21]
High jump 2.06 m Ariane Friedrich Flag of Germany.svg Germany14 June 2009 [22]
Pole vault 4.83 m Elena Isinbaeva Flag of Russia.svg Russia14 June 2009 [23]
Long jump 7.10 m Heike Drechsler Flag of Germany.svg Germany16 September 1992
Triple jump 14.88 m (−0.2 m/s) Tatyana Lebedeva Flag of Russia.svg Russia10 August 2003 [24]
Shot put 20.98 m Helena Fibingerová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic17 August 1984
Discus throw 71.16 m Valarie Allman Flag of the United States.svg United States12 September 2021 [25]
Hammer throw 79.58 m Anita Włodarczyk Flag of Poland.svg Poland31 August 2014 [26]
Javelin throw 74.56 m (old design) Petra Felke Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany23 August 1985
70.53 m (current design) Maria Abakumova Flag of Russia.svg Russia1 September 2013 [27]
4 × 100 m relay 41.55Team USA:
Alice Brown
Diane Williams
Florence Griffith Joyner
Jeanette Bolden
Flag of the United States.svg United States21 August 1987
4 × 100 m mixed relay 40.58 Kerron Stewart
Aleen Bailey
Mario Forsythe
Kemar Bailey-Cole
Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica2 September 2012 [28]

List of winners

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