London Athletics Meet

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London Athletics Meet
Olympic Stadium (London), 16 April 2012.jpg
London Stadium, current host of the annual event
DateJuly – August
Location London, England (Glasgow, Scotland in 2014/Gateshead, England in 2021/Birmingham, England in 2022)
Event type Track and field
World Athletics Cat. GW [1]
Established1953;71 years ago (1953)
Official site London Anniversary Games

The London Athletics Meet, formerly known as the London Grand Prix and subsequently as the Anniversary Games and London Diamond League, is an annual athletics event held in London, England. Previously one of the five IAAF Super Grand Prix events, it is now part of the Diamond League. As the London Grand Prix, until 2012 all editions were held at the National Sports Centre in Crystal Palace. The 2013 edition was renamed the Anniversary Games as it took place at the Stadium in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, exactly one year after the Olympic Games were held in the same venue and have been followed by an IPC London Grand Prix, making it a three-day event. In 2014 the meet was held in Glasgow, Scotland, as preparation for the Commonwealth Games held there later that month.

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Event names

The event has been sponsored by a variety of companies including Norwich Union, Sainsbury's and Müller.

Event names for the London Athletics Meet
YearsNameSponsor
1953–1979International Games Rotary Watches Ltd [2]
1980–1988British Games Peugeot / Talbot [2]
1989British Games Royal Mail [3]
1990–1991British Games Parcelforce
1992London Grand Prixnone
1993 IAAF Grand Prix Final
1994London Grand Prix Trustee Savings Bank
1995–1996London Grand Prix KP Nuts
1997–1998London Grand Prixnone
1999–2001British Grand Prix CGU plc [4] [5] [6]
2002–2007London Grand Prix Norwich Union
2008–2012London Grand Prix Aviva
2013, 2015Anniversary Games Sainsbury's
2014Glasgow Grand Prix
2016–2019Anniversary Games Müller
2020Not held [7]
2021British Grand Prix [8] Müller
2022 Birmingham Diamond LeagueMüller
2023 London Diamond League [9] / London Athletics Meet [10]
2024 London Athletics Meet (Wanda Diamond League series) [11] Wanda

Event locations

Event locations for the London Athletics Meet
YearsVenueRegionCountry
1953–2012 National Sports Centre Crystal Palace, London England
2013, 2015–2019, 2023-2024 London Stadium Stratford, London England
2014 Hampden Park [12] Mount Florida, Glasgow Scotland
2021 Gateshead International Stadium Gateshead England
2022 Alexander Stadium Birmingham England

Emsley Carr Mile

The Emsley Carr Mile remains a fixture at the annual meeting, with a history spanning back to 1953 at the White City Stadium. Emsley Carr, an athletics fan and the editor of The News of the World , created an annual mile race in the hope that the first four-minute mile would be achieved on British soil. Gordon Pirie won the first race, but Roger Bannister had run under 4 minutes in Oxford by time that the second race was competed. However, the tradition continued, with the winner signing his name in a red leather-bound book identical to the Bible used in Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Derek Ibbotson achieved the first sub-4-minute run at the race in 1956, and many of the best middle-distance runners have won at the Emsley Carr Mile since, including Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Hicham El Guerrouj. [13]

Millicent Fawcett Mile

The Millicent Fawcett Mile, a women's race, was first held in the 2018 Anniversary Games and won by Sifan Hassan in 4:14.71. [14] It commemorates suffragist Millicent Fawcett. [15] There had been a women's mile event at previous games, without this title, the previous record being held by Hellen Obiri who ran in 2017 in 4:16.56.

History

In 2009 pole vault favourite Yelena Isinbayeva lost for the first time in 18 competitions, beaten by Anna Rogowska. Kate Dennison set an eighth British record in the pole vault. [16]

On 24 January 2013 it was announced that London Grand Prix would be moved to the Olympic Stadium for 2013. The London Legacy Development Corporation had expressed interest in holding an athletics event at the stadium to coincide with the first anniversary of the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics. [17] After the 2013 event, a return to Crystal Palace was ruled out as according to Ed Warner it would be a backward step.

Hampden Park, which was due to host the athletics events at the Commonwealth Games and a temporary venue in Horse Guards Parade and the Mall, were mooted for the 2014 edition, before a return to the Olympic Stadium in 2015 due to a gap in the reconstruction schedule. [18] A four-year sponsorship deal with Sainsbury's was announced in January 2014. [19] In February 2014 it was confirmed that the Grand Prix event would move to Hampden Park and be known as the Glasgow Grand Prix. The event returned to London in 2015 and continued to be known as the Anniversary Games until 2021.

The 2021 event, due to be held on 13 July, was moved away from London Stadium to Gateshead International Stadium due to the difficulty of reconfiguring the stadium for a single athletics event. [20]

World records

Over the course of its history, a number of world records have been set at the London Grand Prix.

World records set at the London Athletics Meet
YearEventRecordAthleteNationality
2004 Pole vault 4.90 m Yelena Isinbaeva Flag of Russia.svg Russia
2005 Pole vault 5.00 m Yelena Isinbaeva Flag of Russia.svg Russia
Pole vault 4.96 m Yelena Isinbaeva Flag of Russia.svg Russia
2016 100 m hurdles 12.20 (+0.3 m/s) Kendra Harrison Flag of the United States.svg United States
2018 T38 200 m25.93 Sophie Hahn Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
T34 100 m16.80 Kare Adenegan Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
3000 m walk (track)10:43.84 Tom Bosworth Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
2023 U20 5000 m 14:16.54 [note 1] Medina Eisa Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia

Meeting records

Men

Women

Notes

  1. ↑ Not ratified as no anti-doping test was taken after the race. [21]

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