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The World Athletics Indoor Tour, formerly the IAAF World Indoor Tour, is an annual series of indoor track and field meetings, held since 2016. [1] It was designed to create a Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field, and replaced the IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings series.

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The tour was announced with initially four meetings, three in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon. Winners of the Tour enjoy similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to the World Athletics Championships. The tour was initially in place for two years.

The Düsseldorf leg was added for the 2017 Tour, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland. [2] In 2018, the tour became a permanent fixture, and the Meeting Ville de Madrid was added as the sixth event on the tour. For 2020, the tour added a seventh leg in Liévin, France.

In 2021, the tour expanded by introducing three levels of competition: Gold, Silver and Bronze, mirroring the expanded outdoor World Athletics Continental Tour. In 2022, the tour expanded with the fourth tier: Challenger.

The tour is organised to allow for major indoor championships including the World Athletics Indoor Championships and the European Athletics Indoor Championships and, where appropriate, national championships and trials.

Editions

EditionYearMeetsStart dateEnd date
1 2016 46 February20 February
2 2017 528 January18 February
3 2018 63 February25 February
4 2019 626 January20 February
5 2020 725 January21 February
6 2021 2524 January27 February
7 2022 3622 January13 March
8 2023 5421 January11 March
9 2024 5429 December24 February

(Gold Standard) Meetings

In keeping with the indoor season generally, the season for the World Athletics Indoor Tour is considerably shorter than for the outdoor Diamond League, with the tour concluded in little over a month, and meetings often held only a few days apart. The meetings in Karlsruhe and Boston are the only ever-presents in history of the tour. The most recent addition is the Millrose Games, added for the first time in 2022. Typically, major international championship events take place after the conclusion of the tour season.

#MeetingArenaCityCountry 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
9 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center /
Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex
Boston /
New York City
United States
8 Copernicus Cup Arena Toruń Toruń Poland
8 Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe Dm-Arena Karlsruhe Germany
7 Müller Indoor Grand Prix Commonwealth Arena /
Utilita Arena Birmingham
Glasgow /
Birmingham
United Kingdom
7 Villa de Madrid Indoor Meeting Gallur Municipality Sport Complex Madrid Spain
5 Meeting Hauts de France Pas de Calais Arena Stade Couvert de Liévin Liévin France
4 PSD Bank Meeting Arena-Sportpark Düsseldorf Germany
3 Millrose Games Fort Washington Avenue Armory New York CityUnited States
1 Globen Galan Ericsson Globe Stockholm Sweden
1 Banskobystricka latka Stiavnicky Sport Hall Banská Bystrica Slovakia
1 Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes Qazaqstan Indoor Track and Field Arena AstanaKazakhstan
1 Czech Indoor Gala Ostravar Aréna OstravaCzech Republic

Scoring system

At each meeting a minimum of 12 events are to be staged. Included in the 12 events will be a core group of five or six events split across the two-season cycle.

For example: tour events for 2016 and 2018 were the men's 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, plus the women's 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.

In 2017 and 2019 the tour events were the women's 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, as well as the men's 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.

Points will be allocated to the best four athletes in each event, with the winner getting 10 points, the runner up receiving seven points, the third-placed finisher getting five points and the athlete in fourth receiving three points. Only each athlete's best three results in the tour per event group will count for scoring. [3]

The individual overall winner of each event will receive US$20,000 in prize money and, beginning with the 2016 edition in Portland, will automatically qualify for the next edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships as a ‘wild card’ entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agrees to enter the athlete. [4] The individual overall winner of each event received a US$10,000 bonus in 2021. [5]

Current Meetings

2024

The tour one more time expanded in 2024.

MeetStadiumCityCountryDate
2024 World Athletics Indoor Tour – Gold Meeting calendar [6]
Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes Qazaqstan Indoor Track and Field Arena Astana Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan27 January
Czech Indoor Gala Ostravar Aréna Ostrava Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic30 January
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center Boston Flag of the United States.svg United States4 February
ORLEN Copernicus Cup Arena Toruń Toruń Flag of Poland.svg Poland6 February
Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Arena Stade Couvert Liévin Flag of France.svg France10 February
Millrose Games Fort Washington Avenue Armory New York CityFlag of the United States.svg United States11 February
Villa de Madrid Indoor Meeting Gallur Municipality Sport Complex Madrid Flag of Spain.svg Spain23 February

Winners

The following table sets out the overall winners of World Indoor Tour disciplines in each year of the Tour.

Men's track

Year 60 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 3000 m 60 m h
2016 Flag of the United States.svg  Michael Rodgers  (USA)Flag of Poland.svg  Adam Kszczot  (POL)Flag of Kenya.svg  Augustine Kiprono Choge  (KEN)
2017 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Pavel Maslák  (CZE)Flag of Kenya.svg  Bethwell Kiprotich Birgen  (KEN)Flag of Spain.svg  Orlando Ortega  (ESP)
2018 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Su Bingtian  (CHN)Flag of Poland.svg  Adam Kszczot  (POL)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Yomif Kejelcha  (ETH)
2019 Flag of the United States.svg  Nathan Strother  (USA)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Samuel Tefera  (ETH)Flag of the United States.svg  Jarret Eaton  (USA)
2020 Flag of the United States.svg  Ronnie Baker  (USA)Flag of Kenya.svg  Collins Kipruto  (KEN)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Getnet Wale  (ETH)
2021 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Pavel Maslák  (CZE)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Selemon Barega  (ETH)Flag of the United States.svg  Grant Holloway  (USA)
2022 Flag of the United States.svg  Elijah Hall  (USA)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Elliot Giles  (GBR)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Lamecha Girma  (ETH)
2023 Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Jereem Richards  (TRI)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Neil Gourley  (GBR)Flag of the United States.svg  Grant Holloway  (USA)
2024 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Jeremiah Azu  (GBR)Flag of Italy.svg  Catalin Tecuceanu  (ITA)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Selemon Barega  (ETH)

Men's field

Year Long jump Triple jump High jump Pole vault Shot put
2016 Flag of the United States.svg  Omar Craddock  (USA)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Shawnacy Barber  (CAN)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Tim Nedow  (CAN)
2017 Flag of South Africa.svg  Godfrey Khotso Mokoena  (RSA)Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Donald Thomas  (BAH)
2018 Flag of Portugal.svg  Nelson Évora  (POR)Flag of Poland.svg  Piotr Lisek  (POL)Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Tomáš Staněk  (CZE)
2019 Flag of Cuba.svg  Juan Miguel Echevarria  (CUB)Flag of Japan.svg  Naoto Tobe  (JPN)
2020 Flag of Burkina Faso.svg  Hugues Fabrice Zango  (BUR)Flag of Sweden.svg  Armand Duplantis  (SWE)Flag of Croatia.svg  Filip Mihaljevic  (CRO)
2021 Flag of Cuba.svg  Juan Miguel Echevarria  (CUB)Flag of Italy.svg  Gianmarco Tamberi  (ITA)
2022 Flag of Cuba.svg  Lázaro Martínez  (CUB)Flag of Sweden.svg  Armand Duplantis  (SWE)Flag of Poland.svg  Konrad Bukowiecki  (POL)
2023 Flag of Sweden.svg  Thobias Montler  (SWE)Flag of New Zealand.svg  Hamish Kerr  (NZL)
2024 Flag of Algeria.svg  Yasser Triki  (ALG)Flag of Poland.svg  Piotr Lisek  (POL)Flag of New Zealand.svg  Tom Walsh  (NZL)

Women's track

Year 60 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 3000 m 60 m h
2016 Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Lisanne de Witte  (NED)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Axumawit Embaye  (ETH)Flag of the United States.svg  Nia Ali  (USA)
2017 Flag of Jamaica.svg  Gayon Evans  (JAM)Flag of Poland.svg  Joanna Jozwik  (POL)Flag of Kenya.svg  Hellen Onsando Obiri  (KEN)
2018 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Léa Sprunger  (SUI)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Genzebe Dibaba  (ETH)Flag of the United States.svg  Christina Manning  (USA)
2019 Flag of Poland.svg  Ewa Swoboda  (POL)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Habitam Alemu  (ETH)Flag of Ethiopia.svg Alemaz Samuel (ETH)
2020 Flag of Poland.svg  Justyna Święty-Ersetic  (POL)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Gudaf Tsegay  (ETH)Flag of the United States.svg  Christina Clemons  (USA)
2021 Flag of the United States.svg  Javianne Oliver  (USA)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Habitam Alemu  (ETH)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Lemlem Hailu  (ETH)
2022 Flag of Poland.svg  Justyna Święty-Ersetic  (POL)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Gudaf Tsegay  (ETH)Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Devynne Charlton  (BAH)
2023 Flag of the United States.svg  Aleia Hobbs  (USA)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Keely Hodgkinson  (GBR)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Lemlem Hailu  (ETH)
2024 Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Lieke Klaver  (NED)Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Freweyni Hailu  (ETH)Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Devynne Charlton  (BAH)

Women's field

Year Long jump Triple jump High jump Pole vault Shot put
2016 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Lorraine Ugen  (GBR)Flag of Germany.svg  Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch  (GER)
2017 Flag of Portugal.svg  Patrícia Mamona  (POR)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Nicole Büchler  (SUI)Flag of Hungary.svg  Anita Márton  (HUN)
2018 Flag of Germany.svg  Sosthene Moguenara-Taroum  (GER)ANA flag (2017).svg  Mariya Lasitskene  (ANA)
2019 Flag of Venezuela.svg  Yulimar Rojas  (VEN)ANA flag (2017).svg  Anzhelika Sidorova  (ANA)Flag of Germany.svg  Christina Schwanitz  (GER)
2020 Flag of Ukraine.svg  Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk  (UKR)Flag of Ukraine.svg  Yaroslava Mahuchikh  (UKR)
2021 Flag of Cuba.svg  Liadagmis Povea  (CUB)Flag of Belarus.svg  Iryna Zhuk  (BLR)Flag of Portugal.svg  Auriol Dongmo  (POR)
2022 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Lorraine Ugen  (GBR)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Eleanor Patterson  (AUS)
2023 Flag of Cuba.svg  Liadagmis Povea  (CUB)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Alysha Newman  (CAN)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Sarah Mitton  (CAN)
2024 Flag of Serbia.svg  Milica Gardašević  (SRB)Flag of Lithuania.svg  Urtė Baikštytė  (LIT)

World Athletics Indoor Tour records

The following tour records are correct as of the end of the 2023 World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Men's Indoor Tour records
EventRecordAthleteNationalityDateMeetPlaceRef
60 m 6.43 Bingtian Su Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China6 February 2018 PSD Bank Meeting Düsseldorf
400 m 45.34 Michael Norman Flag of the United States.svg United States13 February 2021 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix New York City [7]
800 m 1:43.63 Elliot Giles Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain17 February 2021 Copernicus Cup Toruń
1500 m 3:31.04 Samuel Tefera Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia16 February 2019 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham
Mile 3:47.38 Yared Nuguse Flag of the United States.svg United States11 February 2023 Millrose Games New York City [8]
3000 m 7:24.98 Getnet Wale Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia9 February 2021 Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Liévin [9]
60 m hurdles 7.29 Grant Holloway Flag of the United States.svg United States24 February 2021 Villa De Madrid Indoor Meeting Madrid [10]
High jump 2.35 m Naoto Tobe Flag of Japan.svg Japan2 February 2019 Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Karlsruhe [11]
Long jump 8.41 m Juan Miguel Echevarria Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba21 February 2020 Villa De Madrid Indoor Meeting Madrid
Triple jump 17.82 m Hugues Fabrice Zango Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso9 February 2021 Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Liévin [12]
Pole vault 6.22 m Armand Duplantis Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden25 February 2023All Star Perche Clermont-Ferrand [13]
Shot put 22.58 m Ryan Crouser Flag of the United States.svg United States11 February 2023 Millrose Games New York City [14]
Women's Indoor Tour records
EventRecordAthleteNationalityDateMeetPlaceRef
60 m 6.98 Elaine Thompson Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica18 February 2017 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham
400 m 50.21 Shaunae Miller-Uibo Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas13 February 2021 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix New York City [15]
800 m 1:57.18 Keely Hodgkinson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain25 February 2023 World Indoor Tour Final Birmingham [16]
1500 m 3:53.09 Gudaf Tsegay Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia9 February 2021 Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Liévin [17]
Mile 3:53.09 Gudaf Tsegay Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia8 February 2023 Copernicus Cup Toruń [18]
3000 m 8:16.69 Gudaf Tsegay Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia25 February 2023 World Indoor Tour Final Birmingham [19]
60 m hurdles 7.76 Kendra Harrison Flag of the United States.svg United States4 February 2017 Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Karlsruhe
High jump 2.02 m Yaroslava Mahuchikh Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine31 January 2020 Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Karlsruhe
Long jump 6.96 m Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine8 February 2020 Copernicus Cup Toruń [20]
Triple jump 15.43 m Yulimar Rojas Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela21 February 2020 Villa de Madrid Indoor Meeting Madrid [21]
Pole vault 4.91 m Anzhelika Sidorova ANA flag (2017).svg Authorised Neutral Athletes8 February 2019 Villa De Madrid Indoor Meeting Madrid [22]
Shot put 20.03 m Chase Ealey Flag of the United States.svg United States11 February 2023 Millrose Games New York City [23]
Other records
Record#HolderEvents
Most titles2Flag of Poland.svg  Adam Kszczot  (POL)800 metres
(2016 and 2018)
Most event wins (men)6Flag of Poland.svg  Adam Kszczot  (POL)800 metres
Most event wins (women)3Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Léa Sprunger  (SUI)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Keely Hodgkinson  (GBR)
Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Genzebe Dibaba  (ETH)
ANA flag (2017).svg  Mariya Lasitskene  (ANA)
Flag of Kenya.svg  Hellen Obiri  (KEN)
400 metres
800 metres
1500, 3000 metres
High jump
3000 metres

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