World Athletics Indoor Tour

World Athletics Indoor Tour
Most recent season or competition:; 2024 World Athletics Indoor Tour
Sport	Athletics
Founded	2016
Continent	Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America

Last updated March 04, 2025

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.

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

Edition	Year	Meets	Start date	End date
1	2016	4	6 February	20 February
2	2017	5	28 January	18 February
3	2018	6	3 February	25 February
4	2019	6	26 January	20 February
5	2020	7	25 January	21 February
6	2021	25	24 January	27 February
7	2022	36	22 January	13 March
8	2023	54	21 January	11 March
9	2024	54	29 December	24 February
10	2025	54	11 January	1 March

(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 meeting in Boston is the ever-present in history of the tour. The most recent addition is the Belgrade Indoor Meeting, scheduled to be added for the first time in 2025. Typically, major international championship events take place after the conclusion of the tour season.

#	Meeting	Arena	City	Country	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
10	New Balance Indoor Grand Prix	Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center / Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex	Boston / New York City	United States	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
9	Copernicus Cup	Arena Toruń	Toruń	Poland	–	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
9	Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe	Dm-Arena	Karlsruhe	Germany	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	–	•
8	Villa de Madrid Indoor Meeting	Gallur Municipality Sport Complex	Madrid	Spain	–	–	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
7	Müller Indoor Grand Prix	Commonwealth Arena / Utilita Arena Birmingham	Glasgow / Birmingham	Great Britain	•	•	•	•	•	–	•	•	–	–
6	Meeting Hauts de France Pas de Calais	Arena Stade Couvert de Liévin	Liévin	France	–	–	–	–	•	•	•	•	•	•
4	PSD Bank Meeting	Arena-Sportpark	Düsseldorf	Germany	–	•	•	•	•	–	–	–	–	–
4	Millrose Games	Fort Washington Avenue Armory	New York City	United States	–	–	–	–	–	–	•	•	•	•
2	Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes	Qazaqstan Indoor Track and Field Arena	Astana	Kazakhstan	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	•	•
2	Czech Indoor Gala	Ostravar Aréna	Ostrava	Czech Republic	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	•	•
1	Globen Galan	Ericsson Globe	Stockholm	Sweden	•	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1	Banskobystricka latka	Stiavnicky Sport Hall	Banská Bystrica	Slovakia	–	–	–	–	–	•	–	–	–	–
1	Belgrade Indoor Meeting	Atletska dvorana Beograd	Belgrade	Serbia	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	•

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

2025

Date	Meeting	Venue	Country
Gold Level Meetings (9)^[6]
25 Jan	Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes	Astana	Kazakhstan
29 Jan	Belgrade Indoor Meeting	Belgrade	Serbia
2 Feb	New Balance Indoor Grand Prix	Boston	United States
4 Feb	Czech Indoor Gala	Ostrava	Czech Republic
7 Feb	INIT Meeting Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe	Germany
8 Feb	Millrose Games	New York City	United States
13 Feb	Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais "Trophée EDF"	Liévin	France
15 Feb	ORLEN Copernicus Cup	Toruń	Poland
28 Feb	World Indoor Tour Gold Madrid	Madrid	Spain

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	Michael Rodgers (USA)	–	Adam Kszczot (POL)	–	Augustine Kiprono Choge (KEN)	–
2017	–	Pavel Maslák (CZE)	–	Bethwell Kiprotich Birgen (KEN)	–	Orlando Ortega (ESP)
2018	Su Bingtian (CHN)	–	Adam Kszczot (POL)	–	Yomif Kejelcha (ETH)	–
2019	–	Nathan Strother (USA)	–	Samuel Tefera (ETH)	–	Jarret Eaton (USA)
2020	Ronnie Baker (USA)	–	Collins Kipruto (KEN)	–	Getnet Wale (ETH)	–
2021	–	Pavel Maslák (CZE)	–	Selemon Barega (ETH)	–	Grant Holloway (USA)
2022	Elijah Hall (USA)	–	Elliot Giles (GBR)	–	Lamecha Girma (ETH)	–
2023	–	Jereem Richards (TRI)	–	Neil Gourley (GBR)	–	Grant Holloway (USA)
2024	Jeremiah Azu (GBR)	–	Catalin Tecuceanu (ITA)	–	Selemon Barega (ETH)	–
2025	–	Brian Faust (USA)	–	Samuel Pihlström (SWE)	–	Wilhem Belocian (FRA)

Men's field

Year	Long jump	Triple jump	High jump	Pole vault	Shot put
2016	–	Omar Craddock (USA)	–	Shawnacy Barber (CAN)	Tim Nedow (CAN)
2017	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (RSA)	–	Donald Thomas (BAH)	–	–
2018	–	Nelson Évora (POR)	–	Piotr Lisek (POL)	Tomáš Staněk (CZE)
2019	Juan Miguel Echevarria (CUB)	–	Naoto Tobe (JPN)	–	–
2020	–	Hugues Fabrice Zango (BUR)	–	Armand Duplantis (SWE)	Filip Mihaljevic (CRO)
2021	Juan Miguel Echevarria (CUB)	–	Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA)	–	–
2022	–	Lázaro Martínez (CUB)	–	Armand Duplantis (SWE)	Konrad Bukowiecki (POL)
2023	Thobias Montler (SWE)	–	Hamish Kerr (NZL)	–	–
2024	–	Yasser Triki (ALG)	–	Piotr Lisek (POL)	Tom Walsh (NZL)
2025	Mattia Furlani (ITA)	–	Luis Castro Rivera (PUR)	–	–

Women's track

Year	60 m	400 m	800 m	1500 m	3000 m	60 m h
2016	–	Lisanne de Witte (NED)	–	Axumawit Embaye (ETH)	–	Nia Ali (USA)
2017	Gayon Evans (JAM)	–	Joanna Jozwik (POL)	–	Hellen Onsando Obiri (KEN)	–
2018	–	Léa Sprunger (SUI)	–	Genzebe Dibaba (ETH)	–	Christina Manning (USA)
2019	Ewa Swoboda (POL)	–	Habitam Alemu (ETH)	–	Alemaz Samuel (ETH)	–
2020	–	Justyna Święty-Ersetic (POL)	–	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)	–	Christina Clemons (USA)
2021	Javianne Oliver (USA)	–	Habitam Alemu (ETH)	–	Lemlem Hailu (ETH)	–
2022	–	Justyna Święty-Ersetic (POL)	–	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)	–	Devynne Charlton (BAH)
2023	Aleia Hobbs (USA)	–	Keely Hodgkinson (GBR)	–	Lemlem Hailu (ETH)	–
2024	–	Lieke Klaver (NED)	–	Freweyni Hailu (ETH)	–	Devynne Charlton (BAH)
2025	Patrizia van der Weken (LUX)	–	Tsige Duguma (ETH)	–	Freweyni Hailu (ETH)	–

Women's field

Year	Long jump	Triple jump	High jump	Pole vault	Shot put
2016	Lorraine Ugen (GBR)	–	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch (GER)	–	–
2017	–	Patrícia Mamona (POR)	–	Nicole Büchler (SUI)	Anita Márton (HUN)
2018	Sosthene Moguenara-Taroum (GER)	–	Mariya Lasitskene (ANA)	–	–
2019	–	Yulimar Rojas (VEN)	–	Anzhelika Sidorova (ANA)	Christina Schwanitz (GER)
2020	Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (UKR)	–	Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)	–	–
2021	–	Liadagmis Povea (CUB)	–	Iryna Zhuk (BLR)	Auriol Dongmo (POR)
2022	Lorraine Ugen (GBR)	–	Eleanor Patterson (AUS)	–	–
2023	–	Liadagmis Povea (CUB)	–	Alysha Newman (CAN)	Sarah Mitton (CAN)
2024	Milica Gardašević (SRB)	–	Urtė Baikštytė (LIT)	–	–
2025	–	Leyanis Pérez Hernández (CUB)	–	Molly Caudery (GBR)	Chase Jackson (USA)