IAAF World Indoor Tour

IAAF World Indoor Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour
Sport Athletics
Founded 2016
Continent Europe, North America

The IAAF World Indoor Tour is an annual series of track and field indoor meetings to be held from 2016 onwards, beginning with the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour.[1] It was designed to create a IAAF Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field athletics.

The Tour was announced with initially four events, three in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon. It is intended that winners of the Tour will enjoy similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to World Championships in Athletics. The Tour is initially in place for two years. The Tour will expand with the inclusion of two further meetings, Düsseldorf, Germany by 2017 and a non-European meeting by 2018.[2] The Dusseldorf leg was added for the 2017 Tour, while the Stolkholm leg ws replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland.

Editions

Edition Year No. of
meets		 Start date End date
I 2016 4 6 February 20 February
II 2017 5 28 January 18 February
III 2018 6

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.

Tour events for 2016 are 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 the tour events will be 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.

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 IAAF World Indoor Championships as a ‘wild card’ entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agrees to enter the athlete.[3]

Meetings

The following four meetings were confirmed for the 2016 season:[4]

Meet Stadium City Country Date
Weltklasse in Karlsruhe Dm-Arena Karlsruhe / Rheinstetten Germany 6 February
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center Boston United States 14 February
Globen Galan Ericsson Globe Stockholm Sweden 17 February
Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix Emirates Arena Glasgow Scotland 20 February

For the 2017 edition, the Stolkholm meeting was removed, and two further meetings added. [5]

Meet Stadium City Country Date
PSD Bank Meeting Arena-Sportpark Düsseldorf Germany 1 February
Copernicus Cup Toruń Poland 10 February

In addition, as part of a long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix moves to Birmingham, England, for 2017.

Meet Stadium City Country Date
Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix National Indoor Arena Birmingham England 18 February

References

  1. ↑ "IAAF to launch World Indoor Tour". IAAF. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "IAAF World Indoor Tour expands". IAAF. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/world-indoor-tour?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
  5. ↑ http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/iaaf-details-2017-world-indoor-tour-53104 Details of 2017 World Indoor Tour announced.


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