2005
Bidding Cities order of Presentation
13 April 2002 - Nairobi, Kenya - The order of presentation for the cities bidding to host
the 10th IAAF World Championships in 2005 has been decided.
World-renowned Kenyan athletics legends Tegla Loroupe and Moses Tanui drew the names of
the candidates from an urn to establish the order.
The Candidate Cities will make their presentations tomorrow, Sunday, in the following
order:
09:00 am Rome
09:50 am Moscow
10:40 am Budapest
11:40 am Brussels
12:30 pm Berlin
13:20 pm Helsinki
The
announcement of the winner will be made during a live satellite television broadcast at
15:30 by IAAF President Lamine Diack.
The vote and final announcement will be covered live on the IAAF web site
www.iaaf.org/sp2005
World Cup in Athletics 2002 - 4 attempts for field
events
The IAAF Council have accepted that for the 2002 edition of the IAAF World Cup in
Athletics, which will take place in Madrid, Spain on 20-21 September 2002, field events
will be restricted to four attempts.
IAAF Council decide on new race walking circuit from 2003, IAAF to recognise more World
Bests on Road
Council agreed to introduce a Race Walking circuit each year, starting in 2003, to
help promote race walking. Although the details will be finalized in the near future, it
was agreed that the circuit would be composed of 6 meetings and prize money would be
available - based on the example of the Combined Events Challenge. It was also agreed that
the IAAF Competitions Commission would study a way to introduce Junior events at the IAAF
World Race Walking Cup.
Following the report of the IAAF Cross Country and Road Racing Committee, it was agreed
that the Council will, in principle, recognize World Best performances for road races at
the following distances: 10km, 15km, 20km, 25km, 30km, Marathon, 100km and Road Relay.
Council also recommends that major IAAF events on the road should always be organized on
the same weekend, if possible, and that every effort should be taken to ensure long term
planning of the road running calendar.
For information contact IAAF Communications
Nick Davies: +33 6 07 93 62 85
