News21 Jan 2010


‘Destination Doha’ – IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting Season

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IAAF Indoor Permit meeting logo (© IAAF)

MonteIn a week’s time one of the world’s longest standing sporting events let alone athletics meetings, the 103rd edition of the Millrose Games (Fri 29 Jan) will take place in New York, USA, and so will commence five intense weeks of exciting indoor athletics action across the 2010 IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting season.

Two days after its opening in New York’s world famous Madison Square Gardens, the IAAF indoor tour crosses the Atlantic to Karlsruhe in Germany for the beginning of the European season which concludes in Liévin, France on 5 March.

Click here for the Calendar of 2010 IAAF Indoor Permit meetings

In 2010 the international indoor circuit has the added focus of the biennial World title meet to help fire the motivation of its competitors, as the best athletes in the world build-up to the season’s climax at the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, 12 to 14 March.

Last year’s IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting season, which didn’t have the focus of the global indoor championships, produced one World Indoor record: Meseret Defar of Ethiopia with her 14:24.37 for 5000m in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 February. During last winter as a whole another two World records also fell, both to Yelena Isinbayeva who produced 4.97 and 5.00m pole vaults on 15 February in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Aside Defar’s record, the 2009 IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings were highlighted by the 2.40m high jumping of Ivan Ukhov, an unforgettable 2.05m duel between Ariane Friedrich and Blanka Vlasic, and of course Steve Hooker in the Pole Vault who set the IAAF Permit season off on a high note with his 6.01m clearance in New York.

Follow all the action on the IAAF website’s dedicated Indoor Permit section - http://www.iaaf.org/WIM10/index.html - and get a preview of the form of those athletes who are set to become the stars of Doha 2010 - http://www.iaaf.org/wic10/index.html

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