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MonteCarloTomorrow, Saturday (1 Aug), marks a fortnight to go to the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany (15-23 August), and tonight in Stockholm many potential competitors have their last international opportunity to show their best before the qualification window for those championships closes.
The DN Galan in the Swedish capital, an IAAF Super Grand Prix status meeting, is the last stop on the IAAF World Athletics Tour before the Berlin World Championships, the biggest sporting event on the planet in 2009.
This coming weekend is also a very busy one for national championships around the world, with the composition of the teams from the IAAF’s 213 Member Federations being finalised ahead of the qualification deadline of 3 August 2009 (midnight Monaco time) which is when Final Entries for Berlin must be declared to the IAAF.
Click here to read the Berlin Qualification Standards and Rules
The World Championships in Athletics is the jewel in the crown of the IAAF World Athletics Series competition programme, the third-largest sporting event in the world after the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup.
The event in overall numbers…
Nine competition days
2000 athletes
200 countries
10,500 officials and volunteers
More than US$7,000,000 in prize money
Up to 500,000 stadium spectators
6 billion Global TV viewers in 190 countries
US$80 million economic impact
Competition news, results, history and statistics:
‘Berlin 2009 IAAF Statistics Handbook’ is now available.
Click here to download:
Part One (pdf)
Part Two (pdf)
Keep up with all the news and results in Berlin, go to the IAAF Website’s dedicated Berlin section
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