IAAF Golden League Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The IAAF Golden League is an annual series of athletics meetings organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

The league was formed in 1998 to increase the profile of the leading athletics competitions - in the first season, those at Oslo, Rome, Monaco, Zurich, Brussels and Berlin. Athletes (in selected events) who win their event at all six meetings take a share of a $1 million jackpot. In addition, events at Golden League meetings scored more Grand Prix points than other Grand Prix meetings. A seventh event, at St-Denis, Paris, was added in 1999, and Monaco was dropped from the league in 2003 after it was awarded the IAAF World Athletics Final. For 2004, the Bislett Games move from Oslo to Bergen, due to the redevelopment of the Bislett Stadium.

Various rules have changed as the new competition finds its feet. The list of events which qualify for the jackpot is different each year, but there are usually six men's events and six women's. In 2000, the $1 million was reduced to 50 kg of gold bars, but this was reverted in 2003. Also, in 2000 and 2001, athletes only had to win at 5 out of 7 meetings to qualify for the jackpot.

Table of contents

1 Jackpot winners 2 Meetings 3 2004 4 Results

Jackpot winners

Year	Winners	Event(s)
1998
1999
2000	Hicham El Guerrouj	1500 m/mile
	Maurice Greene	100 m
	Trine Hattestad	javelin
	Tatyana Kotova	long jump
2001	André Bucher	800 m
	Hicham El Guerrouj	1500 m/mile/2000 m
	Allen Johnson	110 m hurdles
	Marion Jones	100 m
	Violeta Szekely	1500 m
	Olga Yegorova	3000 m/5000 m
2002	Hicham El Guerrouj	1500 m
	Ana Guevara	400 m
	Marion Jones	100 m
	Felix Sánchez	400 m hurdles
2003	Maria Mutola	800 m

Meetings

The meetings that were at some time involved are:

• Bislett Games, Oslo/Bergen, Norway
• Golden Gala, Rome, Italy
• Meeting Gaz de France, Paris, France
• Weltklasse Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
• Memorial van Damme, Brussels, Belgium
• ISTAF, Berlin, Germany
• Herculis, Monaco

2004

Results

Gren	Bislett Games Bergen	Golden Gala Rome	Meeting Gaz de France Paris	Weltklasse Zürich	Memorial van Damme Brussels	ISTAF Berlin
100 m		Aziz Zakari, GHA	Francis Obikwelu, POR	Asafa Powell, JAM	Asafa Powell, JAM
200 m	Shawn Crawford, USA	Stéphane Buckland, MRI	Francis Obikwelu, POR	Bernard Williams, USA	Franck Fredricks, NAM
400 m	Timothy Benjamin, GBR		Leslie Djhone, FRA		Otis Harris, USA
800 m	Yuriy Borzakovskiy, RUS	Wilson Kipketer, DEN	William Yiampoy, KEN	Wilfred Bungei, KEN	Wilfred Bungei, KEN
1 500 m	Bernard Lagat, KEN	Rashid Ramzi, BRN	Bernard Lagat, KEN	Bernard Lagat, KEN
3 000 m					Eliud Kipchoge,KEN
5 000 m	John Kibowen, KEN	Eliud Kipchoge, KEN		John Kibowen, KEN
10 000 m					Abdullah Ahmad Hassan, QAT
110 m hurdles		Allen Johnson, USA	Allen Johnson, USA	Allen Johnson, USA
400 m hurdles	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Bayano Kamani, PAN
3 000 m h		Paul Kipsiele Koech, KEN	Ezekiel Kemboi, KEN	Saif Saaeed Shaheen, QAT	Saif Saaeed Shaheen, QAT
Triple jump	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE
Pole vault		Aleksandr Averbukh, ISR	Aleksandr Averbukh, ISR	Timothy Mack, USA
Shot Put					Manuel Martínez, ESP
Discus	Virgilijus Alekna, LTU	Virgilijus Alekna, LTU	Virgilijus Alekna, LTU	Robert Fazekas, HUN	Virgilijus Alekna, LTU
Javelin			Breaux Greer, USA	Breaux Greer, USA
100 m	LaTasha Colander, USA	Yuliya Nesterenko, BLR	Christine Arron, FRA	Christine Arron, FRA	Aleen Bailey, JAM
200 m			Muna Lee, USA		Kim Gevaert, BEL
400 m	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH
800 m		Jolanda Ceplak, SLO		Maria Mutola, MOZ
1 500 m	Iryna Lishchynska, UKR	Olga Yegorova, RUS	Judit Varga, HUN	Wioletta Janowska, POL	Tatyana Tomashova, RUS
3 000/5 000 m	Elvan Abeylegesse, TUR	Ejegayehu Dibaba, ETH	Isabella Ochichi, KEN	Edith Masai, KEN	Edith Masai, KEN
100 m hurdles	Gail Devers, USA	Glory Alozie, ESP	Perdita Felicien, CAN	Perdita Felicien, CAN	Mariya Koroteyeva, RUS
400 m hurdles		Jana Pitman, AUS		Sandra Glover, USA
Long jump		Tatyana Lebedeva, RUS
High jump	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Yelena Slesarenko, RUS
Pole vault					Yelena Isinbayeva, RUS
Hammer			Yipsi Moreno, CUB

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