The World Athletics Indoor Tour , formerly the IAAF World Indoor Tour , is an annual series of indoor track and field meetings, held since 2016 . It was designed to create a Diamond League -style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field, and replaced the IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings series.
12-732: The tour was announced with initially four meetings, three in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon . Winners of the Tour enjoy similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to the World Athletics Championships . The tour was initially in place for two years. The Düsseldorf leg
24-656: A WADA investigation into widespread and institutional doping practices in Russian athletics, the IAAF provisionally suspended Russia's membership of the organisation in November 2015, effectively excluding the country both from hosting events and entering competitions. Russia's effective exclusion from the tournament was confirmed in November 2015 when it was announced by IAAF that a decision over lifting its provisional suspension from international athletics would not be taken until
36-524: A US$ 10,000 bonus in 2021. The following table sets out the overall winners of World Indoor Tour disciplines in each year of the Tour. The following tour records are correct as of the end of the 2023 World Athletics Indoor Tour. 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held between March 17 and 20, 2016 in Portland, Oregon , United States. The event did not feature Russia. Following
48-496: The 2012 Olympics as well as the 2017 World Championships in Athletics along with Cardiff hosting the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships . The event took place inside the Oregon Convention Center , fitted with the necessary 200m track and seating for 8,000 spectators. A concept drawing of the plans were released in early 2015, showing a two toned track colored (Oregon) green, with trees adorning
60-642: The World Athletics Indoor Tour is considerably shorter than for the outdoor Diamond League , with the tour concluded in little over a month, and meetings often held only a few days apart. The meeting in Boston is the ever-present in history of the tour. The most recent addition is the Belgrade Indoor Meeting , scheduled to be added for the first time in 2025. Typically, major international championship events take place after
72-405: The conclusion of the tour season. 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. For example: tour events for 2016 and 2018 were 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 and 2019
84-501: The end of March at the earliest. Portland was selected unanimously with the only other bidder being 2003 host Birmingham , England . Birmingham was ultimately selected as the host of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships . The reason Portland was selected for 2016 and Birmingham being selected in 2018 is that the IAAF wanted more time between events in the UK with London hosting
96-593: The expanded outdoor World Athletics Continental Tour . In 2022, the tour expanded with the fourth tier: Challenger. The tour is organised to allow for major indoor championships including the World Athletics Indoor Championships and the European Athletics Indoor Championships and, where appropriate, national championships and trials. In keeping with the indoor season generally, the season for
108-786: The peristyle of the indoor arena. In brackets the number of athletes participating. 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 9th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, UK from 14 to 16 March 2003. It was the first time the Championships had been held in the UK. There were a total number of 589 participating athletes from 133 countries. 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2004 | 2006 The United States ( James Davis , Jerome Young , Milton Campbell , and Tyree Washington ; Derrick Brew ran in
120-444: The tour events were 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. Only each athlete's best three results in
132-593: The tour per event group will count for scoring. 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 World Athletics Indoor Championships as a ‘wild card’ entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agrees to enter the athlete. The individual overall winner of each event received
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#1732765537607144-743: Was added for the 2017 Tour, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup , a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland. In 2018, the tour became a permanent fixture, and the Meeting Ville de Madrid was added as the sixth event on the tour. For 2020, the tour added a seventh leg in Liévin , France. In 2021, the tour expanded by introducing three levels of competition: Gold, Silver and Bronze, mirroring
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