Golden Gala
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Golden Gala is an annual track and field event at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy that takes place on July 8 as the second meeting of the IAAF Golden League.
Primo Nebiolo, the Italian president of IAAF since 1981, was the founder of the Golden Gala who had the idea to bring the athletes and the people from the USA and the NATO countries together that were boycotting the Moscow Olympics in 1980 as a result of the Cold War. He died of a heart attack at age 76 in 1999.
[edit] World records
2000
- Javelin throw women 68.22m Trine Hattestad, Norway
1999
- 1 mile men 3:43:13 Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco
1998
- 1500m men 3:26:00 Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco
1995
- 5000m men 12:55:30 Moses Kiptanui, Kenya
1987
- 100m men 9:93 Carl Lewis, USA
- 5000m men 12:58:39 Said Aouita, Morocco
- High jump women 2.09m Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria
1984
- Pole vault men 5.94m Sergey Bubka, Soviet Union
- Pole vault men 5.91m Thierry Vigneron, France
1983
- Pole vault men 5.83m Thierry Vigneron, France
[edit] External link
| Meetings of the IAAF Golden League |
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Meeting Gaz de France, Paris, France | Golden Gala, Rome, Italy | Bislett Games, Oslo, Norway | Weltklasse Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland | Memorial van Damme, Brussels, Belgium | ISTAF, Berlin, Germany | Herculis, Monaco |
