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 68.22 m Trine Hattestad, Norway
1999
- Mile run, men 3:43.13 Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco
1998
- 1500 m, men 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco
1995
- 5000 m, men 12:55.30 Moses Kiptanui, Kenya
1987
- 5000 m, men 12:58.39 Said Aouita, Morocco
1984
- Pole vault, men 5.94 m Sergey Bubka, Soviet Union
- Pole vault, men 5.91 m Thierry Vigneron, France
1983
- Pole vault, men 5.83 m Thierry Vigneron, France
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