Weltklasse Zürich

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Weltklasse Zürich is an annual athletics meeting at the Letzigrund in Zürich, Switzerland that takes place on August 19 as the fourth part of the IAAF Golden League. One of the first large-scale international athletics events (outside the Olympics), it is sometimes referred to as the one day Olympics.

Weltklasse Zürich first took place on August 12, 1928. 24 world records were broken or equalled in the meeting's history. In 2008 the meeting will take place on August 29, 2008.

[edit] Meeting Records

[edit] Men

Discipline	Time	Athlete	Country	Year
100 m	9.93 s	Carl Lewis	United States	1988
100 m	9.77 s	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	2006
200 m	19.99 s	Calvin Smith	United States	1985
400 m	43.29 s	Butch Reynolds	United States	1988
800 m	1:41.24 min	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1997
1500 m	3:26.45 min	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	1998
5000 m	12:41.86 min	Haile Gebreselassie	Ethiopia	1997
110 m hurdles	12.92 s	Roger Kingdom	United States	1989
400 m hurdles	47.10 s	Samuel Matete	Zambia	1991
3000 m steeplechase	7:59.08 min	Wilson Boit Kipketer	Kenya	1997