ISTAF Berlin

ISTAF Berlin

The Olympic Stadium in Berlin
Date August–September
Location Olympiastadion, Berlin
Event type Track and field athletics
Established 1937
Official site ISTAF

The Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) is an annual track and field athletics meet at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany. It was first organised on 3 July 1921 at the Deutsches Stadion, which was replaced after the 1936 Summer Olympics by the current stadium in 1937. Since 2010 it has been part of the IAAF World Challenge meetings, the second tier of global one day athletics events. Since 2006 it is sponsored by DKB and officially known as the DKB-ISTAF.

History

On 3 July 1921 the Berliner Sport-Club (BSC), the Sport-Club Charlottenburg (SCC) and the Schwimm-Club Poseidon organised the first sports festival under the current name Internationales Stadionfest. On 23 March 1937 the BSC, the Deutscher Sport-Club (DSC, later Olympischer Sport-Club OSC) and the SCC decided to hold international sports festivals together and organized the first edition at its current place which took place on 1 August 1937. The ISTAF was interrupted in 1940, as well as between 1943 and 1948 (war and post war conditions), in 1950 and 1951, and in 1972 and 1973 (as a result of the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics). From 1993 to 1997 IAAF classified the ISTAF among the IAAF Golden Four meetings. From 1998 to 2009 it was part of the IAAF Golden League. When the IAAF Diamond League was introduced, Berlin was provisionally planned as one of its meets, but the organisers were unable to meet the criteria for the new elite series, so the meet became part of the second tier World Challenge circuit from 2010 instead.

Indoor

The ISTAF returns into the hall the first time since 1968, is the first March 2014 at the O2 World (Berlin) give a big athletics meeting in Berlin again. A week before the World Indoor Championships in the Polish Sopot, the world's elite to measure the ISTAF Indoor in the capital. The highlight of the event is the discus competition with world champion Robert Harting. With a length of 80 meters and a sufficient ceiling height of the discus throw was not a problem even in the modern arena.[1]

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the ISTAF.

Year Event Record Athlete Nationality
2014 Hammer throw 79.58 m Anita Włodarczyk  Poland
2010 800 m 1:41.09 David Rudisha  Kenya
1999 2000 m 4:44.79 Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco
1990 1000 m 2:30.67 Christine Wachtel  East Germany
1989 10000 m 27:08.23 Arturo Barrios  Mexico
1985 1500 m 3:29.46 Saïd Aouita  Morocco
1978 400 m hurdles 55.44 Krystyna Kacperczyk  Poland
1978 1000 m 2:32.0 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany
1977 High jump 2.00 Rosemarie Ackermann  East Germany
1977 High jump 1.97 Rosemarie Ackermann  East Germany
1975 110 m hurdles 13.0 Guy Drut  France
1975 100 m 9.9 Steve Williams  United States
1970 3000 m steeplechase 8:22.0 Kerry O'Brien  Australia
1939 Long jump 6.12 Christel Schulz Germany German Reich
1939 3000 m 8:24.4 Miklós Szabó  Hungary
1937 80 m hurdles 11.6 Barbara Burke South Africa South Africa
1937 100 m 11.6 Stanisława Walasiewicz  Poland

Meeting Records

Men

Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Ref
100 m 9.82 (−0.1 m/s) Yohan Blake  Jamaica 11 September 2011 [2][3]
200 m 19.97 Frankie Fredericks  Namibia 30 August 1996
400 m 43.94 Michael Johnson  United States 27 August 1993
800 m 1:41.09 David Rudisha  Kenya 22 August 2010 [4]
1500 m 3:29.46 Saïd Aouita  Morocco 23 August 1985
Mile 3:45.60 Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco 26 August 1997 [5]
2000 m 4:44.79 Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco 7 September 1999 [6]
3000 m 7:28.99 Tariku Bekele  Ethiopia 22 August 2010 [7]
Two miles 8:17.6 Rod Dixon  New Zealand 21 August 1974 [8]
5000 m 12:50.55 Moses Ndiema Masai  Kenya 1 June 2008 [9]
10000 m 27:08.23 Arturo Barrios  Mexico 18 August 1989
110 m hurdles 12.97 (+1.2 m/s) Aries Merritt  United States 2 September 2012 [10]
400 m hurdles 47.17 Edwin Moses  United States 8 August 1980
3000 m steeplechase 8:04.48 Paul Kipsiele Koech  Kenya 11 September 2011 [11][3]
High jump 2.36 m Javier Sotomayor  Cuba 30 August 1994
Pole vault 6.05 m Sergey Bubka  Ukraine 30 August 1994
Long jump 8.57 m (+0.5 m/s) Mike Powell  United States 21 August 1992
Triple jump 17.69 m (−0.5 m/s) Jonathan Edwards  United Kingdom 30 August 1996
Shot put 21.61 m Ryan Whiting  United States 11 September 2011 [12][3]
Discus throw 70.60 m Lars Riedel  Germany 30 August 1996
Hammer throw 82.84 m Heinz Weis  West Germany 18 August 1989
Javelin throw 93.52 m (old design)
91.30 m (Current design)		 Bob Roggy
Jan Železný		  United States
 Czech Republic		 20 August 1982
1 September 1995
4×100 m relay 37.65 Team USA I
Jon Drummond
Bernard Williams
Curtis Johnson
Maurice Greene		  United States 1 September 2000 [13]

Women

Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Ref
100 m 10.78 Marion Jones  United States 1 September 2000 [14]
200 m 21.96 (+0.2 m/s) Katrin Krabbe  Germany 10 September 1991
400 m 49.07 Tonique Williams-Darling  Bahamas 12 September 2004 [15]
800 m 1:54.99 Pamela Jelimo  Kenya 1 June 2008 [16]
1000 m 2:30.67 Christine Wachtel  East Germany 17 August 1990
1500 m 3:58.43 Süreyya Ayhan  Turkey 6 September 2002 [17]
3000 m 8:46.66 Natalya Artyomova  Soviet Union 18 August 1989
5000 m 14:29.32 Olga Yegorova  Russia 31 August 2001
100 m hurdles 12.37 (+1.4 m/s) Yordanka Donkova  Bulgaria 15 August 1986
400 m hurdles 53.26 Deon Hemmings  Jamaica 26 August 1997
3000 m steeplechase 9:21.64 Sofia Assefa  Ethiopia 2 September 2012 [18]
High jump 2.06 m Ariane Friedrich  Germany 14 June 2009 [19]
Pole vault 4.83 m Elena Isinbaeva  Russia 14 June 2009 [20]
Long jump 7.10 m Heike Drechsler  Germany 16 September 1992
Triple jump 14.88 m (−0.2 m/s) Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia 10 August 2003 [21]
Shot put 20.98 m Helena Fibingerová  Czechoslovakia 17 August 1984
Discus throw 68.64 m Margitta Pufe  East Germany 17 August 1979
Hammer throw 79.58 m Anita Włodarczyk  Poland 31 August 2014 [22]
Javelin throw 70.53 m (Current design) Maria Abakumova  Russia 1 September 2013 [23]
74.56 m (old design) Petra Felke  East Germany 23 August 1985
4×100 m relay 41.55 Team USA
Alice Brown
Diane Williams
Florence Griffith Joyner
Jeanette Bolden		  United States 21 August 1987
4×100 m mixed relay 40.58 Kerron Stewart
Aleen Bailey
Mario Forsythe
Kemar Bailey-Cole		  Jamaica 2 September 2012 [24]

References

  1. ↑ "ISTAF kehrt in Halle zurück". www.sport1.de. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "100 Metres Results". ISTAF. 11 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ramsak, Bob (11 September 2011). "Blake dashes 9.82, one of four meet records to celebrate ISTAF's 90th birthday - Berlin Report - IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "800 Metres Results". ISTAF. 22 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "Mile Results". ISTAF. 26 August 1997. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "2000 Metres Results". ISTAF. 7 September 1999. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  7. ↑ "3000 Metres Results". www.istaf.de. 22 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  8. ↑ "ISTAF Race Winners". arrs.net. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  9. ↑ "5000 Metres Results". ISTAF. 1 June 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Jörg Wenig (2 September 2012). "Merritt sizzles 12.97, Harting wins 33rd straight in Berlin - IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  11. ↑ "3000 Metres Steeplechase Results". ISTAF. 11 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  12. ↑ "Shot Put Results". ISTAF. 11 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  13. ↑ "4 x 100 Metres Relay Results". ISTAF. 1 September 2000. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  14. ↑ "100 Metres Results". www.istaf.de. 1 September 2000. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  15. ↑ "400 Metres Results". ISTAF. 12 September 2004. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  16. ↑ "800 Metres Results". ISTAF. 1 June 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  17. ↑ "1500 Metres Results". ISTAF. 6 September 2002. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Jörg Wenig (2 September 2012). "Merritt sizzles 12.97, Harting wins 33rd straight in Berlin - IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  19. ↑ "High Jump Results". ISTAF. 14 June 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  20. ↑ "Pole Vault Results". ISTAF. 14 June 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  21. ↑ "Triple Jump Results". ISTAF. 10 August 2003. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  22. ↑ "Hammer Throw Results". www.istaf.de. 31 August 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  23. ↑ Silke Bernhart (1 September 2013). "Abakumova dominates in Berlin with 70.53m throw – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  24. ↑ "4x100m Mixed Relay Results". ISTAF. 2 September 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.

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