Weltklasse Zürich

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Weltklasse Zürich
Letzigrund Zuerich.jpg
The host stadium – Letzigrund
Date August–September
Location Zürich, Switzerland
Event type Track and field
World Athletics Cat. Diamond League final (DF)[1]
Established 1928
Official site zurich.diamondleague.com
2022 Weltklasse Zürich
Weltklasse Zürich (English: World Class Zurich) is an annual, invitation-only,
world-class track and field meeting at the Letzigrund in Zürich, Switzerland,
generally held at the end of August or beginning of September. Previously one of
the IAAF Golden League events, it now serves as a final of the Wanda Diamond
League, alongside Memorial Van Damme between 2010 and 2019. In 2021, Welklasse
Zürich will serve as the sole final of the Diamond League.[2] One of the first
large-scale international athletics events (outside the Summer Olympics), it is
sometimes referred to as the one-day Olympics. Weltklasse Zürich first took place
on 12 August 1928. In the beginning, the meeting was nicknamed by the public the
"Nurmi meeting" after the most admired and celebrated participant at the time,
Paavo Nurmi. On 21 June 1960, on the Letzigrund track, Armin Hary became the first
human to run the 100 m dash in 10.0 seconds.

UBS has supported Weltklasse Zürich as its main sponsor since 1981.[3] Other
sponsors are Vaudoise Assurances, Migros, Le Gruyère Switzerland, Medica, Omega,
Swiss, Lexus, Erdgas and Puma.[4]

Contents
1 History
2 Track surface
3 World records
4 Meeting records
4.1 Men
4.2 Women
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History
The meeting was conceived in 1924 by athletic section of the FC Zürich which became
1934 the Leichtathletik Club Zürich and first held at the Letzigrund on a dirt
track on 12 August 1928 as the Internationales Leichtathletik-Meeting in Zürich.[5]
[6] The meet would not be held regularly on an annual basis until 1973, and the
Weltklasse introduced electronic timing the following year.[5]

Track surface
The first surface was made of dirt in 1928, and the first synthetic track surface
in Europe was installed in 1968. The number of lanes was increased to eight in the
early 1970s which forced the Weltklasse to be put on hold for a few years for the
construction to take place.[5]

The current surface at the Letzigrund Stadium was developed in 2014 by the Swiss
company CONICA.[7][8][9] The new surface was installed in June 2014 at a cost of
800,000 CHF and was paid for by the city of Zurich, which owns Letzigrund Stadium.
[10]
World records
Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at Weltklasse
Zürich.[11]

Year Event Record Athlete Nationality

2009 Pole vault 5.06 m Yelena Isinbayeva Russia
2006 100 m 9.77 (+1.0 m/s) Asafa Powell Jamaica
1997 800 m 1:41.24 Wilson Kipketer Denmark
1997 3000 m steeplechase 7:59.08 Wilson Boit Kipketer Kenya
1997 5000 m 12:41.86 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia
1996 Mile 4:12.56 Svetlana Masterkova Russia
1995 5000 m 12:44.39 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia
1995 3000 m steeplechase 7:59.18 Moses Kiptanui Kenya
1992 3000 m steeplechase 8:02.08 Moses Kiptanui Kenya
1991 4 × 100 m relay 37.67 Michael Marsh
Leroy Burrell
Dennis Mitchell
Carl Lewis United States
1989 110 m hurdles 12.92 (−0.1 m/s) Roger Kingdom United States
1988 400 m 43.29 Harry ("Butch") Reynolds United States
1985 Mile 4:16.71 Mary Slaney United States
1984 100 m 10.76 (+1.7 m/s) Evelyn Ashford United States
1981 Mile 3:48.53 Sebastian Coe United Kingdom
1981 110 m hurdles 12.93 (−0.2 m/s) Renaldo Nehemiah United States
1980 1500 m 3:52.47 Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union
1979 1500 m 3:32.1 Sebastian Coe United Kingdom
1975 Discus throw 70.20 m Faina Melnik Soviet Union
1973 110 m hurdles 13.1 Rod Milburn United States
1969 110 m hurdles 13.2 Willie Davenport United States
1960 100 m 10.0 Armin Hary West Germany
1959 200 m hurdles (bend) 22.5 (+1.2 m/s) Martin Lauer West Germany
1959 120 yd hurdles 13.2 (+1.9 m/s) / 13.56 Martin Lauer West Germany
110 m hurdles
Meeting records
Men
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Ref
100 m 9.76 (+1.4 m/s) Yohan Blake Jamaica 30 August 2012 [12][13]
200 m 19.66 (+0.0 m/s) Usain Bolt Jamaica 30 August 2012 [14][15]
400 m 43.29 Harry ("Butch") Reynolds United States 17 August 1988
800 m 1:41.24 Wilson Kipketer Denmark 13 August 1997
1500 m 3:26.45 Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco 12 August 1998
Mile 3:45.19 Noureddine Morceli Algeria 16 August 1995
3000 m 7:32.54 Said Aouita Morocco 13 August 1986
5000 m 12:41.86 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 13 August 1997
110 m hurdles 12.92 (−0.1 m/s) Roger Kingdom United States 16 August
1989
400 m hurdles 46.92 Karsten Warholm Norway 29 August 2019 [16]
3000 m steeplechase 7:56.54 Saif Saeed Shaheen Qatar 18 August
2006
7:53.17 X Brahim Boulami Morocco 16 August 2002
High jump 2.40 m Charles Austin United States 7 August 1991
Pole vault 6.06 m Armand Duplantis Sweden 9 September 2021 [17]
Long jump 8.65 m (-0.5 m/s) DLR Juan Miguel Echevarría Cuba 29 August 2019
[18]
Triple jump 17.80 m (+0.1 m/s) Christian Taylor United States 1 September
2016 [19]
Shot put 22.67 m Ryan Crouser United States 8 September 2021 [20]
Discus throw 71.12 m Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania 11 August 2000
Hammer throw 83.24 m Andrey Abduvaliyev Uzbekistan 17 August 1994
Javelin throw 92.28 m Raymond Hecht Germany 14 August 1996
4×100 m relay 37.45 Trell Kimmons
Wallace Spearmon
Tyson Gay
Michael Rodgers United States 19 August 2010
Women
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Ref Video
100 m 10.65 (+0.6 m/s) Elaine Thompson-Herah Jamaica 9 September 2021 [21]
200 m 21.66 (−1.0 m/s) Merlene Ottey Jamaica 15 August 1990
400 m 48.86 Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia 18 August 1982
800 m 1:54.01 Pamela Jelimo Kenya 29 August 2008 [1]
1000 m 2:32.70 Jolanta Januchta Poland 19 August 1981
1500 m 3:52.47 Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union 13 August 1980
Mile 4:12.56 Svetlana Masterkova Russia 14 August 1996
3000 m 8:22.34 Almaz Ayana Ethiopia 3 September 2015 [22]
5000 m 14:30.10 Vivian Cheruiyot Kenya 8 September 2011 [23]
100 m hurdles 12.39 (−0.7 m/s) Gail Devers United States 11 August 2000
400 m hurdles 52.80 Femke Bol Netherlands 9 September 2021 [24]
3000 m steeplechase 8:55.29 Ruth Jebet Bahrain 24 August 2017 [25]
High jump 2.05 m Mariya Lasitskene ANA 8 September 2021 [26]
Pole vault 5.06 m Yelena Isinbayeva Russia 28 August 2009
Long jump 7.39 m (+0.3 m/s) Heike Drechsler East Germany 21 August 1985
Triple jump 15.48 m (0.3 m/s) Yulimar Rojas Venezuela 9 September 2021 [27]
Shot put 20.98 m [28] Valerie Adams New Zealand 28 August 2013
[29]
Discus throw 70.20 m Faina Melnik Soviet Union 20 August 1975
Hammer throw
Javelin throw 69.57 m Christina Obergföll Germany 8 September 2011
[30]
4×100 m relay 41.60 Sherone Simpson
Natasha Morrison
Elaine Thompson
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Jamaica 3 September 2015 [31]
See also
Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern
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"CONICA Track Systems - CONIPUR M". conica.com. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
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competition held at Zurich's main train station
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Diamond Race - IAAF Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
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