2003 IAAF World Outdoor Meetings

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2003 IAAF World Outdoor Meetings
Edition1st
Dates1 March – 13 September
Meetings34 (+1 final)
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The 2003

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It replaced the IAAF Grand Prix as the IAAF's primary outdoor track and field series. Compared to the 2002 IAAF Grand Prix, a new tier of meetings – IAAF Super Grand Prix – was introduced and the IAAF Permit Meetings concept was dropped. The series had four levels: 2003 IAAF Golden League, Super Grand Prix, Grand Prix and Grand Prix II. There were 6 Golden League meetings, Super Grand Prix category featured 7 meetings from 12 June to 8 August, the IAAF Grand Prix category featured 10 meetings from 4 May to 7 September and Grand Prix II featured 11 meetings from 1 March to 3 August, making a combined total of 34 meetings for the series.[1]

The

Asics GP Helsinki and the Rieti Meeting from Grand Prix II status. The Grand Prix II meetings were mostly upgraded IAAF Permit Meetings (Meeting du Conseil General de la Martinique, Notturna di Milano, Memorial Primo Nebiolo, Brothers Znamensky Memorial, Josef Odložil Memorial, KBC Night of Athletics and International Meeting Thessaloniki
) with four pre-existing GPII meetings retaining that status.

Four meetings changed venue from 2002: the

Qatar Athletic Grand Prix
in Doha (which was not held that year).

Performances on designated events on the circuit earned athletes points which qualified them for entry to the 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final, held on 13–14 September in Monaco. This competition replaced the IAAF Grand Prix Final, with the key difference being that the new final held a full set of track and field events, rather than the rotating partial event schedule of the Grand Prix Final.[2] The points scoring format of previous years was replaced with a world rankings system which scored athletes on both their finishing position at qualifying meetings and also the standard of their performance based on IAAF Scoring Tables. The world rankings system formed the selection criteria for entry to the World Athletics Final rather than exclusively placings at IAAF Grand Prix meetings.[3]

Meetings

# Date Meeting name City Country Level
1 1 March
Telstra A-Series Melbourne
 Melbourne Australia IAAF Grand Prix II
2 26 April Meeting du Conseil General de la Martinique Fort-de-France France IAAF Grand Prix II
3 4 May
Grande Premio de Brasil de Atletismo
 Belém Brazil IAAF Grand Prix I
4 10 May Japan Grand Prix Osaka Japan IAAF Grand Prix I
5 17 May Adidas Oregon Track Classic Gresham United States IAAF Grand Prix II
6 24 May Prefontaine Classic Eugene United States IAAF Grand Prix I
7 1 June
THALES FBK-Games
 Hengelo Netherlands IAAF Grand Prix I
8 3 June Notturna di Milano Milan Italy IAAF Grand Prix II
9 6 June
Meeting Memorial Primo Nebiolo
 Turin Italy IAAF Grand Prix II
10 7 June U.S. Track & Field Open Palo Alto United States IAAF Grand Prix II
11 7 June Meeting de Atletismo Sevilla Seville Spain IAAF Grand Prix I
12 8 June
Znamenski Memorial
 Tula Russia IAAF Grand Prix II
13 10 June Cena Slovenska - Slovak Gold Bratislava Slovakia IAAF Grand Prix II
14 15 June
Lille Metropole Meeting
 Villeneuve-d'Ascq France IAAF Grand Prix I
15 12 June Golden Spike Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic IAAF Super Grand Prix
16 24 June
Super Grand Prix Tsiklitiria
 Trikala Greece IAAF Super Grand Prix
17 27 June Bislett Games Oslo Norway 2003 IAAF Golden League
18 29 June
Memorial Josefa Odlozila
 Prague Czech Republic IAAF Grand Prix II
19 1 July Athletissima Lausanne Switzerland IAAF Super Grand Prix
20 4 July Meeting de Paris Paris France 2003 IAAF Golden League
21 7 July
Grand Prix Zagreb
 Zagreb Croatia IAAF Grand Prix I
22 11 July Golden Gala Rome Italy 2003 IAAF Golden League
23 13 July Norwich Union Classic Gateshead United Kingdom IAAF Super Grand Prix
24 19 July
Meeting de Madrid
 Madrid Spain IAAF Super Grand Prix
25 31 July
Intersport Gugl-Meeting
 Linz Austria IAAF Grand Prix I
26 2 August KBC Night of Athletics Heusden-Zolder Belgium IAAF Grand Prix II
27 3 August International Meeting Thessaloníki Thessaloniki Greece IAAF Grand Prix II
28 5 August
DN Galan
 Stockholm Sweden IAAF Super Grand Prix
29 8 August Norwich Union British Grand Prix London United Kingdom IAAF Super Grand Prix
30 10 August ISTAF Berlin Berlin Germany 2003 IAAF Golden League
31 15 August Weltklasse Zürich Zürich Switzerland 2003 IAAF Golden League
32 18 August
Asics GP Helsinki
 Helsinki Finland IAAF Grand Prix I
33 5 September Memorial Van Damme Brussels Belgium 2003 IAAF Golden League
34 7 September Rieti Meeting Rieti Italy IAAF Grand Prix I
F 13–14 September 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final Fontvieille Monaco IAAF World Athletics Final

References

  1. ^ Grand Prix Schedule 2003. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  2. ^ IAAF Grand Prix Final. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  3. ^ World Rankings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
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