The IAAF Grand Prix II was an annual series of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It was introduced in 1994 as an expansion of the IAAF Grand Prix series, adding a second category of competitions in order to support a greater number of meetings with the financial benefit of being an official Grand Prix meeting. Prior to its creation, meetings not on the Grand Prix list were included as IAAF Permit Meetings. Further additions to the Grand Prix II level required a competition to have held permit status for two years.Grand Prix & Grand Prix II. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-29. Over the competition's history, at least 24 different meetings were part of the circuit.

Athletes earned points at the meetings, dependent upon their finishing position, and the overall points leaders from the wider circuit gained entry to the annual IAAF Grand Prix Final in 1994 to 2002, then the IAAF World Athletics Final from 2003 to 2005.

The role of the Grand Prix II category changed over the years, starting as the second tier of the IAAF Grand Prix before changing to the third tier with the introduction of the IAAF Golden League in 1998. The creation of the IAAF World Outdoor Meetings tour in 2003 reorganised the IAAF's one-day circuit into four tiers, with the IAAF Super Grand Prix becoming the second most prestigious grouping and the IAAF Grand Prix II as the fourth and lowest level. The category was made defunct in 2006, when the IAAF World Athletics Tour was created.

Editions The IAAF Grand Prix II calendar was subject to change during its lifetime, with the number of meetings, the constituent meetings, and the duration of the series all regularly changing from year to year.

Key:

EditionYearStart dateEnd dateMeetsFinalFinal date 1 1994 1 June 28 August 8 1994 IAAF Grand Prix Final 3 September 2 1995 30 May 5 September 9 1995 IAAF Grand Prix Final 9 September 3 1996 19 February 1 September 12 1996 IAAF Grand Prix Final 7 September IAAF Grand Prix II Schedule 1996. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-29. 4 1997 20 February 7 September 10 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final 13 September Grand Prix II 1997. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-29. 5 1998 25 February 30 August 11 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final 5 September 1998 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. 6 1999 25 February 5 September 11 1999 IAAF Grand Prix Final 11 September 1999 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. 7 2000 2 March 3 September 10 2000 IAAF Grand Prix Final 5 October 2000 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. 8 2001 1 March 2 September 11 2001 IAAF Grand Prix Final 9 September 2001 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. 9 2002 7 March 8 September 11 2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final 14 September Grand Prix Schedule 2002. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. 10 2003 1 March 3 August 11 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final 13–14 September Grand Prix Schedule 2003. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. 11 2004 12 February 31 July 11 2004 IAAF World Athletics Final 18–19 September Grand Prix Schedule 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. 12 2005 17 February 23 July 10 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final 9–10 September Grand Prix Schedule 2005. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.

Meetings

# Meeting City Country 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 1 British Grand Prix Gateshead United Kingdom GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 --- 2 FBK Games Hengelo Netherlands GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 --- 3 Rieti Meeting Rieti Italy GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 --- 4 Helsinki Grand Prix Helsinki Finland GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 --- 5 Gran Premio Diputación Seville Spain GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 --- 6 Gugl Grand Prix Linz Austria GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 --- 7 Cena Slovenska - Slovak Gold Bratislava Slovakia GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 -- 8 Meeting de L'Humanité St. Denis France GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 ------ 9 Melbourne Track Classic Melbourne Australia -- GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 10 Engen Grand Prix Johannesburg South Africa -- GP2 GP2 - - - Pretoria GP2 GP2 GP2 GP2 Roodepoort GP2 11 Bruce Jenner Classic San Jose United States -- GP2 --------- 12 Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix Doha Qatar ---- GP2 ------- 13 Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria Athens Greece ----- GP2 ------ 14 Hanžeković Memorial Zagreb Croatia ------ GP2 GP2 GP2 --- 15 Adidas Oregon Track Classic Portland United States - - - - - - - GP2 GP2 GP2 - Gresham GP2 16 Brothers Znamensky Memorial Moscow Russia - GP2 - - - - - - - Tula GP2 Kazan GP2 GP2 17 International Meeting Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece --------- GP2 GP2 GP2 18 Palo Alto Meeting Palo Alto United States --------- GP2 GP2 GP2 19 Meeting du Conseil Général de la Martinique Fort-de-France France --------- GP2 GP2 GP2 20 Notturna di Milano Milan Italy --------- GP2 GP2 GP2 21 Memorial Primo Nebiolo Turin Italy --------- GP2 GP2 GP2 22 Josef Odložil Memorial Prague Czech Republic --------- GP2 GP2 GP2 23 KBC Night of Athletics Heusden-Zolder Belgium --------- GP2 GP2 GP2 24 Grande Premio Rio de Atletismo Rio de Janeiro Brazil ---------- GP2 GP2 The South African meet was called All Africa Invitational in 1996–1998

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