The World Athletics Indoor Tour, formerly the IAAF World Indoor Tour, is an annual series of indoor track and field meetings, held since 2016. It was designed to create a Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field, and replaced the IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings series.
The tour was announced with initially four meetings, three in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon. Winners of the Tour enjoy similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to the World Athletics Championships. The tour was initially in place for two years.
The Düsseldorf leg was added for the 2017 Tour, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Toruń, Poland. In 2018, the tour became a permanent fixture, and the Meeting Ville de Madrid was added as the sixth event on the tour. For 2020, the tour added a seventh leg in Liévin, France.
In 2021, the tour expanded by introducing three levels of competition: Gold, Silver and Bronze, mirroring the expanded outdoor World Athletics Continental Tour. In 2022, the tour expanded with the fourth tier: Challenger.
The tour is organised to allow for major indoor championships including the World Athletics Indoor Championships and the European Athletics Indoor Championships and, where appropriate, national championships and trials.
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(Gold Standard) Meetings
In keeping with the indoor season generally, the season for the World Athletics Indoor Tour is considerably shorter than for the outdoor Diamond League, with the tour concluded in little over a month, and meetings often held only a few days apart. The meeting in Boston is the ever-present in the history of the tour. The most recent expansion is the Belgrade Indoor Meeting, added for the first time in 2025. Typically, major international championship events take place after the conclusion of the tour season.
# Meeting Arena City Country201620172018201920202021202220232024202520262027 12 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center /Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Boston /New York City • • • • • • • ••••• 11 Copernicus Cup Arena Toruń Toruń – • • • • • • ••••• 11 Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe Dm-Arena Karlsruhe • • • • • • • •–••• 10 Villa de Madrid Indoor MeetingGallur Municipality Sport Complex Madrid – – • • • • • ••••• 8 Meeting Hauts de France Pas de CalaisArena Stade Couvert de LiévinLiévin – – – – • • • ••••• 7 Müller Indoor Grand Prix Commonwealth Arena /Utilita Arena Birmingham Glasgow /Birmingham • • • • • – • •–––– 6 Millrose Games Fort Washington Avenue Armory New York City – – – – – – • ••••• 4 PSD Bank Meeting Arena-Sportpark Düsseldorf – • • • • – – –––––4Czech Indoor GalaOstravar ArénaOstrava––––––––••••3Belgrade Indoor MeetingAtletska dvorana BeogradBelgrade–––––––––•••2Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov PrizesQazaqstan Indoor Track and Field ArenaAstana––––––––••–– 1 Globen Galan Ericsson Globe Stockholm • – – – – – – ––––– 1 Banskobystricka latka Stiavnicky Sport Hall Banská Bystrica – – – – – • – –––––
Scoring system At each meeting a minimum of 12 events are to be staged. Included in the 12 events will be a core group of five or six events split across the two-season cycle.
For example: tour events for 2016 and 2018 were the men's 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, plus the women's 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.
In 2017 and 2019 the tour events were the women's 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, as well as the men's 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.
Points will be allocated to the best four athletes in each event, with the winner getting 10 points, the runner up receiving seven points, the third-placed finisher getting five points and the athlete in fourth receiving three points. Only each athlete's best three results in the tour per event group will count for scoring.
The individual overall winner of each event will receive US$20,000 in prize money and, beginning with the 2016 edition in Portland, will automatically qualify for the next edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships as a ‘wild card’ entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agrees to enter the athlete. The individual overall winner of each event received a US$10,000 bonus in 2021.NEWS 24 FEB 2021 2021 World Athletics Indoor Tour winners secure wildcards for Belgrade World Athletics
Current meetings
2027 Date Meeting Venue Country Gold Level Meetings (8) 27 Jan Belgrade Indoor Meeting Belgrade 2 Feb Czech Indoor Gala Ostrava 4 Feb World Indoor Tour Gold Madrid Madrid 6 Feb New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Boston 7 Feb INIT Meeting Karlsruhe Karlsruhe 10 Feb Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais "Trophée EDF" Liévin 11–13 Feb Millrose Games New York City 14 FebORLEN Copernicus CupToruń
Winners
The following table sets out the overall winners of World Indoor Tour disciplines in each year of the Tour.
Men's track Year 60 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 3000 m 60 m h 2016 – – – 2017 – – – 2018 – – – 2019 – – – 2020 – – – 2021 – – – 2022 – – – 2023 – – – 2024–––2025–––2026–––
Men's field Year Long jump Triple jump High jump Pole vault Shot put 2016 – – 2017 – – – 2018 – – 2019 – – – 2020 – – 2021 – – – 2022 – – 2023 – – –2024––2025–––2026––
Women's track Year 60 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 3000 m 60 m h 2016 – – – 2017 – – – 2018 – – – 2019 – – – 2020 – – – 2021 – – – 2022 – – – 2023 – – –2024–––2025–––2026–––
Women's field Year Long jump Triple jump High jump Pole vault Shot put 2016 – – – 2017 – – 2018 – – – 2019 – – 2020 – – – 2021 – – 2022 – – – 2023 – – 2024–––2025––2026–––
World Athletics Indoor Tour records The following tour records are correct as of the end of the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Tour.
+Men's Indoor Tour recordsEventRecordAthleteNationalityDateMeetPlace60 m6.43Bingtian Su6 February 2018PSD Bank MeetingDüsseldorf400 m45.01Attila Molnár3 February 2026Czech Indoor GalaOstrava800 m1:42.50Josh Hoey24 January 2026New Balance Indoor Grand PrixBoston1500 m3:29.63Jakob Ingebrigtsen13 February 2025Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-CalaisLiévinMile3:45.14Jakob Ingebrigtsen13 February 2025Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-CalaisLiévin3000 m7:22.91Grant Fisher8 February 2025Millrose GamesNew York City60 m hurdles7.29Grant Holloway24 February 2021Villa de Madrid Indoor MeetingMadridHigh jump2.35 mNaoto Tobe2 February 2019Weltklasse in KarlsruheKarlsruheLong jump8.45 mBozhidar Sarâboyukov11 February 2026Belgrade Indoor MeetingBelgradeTriple jump17.82 mHugues Fabrice Zango9 February 2021Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-CalaisLiévinPole vault6.31 mArmand Duplantis12 March 2026Mondo ClassicUppsalaShot put22.58 mRyan Crouser11 February 2023Millrose GamesNew York City
+Women's Indoor Tour recordsEventRecordAthleteNationalityDateMeetPlace60 m6.98Elaine Thompson18 February 2017Birmingham Indoor Grand PrixBirmingham400 m49.63Femke Bol10 February 2024Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-CalaisLiévin800 m1:54.87Keely Hodgkinson19 February 2026Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-CalaisLiévin1500 m3:53.09Gudaf Tsegay9 February 2021Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-CalaisLiévinMile4:16.16Gudaf Tsegay8 February 2023Copernicus CupToruń3000 m8:16.69Gudaf Tsegay25 February 2023World Indoor Tour FinalBirmingham60 m hurdles7.67Devynne Charlton11 February 2024Millrose GamesNew York CityHigh jump2.02 mYaroslava Mahuchikh31 January 2020Weltklasse in KarlsruheKarlsruheLong jump7.07 mMalaika Mihambo7 February 2025Weltklasse in KarlsruheKarlsruheTriple jump15.43 mYulimar Rojas21 February 2020Villa de Madrid Indoor MeetingMadridPole vault4.91 mAnzhelika Sidorova8 February 2019Villa de Madrid Indoor MeetingMadridShot put20.69 mJessica Schilder6 March 2026ISTAF IndoorBerlin
+Other recordsRecord #HolderEventsMost titles 2 800 metres(2016 and 2018) Most event wins (men)6 800 metresMost event wins (women)3 400 metres800 metres1500, 3000 metresHigh jump3000 metres
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