The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour was the inaugural edition of the IAAF World Indoor Tour, planned as an annual series of track and field indoor meetings. It was designed to create an IAAF Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field athletics.
The Tour was announced with initially four events for 2016, three in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon. Winners of the Tour enjoyed similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to World Championships in Athletics. This was the only edition of the tour that featured the Globen Galan, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland for 2017.
Meetings The following four meetings were confirmed for the 2016 season: MeetStadiumCityCountryDateWeltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe / Rheinstetten6 FebruaryNew Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston14 FebruaryGloben GalanEricsson GlobeStockholm17 FebruaryGlasgow Indoor Grand PrixEmirates ArenaGlasgow20 February
Scoring system At each meeting a minimum of 12 events were staged. Included in the 12 events will be a core group of five or six events split across the two-season cycle.
Tour events for 2016 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.
Points were 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.
The individual overall winner of each event received US $20,000 in prize money and, beginning with the 2016 edition in Portland, automatically qualified for the next edition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships as a ‘wild card’ entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agreed to enter the athlete.
Indoor Tour Events
The following events are core Tour events for the 2019 indoor season:
Men
60 metres 800 metres 3000 metres Pole vault Triple jump Shot put
Women
400 metres 1500 metres 60 metre hurdles High jump Long jump
Results
Men's track
1Karlsruhe2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour - Karlsruhe results 6.52 - 1:45.96 - 7:43.22 -2Boston2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour - Boston results 6.53 (300m) 32.70 (600 m) 1:15.51 (1000 m) 2:16.68 (mile) 3:53.27 7:42.94 -3Stockholm2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour - Stockholm results - (500m) 59.83 1:45.63 (1000m) 2:14.20 WR 7:39.04 -4Glasgow2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour - Glasgow results 6.56 46.02 - 3:34.94 7:39.55 - 7.63 Overall - - -
Men's field
1Karlsruhe - 8.03m 16.99 m 5.91 m 20.89m 2Boston - - 16.82 5.77 21.57 3Stockholm - 8.12 - - 21.334Glasgow - 8.08 16.93 5.89 - Overall - -
Women's track
1Karlsruhe 7.08 52.60 - 4:08.22 - 7.862Boston 7.15 (300 m) 36.35 - 4:01.86 8:30.83 7.87 3Stockholm (200 m) 23.38 53.21 - (mile) 4:13.31 WR - -4Glasgow 7.10 52.05 2:00.19 4:01.40 8:49.06 7.92 Overall - - -
Women's field
1Karlsruhe 1.93 m - - - -2Boston - 6.63 - 4.83 -3Stockholm 1.95 6.76 - 4.81 -4Glasgow 1.93 6.80 - - - Overall - - -
Final 2016 World Indoor Tour standings
Men
60 m 800 m3000m Triple jumpPole vaultShot put 27 30 17 20 24 20 17 10 14 14 10 10 10 3 athletes.Mo Farah, Dejen Gebremeskel and Abdelaati Iguider. 10 10 3 athletes.Andrei Gag, Michal Haratyk and Reese Hoffa. 7 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour Standings - Men, from IAAF.org
Women
400 m 1500 60m hurdles High jumpLong jump 15 20 21 15 17 10 14 20 12 12 3 athletes Genzebe Dibaba, Dawit Seyaum and Sifan Hassan 10 2 athletes Tiffany Porter and Brianna McNeal 10 3 athletes Ruth Beitia, Alessia Trost and Lavern Spencer 10 2 athletes.Janay DeLoach and Ksenija Balta 10 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour Standings - Women, from IAAF.org
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