The 2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour was the second edition of the IAAF World Indoor Tour, the highest level of 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.
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, the second edition contained 5 meetings, and took place in a year with no World Indoor championships; therefore qualification places were not applicable. The Globen Galan was removed from this year's series, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland for 2017. The PSD Bank Meeting in Düsseldorf was also added, while the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix returned to its traditional home, having been in Glasgow in 2016.
Meetings For the 2017 edition, the Stockholm meeting was removed, and two further meetings added.http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/iaaf-details-2017-world-indoor-tour-53104 Details of 2017 World Indoor Tour announced. In addition, as part of a long-term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix moved to Birmingham, England.
MeetStadiumCityCountryDateNew Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston28 JanuaryPSD Bank MeetingArena SportparkDüsseldorf1 FebruaryWeltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe / Rheinstetten4 FebruaryCopernicus CupArena ToruńToruń10 FebruaryBirmingham Indoor Grand PrixBarclaycard ArenaBirmingham18 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.
Indoor Tour Events
The following events were core Tour events for the 2017 indoor season:
Men
400 metres 1500 metres 60 metre hurdles High jump Long jump
Women
60 metres 800 metres 3000 metres Pole vault Triple jump Shot put
Results
Men's track
1Boston 6.66 (200 m) 32.67 (600 m) 1:16.57 (Mile) 3:55.78 7:42.39 -2Düsseldorf 6.56 46.00 1:46.17 3:37.62 7:44.73 7.513Karlsruhe - - 1:46.80 3:38.51 - 7.444Toruń 6.46 45.59 1:46.34 3:37.63 - 7.485Birmingham 6.55 45.89 1:46.13 3:36.42 (5000 m) 13:09.16 7.43 Overall - - -
Men's field
1Boston 2.28 7.80 - - -2Düsseldorf - - -3Karlsruhe 2:30 8.05 - - -4Toruń 2:27 - - - -5Birmingham 2.31 7.99 - - - Overall - - -
Women's track
1Boston 7.17 (300 m) 36.87 2:02.01 - 8:39.08 -2Düsseldorf 7.16 - 2:00.91 - - 7.953Karlsruhe 7.14 - 2:19.99 - 8:26.41 7.764Toruń 7.13 52.17 1:59.29 3:58.80 - 7:965Birmingham 6.98 51.77 2:01.12 (1000m) 2:31.93 8:29.41 7.83 Overall - - -
Women's field
1Boston - - 14.01 4.63 -2Düsseldorf - - 14.11 4.72 18.173Karlsruhe - - - 4.67 18.414Toruń - - 13.97 4.60 -5Birmingham - 6.76 - 4:63 18.97 Overall - -
Final 2017 World Indoor Tour standings
Men
400 m 1500 60m hurdles High jumpLong jump 27 22 27 15 20 20 20 20 4 athletesErik Kynard, Naoto Tobe, Pavel Seliverstau and Sylwester Bednarek 7 15 15 17 3 athletes David King, Dmitri Bascou and Konstadinos Douvalídis. 7 3 athletes.Julian Howard, Michel Tornéus and Tyrone Smith 7 2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour Standings - Men, from IAAF.org
Women
60 m 800 m3000m Pole vaultTriple jumpShot put 22 30 27 24 20 27 20 14 14 20 14 17 12 13 10 17 10 13 2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour Standings - Women, from IAAF.org
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