FBK games

Lornah Kiplagat at the FBK Games 2007

The FBK Games (full name Fanny Blankers-Koen Games ) are an internationally important athletics meeting that has been held annually in Hengelo in the Netherlands since 1981 . It has been part of the World Challenge since 2010 . The event is named after Fanny Blankers-Koen , one of the most successful athletes in history. The venue is the Fanny Blankers Koen Stadium . Several world records in athletics were set in Hengelo, most notably by Haile Gebrselassie .

name of the event

Launched on July 6, 1981 as Fanny Blankers-Koen Games , the event was called Adriaan Paulen Memorial in memory of the former Dutch athlete and IAAF President Adriaan Paulen from 1987 to 2000 . On the occasion of the IAAF's election of Fanny Blankers-Koen as athlete of the century , the original name was reverted to in 2001. From 2003 to 2007 the official name of the meeting was THALES FBK-Games after the main sponsor, the French Thales Group . Since 2008, after the sponsorship contract expired, the event has been called FBK Games.

World records in Hengelo

The following athletics world records and world best times were set at this event (currently valid record marks marked in bold, as of March 2013):

date	discipline	power	athlete	country
4th June 1994	5000 m	12: 56.96 min	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH
June 5, 1995	10,000 m	26: 43.53 min	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH
May 31, 1997	2 miles	8: 01.08 min	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH
June 1, 1998	10,000 m	26: 22.75 min	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH
May 31, 2004	5000 m	12: 37.35 min	Kenenisa Bekele	ETH

Winner 2016

discipline	M / F	athlete	country	power
Triple jump	Men	Chris Carter	United States	17.12 m
100 m	Women	Asha Philip	United Kingdom	11.27 sec
5,000 m	Women	Letesenbet Gidey	Ethiopia	14: 48.44 min
100 m hurdles	Women	Phylicia George	Canada	12:88 sec
discus	Men	Rodney Brown	United States	65.70 m
110 m hurdles	Men	Gregor Traber	Germany	13:46
Pole vault	Women	Ling Li	People's Republic of China	4.50 m

Web links

Commons : FBK-Games  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (with English version)
• Report from the FBK Games 2009 on LaufReport.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result lists 2016 , from: aadrink-fbkgames.nl