International Golden Roof Challenge

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Pole Vault (2019)
Long jump (2019)
Pole Vault (2019)

The International Golden Roof Challenge (officially only: Golden Roof Challenge ) is an athletics meeting that has been taking place annually since 2005, one day on a Friday or Saturday, typically in late May or early June in Innsbruck . The facilities for the pole vault and long jump competitions are set up in the middle of the old town in front of the Golden Roof , which gives the event its name. The organizers constructed "The FlySwat" in 2012, the largest mobile athletics facility in the world (IAAF certified). The successful concept was then further developed and the first in-city athletic series in the world was launched in 2013 with the Golden Fly Series. After the start with the 9th Int. Golden Roof Challenge (Innsbruck) made the series in 2013 in Munich (Jump & Fly), Cologne (Buderus Kölner Rheinspringen) and Salzburg (Salzburg City Jump) station and delighted tens of thousands of viewers and an audience of millions in front of the television screens. In February 2014 the meeting director of the Int. Golden Roof Challenge as well as initiator and CEO of the Golden Fly Series Dipl. Trainer Armin Margreiter from the Austrian Athletics Association honored with the title "Athletics Ambassador of the Year". The award was presented personally by IAAF Vice President and pole vault legend Serhij Bubka (UKR). Bubka improved no less than 35 world records and was able to win a total of 10 world championship titles.

statistics

Event records

Winners list

Pole vault

year Men Height (m) Women Height (m)
2019 GreeceGreece Konstandinos Filippidis 5.61 SwedenSweden Angelica Bengtsson 4.61
2018 GreeceGreece Konstandinos Filippidis 5.55 UkraineUkraine Maryna Kylypko 4.25
2017 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Luke Cutts 5.40 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Amálie Švábíková 4.25
2016 SloveniaSlovenia Robert Renner 5.45 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Ling 4.40
2015 PortugalPortugal Edi Maia 5.50 BrazilBrazil Fabiana Murer 4.60
2014 RussiaRussia Sergei Kucheryanu 5.68
2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Kudlička 5.00
2012 PolandPoland Przemysław Czerwiński 5.60
2011 United StatesUnited States Derek Miles 5.55
2010 United StatesUnited States Mark Hollis 5.62
2009 GermanyGermany Fabian Schulze 5.61
2008 United StatesUnited States Jeff Hartwig 5.60
2007 United StatesUnited States Daniel Ryland 5.41
2006 GermanyGermany Michael Stolle 5.45
2005 NetherlandsNetherlands Laurens Looije 5.40

Long jump

year Men Width (m) Women Width (m)
2019 CubaCuba Juan Miguel Echevarría 8.15 UkraineUkraine Maryna Bech-Romantschuk 6.74
2018 GermanyGermany Markus Rehm 8.15 UkraineUkraine Maryna Bech 6.56
2017 GermanyGermany Markus Rehm 8.13 RussiaRussia Darja Igorewna Klischina 6.48
2016 GermanyGermany Markus Rehm 8.18 South AfricaSouth Africa Lynique Prinsloo 6.37
2015 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Radek Juška 8.15 RomaniaRomania Alina Rotaru 6.72
2014 RussiaRussia Pavel Shalin 7.99 GermanyGermany Sosthene Moguenara 6.65
2013 RussiaRussia Sergei Morgunov 7.81 RomaniaRomania Alina Rotaru 6.38
2012 BrazilBrazil Mauro Vinícius da Silva 7.98 RussiaRussia Elena Sokolova 6.83
2011 GhanaGhana Ignisious Gaisah 7.90 GermanyGermany Michelle Weitzel 6.60
2010 GhanaGhana Ignisious Gaisah 8.18 PolandPoland Teresa Dobija 6.54
2009 AustriaAustria Julian Kellerer 7.74 GermanyGermany Melanie Bauschke 6.61
2008 Flag of Denmark.svg Morten Jensen 7.88 GermanyGermany Melanie Bauschke 6.49
2007 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Julien Fivaz 7.50 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simone Oberer 5.93
2006 MoroccoMorocco Younis Moudrik 7.65 SlovakiaSlovakia Jana Velďáková 6.48
2005 GermanyGermany Peter Rapp 7.96 GermanyGermany Bianca Kappler 6.43

Location and facility "The FlySwat"

The system (from 2012: The FlySwat) was set up as a horizontal platform on the 160 m long Herzog-Friedrich-Straße (part of the pedestrian zone in the old town), which runs approximately north (towards 1/2 noon) to the Golden Roof leads there.

In 2019, the 72 m long system was aligned in the north with the house gate immediately to the left of the Golden Roof. The platform at the widened north end carries the 0.8 m high mat for the pole vault. At the southern end of the track is the wider sandpit for the long jump.

Long jumpers run south: a film camera facing the long jumpers axially northwards sees the Golden Roof on the right above the athlete. Pole vaulters run to the north: There are camera perspectives from which the pole vaulters are shown together with the golden oriel roof that extends to the 4th floor of the building.

English fly swat means fly swat and refers to the similarity of the shape of the plant in its plan view. The run-up track and the sandpit, which is about twice as wide, correspond to the long handle with the handle of the hand tool, the rectangle of the multiple-wide high jump mat corresponds to the fly-killing striking surface.

The facility, which has been renewed and expanded for 2020, is more flexible and allows long jump, triple jump, pole vault, shot put and sprint and is also suitable as a platform for show acts and fashion shows, will be inaugurated in September 2020. It now bears the brand name The FlySwat - MultiTrack , can be extended to a maximum length of 83.30 m, weighs 25 t including 10 m 3 of quartz sand . and can be transported disassembled in a standard truck.

In the Corona year , the event was postponed from the planned date of June 6th to September 5th, 2020 and - due to a major construction site at the traditional location - it was moved to the wider Maria-Theresien-Straße , which extends the street previously used in a straight line to the south. Its northernmost section north of the Anna column is about 140 m long. On September 5, 2020 there are 750 numbered seats for the public with free admission. Mask requirement only applies on the way to the seat.

Historical reference - jousting games

The Golden Roof was built between 1497 and 1500, on behalf of the German king, who became Emperor Maximilian I (HRR) from 1508 and died in 1519.

[[ Knight tournaments ]] took place on the square in front of the Golden Roof . Reference was made in 2019 to the 500th year of Maximilian's death (Max 500 commemorative year) and at least since 2018 with the installation of a knight's armor and a long pole - almost as a mascot - to the games.

Web links

Commons : Golden Roof Challenge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Rauth Christoph: Great atmosphere and record: That was the Golden Roof Challenge in Innsbruck. TT online, June 8, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Int. Golden Roof Challenge 2017 results. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c 12th Int. Golden Roof Challenge May 25, 2016. In: www.goldenroofchallenge.at. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016 ; accessed on October 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Sosthene Moguenara jumped 6.61 m in her longest attempt. The decision about the victory was made by comparing the second best widths of the athletes. Here Bauschke was 6.50 m compared to 6.41 m in front of Moguenara.
  5. ↑ New location for Golden Roof Challenge orf.at, August 19, 2020, accessed August 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ The FlySwat - the largest mobile athletics facility in the world flyswat.at, accessed August 19, 2020.
  7. ↑ 15th Int. Golden Roof Challenge - cult event in front of the Golden Roof Reise-stories.de, May 7, 2019, accessed August 19, 2020.