ISTAF Berlin

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Tatjana Lebedewa , the winner of the women's triple jump at the ISTAF and Golden League jackpot winner in 2005, in her victorious jump over 14.85 m
David Rudisha after his world record in 2010
Gesa Krause celebrates her world best over 2000 meters obstacle at the ISTAF Berlin 2019.
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The International Stadium Festival Berlin ( ISTAF ) is a traditional athletics event in Berlin . It is part of the World Challenge , a series of 14 meetings.

history

The first event under the name ISTAF took place on July 3, 1921 in the German Stadium . The ISTAF has been held regularly since 1937. During and after World War II there were several years without ISTAF in 1940 and 1943–48. After that it was only canceled in 1951/52 and, after the assassination attempt on Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich, in 1972/73.

The event has been held annually in the Berlin Olympic Stadium since 1955 . The event also took place in a few years as an indoor event in the Deutschlandhalle , most recently in 1968. Four ISTAF events in 1938 and 1941, the first after the war in 1949 and 1953, were held in the Mommsen Stadium. In 2002 and 2003 the ISTAF took place because of the renovation of the Olympic Stadium in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark .

From 1993 to 1997 the ISTAF was part of the Golden Four and was the last venue of the four meetings to be the final. Subsequently, Berlin was part of the Golden League , again with the status of the final location, with the exception of the years 2002 and 2003 when the Olympic Stadium was renovated.

Over the years, 16 world records have been set at ISTAF, including the first two-meter jump in the women's high jump by Rosemarie Ackermann from the GDR on August 26, 1977. In 2004, the Golden League jackpot in Berlin was won by the 400-meter Runner Tonique Williams-Darling from the Bahamas and the Swedish triple jumper Christian Olsson . At the finals on September 4, 2005, Tatiana Lebedeva from Russia was the only one to win the jackpot and received a check for $ 1 million.

In 2006 the jackpot was split among five athletes. The American Sanya Richards (400 m) was the only woman to win her share of $ 250,000. The remaining jackpot was shared by Irving Saladino (Panama, long jump), Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia, 5000 m), Jeremy Wariner (USA, 400 m) and Asafa Powell (Jamaica, 100 m).

In 2007 the International Stadium Festival rose to become the most popular one-day meeting. The Olympic Stadium was occupied down to the last seat with 70,253 spectators. The jackpot was again shared by Sanya Richards (USA, 400 m) and Jelena Gadschijewna Issinbajewa (Russia, pole vault). In 2008, the ISTAF kicked off the Golden League series for the first time and therefore took place on June 1st.

The ISTAF has been part of the World Challenge since 2010. At the premiere on August 22, 2010, the Kenyan David Rudisha ran the world record in 1: 41.09 min over the men's 800 meters and thus improved the previous record by 2/100 seconds.

Since 2014, after 1968, the ISTAF Indoor has been taking place in the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin as an offshoot of the ISTAF Berlin. On January 31, 2021, the ISTAF Indoor Düsseldorf is to be held in Düsseldorf as the successor to the PSD Bank Meeting and in front of a larger backdrop in the ISS Dome .

The meeting director and managing director of the ISTAF is Martin Seeber .

Records

World records

date athlete discipline power
August 1, 1937 Stanisława Walasiewicz ( Poland )PolandPoland  100 m 11.6 s
August 1, 1937 Barbara Burke ( South African Union )South Africa 1928South African Union  80 m hurdles 11.6 s
July 30, 1939 Christel Schulz ( German Empire )German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era)  Long jump 6.12 m
4th July 1970 Kerry O'Brien ( Australia )AustraliaAustralia  3000 m obstacle 8: 22.0 min
22nd August 1975 Steve Williams ( USA )United StatesUnited States  100 m 9.9 s
22nd August 1975 Guy Drut ( France )FranceFrance  110 m hurdles 13.0 s
August 26, 1977 Rosemarie Ackermann ( GDR )Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  high jump 2.00 m
August 18, 1978 Ulrike Bruns ( GDR )Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  1000 m 2: 32.0 min
August 18, 1978 Krystyna Kacperczyk ( Poland )PolandPoland  400 m hurdles 55.44 s
23rd August 1985 Saïd Aouita ( Morocco )MoroccoMorocco  1500 m 3: 29.46 min
August 18, 1989 Arturo Barrios ( Mexico )MexicoMexico  10,000 m 27: 08.23 min
17th August 1990 Christine Wachtel ( GDR )Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  1000 m 2: 30.57 min
September 7, 1999 Hicham El Guerrouj ( Morocco )MoroccoMorocco  2000 m 4: 44.79 min
August 22, 2010 David Rudisha ( Kenya )KenyaKenya  800 m 1: 41.09 min
August 31, 2014 Anita Włodarczyk ( Poland )PolandPoland  Hammer throw 79.58 m

World best

date athlete discipline power
September 6, 2015 Virginia Nyambura Nganga ( Kenya )KenyaKenya  2000 m obstacle 6: 02.16 min
27th August 2017 Caster Semenya ( South Africa )South AfricaSouth Africa  600 m 1: 21.77 min
1st September 2019 Gesa Felicitas Krause ( Germany )GermanyGermany  2000 m obstacle 5: 52.80 min

School competitions

Since 2003, the ISTAF's competition program has also included school competitions. This is where the 50-meter finals of Aktion Deutschland sucht den Supersprinter for 10 to 13-year-old school students take place. The 16 × 50 m relay races for student teams of 8 boys and girls each are also exceptional.

Web links

Commons : ISTAF  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b The history of ISTAF Berlin ( Memento from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , ISTAF
  2. ISTAF is building on new structures , www.leichtathletik.de May 21, 2010
  3. Anja Herrlitz: 1: 41.09 - David Rudisha runs world record , www.leichtathletik.de August 22, 2010
  4. ISTAF Indoor from 2021 also in Düsseldorf , indoor meeting, on: Leichtathletik.de, from February 5, 2020, accessed February 15, 2020
  5. The history of the DKB-ISTAF Berlin (PDF; 228 kB) , ISTAF September 2, 2006
  6. Burke started internationally for both South Africa and Great Britain.
  7. World record set
  8. Ackermann first set the existing record of 1.97 m and then improved it to 2.00 m.