Ostrava Golden Spike

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Ostrava Golden Spike
venue Ostrava
Type Athletics meeting
history
Organized since 1961
Official dates
Website Ostrava Golden Spike
league World Athletics Continental Tour

The Ostrava Golden Spike ( Zlatá tretra Ostrava in Czech ) is an annual international athletics meeting in the Městský Stadium in Ostrava (Czech Republic).

history

The sports festival has been taking place since 1961. From 2003 to 2005 it was part of the IAAF Super Grand Prix and then to 2009 the Grand Prix. Since 2010 it has been part of the World Challenge series. The meeting became part of the World Athletics Continental Tour (Gold Level). In 2020 the event had to be postponed from May 22nd to September 8th due to the Covid-19 pandemic .

The stadium in which the meeting takes place holds 22,000 spectators and is regularly sold out.

The meeting became known in particular for setting new world records .

The Czech Emil Zátopek managed to set two world records over 10,000 meters in 1949 . On June 11th, he completed the distance in 29: 28.2 minutes. When Viljo Heino from Finland was able to undercut this time by exactly one second on September 1st, Zátopek competed again in Ostrava on October 22nd and set the world record to 29: 21.2 minutes.

In 2004, the Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele set a world record in the 10,000 meter run . He needed 26: 20.31 min for this. On the same day, Stacy Dragila (USA) jumped 4.83 m in the pole vault and thus shared the record with Jelena Issinbajewa (Russia), who had jumped just as high in February 2004.

In 2007 the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie set a world record in the hour run . With 21,285 m he exceeded the old mark of Arturo Barrios (Mexico) by 184 meters. His interim time after 20,000 m of 56: 25.98 minutes was also a world record.

Other (meanwhile no longer existing) world records that were achieved at the meeting are:

Web links

Commons : Ostrava Golden Spike  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicolas Walter / dpa: Flash-News of the day - Golden Spike-Meeting will be made up in September , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from May 22, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020