World class Zurich
Weltklasse Zürich is an athletics event that takes place every summer in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich . It was part of the IAAF Golden League series until 2009 , which was then replaced by the Diamond League , of which one of the two final events with 16 competitions took place in Zurich in 2010. The closing event was supposed to take place again in Letzigrund in 2020, but had to be canceled due to the Covid 19 pandemic . Alternatively, a long-distance competition called Weltklasse Zürich Inspiration Games was held.
Weltklasse Zürich took place for the first time on August 12, 1928. Up to the 80th edition in 2008, 26 world records and over 250 national records, including 58 Swiss records, had been set at the athletics meeting . The 27th world record followed in 2009, the first in the new Letzigrund Stadium.
The event is organized by the large-scale event association of the Zurich Athletics Club (VfG / LCZ) , which was founded by members of the LC Zurich .
history
1928: On August 12, 1928, the first "International" takes place on the Letzigrund. 3000 spectators cheered the nine-time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi , who won the 5000 meter run in 15: 18.3 minutes. Hans Schneider from Biel sets the first Swiss record over 400 meter hurdles in 56.4 seconds.
1949: The first world record in the Letzigrund is retrospectively canceled because the ball with which James Fuchs achieved a record distance of 17.96 meters was found to be a bit too light. The 13,000 spectators not only see two Olympic champions and two world record holders, but also a football match between the Young Fellows and FC Nürnberg .
1958: The first meeting in the new Letzigrund stadium, designed for 23,000 spectators, with six circular tracks, takes place in the pouring rain.
1959: The meeting takes place for the first time on July 7, 1959 under the name “Weltklasse Zürich”. In front of 10,842 spectators, the 22-year-old Martin Lauer from Cologne set the first two world records in the history of the Zurich Athletics Meeting. First over 110 meter hurdles in 13.2 seconds, two hours later he runs another record over 200 meter hurdles in 22.5 seconds.
1960: On June 21, 1960, the German Armin Hary became the first person to run the 100 meters in 10.0 seconds. Because the first run was canceled, the 23-year-old German had to start again - and ran again for 10.0 seconds. The first of three Zurich world records to date on the prestigious 100-meter course was a fact.
1965: Women take part in Weltklasse Zürich for the first time. In the race over the 80 meter hurdles, the 16-year-old Meta Antenen equalized the Swiss record with 11.4 seconds.
1968: The first meeting on the new tartan track : Europe's first synthetic track was installed in Letzigrund.
1969: The Lausanne sprinter Philippe Clerc set a European record over 200 meters in 20.3 seconds.
1974: The first meeting with electronic timekeeping and the first live TV broadcast by SF DRS .
1975: The 20,000 spectator mark is exceeded for the first time: Weltklasse Zürich takes place in front of a record crowd of 21,700.
1981: Two world records in one evening: Renaldo Nehemiah breaks a "sound barrier" with 12.93 seconds over 110 meters and Sebastian Coe runs the mile in the new record time of 3: 48.53 minutes. For the first time in history, the BBC interrupts the evening news and joins the Coe race straight away.
1981: The SBG (now UBS ) joins as the main sponsor. The meeting recorded a new record number of spectators with 24,844 people.
1983: The budget of Weltklasse Zürich exceeds one million francs for the first time.
1985: The Swiss Pierre Délèze creates the sensation and beats the great Sebastian Coe over 1500 meters.
1988: Harry "Butch" Reynolds improves the 20-year-old 400 meter world record by a full 0.57 seconds to 43.29 seconds. Carl Lewis wins the 100-meter duel against Ben Johnson . The 9.93 seconds are upgraded to a world record a year later after the Johnson doping case.
1990 Anita Protti wins the 400 meter hurdles race.
1992: crowd favorite Carl Lewis celebrates his sixth and last victory in Zurich over 100 meters in 10.07 seconds.
1994: 5.3 liters of rain per square meter within an hour between 8:40 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. create torrential conditions in the Letzigrund.
1995: For the first time in 14 years there are two world records on the same evening. Moses Kiptanui is the first to break the 8-minute mark over 3000 meters steeple, a little later Kiptanui loses his 5000 meter world record to Haile Gebrselassie .
1997: A world record evening like never before: Wilson Kipketer (800 meters), Wilson Boit Kipketer (3000 meters steeple) and Haile Gebrselassie (5000 meters) run the world records number 21 to 23. In addition, Marcel Schelbert (400 meter hurdles) and Anita Weyermann (3000 meters) Swiss and Dieter Baumann (5000 meters) German records.
2000: After six years there is another Swiss winner: André Bucher wins the 800 meter race.
2001: André Bucher returns to Letzigrund as the first Swiss world champion of a running discipline and celebrates his second home win in a row with a new Swiss record.
2006: The old Letzigrund Stadium experiences its 24th and final world record - this time over the 100-meter course: Asafa Powell equalizes his record of 9.77 seconds. The excavators open immediately after the meeting.
2007: Just one year after the old stadium was demolished, the Letzigrund stadium opened in the new athletics temple . The meeting was sold out within a few hours and takes place in front of a record crowd of over 26,000 spectators.
2008: Usain Bolt , the three-time world record holder from the Beijing Olympics, competes in his first race after the Olympics. Bolt celebrates a safe victory.
2009: Pole vaulter Jelena Issinbajewa jumps with 5.06 meters, the 25th world record in the history of Weltklasse Zürich. The Russian even outshines superstar Usain Bolt, who drew 5000 fans to Zurich's main train station for an autograph session the day before the meeting. The Swiss 4 x 100 meter relay ( Mancini , Schneeberger , Schenkel , Cribari ) pulverized their own Swiss record in 38.78 seconds and the 14-time Paralympics winner Heinz Frei ended his track career in front of the home crowd 3000 meter wheelchair race.
2010: It's the meeting of the Swiss women : hurdler Lisa Urech runs to the excellent fourth place and long jumper Irene Pusterla jumps to third place. The 4 x 100 meter relay was also able to delight the audience again at the end of the evening. Jeremy Wariner achieved an annual world best over 400 meters.
2014: Ten days after the end of the European Athletics Championships in Letzigrund, the world-class meeting is held.
2015: For the first time since 2001, a Swiss person wins a competition in the main program: the reigning European champion Kariem Hussein wins over 400 meter hurdles.
2020: In 2020 the event had to be canceled as part of the Diamond League due to the Covid-19 pandemic ; instead, a world-class long-distance competition was held as the Weltklasse Zürich Inspiration Games . Inspired by the OneMillionRun at the end of May, which counted over a million running kilometers over 48 hours across Switzerland, the organizers developed the Inspiration Games as the second part of the world class Zurich Inspiration Series together with the World Athletics Association and the Wanda Diamond League .
Inspiration Games
On July 9th, 30 top athletes will compete against each other in a total of eight disciplines and in seven different stadiums. The competitions will be held in Letzigrund Stadium, in California , in Florida and other venues to be announced and which could be New York City , Lisbon and Arnhem .
Three athletes compete against each other in each discipline, each starting for the “Europe”, “USA” and “Rest of the World” team. Unfamiliar disciplines are also to be contested. The women compete over 150 meters, 300 meters, 3 by 100 meters and in the pole vault , the men over 100 yards (91.44 meters), 200 meters, in the triple jump and another discipline that will be announced. So far (as of June 9, 2020) a announced their participation in the event: Allyson Felix , Shaunae Miller-Uibo , Mujinga Kambundji , Lea Sprunger , Ekaterini Stefanidi , Sandi Morris , Noah Lyles , Andre De Grasse and Christian Taylor .
World records
| World records (Olympic disciplines only) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| date | athlete | discipline | power |
| July 7, 1959 | Martin Lauer (Germany) | 110 m hurdles | 13.2 s |
| June 21, 1960 | Armin Hary (Germany) | 100 m | 10.0 s |
| 4th July 1969 | Willie Davenport (USA) | 110 m hurdles | 13.2 s |
| July 6, 1973 | Rod Milburn (USA) | 110 m hurdles | 13.1 s |
| 20th August 1975 | Faina Melnik (USSR) | Discus throw | 70.2 m |
| 15th August 1979 | Sebastian Coe (Great Britain) | 1500 m | 3: 32.03 min |
| August 13, 1980 | Tatiana Kasankina (USSR) | 1500 m | 3: 52.47 min |
| 19th August 1981 | Renaldo Nehemiah (USA) | 110 m hurdles | 12.93 s |
| 22nd August 1984 | Evelyn Ashford (USA) | 100 m | 10.76 s |
| 17th August 1988 |
Butch Reynolds (USA) Carl Lewis (USA) |
400 m 100 m |
43.29 s, 9.93 s |
| August 16, 1989 | Roger Kingdom (USA) | 110 m hurdles | 12.92 s |
| August 7, 1991 | Marsh / Burrell / Mitchell / Lewis (USA) | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.67 s |
| 19th August 1992 | Moses Kiptanui (KEN) | 3000 m obstacle | 8: 02.08 min |
| August 16, 1995 | Moses Kiptanui (KEN) Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) |
3000 m obstacle 5000 m |
7:59.18 min, 12:44.39 min |
| August 13, 1997 |
Wilson Boit Kipketer (KEN) Wilson Kipketer (DEN) Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) |
3000 m obstacle 800 m 5000 m |
7: 59.08 min 1: 41.24 s 12: 41.86 min |
| August 18, 2006 | Asafa Powell (JAM) | 100 m | 9.77 s |
| August 28, 2009 | Jelena Isinbayeva (RUS) | Pole vault | 5.06 m |
The non-Olympic world records include several in the mile run , for example by Sebastian Coe in 1981, by Mary Slaney in 1985 and by Svetlana Masterkova in 1996. Martin Lauer not only broke the world record over 110 meter hurdles in 1959, but also over 120 yards Hurdles and over 200 meter hurdles with a curve .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Diamond League - All the events, all around the world. Archived from the original on March 6, 2009 ; Retrieved August 29, 2009 .
- ↑ The crowning glory of a great evening in athletics: world record by Yelena Isinbayeva. Retrieved August 29, 2009 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Over 80 years of history. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013 ; Retrieved May 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Weltklasse Zürich not final host until 2021 and 2022. In: Weltklasse Zürich. May 12, 2020, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e “Weltklasse Zürich Inspiration Games”: 30 top stars in eight disciplines and seven stadiums , on: diamondleague.com, June 9, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020
- ^ A b c Nicolas Walter: "Inspiration Games": Eight disciplines in seven different stadiums , world class Zurich, on: Leichtathletik.de, June 9, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020
- ↑ a b World records achieved in Zurich. Retrieved August 29, 2009 .