Bislett Games
| Bislett Games | |
|---|---|
 The Bislett Games 4 June 2010 | |
| Status | active |
| Genre | sports event |
| Date(s) | June–July |
| Frequency | annual |
| Location(s) | Oslo |
| Country | Norway |
| Inaugurated | 14 July 1965 (1965-07-14) |
The Bislett Games is an annual track and field meeting at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway. Previously one of the IAAF Golden League events, it is now part of the IAAF Diamond League. It is sponsored by ExxonMobil and officially known as the ExxonMobil Bislett Games.
Contents
1 History
2 World records
2.1 Bislett Games
2.2 Differently named meetings
2.3 American meetings
3 Meeting records
3.1 Men
3.2 Women
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History
The Bislett Games are held at Bislett Stadium. Photo: Kjetil Ree
The first international athletics meeting at Bislett was held in 1924. Until 1937 the competitions are known as "The American Meetings". Different organizers staged the meetings between 1947 and 1965 until the three athletics associations BUL, Vidar and Tjalve formed the Bislett Alliance. At this year Arne Haukvik founded the Bislett Games. He was a former politician and director of the meeting, who used to invite the athletes, sponsors and the press to his home for his traditional "strawberry party" the day before the event each year. He died of cancer in 2002 at age 76. The tradition however is continued.
Bislett Stadium was used for speed skating events at the Olympics, but nowadays it is better known for its Bislett Games athletics meeting. Bislett Games attract the best track and field athletes from all over the world, and 65 world records have been set on its forgiving, brick-coloured track so far. Due to the building of the new Bislett Stadium in Oslo, which started in April 2004, the 2004 edition of the traditional athletics meeting was staged on Fana stadion in Bergen under the name Bergen Bislett Games.
In 2009, a severe storm delayed proceedings and even caused damage to the track-side clock display. Sanya Richards recorded the fastest women's 400 metres time since 2006 while the Dream Mile brought a number of records with winner Deresse Mekonnen improving upon his Ethiopian record, Kenyan William Biwott Tanui setting a world junior record and third-placed Augustine Choge beating his personal best. Former javelin winners Andreas Thorkildsen and Tero Pitkämäki continued their five-year shared dominance of the Bislett Games, with Pitkämäki taking the victory this time.[1]
World records
Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the Games and former athletics meetings at Bislett stadium. 1985 three new records was set at the same evening.[2]
Bislett Games
| Year | Event | Record | Athlete | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | 5000 m | 14:11.15 | Tirunesh Dibaba |  Ethiopia |
2008 | 800 m (junior) | 1:42.69 | Abubaker Kaki |  Sudan |
2007 | 5000 m | 14:16.63 | Meseret Defar | Ethiopia |
2004 | 5000 m | 14:24.68 | Elvan Abeylegesse |  Turkey |
2004 | 5000 m (junior) | 14:30.88 | Tirunesh Dibaba | Ethiopia |
2000 | Javelin throw | 69.48 m | Trine Hattestad |  Norway |
1997 | 10000 m | 26:31.32 | Haile Gebreselassie | Ethiopia |
1994 | 10000 m | 26:52.23 | William Sigei |  Kenya |
1994 | 20000 m walk | 2:04:55 | Bernardo Segura |  Mexico |
1993 | 10000 m | 26:58.38 | Yobes Ondieki | Kenya |
1986 | 10000 m | 30:13.74 | Ingrid Kristiansen | Norway |
1985 | 10000 m | 30:59.42 | Ingrid Kristiansen | Norway |
1985 | 5000 m | 13:00.40 | Saïd Aouita |  Morocco |
1985 | Mile | 3:46.32 | Steve Cram |  United Kingdom |
1984 | 5000 m | 14:58.89 | Ingrid Kristiansen | Norway |
1984 | 10000 m | 30:59.42 | Ingrid Kristiansen | Norway |
1982 | 5000 m | 13:00.41 | David Moorcroft | Great Britain |
1981 | 1000 m | 2:12.81 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain |
1980 | Mile | 3:48.8 | Steve Ovett | United Kingdom |
1979 | 800 m | 1:42.33 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain |
1975 | 3000 m | 8:46.6 | Grete Waitz | Norway |
1975 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8:10.4 | Anders Gärderud |  Sweden |
1974 | 1000 m | 2:13.9 | Rick Wohlhuter |  United States |
1965 | 10000 m | 27:39.4 | Ron Clarke |  Australia |
Differently named meetings
| Year | Event | Record | Athlete | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1964 | Javelin throw | 87.12 m & 91.72 m | Terje Pedersen | Norway |
1955 | 1500 m | 3:40.8 | László Tábori Gunnar Nielsen |  Hungary Denmark |
1955 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8:45.4 | Pentti Karvonen |  Finland |
1953 | Hammer throw | 62.36 m | Sverre Strandli | Norway |
1952 | Hammer throw | 61.25 m | Sverre Strandli | Norway |
American meetings
| Year | Event | Record | Athlete | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1936 | 110 m hurdles | 13.7 | Forrest Towns | United States |
1935 | 110 m hurdles | 14.2 | Alvin Moreau | United States |
1934 | Shot put | 17.40 m | Jack Torrance | United States |
1934 | Discus throw | 52.42 m | Harald Andersson | Sweden |
1925 | Pole vault | 4.23 m | Charles Hoff | Norway |
1924 | 110 m hurdles | 14.2 | Percy Beard |  Canada |
Meeting records
Men
| Event | Record | Athlete | Nationality | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 m | 9.79 (+0.6 m/s) | Usain Bolt |  Jamaica | 7 June 2012 | [3] |
200 m | 19.79 (+1.7 m/s) | Usain Bolt | Jamaica | 13 June 2013 | [4] |
400 m | 43.86 | Michael Johnson | United States | 21 July 1995 | |
800 m | 1:42.04 | David Rudisha | Kenya | 4 June 2010 | |
1000 m | 2:12.18 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 11 July 1981 | |
1500 m | 3:29.12 | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 9 July 1998 | |
Mile | 3:44.90 | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 4 July 1997 | |
2000 m | 4:51.52 | John Walker |  New Zealand | 30 June 1976 | |
3000 m | 7:27.42 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 9 July 1998 | |
Two miles | 8:15.2 | Rod Dixon | New Zealand | 17 July 1979 | |
5000 m | 12:52.26 | Kenenisa Bekele | Ethiopia | 27 June 2003 | |
6 miles | 26:47.0 | Ron Clarke | Australia | 14 July 1965 | |
10,000 m | 26:31.32 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 4 July 1997 | |
110 m hurdles | 13.00 (−0.1 m/s) | Ladji Doucoure |  France | 29 July 2005 | |
400 m hurdles | 47.60 | Abderrahman Samba |  Qatar | 7 June 2018 | [5] |
2000 m steeplechase | 5:20.00 | Krzysztof Wesołowski |  Poland | 28 June 1984 | |
3000 m steeplechase | 8:01.83 | Paul Kipsiele Koech | Kenya | 9 June 2011 | [6] |
High jump | 2.38 m | Mutaz Essa Barshim | Qatar | 15 June 2017 | [7] |
Pole vault | 6.00 m | Tim Lobinger |  Germany | 30 June 1999 | |
Long jump | 8.59 m | Ivan Pedroso |  Cuba | 7 July 1997 | |
Triple jump | 18.01 m (+0.4 m/s) | Jonathan Edwards | Great Britain | 9 July 1998 | |
Shot put | 22.29 m | Tomas Walsh | New Zealand | 7 June 2018 | [8] |
Discus throw | 70.51 m | Virgilijus Alekna |  Lithuania | 15 June 2007 | |
Hammer throw | 81.14 m | Jüri Tamm |  Soviet Union | 16 July 1985 | |
Javelin throw | 94.22 m (Old design) 92.60 m (Current design) | Michael Wessing Raymond Hecht | West Germany Germany | 3 August 1978 21 July 1995 | |
5000 m walk | 20:27.0+ | Erling Andersen | Norway | 3 August 1979 | |
10,000 m walk | 40:50.0 | Erling Andersen | Norway | 3 August 1979 | |
20,000 m walk | 1:27:56.8 | Erling Andersen | Norway | 23 August 1981 | |
30,000 m walk | 2:35:45.6 | Tore Brustad | Norway | 20 July 1970 | |
50,000 m walk | 4:42:10.0 | Per Ola Sverre | Norway | 9 August 1974 | |
4 × 1500 m relay | 14:40.4 (ht) | Tony Polhill 3:42.9 John Walker 3:40.4 Rod Dixon 3:41.2 Dick Quax 3:35.9 | New Zealand | 22 August 1973 |
Women
| Event | Record | Athlete | Nationality | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 m | 10.82 (−0.5 m/s) | Marion Jones | United States | 9 July 1998 | |
200 m | 21.93 (+0.7 m/s) | Dafne Schippers |  Netherlands | 9 June 2016 | [9] |
400 m | 49.23 | Taťána Kocembová |  Czechoslovakia | 23 August 1983 | |
800 m | 1:55.04 | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia | 23 August 1983 | |
1500 m | 3:57.40 | Suzy Favor-Hamilton | United States | 28 July 2000 | |
Mile | 4:17.25 | Sonia O'Sullivan |  Ireland | 22 July 1994 | |
3000 m | 8:27.21 | Gabriela Szabo |  Romania | 30 June 1999 | |
5000 m | 14:11.15 | Tirunesh Dibaba | Ethiopia | 6 June 2008 | |
10,000 m | 30:13.74 | Ingrid Kristiansen | Norway | 5 July 1986 | |
100 m hurdles | 12.49 (+0.7 m/s) | Sally Pearson | Australia | 7 June 2012 | [10] |
400 m hurdles | 53.18 | Deon Hemmings | Jamaica | 4 July 1997 | |
3000 m steeplechase | 9:07.14 | Milcah Chemos Cheiywa | Kenya | 7 June 2012 | [11] |
High jump | 2.05 m | Stefka Kostadinova |  Bulgaria | 4 July 1987 | |
Pole vault | 4.85 m | Yelena Isinbayeva |  Russia | 15 June 2007 | |
Long jump | 7.29 m (+0.9 m/s) | Heike Drechsler | Germany | 22 July 1994 | |
Triple jump | 15.11 m (+0.1 m/s) | Yamilé Aldama | Cuba | 27 June 2003 | |
Shot put | 20.26 m | Valerie Adams | New Zealand | 9 June 2011 | [12] |
Discus throw | 71.00 m | Galina Savinkova | Soviet Union | 16 July 1985 | |
Javelin throw | 76.34 m (Old design) 69.48 m (Current design) | Fatima Whitbread Trine Hattestad | United Kingdom Norway | 4 July 1987 28 July 2000 | |
3000 m walk | 13:45.7 | Frøydis Hilsen | Norway | 23 August 1981 | |
5000 m walk | 22:59.6 | Anita Blomberg | Norway | 17 June 1988 |
+ = en route to a longer distance
See also
- Dream Mile
References
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^ Jon Mulkeen (13 June 2013). "Bolt back with a bang in Oslo – IAAF Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
^ "400m Hurdles Results" (PDF). sportresult.com. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
^ "3000m Steeplechase Men: Results" (PDF). Samsung Diamond League. Omega Timing. 9 June 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ "High Jump Results" (PDF). sportresult.com. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ "Shot Put Results" (PDF). sportresult.com. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
^ "200m Results" (PDF). static.sportresult.com. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
^ "100 Metres Hurdles Results". IAAF. 7 June 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
^ "3000 Metres Steeplechase Results". IAAF. 7 June 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
^ "Shot Put Results" (PDF). www.diamondleague.com. 9 June 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
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