World Athletics Indoor Tour


The World Athletics Indoor Tour, formerly the IAAF World Indoor Tour, is an annual series of indoor track and field meetings, held since 2016. It was designed to create an IAAF Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field, and replaced the IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings series.
The Tour was announced with initially four events, three in Europe and one in the United States, leading to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon. Winners of the Tour enjoy similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to World Athletics Championships. The Tour was initially in place for two years.
The Düsseldorf leg was added for the 2017 Tour, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland. In 2018, the tour became a permanent fixture, and the Meeting Ville de Madrid was added as the sixth event on the tour. For 2020, the tour added a seventh leg in Lievin, France.
The Tour is organized to allow for major indoor championships including the World Athletics Indoor Championships and the European Athletics Indoor Championships, and where appropriate, national championships and trials.

Editions

Meetings

In keeping with the indoor season generally, the season for the World Athletics Indoor Tour is considerably shorter than for the outdoors Diamond League, with the tour concluded in little over a month, and meetings often held only a few days apart. The meetings at Karlsruhe and Boston are the only ever-presents in history of the Tour, although the British indoor Grand Prix has also taken place in each edition, where the event is shared by Birmingham, England and Glasgow, Scotland. The most recent addition is the meeting at Lievin, France added for the first time in 2020. The Globen Galan meeting in Stolkholm is the only meet to have been removed from the Tour, having featured in the first edition only. Typically, national championships and the major international championship events take place after the conclusion of the Tour season.
#MeetingArenaCityCountry20162017201820192020
5New Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBostonUnited StatesXXXXX
5Indoor Meeting KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruheGermanyXXXXX
4Copernicus CupArena ToruńToruńPoland-XXXX
4PSD Bank MeetingArena-SportparkDüsseldorfGermany-XXXX
3Villa de Madrid Indoor MeetingGallur Municipality Sport ComplexMadridSpain--XXX
3GlasgowCommonwealth ArenaGlasgowUnited KingdomX-X-X
2Birmingham Indoor Grand PrixArena BirminghamBirminghamUnited Kingdom-X-X-
1Globen GalanEricsson GlobeStockholmSwedenX----
1Meeting Hauts de France Pas de CalaisArena Stade Couvert de LiévinLiévinFrance----X

Scoring system

At each meeting a minimum of 12 events are to be staged. Included in the 12 events will be a core group of five or six events split across the two-season cycle.
For example: Tour events for 2016 and 2018 were the men's 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, plus the women's 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.
In 2017 and 2019 the tour events were the women's 60m, 800m, 3000/5000m, pole vault, triple jump and shot put, as well as the men's 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.
Points will be allocated to the best four athletes in each event, with the winner getting 10 points, the runner up receiving seven points, the third-placed finisher getting five points and the athlete in fourth receiving three points.
The individual overall winner of each event will receive US$20,000 in prize money and, beginning with the 2016 edition in Portland, will automatically qualify for the next edition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships as a ‘wild card’ entry, provided the member federation of that World Indoor Tour winner agrees to enter the athlete.

Meetings

2016">2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour">2016

The following four meetings were confirmed for the 2016 season:
MeetStadiumCityCountryDate
Weltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe / Rheinstetten6 February
New Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston14 February
Globen GalanEricsson GlobeStockholm17 February
Glasgow Indoor Grand PrixEmirates ArenaGlasgow20 February

2017">2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour">2017

For the 2017 edition, the Stockholm meeting was removed, and two further meetings added. In addition, as part of a long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix moved to Birmingham, England.
MeetStadiumCityCountryDate
New Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston28 January
PSD Bank MeetingArena SportparkDüsseldorf1 February
Weltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe / Rheinstetten4 February
Copernicus CupArena ToruńToruń10 February
Birmingham Indoor Grand PrixBarclaycard ArenaBirmingham18 February

2018">2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour">2018

For the 2018 edition, the Meeting Madrid was added. In addition, as part of a long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Birmingham Grand Prix moved to Glasgow, Scotland, facilitating the hosting of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.
MeetStadiumCityCountryDate
Weltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe / Rheinstetten3 February
PSD Bank MeetingArena SportparkDüsseldorf6 February
Madrid IndoorGallurMadrid8 February
New Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston10 February
Copernicus CupArena ToruńToruń15 February
Glasgow Indoor Grand PrixEmirates ArenaGlasgow25 February

2019">2019 IAAF World Indoor Tour">2019

Continuing the long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Glasgow Grand Prix returns to Birmingham, England, accommodating in this case the holding of the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
MeetStadiumCityCountryDate
New Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston26 January
Weltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe2 February
Copernicus CupTorun ArenaTorun6 February
Madrid Indoor GallurMadrid 8 February
Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham Barclaycard ArenaBirmingham16 February
PSD Bank MeetingArena-SportparkDüsseldorf20 February

2020">2020 IAAF World Indoor Tour">2020

Continuing the long term agreement alternating venues of the Great Britain leg, the Glasgow Grand Prix returns. A seventh meeting is added in Lievin, France, with the tour leading to the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China. The meeting order is also adjusted, with Madrid moved to the final Tour meeting.
MeetStadiumCityCountryDate
New Balance Indoor Grand PrixReggie Lewis Track and Athletic CenterBoston25 January
Weltklasse in KarlsruheDm-ArenaKarlsruhe31 January
PSD Bank MeetingArena-SportparkDüsseldorf4 February
Copernicus CupTorun ArenaTorun8 February
Müller Indoor Grand Prix GlasgowEmirates ArenaGlasgow15 February
Meeting Hauts de France Pas de CalaisArena Stade Couvert de LiévinLiévin19 February
Madrid IndoorGallurMadrid21 February

Winners

The following table sets out the overall winners of World Indoor Tour disciplines in each year of the Tour. Adam Kszczot is the only athlete to retain a title, winning both the 2016 and 2018 edition of the men's 800 metres.

Men's track

Men's field

Women's track

Women's field

World Athletics Indoor Tour records

The following Tour records are correct as of the end of the 2020 IAAF World Indoor Tour Madrid meeting:
; Men's Indoor Tour records
EventRecordAthleteNationalityDateMeetPlaceRef
60 m6.43Bingtian Su2018PSD Bank MeetingDüsseldorf-
400 m45.59Bralon TaplinGrenada10 February 2017Copernicus CupToruń
800 m1:45.11Donavan Brazier2018New Balance Indoor Grand PrixBoston-
1500 m3:34.94Abdalaati Iguider2016Glasgow Indoor Grand PrixGlasgow-
3000 m7:37.41Hagos GebrhiwetEthiopia26 January 2019New Balance Indoor Grand PrixBoston-
60 m hurdles7.43Andrew Pozzi2017Birmingham Indoor Grand PrixBirmingham-
High jump2.35 mNaoto TobeJapan2 February 2019Weltklasse in KarlsruheKarlsruhe
Long jump8.23 mMiltiadis TentoglouGreece8 February 2019Villa De Madrid Indoor MeetingMadrid
Triple jump17.35 mAlmir dos Santos2018Villa De Madrid Indoor MeetingMadrid-
Pole vault6.18 mArmand DuplantisSweden15 February 2020Müller Indoor Grand Prix GlasgowGlasgow
Shot put22.17 mTomas Stanek2018PSD Bank MeetingDüsseldorf-

;Women's Indoor Tour records
EventRecordAthleteNationalityDateMeetPlaceRef
60 m6.98Elaine Thompson2017Glasgow Indoor Grand PrixGlasgow-
400 m51.28Lea Sprunger10 February 2017Copernicus CupToruń-
800 m1:59.29Joanna JóźwikPoland10 February 2017Copernicus CupToruń
1500 m3:57.45Genzebe Dibaba2017WeltklasseKarlsruhe-
3000 m8:26.41Laura Muir2017WeltklasseKarlsruhe-
60 m hurdles7.76Kendra Harrison2017WeltklasseKarlsruhe-
High jump2.00 mMariya Lasitskene2018Villa De Madrid Indoor MeetingMadrid-
Long jump6.96 mMaryna Bekh-RomanchukUkraine8 February 2020Copernicus CupToruń
Triple jump15.43 mYulimar RojasVenezuela21 February 2020Villa de Madrid Indoor MeetingMadrid
Pole vault4.91 mAnzhelika SidorovaRussia8 February 2019Villa De Madrid Indoor MeetingMadrid
Shot put19.28 mMaggie EwenUnited States26 January 2019New Balance Indoor Grand PrixBoston

;Other records
Record#HolderEvents
Most titles2Adam Kszczot 800 metres
Most event wins6Adam Kszczot 800 metres
Most event wins 3Léa Sprunger,
Genzebe Dibaba
Mariya Lasitskene,
Hellen Obiri, 		400 metres
1500, 3000 metres
high jump
3000 metres