Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe

Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe
Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe
	The 60 metres at the 2009 Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe
Date	February
Location	Karlsruhe, Germany
Event type	Indoor track and field
Established	1985
Official site	Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe
	2024 Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe

Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, formerly known as BW-Bank Meeting and officially known as the Init Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, is an annual indoor track and field competition which takes place in January or February in Karlsruhe, Germany. The meeting was first held at the Europahalle in 1985 and is currently a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold-level event, the highest level of one-day indoor meeting in the World Athletics calendar. The athletics meeting is known for having strong fields in the short sprint events.^[1] The 2016 edition was part of the inaugural IAAF World Indoor Tour.

The meeting has a strong tradition in the 60 metres hurdles event – Susanna Kallur set a women's world record in 2008, while Liu Xiang and Márcio de Souza have set continental records on the men's side.

It was previously known as the LBBW Meeting, changing to BW-Bank Meeting in 2006.^[2]

A strict limit of 199 occupants following safety concerns after modified fire safety regulations in Germany required in 2015 that the meeting was moved to Dm-Arena in Rheinstetten on Karlsruhe's exhibition areal. The sport infrastructure is temporary, it was first used in the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg and was acquired by the city of Karlsruhe with the intention to be able to host various more high-profile athletics events in Dm-Arena than would be possible in Europahalle even if it is put back in normal operation.

World records

Over the course of its history, three world records have been set at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe.

World records set at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe
Year	Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality
1998	3000 m	7:26.15	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia
2008	60 m hurdles	7.68	Susanna Kallur	Sweden
2014	1500 m	3:55.17	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia

Meeting records

Men

Men's meeting records of the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe
Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
60 m	6.45	Ronald Pognon	France	13 February 2005
200 m	20.61	Tobias Unger	Germany	13 February 2005
300 m	32.19	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	24 February 1989
400 m	46.11	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany	11 February 1990
800 m	1:44.15	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	27 January 2001
1000 m	2:17.01	Mehdi Baala	France	13 February 2005
1500 m	3:33.08	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen	Kenya	13 February 2005
Mile	3:53.74	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	1 March 1994
2000 m	4:56.23	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	6 March 1993
3000 m	7:26.15	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	25 January 1998
60 m hurdles	7.38	Allen Johnson	United States	22 February 1995
High jump	2.35 m	Naoto Tobe	Japan	2 February 2019	^[3]
Pole vault	6.02 m	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	28 January 2022	^[4]
Long jump	8.38 m	Larry Myricks	United States	7 February 1998
Triple jump	17.46 m	Jadel Gregorio	Brazil	15 February 2004
Shot put	21.33 m	David Storl	Germany	1 February 2014	^[5]

Women

Women's meeting records of the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe
Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.	Video
60 m	7.04	Irina Privalova	Russia	11 February 1996
60 m	7.04	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	27 January 2023	^[6]
200 m	22.50	Irina Privalova	Russia	31 January 1992
400 m	50.84	Helga Arendt	Germany	7 February 1998
800 m	1:57.48	Maria Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	15 February 2004
1500 m	3:55.17	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	1 February 2014	^[7]
3000 m	8:26.41	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4 February 2017	^[8]
60 m hurdles	7.68	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	10 February 2008		[1]
High jump	2.05 m	Ariane Friedrich	Germany	15 February 2009	^[9]
Pole vault	4.76 m	Silke Spiegelburg	Germany	13 February 2011	^[10]
Long jump	7.06 m	Heike Drechsler	Germany	31 January 1994
Triple jump	14.88 m	Yamile Aldama	Cuba	29 January 2003
Shot put	19.65 m	Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang	Portugal	29 January 2021	^[11]

References

^ Ed Gordon (2011-02-14). Three world leads in Karlsruhe. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-19.
^ LBBW Meeting – Karlsruhe. Euro Meetings. Retrieved on 2011-02-19.
^ "High Jump Results" (PDF). sportresult.com. 2 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Jess Whittington (28 January 2021). "Aregawi and Duplantis put on a show in Karlsruhe". World Athletics. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ Phil Minshull, Ed Gordon (1 February 2014). "Genzebe Dibaba smashes world indoor 1500m record with 3:55.17 in Karlsruhe". IAAF. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^ Jon Mulkeen (27 January 2023). "Asher-Smith blazes to British and meeting record of 7.04 in Karlsruhe". World Athletics. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ Phil Minshull, Ed Gordon (1 February 2014). "Genzebe Dibaba smashes world indoor 1500m record with 3:55.17 in Karlsruhe". IAAF. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^ "Laura Muir smashes European 3000m record in Karlsruhe". athleticsweekly.com. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
^ "High Jump Results". www.bw-bank-meeting.de. 2009-02-15. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
^ "Pole Vault Results". www.bw-bank-meeting.de. 2011-02-13. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
^ "Shot Put Results" (PDF). sportresult.com. 29 January 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.