IAAF World Indoor Tour Launched

IAAF Press Release

The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour was officially announced on Monday 7 December and will consist of four competitions which have regularly staged IAAF Indoor Permit meetings in previous years.

The four meetings will all be staged in February 2016 and are:

- Karlsruhe indoor meeting (Karlsruhe, GER), Saturday 6 February
- New Balance Indoor Grand Prix (Boston, USA), Sunday 14 February
- Globen Galan (Stockholm, SWE), Wednesday 17 February
- Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix (Glasgow, GBR), Saturday 20 February

The tour, which will have half of the individual indoor championship disciplines as tour events each year across a two-year period, contains several innovative features, including a points system and prize money.

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*.

Full details of the structure of the tour (which replaces the IAAF Indoor Permit series), including which events will be eligible for ranking points and prize money in 2016 and 2017, are available here.