Memorial Van Damme
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Memorial van Damme is an annual athletics event at the Stade Roi Baudouin in Brussels, Belgium that takes place on August 26 as the fifth part of the IAAF Golden League.
It was first organized in 1977 by a group of journalists in honor of Ivo van Damme, a Belgian double medal winner at the Montreal Olympics who was killed the previous year in a car accident at the age of 22. A former football player, he turned to athletics and in particular the 1500 m and 3000 m disciplines. Later on, he discovered the 800 m. In 1976, he took part in the Montreal Olympic Games, where he won silver medals in both the 800 m and 1500 m.
World records
2005
- 10,000 m 26:17:53 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopia
2004
- 10,000 m men Junior 27:04.00 Boniface Kiprop, Uganda
- 3,000 m steeple men 7:53:84 Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Qatar
- Pole vault women 4.92 m Yelena Isinbayeva, Russia
2001
- 3,000 m men Junior 7:30.67 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopia
- 3,000 m steeple men 7:55:28 Brahim Boulami, Morocco
1997
- 5,000 m men 12:39.74 Daniel Komen, Kenya
- 10,000 m men 26:27.85 Paul Tergat, Kenya
1996
- 10,000 m men 26:38:08 Salah Hissou, Morocco
- 1,000 m women 2:28.98 Svetlana Masterkova, Russia
1995
- 5,000 m men 13.07.38 Daniel Komen, Kenya
- 1,000 m women 2:29.34 Maria Mutola, Mozambique
1981
- 1 mile men 3.48.53 Sebastian Coe, United Kingdom
External links
| Meetings of the IAAF Golden League |
| Meeting Gaz de France, Paris, France | Golden Gala, Rome, Italy | Bislett Games, Oslo, Norway | Weltklasse Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland | Memorial van Damme, Brussels, Belgium | ISTAF, Berlin, Germany | Herculis, Monaco |
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