The 2007

IAAF World Athletics Tour The IAAF World Athletics Tour was an annual global circuit of one day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Formed in 2006, it comprised two separate levels of athletics meetings: t ...

was the second edition of the annual global circuit of one-day

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competitions organized by the

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(IAAF). The series featured 24 one-day meetings, consisting of the six meetings of the 2007 IAAF Golden League, five

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meetings, and thirteen

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meetings. In addition, there were 27 Area Permit Meetings that carried point-scoring events. The series culminated in the two-day

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, held in

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, Germany from 22–23 September.World Athletics Tour 2007
IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. Four athletes achieved 100 points in the rankings in their event, all of them women:

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(400 m),

Maryam Yusuf Jamal Maryam Yusuf Jamal ( ar, مريم يوسف جمال; om, Maryam Yuusuf Jamaal) (born Zenebech Tola) (born 16 September 1984) is an Ethiopian-born Bahraini middle-distance runner. She is the first Bahraini athlete to win an Olympic medal, a gold ...

(1500 m),

Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva ( rus, Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, p=jɪˈlʲɛnə gɐˈdʐɨjɪvnə ɪsʲɪnˈbajɪvə; born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 20 ...

(pole vault) and

Blanka Vlašić Blanka Vlašić (; born 8 November 1983) is a Croatian former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump. She is a two-time world champion and double Olympic medallist who ranks as the joint second highest female jumper of all time ...

(high jump). The highest scoring male athlete was

Asafa Powell Asafa Powell, CD (born 23 November 1982) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. He set the 100 metres world record twice, between June 2005 and May 2008 with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds. Powell has consiste ...

in the

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with 96 points – a total also reached by two athletes in the women's

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( Susanna Kallur and Michelle Perry).

Schedule

Points standings

Athletes earned points at meetings during the series. The following athletes were the top performers for their event prior to the World Athletics Final.2007 World Athletics Tour Standings (Before World Athletics Final)
IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

References

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World Athletics Tour The IAAF World Athletics Tour was an annual global circuit of one day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Formed in 2006, it comprised two separate levels of athletics meetings: t ...