The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour was the inaugural edition of the

IAAF World 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 a Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise th ...

, planned as an annual series of

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indoor meetings. It was designed to create an

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-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field athletics. The Tour was announced with initially four events for 2016, three in

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and one in the

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, leading to the

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. Winners of the Tour enjoyed similar privileges in relation to World Indoor Championships qualification as Diamond League winners do in relation to

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. This was the only edition of the tour that featured the Globen Galan, and the Stockholm leg was replaced by the International Copernicus Cup, a long-standing indoor event in Torún, Poland for 2017.

Meetings

The following four meetings were confirmed for the 2016 season:

Scoring system

At each meeting a minimum of 12 events were staged. Included in the 12 events will be a core group of five or six events split across the two-season cycle. Tour events for 2016 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. Points were 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 received US $20,000 in prize money and, beginning with the 2016 edition in Portland, automatically qualified 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 agreed to enter the athlete.

Indoor Tour Events

The following events are core Tour events for the 2019 indoor season: ;Men * 60 metres * 800 metres * 3000 metres * Pole vault * Triple jump * Shot put ; Women * 400 metres * 1500 metres * 60 metre hurdles * High jump * Long jump

Results

Men's track

Men's field

Women's track

Women's field

Final 2016 World Indoor Tour standings

Men

Women

2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour Standings - Women
from IAAF.org

References

{{IAAF World Indoor Tour World Athletics Indoor Tour 2016 in athletics (track and field)