The
USATF
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New York Grand Prix is an annual athletics meeting held at
Icahn Stadium
Icahn Stadium is a 5,000 seat track and field and multipurpose facility located on Randalls Island in Manhattan, New York City. Designed within the former site of Downing Stadium, it opened on April 23, 2005. Icahn Stadium is named after Ame ...
in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
,
United States
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. First started in 2005 as the
Reebok
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Grand Prix and then
Adidas Grand Prix, it was previously one of the
IAAF Grand Prix
The IAAF Grand Prix was an annual, global circuit of one-day outdoor track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It was created in 1985 as the IAAF's first seasonal track and field circu ...
events. It was part of the
Diamond League competition through 2015. The IAAF announced on March 3, 2016, that New York would be replaced immediately by Rabat, Morocco, on the Diamond League tour. Local organizers the same day said they would announce plans to carry on the meet as a street event in New York. The meeting was eventually replaced in 2016 by the
Adidas Boost Boston Games
The Adidas Boost Boston Games (stylized as adidas BOOST Boston Games) is an annual track and field meeting and street meet in Boston, Massachusetts. The event was announced on the same day the Adidas Grand Prix meet in New York was removed fr ...
.
The meet returned in 2022 under its current name after a six year hiatus as a Continental Tour Gold meet.
World records
Over the course of its history, two
world records
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have been set at the Adidas Grand Prix.
Meeting records
Men
Women
References
External links
Diamond League – New York Official Web Site
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2005 establishments in New York City
2005 in sports in New York City
2016 disestablishments in New York (state)
2016 in sports in New York City
2000s in Manhattan
2010s in Manhattan
Diamond League
IAAF Grand Prix
Randalls and Wards Islands
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2016
Recurring sporting events established in 2005
Sports competitions in New York City
Track and field competitions in the United States
Track and field in New York City