The Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais (formerly Meeting Pas de Calais) also called Meeting International de Liévin (''International Meeting of Liévin'') is an annual indoor

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competition which takes place in February in

Liévin Liévin (; pcd, Lévin; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The inhabitants are called ''Liévinois''. Overview The town of Liévin is an old mining area of Pas-de-Calais. Near Lens, this town is of modest size bu ...

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. It is one of the events of the

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organised by

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History

The first meeting was held in 1988, two years after the construction of the

Arena Stade Couvert de Liévin Arena Stade Couvert de Liévin (formerly Stade Couvert Régional) is an indoor arena in Liévin, France. The arena is primarily used for indoor athletics Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, ...

to host the 1987 European Athletics Indoor Championships. From 1988 onwards the meeting was held every year until 2007 and then from 2009 to 2012. Due to technical problems and work delays, the meeting of 2013 was cancelled. In 2018, the meeting was held again as an EA Indoor Permit Meeting. From 2020 onwards the meeting was one of the events of the

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous

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have been set at the Meeting Pas de Calais.

Meeting records

Men

Women

References

External links

Official websiteMeeting Pas de Calais Records
{{European Athletics Indoor Permit Meetings IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings Athletics competitions in France Recurring events established in 1988 Sport in Pas-de-Calais