The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour was the inaugural edition of the
IAAF World Indoor Tour, planned as an annual series of
track and field
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indoor meetings.
It was designed to create an
IAAF Diamond League
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fifteen invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics one-day meet competitions.
The inaugural season was ...
-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
Europe
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and one in the
United States
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, leading to the
2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held between March 17 and 20, 2016 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
The event did not feature Russia. Following a WADA investigation into widespread and institutional doping practices ...
in
Portland, Oregon
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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
World Championships in Athletics
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. This was the only edition of the tour that featured the
Globen Galan
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, 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
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