Meeting Nikaïa

Meeting Nikaïa
The host stadium
DateJune/July
LocationNice, France
Event typeTrack and field
Established1976
Official sitehttps://meetingnikaia.com/

The Meeting International de Nice "Nikaïa is an annual one-day outdoor track and field meeting at the Stade Charles-Ehrmann in Nice, France. First held on 16 August 1976, it was held in June or July each year until 2001, when the meeting folded due to financial reasons. It was part of the IAAF Grand Prix circuit from 1998 to 2001.[1][2][3][4] It was revived on 17 June 2023 as a Bronze-level World Athletics Continental Tour meeting.[5]

The meeting was host to a world record in 1988, when Soviet athlete Sergey Bubka set a men's pole vault world record of 6.06 m (19 ft 10+1⁄2 in).[6] The final edition in 2001 saw a world record of 9:25.31 in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase by Poland's Justyna Bąk and a European record in the women's pole vault with Svetlana Feofanova's clearance of 4.62 m (15 ft 1+3⁄4 in).[7]

References

  1. ^ 1998 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  2. ^ 1999 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  3. ^ 2000 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  4. ^ 2001 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  5. ^ Etienne Le Van Ky (16 June 2023) "Athlétisme : Le Meeting Nikaïa fait son grand retour à Nice" SportMag.fr
  6. ^ Rémi Broute (1993-02-15). "Bubka n'en finit plus de taquiner les étoiles" (in French). L'Humanité. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  7. ^ 09 Juillet : Meeting Grand Prix Nikaia (Nice - C-A). FFA. Retrieved 2019-09-15.

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