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<\/a><\/div>37,000 fans celebrated a joyful and emotional athletics festival with the athletes at the ISTAF 2022 in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. On the home stretch of this special athletics season, the top athletes shone with a series of top performances – among others, the fans cheered victories by crowd favorite Malaika Mihambo, world track and field athlete Karsten Warholm, Noah Lyles and Valerie Allman, who once again lifted the discus over the 70-meter mark at her “all-time favorite meeting”. There were also historic events in the para shot put and in the “ISTAF Fanzone”<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2021<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>100 years ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Athletics is this beautiful! More than 20,000 fans and world-class athletes celebrate the 100th ISTAF birthday in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium – a lavish celebration with great emotions and strong performances at the end of the athletics year. Two stars achieve historic feats: Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman throws the discus farther than any woman before her in the 100-year history of the ISTAF. And crowd favorite Johannes Vetter becomes the first javelin thrower ever to celebrate his fifth ISTAF victory.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2020<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ISTAF in the pandemic<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Corona determines everyday life in 2020. “5,000 people present at the same time” are allowed to be there on September 13 in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. And all of them can be seen how much they had longed for the ISTAF. The oldest track and field meeting in the world is one of the first major sporting events where fans are once again allowed into the stadium thanks to a detailed hygiene concept. The world-class athletes shine with spectacular performances, the ISTAF staff, service providers and helpers are committed to ensuring that everything runs smoothly, and the 3,500 fans go “Bambule” like 50,000. Everyone celebrates an extraordinary athletics party together. Exuberant, cheerful, with goose bumps – and with distance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2019<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Gesa Krause storms to World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>With eyes popping and skin turned to goose bumps, 40,500 fans urged Gesa Krause on for the last lap of the women\u2019s steeplechase \u2013 and after crossing the finish line the German went to complete the fastest lap of honour ever in the history of ISTAF. She had just made history, improving not only her own national record for the 2,000m steeplechase but gone faster than any woman in history, setting a world record in 5:52.80!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2018<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Emotional Farewell from Robert Harting<\/h2><\/a><\/div>More than once discus idol Robert Harting had to wipe away a tear during his final appearance \u201cin his sitting room\u201d, as the Olympic Stadium had become known for the Berlin ace. The entire stadium gave the Olympic champion and his fellow competitors in the discus a standing ovation for minutes on end as they went on a lap of honour accompanied by tumultuous applause from the ISTAF fans. \u201cSaying goodbye here at ISTAF was a breathtaking experience,\u201d said Robert Harting. \u201cI felt there and then that I wanted to keep going and compete. But it\u2019s best to stop at the top.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2017<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Stage for Stars and Fans<\/h2><\/a><\/div>A sight never seen before in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium at the 76th ISTAF on August 27, 2017: world-class athletes having to run through a tunnel. The meeting organizers installed a grandstand for fans about 250m square in diameter spanning the famous blue track just beyond the finish line. This made contact between fans and athletes much easier and was another ISTAF innovation which drew widespread attention.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2014<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Throwing at the 73rd ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2010<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"BERLIN](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/TW2_6470-1024x683.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>37,000 fans celebrated a joyful and emotional athletics festival with the athletes at the ISTAF 2022 in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. On the home stretch of this special athletics season, the top athletes shone with a series of top performances – among others, the fans cheered victories by crowd favorite Malaika Mihambo, world track and field athlete Karsten Warholm, Noah Lyles and Valerie Allman, who once again lifted the discus over the 70-meter mark at her “all-time favorite meeting”. There were also historic events in the para shot put and in the “ISTAF Fanzone”<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
100 years ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Athletics is this beautiful! More than 20,000 fans and world-class athletes celebrate the 100th ISTAF birthday in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium – a lavish celebration with great emotions and strong performances at the end of the athletics year. Two stars achieve historic feats: Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman throws the discus farther than any woman before her in the 100-year history of the ISTAF. And crowd favorite Johannes Vetter becomes the first javelin thrower ever to celebrate his fifth ISTAF victory.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2020<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ISTAF in the pandemic<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Corona determines everyday life in 2020. “5,000 people present at the same time” are allowed to be there on September 13 in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. And all of them can be seen how much they had longed for the ISTAF. The oldest track and field meeting in the world is one of the first major sporting events where fans are once again allowed into the stadium thanks to a detailed hygiene concept. The world-class athletes shine with spectacular performances, the ISTAF staff, service providers and helpers are committed to ensuring that everything runs smoothly, and the 3,500 fans go “Bambule” like 50,000. Everyone celebrates an extraordinary athletics party together. Exuberant, cheerful, with goose bumps – and with distance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2019<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Gesa Krause storms to World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>With eyes popping and skin turned to goose bumps, 40,500 fans urged Gesa Krause on for the last lap of the women\u2019s steeplechase \u2013 and after crossing the finish line the German went to complete the fastest lap of honour ever in the history of ISTAF. She had just made history, improving not only her own national record for the 2,000m steeplechase but gone faster than any woman in history, setting a world record in 5:52.80!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2018<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Emotional Farewell from Robert Harting<\/h2><\/a><\/div>More than once discus idol Robert Harting had to wipe away a tear during his final appearance \u201cin his sitting room\u201d, as the Olympic Stadium had become known for the Berlin ace. The entire stadium gave the Olympic champion and his fellow competitors in the discus a standing ovation for minutes on end as they went on a lap of honour accompanied by tumultuous applause from the ISTAF fans. \u201cSaying goodbye here at ISTAF was a breathtaking experience,\u201d said Robert Harting. \u201cI felt there and then that I wanted to keep going and compete. But it\u2019s best to stop at the top.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2017<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Stage for Stars and Fans<\/h2><\/a><\/div>A sight never seen before in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium at the 76th ISTAF on August 27, 2017: world-class athletes having to run through a tunnel. The meeting organizers installed a grandstand for fans about 250m square in diameter spanning the famous blue track just beyond the finish line. This made contact between fans and athletes much easier and was another ISTAF innovation which drew widespread attention.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2014<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Throwing at the 73rd ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2010<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"100](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/AH3_3577-1024x681.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>Athletics is this beautiful! More than 20,000 fans and world-class athletes celebrate the 100th ISTAF birthday in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium – a lavish celebration with great emotions and strong performances at the end of the athletics year. Two stars achieve historic feats: Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman throws the discus farther than any woman before her in the 100-year history of the ISTAF. And crowd favorite Johannes Vetter becomes the first javelin thrower ever to celebrate his fifth ISTAF victory.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
ISTAF in the pandemic<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Corona determines everyday life in 2020. “5,000 people present at the same time” are allowed to be there on September 13 in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. And all of them can be seen how much they had longed for the ISTAF. The oldest track and field meeting in the world is one of the first major sporting events where fans are once again allowed into the stadium thanks to a detailed hygiene concept. The world-class athletes shine with spectacular performances, the ISTAF staff, service providers and helpers are committed to ensuring that everything runs smoothly, and the 3,500 fans go “Bambule” like 50,000. Everyone celebrates an extraordinary athletics party together. Exuberant, cheerful, with goose bumps – and with distance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2019<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Gesa Krause storms to World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>With eyes popping and skin turned to goose bumps, 40,500 fans urged Gesa Krause on for the last lap of the women\u2019s steeplechase \u2013 and after crossing the finish line the German went to complete the fastest lap of honour ever in the history of ISTAF. She had just made history, improving not only her own national record for the 2,000m steeplechase but gone faster than any woman in history, setting a world record in 5:52.80!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2018<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Emotional Farewell from Robert Harting<\/h2><\/a><\/div>More than once discus idol Robert Harting had to wipe away a tear during his final appearance \u201cin his sitting room\u201d, as the Olympic Stadium had become known for the Berlin ace. The entire stadium gave the Olympic champion and his fellow competitors in the discus a standing ovation for minutes on end as they went on a lap of honour accompanied by tumultuous applause from the ISTAF fans. \u201cSaying goodbye here at ISTAF was a breathtaking experience,\u201d said Robert Harting. \u201cI felt there and then that I wanted to keep going and compete. But it\u2019s best to stop at the top.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2017<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Stage for Stars and Fans<\/h2><\/a><\/div>A sight never seen before in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium at the 76th ISTAF on August 27, 2017: world-class athletes having to run through a tunnel. The meeting organizers installed a grandstand for fans about 250m square in diameter spanning the famous blue track just beyond the finish line. This made contact between fans and athletes much easier and was another ISTAF innovation which drew widespread attention.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2014<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Throwing at the 73rd ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2010<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"ISTAF](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/grosse-momente-2020.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>Corona determines everyday life in 2020. “5,000 people present at the same time” are allowed to be there on September 13 in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. And all of them can be seen how much they had longed for the ISTAF. The oldest track and field meeting in the world is one of the first major sporting events where fans are once again allowed into the stadium thanks to a detailed hygiene concept. The world-class athletes shine with spectacular performances, the ISTAF staff, service providers and helpers are committed to ensuring that everything runs smoothly, and the 3,500 fans go “Bambule” like 50,000. Everyone celebrates an extraordinary athletics party together. Exuberant, cheerful, with goose bumps – and with distance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Gesa Krause storms to World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>With eyes popping and skin turned to goose bumps, 40,500 fans urged Gesa Krause on for the last lap of the women\u2019s steeplechase \u2013 and after crossing the finish line the German went to complete the fastest lap of honour ever in the history of ISTAF. She had just made history, improving not only her own national record for the 2,000m steeplechase but gone faster than any woman in history, setting a world record in 5:52.80!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2018<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Emotional Farewell from Robert Harting<\/h2><\/a><\/div>More than once discus idol Robert Harting had to wipe away a tear during his final appearance \u201cin his sitting room\u201d, as the Olympic Stadium had become known for the Berlin ace. The entire stadium gave the Olympic champion and his fellow competitors in the discus a standing ovation for minutes on end as they went on a lap of honour accompanied by tumultuous applause from the ISTAF fans. \u201cSaying goodbye here at ISTAF was a breathtaking experience,\u201d said Robert Harting. \u201cI felt there and then that I wanted to keep going and compete. But it\u2019s best to stop at the top.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2017<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Stage for Stars and Fans<\/h2><\/a><\/div>A sight never seen before in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium at the 76th ISTAF on August 27, 2017: world-class athletes having to run through a tunnel. The meeting organizers installed a grandstand for fans about 250m square in diameter spanning the famous blue track just beyond the finish line. This made contact between fans and athletes much easier and was another ISTAF innovation which drew widespread attention.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2014<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Throwing at the 73rd ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2010<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"Gesa](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/bild24-6.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>With eyes popping and skin turned to goose bumps, 40,500 fans urged Gesa Krause on for the last lap of the women\u2019s steeplechase \u2013 and after crossing the finish line the German went to complete the fastest lap of honour ever in the history of ISTAF. She had just made history, improving not only her own national record for the 2,000m steeplechase but gone faster than any woman in history, setting a world record in 5:52.80!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Emotional Farewell from Robert Harting<\/h2><\/a><\/div>More than once discus idol Robert Harting had to wipe away a tear during his final appearance \u201cin his sitting room\u201d, as the Olympic Stadium had become known for the Berlin ace. The entire stadium gave the Olympic champion and his fellow competitors in the discus a standing ovation for minutes on end as they went on a lap of honour accompanied by tumultuous applause from the ISTAF fans. \u201cSaying goodbye here at ISTAF was a breathtaking experience,\u201d said Robert Harting. \u201cI felt there and then that I wanted to keep going and compete. But it\u2019s best to stop at the top.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2017<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Stage for Stars and Fans<\/h2><\/a><\/div>A sight never seen before in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium at the 76th ISTAF on August 27, 2017: world-class athletes having to run through a tunnel. The meeting organizers installed a grandstand for fans about 250m square in diameter spanning the famous blue track just beyond the finish line. This made contact between fans and athletes much easier and was another ISTAF innovation which drew widespread attention.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2014<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Throwing at the 73rd ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2010<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
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<\/a><\/div>More than once discus idol Robert Harting had to wipe away a tear during his final appearance \u201cin his sitting room\u201d, as the Olympic Stadium had become known for the Berlin ace. The entire stadium gave the Olympic champion and his fellow competitors in the discus a standing ovation for minutes on end as they went on a lap of honour accompanied by tumultuous applause from the ISTAF fans. \u201cSaying goodbye here at ISTAF was a breathtaking experience,\u201d said Robert Harting. \u201cI felt there and then that I wanted to keep going and compete. But it\u2019s best to stop at the top.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Great Stage for Stars and Fans<\/h2><\/a><\/div>A sight never seen before in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium at the 76th ISTAF on August 27, 2017: world-class athletes having to run through a tunnel. The meeting organizers installed a grandstand for fans about 250m square in diameter spanning the famous blue track just beyond the finish line. This made contact between fans and athletes much easier and was another ISTAF innovation which drew widespread attention.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2014<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Great Throwing at the 73rd ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2010<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"Great](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/C4170827ISTAFberlin_003.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>A sight never seen before in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium at the 76th ISTAF on August 27, 2017: world-class athletes having to run through a tunnel. The meeting organizers installed a grandstand for fans about 250m square in diameter spanning the famous blue track just beyond the finish line. This made contact between fans and athletes much easier and was another ISTAF innovation which drew widespread attention.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Great Throwing at the 73rd ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2010<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"Great](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>45,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium carried their discus idol Robert Harting on the crest of a wave to a home win at the 73rd ISTAF. But the hammer blow at the meeting came in the aptly named event when Poland\u2019s Anita Wlodarczyk threw the four kilogramme implement 79.58m to take the world record from her German rival Betty Heidler.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History<\/h2><\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2007<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"World](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old\u2019s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men\u2019s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting\u2019s 69th edition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Record Attendance for the 70th DKB ISTAF<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2002<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"Record](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>Only in its debut year of 1937 had more spectators \u2013 85,000 -attended the meeting in Berlin\u2019s Olympic Stadium than in the record year of 2007. More than 70,000 fans came from all over Germany to the capital. A big part of this record attendance was thanks to the title sponsors the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) who chartered 800 buses and sold tickets including travel at cost price.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
First Time in Jahn Sport Arena<\/h2>The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
2000<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
The 2002 edition of ISTAF was moved to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arena because of renovation being carried out in the Olympic Stadium. Among the action seen by 20,000 fans were 100m wins by Marion Jones in 11.01 and Britain\u2019s Dwain Chambers in 10.02 as well as Boris Henry of Germany winning the men\u2019s javelin with 85.82m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Meeting Records by American Stars<\/h2>ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1993<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
ISTAF on September 1 was the last great trial of strength before the Olympic Games in Sydney. 35,000 spectators acclaimed the stars, above all the still current meeting records of the Americans Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Jones was unstoppable in running 10.78, the fastest in the world for the year while Greene ran 9.86 seconds \u2013 only seven-hundredths-of-a-second outside the world record.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
62,000 see the unbeatable Michael Johnson in action<\/h2><\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1990<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"62,000](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Johnson_1993.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>16 World champions from the global championships in Stuttgart that year competed at ISTAF on August 27, among them renowned winners such as Mike Powell, Merlene Ottey, Lars Riedel and Michael Johnson. The latter proved unbeatable both at the Stuttgart World Championships and in this edition of ISTAF in the 400m. The American\u2019s dominance was to last for quite a few years to come.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
After Re-Unification: Wachtel runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1989<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"After](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wachtel_1990.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>The first ISTAF after the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first in the meeting\u2019s 50-year history to have a title sponsor. 32,000 fans attended the Volkswagen ISTAF and cheered on Christine Wachtel who won the 1,000m in 2:30.57 \u2013 a world record! Further cause for celebration was Heike Drechsler\u2019s performance with the first 7m long jump in ISTAF history.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Mexican Fiesta: Arturo Barrios runs World Record<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1987<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"Mexican](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barrios_1989.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>Arturo Barrios of Mexico provided ISTAF and 33,000 spectators with its 12th world record in a dazzling time on August 18, 1989. There had not been a 10,000m race at ISTAF since 1977 and his time of 27:08.23 was the first world record at the distance in the ISTAF meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Anniversary with two West German and 10 ISTAF Records<\/h2>The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1985<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
The 50th anniversary edition of ISTAF anticipated the start of the World Championships in Rome eight days later. 40,000 fans were rewarded for attending with weather worthy of high summer on August 21, offering ideal conditions for track and field athletics. Among those making full use of the conditions was the new star of the 400, Harry \u201cButch\u201d Reynolds, who ran a meeting record of 44.49 seconds as did West Germany\u2019s Dieter Baumann who achieved his first international win in taking the 3,000m in 7:40.25. Baumann would go on to win the Olympic 5,000m title in Barcelona in 1992.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
World Record at 1500m for the third Time in Olympic Stadium<\/h2>At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1983<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
At 8.13pm 45,000 spectators at ISTAF were beside themselves with excitement. Said Aouita of Morocco, based in Italy and the 5,000m Olympic champion in 1985 and world record holder for the distance with 13:00.40, deposed Britain\u2019s Steve Cram as the world record man for 1500m in a magnificent race. Aouita ran 3:29.46, the fourth time the world record for the distance had been set in Berlin and third in the Olympic Stadium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
World Championships as Drawing Card: 56,000 spectators<\/h2>The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1982<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
The first ever World Championships in Helsinki whetted the appetite for live athletics. 56,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium on August 17 to experience at first hand the post-Olympic ISTAF. A veritable flood of World champions made their appearance in Berlin, above all Carl Lewis who improved his ISTAF record of the previous year by a hundredth-of-a-second to run 10.07, easing down across the line.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
The \u201cOttey\u2019s\u201d and other Highlights<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1978<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
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<\/a><\/div>Milt Ottey of Canada equalled the ISTAF record in the men\u2019s high jump with his winning height of 2.30m. His cousin Merlene, running for Jamaica and on course to become one of the most successful women sprinters in athletics history, impressed the 40,000 spectators with her victory in the 100m in 11.14. Ottey would win three world titles, three Olympic silvers and six Olympic bronze medals in her long career. Carl Lewis showed that he was right on track to become one of the sprint greats with his 100m win in 10.08, also an ISTAF record. One of Berlin\u2019s home favourites, Willi W\u00fclbeck, who would win the gold at the World Championships the following year, triumphed in the 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Two short-lived World Records<\/h2><\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1977<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
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<\/a><\/div>30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland\u2019s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
A Historic Moment<\/h2><\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1976<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/imago0011700086h-scaled.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>Rosemarie Ackermann, Olympic champion from Montreal for the GDR, set with her sixth jump a world record of 1.97m before achieving another world record with her seventh effort, becoming the first woman to jump over two metres. No-one suspected that the victory in the 400m hurdles on August 26 for the young Harald Schmid of West Germany against the Olympic champion Edwin Moses would be the last defeat suffered by the American until June 4, 1987, bringing to an end a sensational run of 119 consecutive wins.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
Mike Boit\u2019s great Day<\/h2><\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n
1975<\/span><\/div>
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<\/a><\/div>One of Kenya\u2019s star middle distance runners, Mike Boit, arrived in Berlin\u00a0 with fire in his belly. Boit had had to miss the Olympic Games that year in Montreal because of a boycott by African nations in protest at the inclusion of apartheid-era South Africa. Boit had thus been unable to contest the 800m, won by Cuba\u2019s Alberto Juantorena in a world record time of 1:43.50. At ISTAF on August 20 Boit wanted to show the 25,000 fans that he would have contested the race for gold all the way with the Cuban. He ran 1:43.47 to break the world record and prove to the world that Juantorena was not the undisputed ruler of the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n