{"id":11555,"date":"2020-09-11T21:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/?p=11555"},"modified":"2020-09-11T21:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:11:23","slug":"news-release-79th-istaf-in-berlins-olympic-stadium-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/news-release-79th-istaf-in-berlins-olympic-stadium-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: 79th ISTAF IN BERLIN\u2019S OLYMPIC STADIUM ON SUNDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scandinavian supremacy in Berlin: Warholm, Duplantis, Stahl among the ISTAF stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the biggest names will feature in Berlin\u2019s ISTAF on Sunday: Karsten Warholm, Armand Duplantis and Daniel Stahl could create a Scandinavian supremacy while German stars Johannes Vetter and Malaika Mihambo travel to Berlin in excellent form. Laura Muir, Christian Taylor and late entry Beatrice Chepkoech are among other prominent names on the start lists. Nine of the eleven events feature world leading athletes and there will be twelve athletes who have won World Championships\u2019 or Olympic gold medals.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ISTAF will look different on Sunday because of the current circumstances. However despite the coronavirus pandemic organizers managed to ensure that around 3,500 spectators will be allowed into the huge Olympic Stadium to watch Germany\u2019s major athletics meeting. They will have to follow strict hygiene regulations and will be seated with some distance from each other. While more than 40,000 spectators will be missing compared to recent years, there will be live TV coverage which will be available in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eWe are very happy that with major support of the city and our partners it was possible to organize the ISTAF during these challenging times and to welcome world-class athletes in Berlin,\u201c said Meeting Director Martin Seeber. \u201eIt is our aim to make a statement for athletics and to be a beacon of the lighthouse. ISTAF will be different with 3,500 instead of 45,000 spectators. But may be it is a first step back to normality.\u201c The ISTAF, the world\u2019s oldest track and field meeting, will be celebrating its centenary in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRESSEINFO_ISTAF2020_Englisch.pdf\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scandinavian supremacy in Berlin: Warholm, Duplantis, Stahl among the ISTAF stars Some of the biggest names will feature in Berlin\u2019s ISTAF on Sunday: Karsten Warholm, Armand Duplantis and Daniel Stahl could create a Scandinavian supremacy while German stars Johannes Vetter and Malaika Mihambo travel to Berlin in excellent form. Laura Muir, Christian Taylor and late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":11540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}