Rieti Meeting

The Rieti Meeting is an annual athletics event at the Stadio Raul Guidobaldi in Rieti, Italy that takes place in late August or early September. Previously one of the IAAF Grand Prix events, it is now part of the IAAF World Challenge.

It was first organized in 1971 based on an idea by Sandro Giovannelli, today's member of the IAAF Competition Commission.

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the Rieti Grand Prix.

Year	Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality
2010, 29 August	800 m	1:41.01	David Lekuta Rudisha	Kenya
2007, 9 September	100 m	9.74 (+1.7 m/s)	Asafa Powell	Jamaica
1999	1000 m	2:11.96	Noah Ngeny	Kenya
1996	3000 m	7:20.67	Daniel Komen	Kenya
1993	Mile	3:44.39	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria
1992	1500 m	3:28.86	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria
1983	1500 m	3:30.77	Steve Ovett	United Kingdom
1982	Mile	4:17.44	Maricica Puică	Romania

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref
100 m	9.74 (+1.7 m/s)	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	9 September 2007
200 m	19.85 (+0.6 m/s)	Wallace Spearmon	United States	29 August 2010	^[1]
300 m	32.28	Pietro Mennea	Italy	1979
400 m	44.21	Michael Johnson	United States	9 September 1990
800 m	1:41.01	David Lekuta Rudisha	Kenya	29 August 2010	^[2]
1000 m	2:11.96	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	5 September 1999
1500 m	3:26.97	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	8 September 2002
Mile	3:44.39	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	1993
2000 m	4:49.00	Venuste Niyongabo	Burundi	1997
Two miles	8:13.40	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	1995
3000 m	7:20.67	Daniel Komen	Kenya	1 September 1996
5000 m	13:04.43	Daniel Komen	Kenya	3 September 2000
110 m hurdles	13.01 (+0.8 m/s)	David Oliver	United States	29 August 2010	^[3]
400 m hurdles	47.91	Samuel Matete	Zambia	1992
3000 m steeplechase	8:00.54	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	1997
High jump	2.38 m	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	7 September 1986
Pole vault	5.96 m	Brad Walker	United States	2005
Long jump	8.45 m	Larry Myricks	United States	9 September 1981
Triple jump	17.54 m	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	1987
Shot put	21.00 m	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	1 September 1996
Discus throw	68.38 m	Luis Delís	Cuba	2 September 1984
Hammer throw	82.62 m	Koji Murofushi	Japan	9 September 2007
Javelin throw	84.20 m	Konstadinos Gatsioudis	Greece	5 September 1999
4x100 m relay	39.76	Lazzer Mauro Zuliani Luciano Caravani Clementoni	Italy	1979
4x400 m relay	3:03.55	McCoy Francks Robinson Mark Rowe	United States	1988

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref
100 m	10.81	Irina Privalova	Russia	1992
200 m	21.88	Irina Privalova	Russia	1993
400 m	49.02	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	2 September 1984
800 m	1:56.29	Janeth Jepkosgei	Kenya	9 September 2007
1500 m	3:56.18	Maryam Jamal	Bahrain	27 August 2006
Mile	4:17.44	Maricica Puică	Romania	1982
2000 m	5:30.39	Maricica Puică	Romania	1985
3000 m	8:30.25	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	9 September 2007
100 m hurdles	12.68	Gail Devers	United States	1992
400 m hurdles	53.34	Sandra Glover	United States	7 September 2003
3000 m steeplechase	9:13.92	Ruth Bisibori Nyangau	Kenya	6 September 2009	^[4]
High jump	2.06 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	1987
Pole vault	4.74 m	Fabiana Murer	Brazil	29 August 2010	^[5]
Long jump	7.19 m	Heike Drechsler	Germany	1991
Triple jump	14.94 m	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	2008
Shot put	19.83 m	Natalya Khoroneko	Belarus	2006
Discus throw	65.38 m	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	27 August 2006
Hammer throw	75.58 m	Tatyana Lysenko	Russia	10 September 2011	^[6]^[7]
Javelin throw	66.64 m	Natalya Khoroneko	Belarus	7 September 1986
4x100 m relay	44.97	International Team Lynch Cragno Hodges Pusey		1975

^ "200 Metres Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ "800 Metres Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ "110 Metres Hurdles Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ "3000 Metres Steeplechase Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2009-09-06. Retrieved 2009-09-06. ^{[dead link‍]}
^ "Pole Vault Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^ Diego Sampaolo (10 September 2011). "Rieti's temple to middle distance witnesses Rudisha clock 1:41.33 and Kiprop romp to 3:30.46 in Rieti - IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
^ "Hammer Throw Results" (PDF). www.rietimeeting.com. 10 September 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.