The sixth and final leg of the IAAF World Indoor Tour comes Wednesday at a sold-out Sportpark Arena in Dusseldorf (GER) for the PSD Bank Meeting. Beyond the individual match-ups are the Tour titles, which are worth $20,000 to the winners, plus an automatic entry into next year’s World Indoor Championships. The current Tour event leaders:
Men
● 400 m:
1. 30 Nathan Strother (USA)
2. 20 Pavel Maslak (CZE)
3. 19 Luka Janezic (SLO)
● 1,500 m:
1. 24 Bethwel Birgen (KEN)
2. 23 Samuel Tefera (ETH)
3. 17 Yomif Kejelcha (ETH)
● 60 m Hurdles:
1. 30 Jarret Eaton (USA) ~ clinched Tour championship
2. 19 Milan Trajkovic (CYP)
3. 17 Orlando Ortega (ESP)
● High Jump:
1. 20 Naoto Tobe (JPN) ~ clinched Tour championship
2. 10 Ilya Ivanyuk (RUS)
3. 7 four tied
● Long Jump:
1. 27 Juan Miguel Echevarria (CUB)
2. 20 Thobias Nilsson Montler (SWE)
3. 15 Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
Women
● 60 m:
1. 30 Ewa Swoboda (POL) ~ clinched Tour championship
2. 14 Dafne Schippers (NED)
3. 12 Marie-Josee Ta Lou (CIV)
● 800 m:
1. 10 Habitam Alemu (ETH)
1. 10 Shelayna Oskan-Clarke (GBR)
1. 10 Raevyn Rogers (USA)
● 3,000 m:
1. 27 Alemaz Samuel (ETH)
2. 10 Melissa Courtney (GBR)
2. 10 Konstanze Klosterhalfen (GER)
● Pole Vault:
1. 20 Katie Nageotte (USA)
1. 20 Anzhelika Sidorova (RUS)
1. 20 Katerina Stefanidi (GRE)
● Triple Jump:
1. 17 Yulimar Rojas (VEN)
2. 10 Patricia Momona (POR)
2. 10 Ana Peleteiro (ESP)
● Shot Put:
1. 17 Christina Schwanitz (GER)
2. 10 Maggie Ewen (USA)
2. 10 Jessica Ramsey (USA)
The top event on the program promises to be the men’s 1,500, with new world-record holder Tefera (3:31.04) facing series leader Birgen and all three of Norway’s Ingebrigtsen brothers, Filip, Hendrik and Jakob!
Poland’s Swoboda, the co-world leader in the 60 m at 7.08, will have face two top sprinters in Worlds medalists Dafne Schippers (NED) and Marie-Josee Ta Lou (CIV).
In the men’s 60 m – not a World Tour event – China’s Bingtian Su is also the world leader, at 6.47 in Birmingham (GBR) last week.
The meet is being streamed online here. Look for results here.
