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Indoor Flanders Meeting

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Date
  
Mid-February

Event type
  
Indoor track and field

Official site
  
Indoor Flanders

Location
  
Ghent, Belgium

Established
  
1990

Indoor Flanders Meeting

The Indoor Flanders meeting is an annual indoor track and field meeting which takes place at the Flanders Sports Arena in Ghent, Belgium. It is one of foremost meetings on the indoor European circuit and is one of nine events which hold IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting status.

First held in 1990, the competition was originally held at the Flanders Expo arena and moved to the Flanders Sports Arena in 2000. Over its history the meeting has been sponsored by Energizer, KBC Bank, and Toyota (its current sponsor). The 23rd edition in 2012 was annulled because of loss sponsorship.

A number of world records have been set at the meeting, including Svetlana Feofanova's 4.73 m record in the pole vault set in 2002, and Hicham El Guerrouj's time of 3:48.45 in the mile run in 1997 (the latter of which remains the world's fastest mark indoors).

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous world record have been set at the Indoor Flanders Meeting.

References

Indoor Flanders Meeting Wikipedia