- Gugl-Meeting
The Gugl-Meeting is the largest one-day athletics meeting in
Austria and organised every year in the City ofLinz . Founded in 1988 the Gugl-Meeting was IAAF Grand Prix meeting from 1994 onwards and has changed to EAA Premium Status in 2006. Many big athletic stars have started at the Gugl-Meeting:Carl Lewis ,Colin Jackson ,Allen Johnson ,Marion Jones ,Ivan Pedroso ,Maria de Lurdes Mutola ,Javier Sotomayor and many more. The Linz track is famous for fast 100 m sprints and excellent long jumps in the past.Some meeting records: 9.94 s
Davidson Ezinwa (100 m); 8.66 m Ivan Pedroso (long jump)On
20 August 2006 , Israeli newspaper "Ynet " revealed that the competition does not accept European Pole vaulting champion,Aleksandr Averbukh , due to his Israeli nationality. [he icon cite web
url =http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3293242,00.html
title = Austrians to Alex Averbukh: don't come
date =20 August 2006 | publisher =Ynet ]References
*Gugl-Meeting at the [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite German Wikipedia]
External links
* [http://www.gugl-meeting.at/ Homepage Gugl-Meeting]
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