Globen Galan


The Globen Galan is an annual indoor athletics event held in February at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting was first held in 1990 and from 2000 to 2010 known as GE Galan, because General Electric was the official title sponsor. From 2011 to 2015 the official name changed to XL Galan and was sponsored by Swedish book-trade company XL-BYGG.
The 2016 edition was part of the inaugural IAAF World Indoor Tour, but after a loss of sponsorship, was not held in 2017.
Meseret Defar made a world record run in the 5000 metres at the 2009 edition. She returned for a second record attempt in 2010 and finished just hundredths of a second short of the record, although Alemitu Bekele's second-place finish improved the European record indoors.

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the GE Galan.
YearEventRecordAthleteNationalityRef
20161000 m2:14.20Ayanleh SouleimanDjibouti
2016Mile4:13.31Genzebe DibabaEthiopia
20155000 m14:18.86Genzebe DibabaEthiopia
20143000 m8:16.60Genzebe DibabaEthiopia
2012Pole vault5.01 mYelena Isinbayeva
20095000 m14:24.37Meseret DefarEthiopia
2002Pole vault4.72 mSvetlana Feofanova
1999Pole vault4.56 mNicole Humbert
19991000 m2:30.94Maria Mutola
19985000 m12:51.48Daniel Komen
19975000 m12:59.04Haile GebrselassieEthiopia
19961000 m2:31.23Maria Mutola

Meeting Records

Men

Women