Meeting Hauts de France Pas de Calais


The Meeting Hauts de France Pas de Calais also called Meeting International de Liévin is an annual indoor track and field competition which takes place in February in Liévin, France.
As of 2020, it is one of the seven events of the World Athletics Indoor Tour organised by World Athletics.

History

The first meeting was held in 1988, two years after the construction of the Arena Stade Couvert de Liévin and one year after the 1987 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
The meeting was held every year from 1988 to 2007 and then from 2009 to 2012 and is one of the Events of the World Indoor Meetings.
Due to technical problems and work delays, the meeting of 2013 was cancelled.
In 2018, the meeting was held again as an EA Indoor Permit Meeting.
In 2020, the meeting was one of the events of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the Meeting Pas de Calais.
YearEventRecordAthleteNationality
1993200 m21.87Merlene Ottey
1993Pole vault6m14Sergey Bubka
1994Triple jump14m90Inna Lasovskaya
1995200 m20.25Linford Christie
1996200 m19.92Frankie Fredericks
2002Pole vault4m74Svetlana Feofanova
2005Pole vault4m89Yelena Isinbayeva

Meeting Records

Men

Women