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1998 IAAF Grand Prix
Edition14th
Dates25 February – 19 September
Meetings26 (+1 final)
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The 1998 IAAF Grand Prix was the fourteenth edition of the annual global series of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series changed format that year to incorporate the six 1998 IAAF Golden League meetings as the top tier, followed by the existing Grand Prix I and Grand Prix II level meetings, then finally the Permit level meetings. Grand Prix I featured nine meetings from 3 May to 25 August and Grand Prix II featured 11 meetings from 25 February to 30 August, making a combined total of 26 meetings for the series.[1] An additional 11 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meetings were attached to the circuit.[2] Permit Meetings originally scheduled for Jakarta and San Jose, California were later dropped.[3]

Performances on designated events on the circuit earned athletes points which qualified them for entry to the 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final, held on 5 September in Moscow, Russia.[4] A further four IAAF Permit Meetings of non-Grand Prix status included point-scoring events in order to allow athletes full opportunities to compete in certain events.[5] Middle-distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj was the points leader for the series, taking 96 points from eight meetings. The highest scoring female athlete was Marion Jones on 88 points over eight meetings – a feat also achieved by men's runner-up Bryan Bronson.

Meetings

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Key:   Non-Grand Prix, scoring meeting

# Date Meeting name City Country Level
1 25 February Melbourne Track Classic Melbourne Australia IAAF Grand Prix II
- 28 February Sydney Track Classic Sydney Australia Permit Meeting
- 20 March Engen Grand Prix Final Cape Town South Africa Permit Meeting
2 27 March All Africa Invitational Johannesburg South Africa IAAF Grand Prix II
- 1 May Meeting IAAF du Conseil de Général Fort-de-France Martinique Permit Meeting
3 3 May Grand Prix Brasil de Atletismo Rio de Janeiro Brazil IAAF Grand Prix I
4 7 May Qatar International Athletic Meet Doha Qatar IAAF Grand Prix II
5 9 May Japan Grand Prix Osaka Japan IAAF Grand Prix I
- 16 May Adidas Oregon Track Classic Portland United States IAAF Permit Meeting
- 23 May Jamaica Invitational Kingston Jamaica IAAF Permit Meeting
6 30 May Gran Premio Diputacion Seville Spain IAAF Grand Prix II
7 31 May Prefontaine Classic Eugene United States IAAF Grand Prix I
8 1 June Adriaan Paulen Memorial Hengelo Netherlands IAAF Grand Prix II
9 4 June St Denis – l'Humanité Saint-Denis France IAAF Grand Prix II
10 9 June Slovnaft Meeting Bratislava Slovakia IAAF Grand Prix II
11 13 June Ericsson GP Helsinki Finland IAAF Grand Prix II
- 24 June Meeting di Atletica Leggera Torino Turin Italy Permit Meeting
- 26–27 June ITC International Meet New Delhi New Delhi India IAAF Permit Meeting
12 5 July Zipfer Gugl Grand Prix Linz Austria IAAF Grand Prix II
- 5 July International Meeting Budapest Budapest Hungary Permit Meeting
13 9 July Bislett Games Oslo Norway 1998 IAAF Golden League
- 10 July Live Nuremberg Nuremberg Germany IAAF Permit Meeting
- 11 July Meeting Lille-Métropole Lille France IAAF Permit Meeting
14 14 July Golden Gala Rome Italy 1998 IAAF Golden League
15 16 July Nikaia Nice France IAAF Grand Prix I
16 19 July Grand Prix II Gateshead United Kingdom IAAF Grand Prix II
17 25 July US Open Meet St. Louis United States IAAF Grand Prix I
- 24 July Adidas – Ciutat de Barcelona Barcelona Spain Permit Meeting
18 29 July Meeting Gaz de France Paris France IAAF Grand Prix I
19 2 August British Grand Prix Sheffield United Kingdom IAAF Grand Prix I
20 5 August DN Galan Stockholm Sweden IAAF Grand Prix I
21 8 August Herculis Monte Carlo Monaco 1998 IAAF Golden League
22 12 August Weltklasse Zürich Zürich Switzerland 1998 IAAF Golden League
23 25 August Athletissima Lausanne Switzerland IAAF Grand Prix I
24 28 August Memorial Van Damme Brussels Belgium 1998 IAAF Golden League
25 30 August Rieti Meeting Rieti Italy IAAF Grand Prix II
26 1 September ISTAF Berlin Berlin Germany 1998 IAAF Golden League
F 5 September 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final Moscow Russia 1998 IAAF Golden League
IAAF Grand Prix Final
- 19 September Toto International Super Meeting Tokyo Japan IAAF Permit Meeting

Points standings

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Overall men

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Rank Athlete Nation Meets Points
1 Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco 8 94
2 Bryan Bronson  United States 8 88
3 Jeff Hartwig  United States 8 79
4 Michael Johnson  United States 7 77
5 Denis Kapustin  Russia 8 76
6= Luke Kipkosgei  Kenya 8 73
6= Laban Rotich  Kenya 8 73
8 Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia 6 72
9 Ruslan Mashchenko  Russia 8 70
10= Maurice Greene  United States 8 68
10= Tyree Washington  United States 8 68
12 Daniel Komen  Kenya 8 66
13 Dinsdale Morgan  Jamaica 8 65
14= Frankie Fredericks  Namibia 7 64
14= John Kibowen  Kenya 8 64
16= Maksim Tarasov  Russia 7 63
16= Ato Boldon  Trinidad and Tobago 8 63
16= Balázs Kiss  Hungary 8 63
19 Alvin Harrison  United States 8 60
20 Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain 6 59
21 Sergey Klyugin  Russia 7 58.5
22= Mark Richardson  Great Britain 7 57
22= Samuel Matete  Zambia 8 57
24= Obadele Thompson  Barbados 8 56
24= Jerome Young  United States 8 56
26 Pat Manson  United States 8 52.5
27= Assefa Mezgebu  Ethiopia 6 52
27= Jon Drummond  United States 7 52
27= LaMark Carter  United States 8 52
27= Tom Nyariki  Kenya 8 52

Overall women

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Rank Athlete Nation Meets Points
1 Marion Jones  United States 8 88
2 Svetlana Masterkova  Russia 8 83
3 Trine Hattestad  Norway 8 80
4= Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria 8 77
4= Charity Opara  Nigeria 8 77
6 Melissa Morrison  United States 8 74
7 Michelle Freeman  Jamaica 8 71
8 Chryste Gaines  United States 8 67
9 Gabriela Szabo  Romania 7 66
10 Savatheda Fynes  Bahamas 8 65
11 Tanja Damaske  Germany 7 62
12= Zahra Ouaziz  Morocco 7 61
12= Tatyana Shikolenko  Russia 8 61
14 Glory Alozie  Nigeria 6 59.5
15= Heike Drechsler  Germany 7 57
15= Kutre Dulecha  Ethiopia 8 57
15= Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland 8 57
18= Jackline Maranga  Kenya 8 56
18= Jearl Miles Clark  United States 8 56
20= Dionne Rose  Jamaica 8 55
20= Gete Wami  Ethiopia 8 55
22 Inger Miller  United States 8 53.5
23= Grit Breuer  Germany 5 50
23= Carla Sacramento  Portugal 6 50
25= Sandie Richards  Jamaica 7 47
25= Angie Vaughn  United States 7 47
25= Dawn Burrell  United States 8 47
25= Lorraine Graham  Jamaica 8 47
29 Fiona May  Italy 6 46
30 Keturah Anderson  Canada 8 45.5

References

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  1. ^ 1998 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  2. ^ 1998 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meeting. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ 1998 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meeting. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. ^ IAAF Grand Prix Final. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  5. ^ Scoring Events in IAAF Permit Meetings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
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