Athletissima

Athletissima
	Stade olympique de la Pontaise
Date	June - July
Location	Lausanne, Switzerland
Event type	Track and field
Established	8 July 1977
Official site	Diamond League – Lausanne

Athletissima is an annual athletics meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously one of the five IAAF Super Grand Prix events, it is now part of the IAAF Diamond League.

The first edition was held on 8 July 1977 in the Stade Pierre de Coubertin. In 1986 the event was moved to the Stade olympique de la Pontaise.

World records

Over the course of its history, three world records have been set at Athletissima.

Year	Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality
2006	110 m hurdles	12.88 (+1.1 m/s)	Liu Xiang	China
2005	Pole vault	4.93 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia
1994	100 m	9.85 (+1.2 m/s)	Leroy Burrell	United States

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref
100 m	9.69 (-0.1 m/s)	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	23 August 2012	^[1]
200 m	19.58 (+1.4 m/s)	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	23 August 2012	^[2]
400 m	43.66	Michael Johnson	United States	3 July 1996
800 m	1:42.61	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	2 July 1997
1500 m	3:29.51	Ali Saïdi-Sief	Algeria	4 July 2001
3000 m	7:30.62	Daniel Komen	Kenya	2 July 1999
5000 m	12:59.13	Vincent Chepkok	Kenya	30 June 2011	^[3]
110 m hurdles	12.88 (+1.1 m/s)	Liu Xiang	China	11 July 2006
400 m hurdles	47.14	Edwin Moses	United States	14 July 1981
3000 m steeplechase	8:01.62	Brimin Kiprop Kipruto	Kenya	8 July 2010
High jump	2.41 m	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	4 July 2013	^[4]
Pole vault	5.91 m	Brad Walker	United States	10 July 2007
Long jump	8.56 m	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	5 July 1995
Triple jump	18.06 m	Christian Taylor	United States	9 July 2015	^[5]
Shot put	22.20 m	David Storl	Germany	9 July 2015	^[6]
Discus throw	70.53 m	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	5 July 2005
Javelin throw	90.16 m	Keshorn Walcott	Trinidad and Tobago	9 July 2015	^[7]
Javelin throw (tail drag model)	90.72 m	Jan Zelezny	Czechoslovakia	10 July 1991

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref
100 m	10.72 (0.0 m/s)	Marion Jones	United States	25 August 1998
200 m	22.07	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	5 July 1995
400 m	49.45	Marie-José Pérec	France	3 July 1996
800 m	1:56.25	Maria Mutola	Mozambique	2 July 2002
1500 m	3:58.60	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	11 July 2006
3000 m	8:34.58	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	8 July 2010
100 m hurdles	12.40 (+1.2 m/s)	Gail Devers	United States	2 July 2002
400 m hurdles	53.08	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	2 July 1999
3000 m steeplechase	9:16.99	Virginia Nyambura	Kenya	9 July 2015	^[8]
High jump	2.04 m	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	2 July 2002
Pole vault	4.93 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	5 July 2005
Long jump	7.48 m (+0.4 m/s)	Heike Drechsler	Germany	8 July 1992
Triple jump	15.33 m (+1.2 m/s)	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	6 July 2004
Shot put	20.95 m	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	23 August 2012	^[9]
Discus throw	68.96 m	Sandra Perković	Croatia	4 July 2013	^[10]
Javelin throw	67.40 m	Osleidys Menendez	Cuba	2 July 2002
4×100 m relay	42.40	Madiea Ghafoor Dafne Schippers Tessa van Schagen Jamile Samuel	Netherlands	3 July 2014	^[11]