The 2016
IAAF World Challenge
The IAAF World Challenge was an annual, global circuit of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation ...
was the seventh edition of the annual, global circuit of one-day
track and field
Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...
competitions organized by the
International Association of Athletics Federations
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, coverin ...
(IAAF). The series featured a total of twelve meetings – one fewer than the previous year as the
Ponce Grand Prix de Atletismo and
Meeting de Rabat were dropped while the
Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo returned. The Rieti Meeting was originally scheduled for 11 September, but the meeting folded due to financial issues.
Rieti Meeting
Euro Meetings Track and Field. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
Schedule
References
External links
Official website
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2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
World Challenge Meetings