The Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, abbreviated as FBK Games, is an annual

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 ...

event at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion in

Hengelo Hengelo (; Tweants dialect, Tweants: ) is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel. It is part of a larger urban area that also includes Enschede, Borne, Overijssel, Borne, Almelo and Ol ...

, Netherlands. It is named after

Fanny Blankers-Koen Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen (; 26 April 191825 January 2004) was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning ...

in 1981, but was named Adriaan Paulen Memorial after Adriaan Paulen between 1987 and 2000. It has been part of the

World Athletics Continental Tour The World Athletics Continental Tour is an annual series of independent track and field athletic competitions, recognised by World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF). The Tour forms the second tier of international one-day meetings after the ...

since 2021.

History

The first edition was organized on 6 June 1981. Its name honours

, who won four gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games. It was known as the 'Adriaan Paulen Memorial' from 1987 to 2000, in memory of another Dutch athlete, but when Fanny Blankers-Koen was elected as the best female athlete of the 20th century by the IAAF in 2000, it was decided to use the original name "FBK-Games" again. From 2003 to 2009

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classified the FBK Games among IAAF Grand Prix meetings and from 2010 to 2019 it was a

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 ...

meeting. The 2020 event was canceled due to the

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. Since 2021 it is a

Gold level meeting.

World records

Over the course of its history, half a dozen

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have been set at the FBK Games.

Meeting records

Men

Women

References

External links

* {{IAAF Challenges Annual track and field meetings Athletics competitions in the Netherlands IAAF Grand Prix IAAF World Challenge IAAF World Outdoor Meetings Recurring sporting events established in 1981 Sport in Hengelo World Athletics Continental Tour meetings