The Globen Galan is an annual indoor
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...
event held in February at the
Ericsson Globe
Avicii Arena, originally known as the Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as the Ericsson Globe, but commonly referred to in Swedish language, Swedish simply as Globen (; ), is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov dist ...
in
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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. The meeting was first held in 1990 and from 2000 to 2010 known as GE Galan, because
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the New York (state), state of New York and headquartered in Boston.
Over the year ...
was the official title sponsor. From 2011 to 2015 the official name changed to XL Galan and was sponsored by Swedish book-trade company
XL-BYGG.
The 2016 edition was part of the inaugural
IAAF World Indoor Tour, but after a loss of sponsorship, was not held in 2017.
Meseret Defar
Meseret Defar Tola (Amharic: መሠረት ደፋር; born 19 November 1983) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes chiefly in the 3,000 metres and 5,000 metres events. She has won medals at top-tier international competitions includ ...
made a world record run in the
5000 metres
The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta ...
at the 2009 edition. She returned for a second record attempt in 2010 and finished just hundredths of a second short of the record, although
Alemitu Bekele's second-place finish improved the
European record indoors.
[Julin, A. Lennart (2010-02-11)]
Another blazing 5000m run by Defar - Stockholm report
IAAF
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 sports governing body, governing body for the sport ...
. Retrieved on 2010-02-11.
World records

Over the course of its history, numerous
world records
A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organizatio ...
have been set at the GE Galan.
Meeting records
Men
Women
References
External links
Official website*
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IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings
Athletics competitions in Sweden
Recurring sporting events established in 1990
Winter in Sweden
World Athletics Indoor Tour meetings
Sports competitions in Stockholm
1990 establishments in Sweden
1990s establishments in Stockholm