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Indoor Flanders Meeting

Indoor Flanders
Gent - Flanders Expo 1.jpg
The meeting was previously held at the Flanders Expo arena
Date Mid-February
Location Belgium Ghent, Belgium
Event type Indoor track and field
Established 1990
Official site Indoor Flanders

The Indoor Flanders meeting is an annual indoor track and field meeting which takes place at the Flanders Sports Arena in Ghent, Belgium. It is one of foremost meetings on the indoor European circuit and is one of nine events which hold IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting status.

First held in 1990, the competition was originally held at the Flanders Expo arena and moved to the Flanders Sports Arena in 2000. Over its history the meeting has been sponsored by Energizer, KBC Bank, and Toyota (its current sponsor). The 23rd edition in 2012 was annulled because of loss sponsorship.

A number of world records have been set at the meeting, including Svetlana Feofanova's 4.73 m record in the pole vault set in 2002, and Hicham El Guerrouj's time of 3:48.45 in the mile run in 1997 (the latter of which remains the world's fastest mark indoors).

Over the course of its history, numerous world record have been set at the Indoor Flanders Meeting.


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