IAAF Grand Prix II

The IAAF Grand Prix II was an annual series of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It was introduced in 1993 as an expansion of the IAAF Grand Prix series, adding a second category of competitions in order to support a greater number of meetings the financial benefit of being an official Grand Prix meeting. Prior to its creation, meetings not on the Grand Prix list were included as IAAF Permit Meetings. Further additions to the Grand Prix II level required a competition to have held permit status for two years.^[1] Over the competition's history, at least of 25 different meetings were part of the circuit.

IAAF Grand Prix II

Sport	Track and field
Founded	1993
Ceased	2005
Continent	Global

Athletes earned points at the meetings, dependent upon their finishing position, and the overall points leaders from the wider circuit gained entry to the annual IAAF Grand Prix Final in 1993 to 2002, then the IAAF World Athletics Final from 2003 to 2005.

The role of the Grand Prix II category changed over the years, starting as the second tier of the IAAF Grand Prix before changing to the third tier with the introduction of the IAAF Golden League in 1998. The creation of the IAAF World Outdoor Meetings tour reorganised the IAAF's one-day circuit into four tiers, with the IAAF Super Grand Prix becoming the second most prestigious grouping and the IAAF Grand Prix II as the fourth and lowest level. The category was made defunct in 2006, when the IAAF World Athletics Tour was created.

Editions

The IAAF Grand Prix II calendar was subject to change during its lifetime, with the number of meetings, the constituent meetings, and the duration of the series all regularly changing from year to year.

Key:   As part of IAAF World Outdoor Meetings

Edition	Year	Start date	End date	Meets	Final	Final date	Ref.
1	1993				1993 IAAF Grand Prix Final	10 September
2	1994				1994 IAAF Grand Prix Final	3 September
3	1995				1995 IAAF Grand Prix Final	9 September
4	1996	19 February	1 September	12	1996 IAAF Grand Prix Final	7 September	[2]
5	1997	20 February	7 September	10	1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final	13 September	[3]
6	1998	25 February	30 August	11	1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final	5 September	[4]
7	1999	25 February	5 September	11	1999 IAAF Grand Prix Final	11 September	[5]
8	2000	2 March	3 September	10	2000 IAAF Grand Prix Final	5 October	[6]
9	2001	1 March	2 September	11	2001 IAAF Grand Prix Final	9 September	[7]
10	2002	7 March	8 September	11	2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final	14 September	[8]
11	2003	1 March	3 August	11	2003 IAAF World Athletics Final	13–14 September	[9]
12	2004	12 February	31 July	11	2004 IAAF World Athletics Final	18–19 September	[10]
13	2005	17 February	23 July	10	2005 IAAF World Athletics Final	9–10 September	[11]

Meetings

#	Meeting	City	Country	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
1	British Grand Prix	Gateshead	United Kingdom				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
2	Melbourne Track Classic	Melbourne	Australia				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2
3	FBK Games	Hengelo	Netherlands				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
4	Rieti Meeting	Rieti	Italy				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
5	Helsinki Grand Prix	Helsinki	Finland				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
6	Gran Premio Diputación	Seville	Spain				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
7	Gugl Grand Prix	Linz	Austria				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
8	Cena Slovenska - Slovak Gold	Bratislava	Slovakia				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-
9	Engen Grand Prix	Pretoria	South Africa				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
10	Meeting de L'Humanité	St. Denis	France				GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	Bruce Jenner Classic	San Jose	United States				GP2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
12	Shiv Chatrapati Meeting	New Delhi	India				GP2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix	Doha	Qatar				-	-	GP2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria	Athens	Greece				-	-	-	GP2	-	-	-	-	-	-
15	Hanžeković Memorial	Zagreb	Croatia				-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2	-	-	-
16	Adidas Oregon Track Classic	Portland	United States				-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2	GP2	-
17	Brothers Znamensky Memorial	Tula	Russia				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2
		Kazan													GP2	GP2
18	International Meeting Thessaloniki	Thessaloniki	Greece				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2
19	Palo Alto Meeting	Palo Alto	United States				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2
20	Meeting du Conseil Général de la Martinique	Fort-de-France	France				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2
21	Notturna di Milano	Milan	Italy				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2
22	Memorial Primo Nebiolo	Turin	Italy				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2
23	Josef Odložil Memorial	Prague	Czech Republic				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2
24	KBC Night of Athletics	Heusden-Zolder	Belgium				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2	GP2
25	Grande Premio Rio de Atletismo	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	GP2	GP2

• The South African meet was held in Johannesburg in 1996 and 1998 and Roodepoort in 1999
• The 2003 Adidas Oregon Track Classic was held in Gresham, Oregon
• The 2003 Brothers Znamensky Memorial was held in Tula, Russia

References

1. Grand Prix & Grand Prix II. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-29.
2. IAAF Grand Prix II Schedule 1996. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-29.
3. Grand Prix II 1997. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-29.
4. 1998 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
5. 1999 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
6. 2000 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
7. 2001 Grand Prix Standings. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
8. Grand Prix Schedule 2002. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
9. Grand Prix Schedule 2003. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
10. Grand Prix Schedule 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
11. Grand Prix Schedule 2005. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01.