Weltklasse Zürich
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date
100 m 9.76 ( +1.4 m/s ) Yohan Blake Jamaica 30 August 2012
200 m 19.66 ( +0.0 m/s ) Usain Bolt Jamaica 30 August 2012
400 m 43.29 Harry ( Butch ) Reynolds United States 17 August 1988
800 m 1:41.24 Wilson Kipketer Denmark 13 August 1997
1500 m 3:26.45 Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco 12 August 1998
Mile 3:45.19 Noureddine Morceli Algeria 16 August 1995
3000 m 7:32.54 Said Aouita Morocco 13 August 1986
5000 m 12:41.86 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 13 August 1997
110 m hurdles 12.92 ( −0.1 m/s ) Roger Kingdom United States 16 August 1989
400 m hurdles 46.92 DLR Karsten Warholm Norway 29 August 2019
3000 m steeplechase 7:56.54 Saif Saeed Shaheen Qatar 18 August 2006
3000 m steeplechase 7:53.17 X Brahim Boulami Morocco 16 August 2002
High jump 2.40 m Charles Austin United States 7 August 1991
Pole vault 5.95 m Igor Trandenkov Russia 14 August 1996
Long jump 8.65 m ( -0.5 m/s ) DLR Juan Miguel Echevarría Cuba 29 August 2019
Triple jump 17.80 m ( +0.1 m/s ) Christian Taylor United States 1 September 2016
Shot put 22.60 m DLR Tomas Walsh New Zealand 30 August 2018
Discus throw 71.12 m Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania 11 August 2000
Hammer throw 83.24 m Andrey Abduvaliyev Uzbekistan 17 August 1994
Javelin throw 92.28 m Raymond Hecht Germany 14 August 1996
Meeting records -- Men
Weltklasse Zürich (English: World Class Zurich) is an annual, invitation-only, world-class track and field meeting at the Letzigrund in Zürich, Switzerland, generally held at the end of August. Previously one of the IAAF Golden League events, it now serves as a final of the Wanda Diamond League, alongside Memorial Van Damme between 2010 and 2019. In 2020 and 2021, Welklasse Zürich will serve as the sole final of the Diamond League. One of the first large-scale international athletics events (outside the Summer Olympics), it is sometimes referred to as the one-day Olympics. Weltklasse Zürich first took place on 12 August 1928. In the beginning, the meeting was nicknamed by the public the Nurmi meeting after the most admired and celebrated participant at the time, Paavo Nurmi. On 21 June 1960, on the Letzigrund track, Armin Hary became the first human to run the 100 m dash in 10.0 seconds. UBS has supported Weltklasse Zürich as its main sponsor since 1981. Other sponsors are Vaudoise Assurances, Migros, Le Gruyère Switzerland, Medica, Omega, Swiss, Lexus, Erdgas and Puma.