Fanny Blankers-Koen Games

The Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, abbreviated as FBK Games, is an annual track and field event at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion in Hengelo, Netherlands. It is named after Fanny Blankers-Koen 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 since 2021.

Fanny Blankers-Koen Games
Bram Som and Jonathan Kitilit during the 800 metres of the 2018 edition
Date	May–August
Location	Hengelo, Netherlands
Event type	Track and field
World Athletics Cat.	A
Established	6 June 1981
Official site	www.fbkgames.nl

History

The first edition was organized on 6 June 1981.^[1] Its name honours Fanny Blankers-Koen, 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.^[2]

From 2003 to 2009 IAAF classified the FBK Games among IAAF Grand Prix meetings and from 2010 to 2019 it was a IAAF World Challenge meeting. The 2020 event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] Since 2021 it is a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold level meeting.

World records

Over the course of its history, half a dozen world records have been set at the FBK Games.

World records set at the FBK Games

Year	Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Ref.
1994	5000 m	12:56.96	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	[4]
1995	10,000 m	26:43.53	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	[5]
1997	Two miles	8:01.08	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	[6]
1998	10,000 m	26:22.75	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	[7]
2004	5000 m	12:37.35	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	[8]
2021	10,000 m	29:06.82	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	[9]

Meeting records

Men

Men's meeting records of the FBK Games

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	9.95 (+1.4 m/s)	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	8 June 2014	[10]
200 m	20.23 (+2.0 m/s)	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	8 June 2013	[11]
400 m	44.35	Abdalleleh Haroun	Qatar	3 June 2018	[12]
800 m	1:43.05	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1 June 2003	[13]
1000 m	2:14.37	Niels Laros	Netherlands	7 July 2024	[14]
1500 m	3:29.51	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	31 May 1997
Mile	3:50.39	James Kwalia	Kenya	1 June 2003	[13]
3000 m	7:29.49	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	27 May 1996
Two miles	8:01.08	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	31 May 1997
5000 m	12:37.35	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	31 May 2004	[15]
10,000 m	26:22.75	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	1 June 1998	[16]
One hour	20,822.36 m	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	1 June 2009	[17]
110 m hurdles	13.03 (+0.4 m/s)	Grant Holloway	United States	4 June 2023	[18]
400 m hurdles	48.08	Edwin Moses	United States	19 July 1987
3000 m steeplechase	8:01.05	Paul Kipsiele Koech	Kenya	26 May 2007	[19]
High jump	2.33 m	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	8 June 2014	[20]
Pole vault	6.11 m	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	4 June 2023	[18]
Long jump	8.73 m (+1.2 m/s)	Irving Saladino	Panama	24 May 2008	[21]
Triple jump	17.57 m (+1.7 m/s)	Hugues Fabrice Zango	Burkina Faso	7 July 2024	[22]
Shot put	21.87 m	Reese Hoffa	United States	28 May 2011	[23][24]
Discus throw	71.84 m	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	8 June 2013	[25]
Hammer throw	80.90 m	Igor Astapkovich	Belarus	28 May 2000	[26]
Javelin throw	90.75 m	Anderson Peters	Grenada	6 June 2022	[27]
4 × 100 m relay	38.29	Santa Monica Track Club	United States	4 June 1994
4 × 200 m relay	1:20.43	Santa Monica Track Club	United States	13 August 1989
4 × 400 m relay	3:09.59	Dutch national team	Netherlands	19 July 1987

Women

Women's meeting records of the FBK Games

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	10.92 (+0.8 m/s)	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	6 June 2021	[28]
200 m	22.02 (−0.3 m/s)	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22 May 2016	[29]
400 m	50.02	Femke Bol	Netherlands	7 July 2024	[30]
800 m	1:55.76	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya	24 May 2008	[31]
1000 m	2:34.65	Mary Decker	United States	19 July 1987
1500 m	3:56.14	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	11 June 2017	[32]
Mile	4:25.71	Jennifer Simpson	United States	3 June 2018	[33]
2000 m	5:40.71	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	13 August 1989
3000 m	8:30.43	Zahra Ouaziz	Morocco	1 June 1998	[16]
5000 m	14:35.37	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	28 May 2006	[34]
10,000 m	29:06.82	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	6 June 2021	[28]
100 m hurdles	12.39 (+1.6 m/s)	Jasmine Camacho-Quinn	Puerto Rico	7 July 2024	[35]
400 m hurdles	52.51	Femke Bol	Netherlands	9 June 2025	[36][37]
3000 m steeplechase	9:07.06	Sofia Assefa	Ethiopia	11 June 2017	[38]
High jump	2.04 m	Mariya Lasitskene	Russia	11 June 2017	[39]
Pole vault	4.90 m	Yarisley Silva	Cuba	8 June 2013	[40]
Long jump	6.88 m NWI	Larissa Berezhnaya	Soviet Union	13 August 1989
Triple jump	14.63 m (+1.7 m/s)	Caterine Ibarguen	Colombia	8 June 2014	[41]
Shot put	20.86 m	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	31 May 1997
Discus throw	67.42 m	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	25 June 1991
Hammer throw	71.54 m	Manuela Montebrun	France	1 June 2003	[42]
Javelin throw	63.90 m	Tatsiana Khaladovich	Belarus	11 June 2017	[43]
4 × 100 m relay	42.25	Alexandra Burghardt Lisa Mayer Gina Lückenkemper Rebekka Haase	Germany	11 June 2017	[44]