Sparkassen Cup (athletics)

The Sparkassen Cup was an annual indoor track and field competition which takes place in February in Stuttgart, Germany. The meeting was first held at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in 1987 and is currently an IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting.^[1] After 25 years the last edition of the meeting took place in 2011 because the main sponsor ended its involvement.^[2]

Sparkassen Cup
The host stadium – the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
Date	Early February
Location	Stuttgart, Germany
Event type	Indoor track and field
Established	1987
Official site	Sparkassen Cup

At each meeting, the two male and female athletes deemed to have given the best performance each receive the Sparkassen Cup – a metal figurine of a man or a woman respectively.^[3] The recipients are often those who have broken records at the meeting. Indeed, Hicham El Guerrouj's 1997 run in the 1500 metres and Meseret Defar's winning time for the 3000 metres in 2007 remain world records on the indoor track.^[4]

World records

Over the course of its history, 11 world records have been set at the Sparkassen Cup.

World records set at the Sparkassen Cup

Year	Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality
1987	300 m	32.51	Anthony McKay	United States
1991	5000 m	15:13.72	Uta Pippig	Germany
1992	400 m	45.02	Danny Everett	United States
1996	3000 m	7:30.72	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia
1997	1500 m	3:31.18	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco
1998	60 m	6.41	Maurice Greene	United States
2000	1000 m	2:15.25	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya
2002	3000 m	8:29.15	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia
2002	Pole vault	4.71 m	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia
2004	5000 m	14:39.29	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia
2007	3000 m	8:23.72	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia

Meeting records

Men

Men's meeting records of the Sparkassen Cup

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.	Video
60 m	6.41	Maurice Greene	United States	1 February 1998
200 m	20.48[a]	John Regis	United Kingdom	5 February 1995
300 m	32.51	Anthony McKay	United States	1 February 1987
400 m	45.02	Danny Everett	United States	2 February 1992
800 m	1:44.71	Joseph Mwengi Mutua	Kenya	4 February 2004
1000 m	2:15.25	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	6 February 2000
1500 m	3:31.18	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	2 February 1997
3000 m	7:27.80	Yenew Alamirew	Ethiopia	5 February 2011	[5][6]
5000 m	13:31.02	Aïssa Belaout	Algeria	6 February 1994
50 m hurdles	6.45	Anier García	Cuba	7 February 1999
60 m hurdles	7.36	Dayron Robles	Cuba	2 February 2008
High jump	2.32 m	Ralf Sonn	Germany	4 February 1990
		Hendrik Beyer		6 February 1994
Pole vault	5.88 m	Björn Otto	Germany	3 February 2007
Long jump	8.34 m	Llewellyn Starks	United States	2 February 1992
Triple jump	17.29 m	Yoelvis Quesada	Cuba	2 February 1997
Shot put	20.45 m	Karsten Stolz	West Germany	1 February 1987
4 × 100 m relay	40.16	Tobias Unger Marius Broening Alexander Kosenkow Martin Keller	Germany	5 February 2011	[7]

Women

Women's meeting records of the Sparkassen Cup

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
60 m	7.04	Irina Privalova	Russia	2 February 1992
		Sevatheda Fynes	Bahamas	6 February 2000
200 m	22.36	Irina Privalova	Russia	2 February 1992
400 m	50.73	Charity Opara	Nigeria	1 February 1998
800 m	1:58.78	Ludmila Formanová	Czechoslovakia	7 February 1999
1000 m	2:35.66	Maria Mutola	Mozambique	7 February 1999
1500 m	4:04.88	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	7 February 1999
Mile	4:23.90	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	6 February 2000
3000 m	8:23.72	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	3 February 2007
5000 m	14:39.29	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	4 February 2004
60 m hurdles	7.72	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	2 February 2008
High jump	2.04 m	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	7 February 2009
Pole vault	4.71 m	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	3 February 2002
Long jump	7.13 m	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6 February 1994
Triple jump	14.78 m	Rodica Mateescu-Petrescu	Romania	1 February 1998
Shot put	20.47 m	Claudia Losch	West Germany	31 January 1988

Notes

1. by World Athletics source; 20.47 by former meeting website