History > Year 2007
Golden Spike 2007
- 46th year
- Date on which the race meeting took place: 27 June 2007
- A meeting of the category IAAF Super Grand Prix
- Number of spectators: sold out
- Number of disciplines: 21
- Two World Records (Haile Gebrselassie: one hour, 20 000 m, one world best 10 miles)
- Three meet records (hammer men, shot put men, 5000 m women)
- 1 national record (Katerina Badurova, Pole Vault)
- 1 all-comers best (5000 m women)
- 20 personal bests
- 70 seasonal bests
- 1 european leading mark (steeple men)
- Evaluation 83 495 points, the third highest ever after 2003 and 2004
- TV coverage (130 countries), media interest (100 accredited), website guests
- World Athlete of the Year 2007 Meseret Defar, Haile Gebrselassie nominated in the final trio for World Athlete of the Year 2007.
- Golden Spike 2007 participants won 26 medals in Osaka later in the year (10 from them were World Champions Hoffa, Tikhon, Šebrle, B. Jackson, Defar, Perry, Isinbayeva, Dietzsch, Heidler, Špotáková), other 31 medals were won by Golden Spike participants from past editions (among them 8 world champions Wariner, Taylor, Kirwa, B. Lagat, Bekele, Pitkamäki, Vlašič, Lebedeva.
- At World Indoor Championships in Valencia 10 individual world champions were past participants of Golden Spike.