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Memorial Van Damme

Memorial Van Damme

Athletics tournament held in Belgium

The Memorial Van Damme is an annual athletics event at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, that takes place in late August or early September. Previously one of the IAAF Golden League events, it is now the final event of the Diamond League, along with Weltklasse Zürich.

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It was first organized in 1977 by a group of journalists in honour of Ivo Van Damme, a Belgian double medal winner at the Montreal Olympics who was killed the previous year in a car accident at the age of 22.

World records

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at Memorial Van Damme.

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2004

2001

1997

1996

1995

1981

Meeting Records

Men

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Women

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References

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