2009 Golden Gala Roma

Rome, IT ⋅ Jul, 10 2009 | Coverage created by Ryan From Flotrack

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Flotrack coverage of the 2009 IAAF Golden League Golden Gala Rome.

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Structure

The IAAF Golden League will consist of six meetings and the IAAF World Athletics Final.

Golden League Events

The ten Golden League Events 2008 are divided in two categories:Premium Events: 100m M – 1500m M – 400H M – 200M W – HJ W; Classic Events: 400 M - LJ M – JT M – 800m W – 100H W . In addition to these Golden League Events, each Golden League Meeting shall stage no less than five additional Events called Promotional Events, which shall not the same in all six meetings.

Prize Money

This is the minimum USD Prize Money to be paid by the Golden League Meetings:

	Premium Events	Classic Events	Promotional Events
1°	16.000,00	8.000,00	4.000,00
2°	12.000,00	6.000,00	3.000,00
3°	9.000,00	4.500,00	2.250,00
4°	6.000,00	3.000,00	1.500,00
5°	4.000,00	2.000,00	1.000,00
6°	3.000,00	1.000,00	800,00
7°	2.000,00	800,00	600,00
8°	1.000,00	600,00	500,00

For the middle distance races (1.500 and over) an allowance of 500,00 USD will be ensured to all athletes finishing in the positions 9-12.

Bonus

A bonus of 50.000,00 USD shall be awarded by the Organizers to any athlete breaking a World Record, once it is ratified by the IAAF, in any of the Golden League Events in a Golden League Meeting.

Jackpot

A Golden League Jackpot of 1.000.000,00 USD will be distributed evenly amongst the athletes who have won their respective events at the six GL meetings. If there is no athlete with 6 wins, a USD 500,000 jackpot will be distributed amongst the athletes with 5 wins in their respective events. There will be no carry over of any remaining Jackpot prize money. The athletes have to take part in the IAAF World Athletics Final to receive any share of the Jackpot.

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#8	Where Bekele July 10 at 8:43pm Come on Ryan.. You got Bolt a few days ago... wheres Bekele? reply
#7	Arnold July 10 at 7:06pm Did anyone get a interview with Maggie Vessey after her 800m win? reply
#6	Anonymous Coward July 10 at 6:18pm yea check out http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPlayer/media.dbml?id=628851&db_oem_id=23000 reply
#5	Anonymous Coward July 10 at 6:13pm any way to watch the race videos? reply
#4	Jack Moore July 10 at 8:34am Eurosport has live coverage and coverage should be available through their 'eurosport player'. reply
#3	Chubby Checkers July 9 at 10:04pm There is a Universal Sports link on the left hand side. They had the entire meet from Laussen there to watch this week and it was live as well. Hopefully, they will have the same for Rome! reply
#2	Tc July 9 at 5:24pm Is there any live coverage to be found anywhere of these events? I'm particularly interested in the men's 800m reply
#1	Kes July 4 at 1:58am So glad you guys came to Europe! Could you please interview Susan Kuijken in Rome after the 1500m race? You got such an nice interviews with her. Making the Dutch fans really happy with it! reply