Golden Gala is an annual track and field event at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy that takes place in July as the third meeting of IAAF Golden League.

Primo Nebiolo, the Italian president of IAAF since 1981, was the founder of the Golden Gala who had the idea to bring the athletes and the people from the USA and the NATO countries together that were boycotting the Moscow Olympics in 1980 as a reason of the Cold War. He died of a heart attack at age 76 in 1999.

The athletes, winning in the same discipline in all the six Golden League events, can claim a share of the jackpot which was 1 million dollars in 2004.

World records

2000

• Javelin throw women 68.22m Trine Solberg-Hattestad, Norway

1999

• 1 mile men 3:43:13 Hicham El Guerrau, Morocco

1998

• 1500m men 3:26:00 Hicham El Guerrau, Morocco

1995

• 5000m men 12:55:30 Moses Kiptanui, Kenya

1987

• 100m men 9:93 Carl Lewis, USA
• 5000m men 12:58:39 Said Aouita, Morocco
• High jump women 2.09m Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria

1984

• Pole vault men 5.94m Sergey Bubka, Soviet Union
• Pole vault men 5.91m Thierry Vigneron, France

1983

• Pole vault men 5.83m Thierry Vigneron, France

External link

• Golden Gala web site (http://www.goldengala.it)