Grand Prix I Meetings

The Grand Prix I Meetings are the the meetings in the IAAF Grand Prix Series ranked directly under the Golden League Meetings. Some meetings have over the years changed between GP I or GP II status – here are shown the cities that from the 1999 season are regarded as arranging Grand Prix I Meetings. On this page you can find information on Merlene Ottey’s best races at these meetings (Cologne, Lausanne, Nice, Stockholm, Villeneuve d’Ascq and Moscow).

 

Cologne

One of Germany’s biggest Grand Prix events is the "Weltklasse" meeting in Cologne. Merlene Ottey has won the sprint races here four times and still holds the stadium record over 100 metres: 10.93 seconds from 1987.

Top performances in Cologne
1987 100 m: 10.93 #1 (SR)
1988
200 m: DNS       (#1 Young 22.26)
1989 100 m / 200 m: 
1990
200 m: 21.81 #1 (SR until 1995)
1991 100 m: DNS       (#1 Torrence: 10.97)
          200 m: 21.83 #1
1992 200 m: ?????     (#1 Privalova 22.13)
1993 100 m: ?????     (#1 Torrence: 11.04)
1994 100 m: ?????     (#1 Torrence: 10.95)
1995 200 m: 22.07 #2 (#1 Torrence: 21.77 SR)
1996 100 m: 10.98 #1
1997 200 m: 22.17 #2 (#1 Jones: 21.93)
1998 (no meeting)
1999 200 m: DNS       (#1 Phillip: 22.48)

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The 200 metre contenders at Cologne in 1997

 

Lausanne

Switzerland hosts more Grand Prix events than just Weltklasse in Zürich – for example "Athletissima" in Lausanne. Here Merlene Ottey has produced no lesss than five sub-11 second 100 metre races (five sub 11-s equals Zürich). In her seven appearances since 1987 she has won five times.

http://www.athletissima.ch

Swiss Athletics

http://www.swiss-athletics.com

Top performances in Lausanne
1987
100 m: 10.97 #1 (SR until 1991)
1988 200 m: DNS       (#1 Jackson: 22.17w)
1989 100 m: DNS       (#1 Sowell: 10.99)
1990 200 m: DNS       (#1 Krabbe: 22.13)
1991 100 m: 10.84 #1 (SR until 1993)
1992 200 m: 22.18 #1
1993 100 m: 10.96 #2 (#1 Devers: 10.82 SR)
           200 m: DNS      (#1 Privalova: 22.17)
1994 100 m: 10.95 #3 (#1 Privalova: 10.77 SR)
           200 m: DNS       (#1 Privalova: 21.82w)
1995 100 m: 10.92 #1
          200 m: 22.07 #1 (SR)
1996 100 m: DNS       (#1 Torrence: 10.97)
1997 100 m: DNS       (#1 Devers: 10.89)
1998 100 m: DNS       (#1 Jones: 10.72 SR)
1999 100 m: DNS       (#1 Jones: 10.80)

 

Nice

The Nikaia Grand Prix in Nice, France has seen the presence of Merlene Ottey six times and everytime she has won her race. Her best performance in Nice has to be her 1990 200 metre race, where she set a new personal record by running the distance in 21.80 sec. into 1.1 mps headwind.

Nice Nikaia Grand Prix on the net

http://www.nice- coteazur.org/americain/index.html

 

Top performances in Nice
1984
100 m: 11.19 #1 
1987 100 m: 10.98 #1 (SR)
1988 200 m: DNS       (#1 Jackson: 22.27)
1989 100 m: 10.99 #1
1990 200 m: 21.80 #1 (SR)
1991
1992
200 m: 22.11 #1
1993
1994
1995
1996
200 m: DNS      (#1 Perec: 22.29)
1997 200 m: 22.47 #1
1998 100 m: DNS      (#1 Arron: 10.99)
1999 100 m: DNS      (#1 Arron: 11.08)
          200 m: DNS      (#1 Fynes: 22.32)

 

Stockholm

Merlene has not partipated that much at DN Galan in Stockholm, but in both 1998 and 1999 she went to Sweden to compete and produced some of her seasons best races.

http://www.dngalan.com

Top performances in Stockholm
1987
100 m: ?????     (#1 Nuneva 11.09w)
1988 100 m: ?????     (#1 Drechsler: 10.96)
1989 100 m: 11.10 #1
1990
1991
100 m: 10.98 #1
1992
1993
100 m: ?????      (#1 Devers: 11.04)
1994 100 m: ?????      (#1 Privalova 10.90 SR)
          100 m: ?????      (#1 Privalova 22.02 SR)
1995 100 m: ?????      (#1 Torrence: 22.24)
1996
1997
100 m: DNS       (#1 Jones: 22.16)
1998 100 m: 11.01 #3 (#1 Gaines: 10.95)
1999 100 m: 22.46 #2 (#1 Jones: 22.07)

 

Villeneuve d’Ascq

Of her only three race appearances at the BNP meet (back in 1989 and 1990), Ottey won them all.

Top performances in Villeneuve d’Ascq
1989
100 m: 10.95 #1 (SR)
          200 m: 22.23 #1
1990 100 m: DNS (#1 Onyali: 11.09)
          200 m: 21.97 #1 (SR)
1991 100 m: DNS (#1 Onyali: 11.04)
1992 100 m: DNS (#1 Ajunwa: 11.03w)
          200 m: DNS (#1 Torrence: 22.07w)
1993 100 m: DNS (#1 Devers: 10.96)
          200 m: DNS (#1 Perec: 21.99)
1994 100 m: ???? (#1 Privalova: 11.00)
1995 100 m: DNS (#1 Paschke: 11.08)
          200 m: DNS (#1 Knoll: 22.45)
1996
1997
100 m: DNS (#1 Devers: 11.02)
1998 100 m: DNS (#1 Arron: 10.99)
          200 m: DNS (#1 McDonald: 22.24)
1999 100 m: DNS

 

Moscow

Returning to Moscow for the first time since her bronze medal in the 1980 Olympics 200 metre final, Merlene Ottey won the 100 metre race in 1996 in her seasons best so far: 10.92 seconds.

Top performance in Moscow
1996
10.92 #1

DNS denotes that Merlene Ottey did not start at the meeting.
SR denotes Stadium Record.
???? denotes that I do not have information on whether Ottey participated or not.

 

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