The Allianz Memorial van Damme is the best athletics meeting in the world 

The Memorial has been achieving very high performance scores since 1977. 14 world records have been set at the Memorial, 6 of them still stand, making the Memorial van Damme and King Baudouin stadium holders of the greatest number of current world records. In addition, 3 World Bests were set there, all of them also still standing. Numerous European and continental records were broken as well as a flood of national records.

That rich history of high performance is brought together in the Allianz Memorial van Damme all time top 20. This all time list is a unique summary of more than three decades of international world class athletics at the Memorial! 

9 actual worlds records or World Bests have been set at the Allianz Memorial van Damme

Actual world records

• 1000m W 2.28.98 Svetlana Masterkova 1996 
• 2000m M 4.43.13 Jakob Ingebrigtsen 2023
• 4 x 800m M 7.02.43 Kenya 2006 (Mutua, Yiampoy, Kombich, Bungei)
• 110m horden - Aries Merritt - 12.80 – 2012  
• One Hour - 21,330m - Mo Farah - 2020
• One Hour – 18.930m - Sifan Hassan – 2020

World Bests:

• 20000m M - 56.20.02 - Bashir Abdi - 2020
• 2 Mile W - 8.57.46 - Meseret Defar - 2007
• 15000m – 41.51.61 – Sabastian Kimaru Sawe - 2022