{"id":4682,"date":"2025-04-16T06:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/?page_id=4682"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:46:36","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n<p>The Allianz Memorial van Damme is the best athletics meeting in the world<\/p>\n\n<p>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.    <\/p>\n\n<p>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!  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>9 actual worlds records or World Bests have been set at the Allianz Memorial van Damme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>    <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Actual world records<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1000m W 2.28.98 Svetlana Masterkova 1996  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000m M 4.43.13 Jakob Ingebrigtsen 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 x 800m M 7.02.43 Kenya 2006 (Mutua, Yiampoy, Kombich, Bungei)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>110m hurdles &#8211; Aries Merritt &#8211; 12.80 &#8211; 2012  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One Hour &#8211; 21,330m &#8211; Mo Farah &#8211; 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One Hour &#8211; 18,930m &#8211; Sifan Hassan &#8211; 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">  <\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>World Bests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>20000m M &#8211; 56.20.02 &#8211; Bashir Abdi &#8211; 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 Mile W &#8211; 8:57.46 &#8211; Meseret Defar &#8211; 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15000m &#8211; 41.51.61 &#8211; Sabastian Kimaru Sawe &#8211; 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Allianz Memorial van Damme is the best athletics meeting in the world The Memorial has been...","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"parent":4332,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-about.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"city":[],"class_list":["post-4682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4682\/revisions\/4692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}