Globen Galan

Globen Galan
Date	February
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Event type	Indoor track and field
Established	1990
Official site	Globen Galan

The Globen Galan is an annual indoor athletics event held in February at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting was first held in 1990 and from 2000 to 2010 known as GE Galan, because General Electric was the official title sponsor. From 2011 to 2015 the official name changed to XL Galan and was sponsored by Swedish book-trade company XL-BYGG.

The 2016 edition was part of the inaugural IAAF World Indoor Tour, but after a loss of sponsorship, was not held in 2017.

Meseret Defar made a world record run in the 5000 metres at the 2009 edition. She returned for a second record attempt in 2010 and finished just hundredths of a second short of the record, although Alemitu Bekele's second-place finish improved the European record indoors.^[1]

Over the course of its history, numerous world records have been set at the GE Galan.

World records set at the Globen Galan

Year	Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Ref.
1996	1000 m	2:31.23	Maria Mutola	Mozambique
1997	5000 m	12:59.04	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia
1998	5000 m	12:51.48	Daniel Komen	Kenya
1999	1000 m	2:30.94	Maria Mutola	Mozambique
1999	Pole vault	4.56 m	Nicole Humbert	Germany
2002	Pole vault	4.72 m	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia
2009	5000 m	14:24.37	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia
2012	Pole vault	5.01 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	[2][3]
2014	3000 m	8:16.60	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	[4]
2015	5000 m	14:18.86	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	[5]
2016	1000 m	2:14.20	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	[6]
2016	Mile	4:13.31	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	[7]

Men's meeting records of the Globen Galan

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
60 m	6.51	Bruny Surin	Canada	1997
200 m	20.60	Jeff Williams	United States	1996
400 m	45.39	Abdalleleh Haroun	Qatar	19 February 2015	[8]
800 m	1:44.34	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	2003
1000 m	2:14.20	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	17 February 2016	[9]
1500 m	3:33.39	Laban Rotich	Kenya	1999
Mile	3:52.18	Rui Silva	Portugal	2001
3000 m	7:30.16	Galen Rupp	United States	21 February 2013	[10]
5000 m	12:51.48	Daniel Komen	Kenya	1998
60 m hurdles	7.42	Colin Jackson	United Kingdom	1994
High jump	2.38 m	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	15 February 2005	[11]
Pole vault	5.92 m	Maksim Tarasov	Russia	1998
		Igor Potapovich	Kazakhstan	1998
Long jump	8.49 m	Carl Lewis	United States	1992
Triple jump	17.64 m	Christian Olsson	Sweden	12 February 2004
Shot put	21.33 m	Tim Nedow	Canada	17 February 2016	[12]
Heptathlon	6188 pts	Erki Nool	Estonia	1996
	(60 m), (long jump), (shot put), (high jump), (60 m hurdles), (pole vault), (1000 m)

Women's meeting records of the Globen Galan

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
60 m	7.03	Gail Devers	United States	1999
200 m	23.37	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago	19 February 2015	[13]
400 m	50.94	Grit Breuer	Germany	1998
800 m	1:57.67	Stephanie Graf	Austria	2001
1000 m	2:30.94	Maria Mutola	Mozambique	1999
1500 m	3:56.46+	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	17 February 2016	[14]
Mile	4:13.31	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	17 February 2016	[15]
3000 m	8:16.60	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	6 February 2014	[16]
5000 m	14:18.86	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	19 February 2015	[17]
60 m hurdles	7.74	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	21 February 2008	[18]
High jump	2.03 m	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	2003
Pole vault	5.01 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	23 February 2012	[19][20]
Long jump	6.99 m	Christabel Nettey	Canada	19 February 2015	[21]
Triple jump	14.79 m	Olga Saladukha	Ukraine	23 February 2012	[22]
Shot put	19.79 m	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	1996
Pentathlon	4685 pts	Yelena Lebedenko	Russia	1996
	(60 m hurdles), (high jump), (shot put), (long jump), (800 m)

• Official website
• XL Galan Records Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine