How it works

The World Athletics Indoor Tour is a series of indoor track and field meetings, held each year since 2016. It was designed to create a Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field, and replaced the IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings series.

The tour was announced with initially four meetings but has expanded to seven meetings in the top category (Gold). The meetings which have been included as top level meetings are:

Meeting	Venue	Years included
Init Indoor Meeting	Karlsruhe (GER)	2016-2023
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix	Boston/New York (USA)*	2016-2024
Globen Galan	Stockholm (SWE)	2016
Muller Indoor Grand Prix	Glasgow/Birmingham (GBR)*	2016-20, 2022-23
PSD Bank Meeting	Dusseldorf (GER)	2017-2020
Orlen Copernicus Cup	Torun (POL)	2017-2024
Madrid Meeting	Madrid (ESP)	2018-2024
Hauts-de-France Pas-De-Calais	Lievin (FRA)	2020-2024
Banskobystricka Latka	Bansko Bystrica (SVK)	2021
Millrose Games	New York (USA)	2022-2024
Czech Indoor Gala	Ostrava (CZE)	2024
Astana Indoor Meet	Astana (KAZ)	2024
The New Balance GP was held at New York 2021-22; the Muller GP was held in Glasgow 2016, 2018 & 2020.

How it works

Athletes accumulate points (10-7-5-3) for the top 4 placings in each event with an additional 3 points for a World Record. This determines their overall ranking for the season.

The events included in the Tour alternate year-by-year with 12 counting events (6 men, 6 women) . All 12 Tour Champions earn a wild card for the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

The Result

Scottish athletes who have finished in the top 8 in the World Athletics indoor Tour standings since its inception in 2016:

Position	Athlete	Year	Event
1st	Neil Gourley	2023	1500 metres
2nd	Jemma Reekie	2021	800 metres
3rd	Laura Muir	2017	1500 metres
4th
5th	Jake Wightman	2021	1500 metres
6th	Eilidh Doyle Lynsey Sharp Jemma Reekie Josh Kerr	2018 2019 2020 2024	400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 3000 metres
7th	Neil Gourley Laura Muir	2021 2023	1500 metres 3000 metres
8th	Lynsey Sharp Jake Wightman Jake Wightman	2017 2018 2020	5000 metres 5000 metres 200 metres

Event top three

The following top 3 placings have been achieved by Scottish athletes at individual World Athletics Indoor Tour meetings (in points-scoring events):

Position

Athlete

Year

Venue

Event

Performance

1st

Laura Muir

Jemma Reekie

Neil Gourley

Laura Muir

Neil Gourley

Josh Kerr

4 Feb 2017

15 Feb 2020

9 Feb 2021

4 Feb 2023

25 Feb 2023

11 Feb 2024

Karlsruhe

Glasgow

Lievin

Boston

Birmingham

New York

3000m

1500m

800m

1 Mile

3000m

1500m

2 Miles

8:26.41

4:04.07

2:00.64

3:52.84

8:40.34

3:42.48

8:00.67

2nd

Eilidh Doyle

Lynsey Sharp

Jake Wightman

Andrew Butchart

Neil Gourley

25 Feb 2018

26 Jan 2019

25 Jan 2020

13 Feb 2021

6 Feb 2022

11 Feb 2023

Glasgow

Boston

New York

400m

600m

1000m

1500m

3000m

1 Mile

52.38

1:29.11

2:17.51

3:34.48

7:37.42

3:49.46

3rd

Jake Wightman

Lynsey Sharp

Eilish McColgan

Jake Wightman

Guy Learmonth

Neil Gourley

28 Jan 2017

8 Feb 2018

25 Feb 2018

15 Feb 2020

17 Feb 2021

Boston

Madrid

Glasgow

Torun

1 Mile

800m

1500m

800m

1500m

3:57.24

2:02.88

4:08.07

1:47.69

1:47.16

3:35.79

Points Scorers

The following Scottish athletes have scored points in the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Place	Athlete	Years	Points
1	Neil Gourley	2021-2023	32
2	Jake Wightman	2017-2022	27
3	Jemma Reekie	2020-2021	20
4	Laura Muir	2017-2023	20
5	Josh Kerr	2019-2024	16
6	Lynsey Sharp	2017-2019	12
7	Eilidh Doyle	2018	7
7	Andrew Butchart	2022	7
9	Eilish McColgan	2018	5
9	Guy Learmonth	2020	5
11	Allan Smith	2017	3
Table as at end of 2024 competition

How it works

The Result

Event top three

Points Scorers

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