{"id":66430,"date":"2021-01-29T16:39:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/listing\/herculis-meeting\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:03:37","slug":"herculis-meeting","status":"publish","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/listing\/herculis-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Herculis Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Herculis meeting is an international athletics meeting. Since September 1987, it has been held once a year, usually in July, at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco.<\/p>\n\n<p>Organised by the Mon\u00e9gasque Athletics Federation, the event is presided over by Prince Albert II himself and welcomes the world&#8217;s greatest athletes. One of the fourteen Diamond League meetings since 2010, the event was part of the Golden League circuit from 1998 &#8211; the year of the first edition &#8211; to 2002. In addition, the Herculis Meeting hosted the World Athletics Final from 2003 to 2005. It&#8217;s a Pro Athletic Tour event.<br\/><br\/>In the 2020 edition, a performance did not go unnoticed. Joshua Cheptegei&#8217;s. Dazzlingly at ease, the Ugandan flew over the 5,000m at a frantic pace (12&#8217;35&#8217;36), to beat the previous world record held by the Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele (12&#8217;37&#8217;35, 31 May 2004 in Hengelo). <em>Speaking at the end of his incredible race, he said: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to celebrate my world record when I get back home. I knew I had to push myself if I wanted to achieve this. Mentally, it took a lot for me to stay motivated this year, but it was easier being surrounded by my family in Uganda.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Fun fact:<\/strong> Russian Yelena Isinbayeva broke the world pole vaulting record at the 2008 Herculis meeting with a jump of 5.04 metres. More recently, the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba broke, here in the Louis II Stadium, the world record for the 1500m in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34823,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"listing-category":[2164,2167],"class_list":["post-66430","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing-category-events","listing-category-sports-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Herculis Meeting - Monaco Tribune<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/listing\/herculis-meeting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Herculis Meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Herculis meeting is an international athletics meeting. 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