One of Germany’s biggest Grand Prix events is the "Weltklasse" meeting in Cologne. Merlene Ottey has won the sprint races here four times and still holds the stadium record over 100 metres: 10.93 seconds from 1987.

The 200 metre contenders at Cologne in 1997

Switzerland hosts more Grand Prix events than just Weltklasse in Zürich – for example "Athletissima" in Lausanne. Here Merlene Ottey has produced no lesss than five sub-11 second 100 metre races (five sub 11-s equals Zürich). In her seven appearances since 1987 she has won five times.

http://www.athletissima.ch

Swiss Athletics

http://www.swiss-athletics.com

The Nikaia Grand Prix in Nice, France has seen the presence of Merlene Ottey six times and everytime she has won her race. Her best performance in Nice has to be her 1990 200 metre race, where she set a new personal record by running the distance in 21.80 sec. into 1.1 mps headwind.

Nice Nikaia Grand Prix on the net

http://www.nice- coteazur.org/americain/index.html

Merlene has not partipated that much at DN Galan in Stockholm, but in both 1998 and 1999 she went to Sweden to compete and produced some of her seasons best races.

http://www.dngalan.com

Villeneuve d’Ascq

Of her only three race appearances at the BNP meet (back in 1989 and 1990), Ottey won them all.

Returning to Moscow for the first time since her bronze medal in the 1980 Olympics 200 metre final, Merlene Ottey won the 100 metre race in 1996 in her seasons best so far: 10.92 seconds.