Grand Prix II Meetings

The Grand Prix II Meetings are the third and lowest ranked events in the IAAF Grand Prix Series. Payments and points given for victories at these events are lower than at the Golden League and Grand Prix I Meetings. Featured on this page are Merlene Ottey‘s top performances in Saint-Denis, Sevilla, Hengelo, Linz, Sestriere, Rieti and Helsinki. But apart from the different Grand Prix Meetings other Non Grand Prix Meetings are organised too and some of Merlene Ottey‘s results at these meetings are mentioned on this page.

 

Saint-Denis

Ottey has won races in Saint-Denis, France no less than six times and has had the stadium record over both sprint distances for more than 10 years.

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Top performances in Saint-Denis
1988
100 m: 11.00 #1 (SR until 1992)
1989 200 m: 22.24 #1 (SR until 1990)
1990 100 m: 11.08 #1
          200 m: 22.21 #1 (SR)
1992 100 m: 10.97 #1 (SR)
1997 100 m: 11.19 #1
1999 100 m: 11.13 #2 (#1 Pintusevich 10.97)

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Merlene Ottey winning the 100 metre race at Saint-Denis on 2 June 1997

 

Sevilla

Sevilla in Spain was site of the 1999 World Championships and at the Grand Prix meeting in Sevilla Merlene Ottey has the stadium record over 100 metres with 10.78 seconds from 1990 (at that time the third fastest race in history). She also holds the 200 metre stadium record of 22.19 sec. (1991, 1992).

Top performances in Sevilla
1986
100 m: 11.06 #1
1988 100 m: 11.08 #1
          200 m: 22.23 #1 (SR until 1991)
1990 100 m: 10.78 #1 (SR)
1991 200 m: 22.19 #1 (SR)
1992 200 m: 22.19 #1 (SR)

 

Hengelo

Top performances in Hengelo
1990
10.97 #1 (SR)
1995 11.00 #1
1996 11.02w #1

 

Linz

Victories are the only thing Merlene Ottey has experienced in Linz - competing there four times.

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Top performances in Linz
1989 200 m: 22.28 #1 (SR until 1991)
1992 200 m: 22.20 #1 (SR)
1993 100 m: 11.11 #1
1995 100 m: 11.00 #1

 

Sestriere

Top performances in Sestriere
1990
200 m: 21.88 #1 (SR)
1991 100 m: 11.03 #1
 
         200 m: 22.15 #1

 

Rieti

Ottey participated in Rieti and won three years in a row from 1989 to 1991.

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Top performances in Rieti
1989 11.07 #1
1990
10.85 #1 (SR)
1991 10.98 #1

 

Helsinki

Top performance in Helsinki
1994
11.02 #1

 

Non Grand Prix Meetings

Tokyo

Normally the meeting in Tokyo ends the track and field season. Two times after defeats in the Olympic Games (1996) and the World Championships (1997) has Merlene Ottey at this meeting shown who is the best sprinter in the world.

Top performances in Tokyo
1996
10.94 #1
1997 10.83 #1 (SR)

 

Nürnberg

Merlene Ottey has at the end of her career competed a lot in Germany, for example in 1998 and 1999 in Nürnberg (Nuremberg).

Top performances at Nürnberg
1998
11.02 #1 (SR)
1999 11.05 #1 (11.03 #1 in heat)

DNS denotes that Merlene Ottey did not start at the meeting.
SR denotes Stadium Record.

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