Athletics Bridge
Date	Late August – early September
Location	Dubnica nad Váhom,Slovakia
Event type	Track and field
Established	2003
Official site	Atletický Most

TheAthletics Bridge (Slovak:Atletický Most) is an annualtrack and field meeting which takes place at theMestský štadión inDubnica nad Váhom,Slovakia. As one of theEuropean Athletics Outdoor Classic Meetings, it is typically among of the last competitions held in the European summer track and field circuit.^[1]

The meeting was first held in 2003 and started life inBanská Bystrica, another Slovak city. Taking inspiration from theIAAF Golden League, the organising committee (headed by Milan Hort) set about creating their own national version. Consisting of a two-day "double meet", it mirrored the jackpot format with 250,000Slovak Crowns being divided up between athletes who won an event on both days.^[2] The first edition mainly attracted Slovak, Hungarian and Ukrainian athletes, but the second gained European Athletics status and expanded to include other Europeans and African athletes. The following two years saw top level athletes compete, with eightWorld Championships medallists taking part in 2005, and ten medallists from the2006 European Athletics Championships being in attendance the next year.^[3]

The Athletics Bridge meet was beset with financial difficulties in 2007 and as a result the Dubnica nad Váhom-based Atletický Klub Spartak Dubnica decided to take on the organisation of the meeting from then onwards.^[3] Changing to the more traditional one-day meeting format, it became allied with the Euro Meetings group and Hort remained as the meet director, withAlfons Juck serving as the competition manager.^[4] A wide variety of top-level athletes were present that year (includingRoman Sebrle,Dayron Robles,Yargelis Savigne,Koji Murofushi andEzekiel Kemboi) and the event attracted around 3700 people (the highest ever for anathletics event in Dubnica). In 2008, fourteen medalists from the2008 Beijing Olympics entered the competition. Olympic gold medallist in the110 metres hurdles, Dayron Robles, provided the meet highlight with a run of 12.95 seconds despite a strong headwind. Around 6000 people saw the meet in 2009 and the 2010 edition was host to aSlovak record throughLucia Klocová's run of 4:08.86 minutes in the1500 metres.^[3] Cementing its position as Slovakia's foremost one-day athletics meet, some 17 world championship medallists were present in 2011.

Men's meeting records of the Athletics Bridge

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	10.01(±0.0 m/s)	Nesta Carter	Jamaica	26 August 2012	[5]
200 m	20.59	Steve Mullings	Jamaica	6 September 2009	[6]
400 m	45.75	LaShawn Merritt	United States	15 September 2011	[7]
600 m	1:17.10	Tamás Kazi	Hungary	21 August 2013	[8]
800 m	1:45.82	Edwin Melly	Kenya	26 August 2012	[9]
1000 m	2:17.08	Abraham Rotich	Kenya	26 August 2012	[10]
5000 m	14:52.60	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	16 September 2007	[11]
110 m hurdles	12.95	Dayron Robles	Cuba	2008	[3]
3000 m steeplechase	8:12.27	Bernard Mbugua	Kenya	15 September 2011	[6]
High jump	2.33 m	Derek Drouin	Canada	21 August 2013	[12]
Pole vault	5.68 m	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic	21 August 2013	[13]
Shot put	21.61 m	Christian Cantwell	United States	2006	[3]
Hammer throw	82.53 m	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	2005	[3]
Javelin throw	81.20 m	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia	2005	[3]
3000 m walk	11:00.68	Antón Kučmín	Slovakia	21 August 2013	[14]

Women's meeting records of the Athletics Bridge

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	11.17(−0.7 m/s)	Schillonie Calvert	Jamaica	15 September 2011	[7]
200 m	22.91	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	United States Virgin Islands	6 September 2009	[15]
400 m	50.77	Olesya Krasnomovets	Russia	2005	[3]
800 m	2:00.88	Yuliya Rusanova	Russia	15 September 2011	[7]
1000 m	2:38.48	Brenda Martinez	United States	26 August 2012	[16]
1500 m	4:26.51	Élodie Olivares	France	16 September 2007	[11]
100 m hurdles	12.95(+1.4 m/s)	Queen Harrison	United States	21 August 2013	[17]
400 m hurdles	59.38	Miriam Hrdlicková	Slovakia	16 September 2007	[11]
2000 m steeplechase	6:16.95	Milcah Chemos	Kenya	21 August 2013	[18]
3000 m steeplechase	9:30.82	Lydia Chepkurui	Kenya	26 August 2012	[19]
High jump	1.97 m	Svetlana Shkolina	Russia	26 August 2012	[20]
Pole vault	4.50 m	Jiřina Ptáčníková	Czechoslovakia	15 September 2011	[7]
Long jump	6.64 m	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia	16 September 2007	[11]
Triple jump	14.65 m	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	16 September 2007	[11]
Shot put	20.83 m	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	15 September 2011	[7]
Hammer throw	78.22 m	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	21 August 2013	[21]

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