The IAAF Golden League is an annual series of athletics meetings organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

The league was formed in 1998 to increase the profile of the leading athletics competitions - in the first season, those at Oslo, Rome, Monaco, Zürich, Brussels and Berlin. Athletes (in selected events) who win their event at all six meetings take a share of a $1 million jackpot. In addition, events at Golden League meetings scored more Grand Prix points than other Grand Prix meetings. A seventh event, at St-Denis, Paris, was added in 1999, and Monaco was dropped from the league in 2003 after it was awarded the IAAF World Athletics Final. For 2004, the Bislett Games move from Oslo to Bergen, due to the redevelopment of the Bislett Stadion .

Various rules have changed as the new competition finds its feet. The list of events which qualify for the jackpot is different each year, but there are usually six men's events and six women's. In 2000, the $1 million was reduced to 50 kg of gold bars, but this was reverted in 2003. Also, in 2000 and 2001, athletes only had to win at 5 out of 7 meetings to qualify for the jackpot.

Jackpot winners

Meetings

The meetings that were at some time involved are:

• Bislett Games, Oslo/Bergen, Norway
• Golden Gala, Rome, Italy
• Meeting Gaz de France , Paris, France
• Weltklasse Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
• Memorial van Damme, Brussels, Belgium
• ISTAF , Berlin, Germany
• Herculis , Monaco

2004

Results

100m		Aziz Zakari, GHA	Francis Obikwelu, POR	Asafa Powell, JAM	Asafa Powell, JAM
200m	Shawn Crawford, USA	Stéphane Buckland , MRI	Francis Obikwelu, POR	Bernard Williams, USA	Frank Fredericks, NAM
400m	Timothy Benjamin , GBR		Leslie Djhone , FRA		Otis Harris, USA
800m	Yuriy Borzakovskiy, RUS	Wilson Kipketer, DEN	William Yiampoy , KEN	Wilfred Bungei , KEN	Wilfred Bungei, KEN
1500m	Bernard Lagat, KEN	Rashid Ramzi , BRN	Bernard Lagat, KEN	Bernard Lagat, KEN
3000m					Eliud Kipchoge ,KEN
5000m	John Kibowen , KEN	Eliud Kipchoge , KEN		John Kibowen, KEN
10000m					Abdullah Ahmad Hassan , QAT
110m hurdles		Allen Johnson, USA	Allen Johnson, USA	Allen Johnson, USA
400m hurdles	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Felix Sanchez, DOM	Bayano Kamani , PAN
3000m steeplechase		Paul Kipsiele Koech , KEN	Ezekiel Kemboi, KEN	Saif Saaeed Shaheen , QAT	Saif Saaeed Shaheen, QAT
Triple jump	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE	Christian Olsson, SWE
Pole vault		Aleksandr Averbukh , ISR	Aleksandr Averbukh, ISR	Timothy Mack , USA
Shot put					Manuel Martínez , ESP
Discus	Virgilijus Alekna , LTU	Virgilijus Alekna, LTU	Virgilijus Alekna, LTU	Robert Fazekas , HUN	Virgilijus Alekna, LTU
Javelin			Breaux Greer , USA	Breaux Greer, USA
100m	LaTasha Colander, USA	Yuliya Nesterenko, BLR	Christine Arron, FRA	Christine Arron, FRA	Aleen Bailey, JAM
200m			Muna Lee , USA		Kim Gevaert, BEL
400m	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH	Tonique Williams-Darling, BAH
800m		Jolanda Ceplak, SLO		Maria Mutola, MOZ
1500m	Iryna Lishchynska , UKR	Olga Yegorova , RUS	Judit Varga , HUN	Wioletta Janowska , POL	Tatyana Tomashova , RUS
3000m/5000m	Elvan Abeylegesse, TUR	Ejegayehu Dibaba , ETH	Isabella Ochichi , KEN	Edith Masai, KEN	Edith Masai, KEN
100m hurdles	Gail Devers, USA	Glory Alozie , ESP	Perdita Felicien, CAN	Perdita Felicien, CAN	Mariya Koroteyeva , RUS
400m hurdles		Jana Pitman , AUS		Sandra Glover , USA
Long jump		Tatyana Lebedeva, RUS
High jump	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Hestri Cloete, RSA	Yelena Slesarenko , RUS
Pole vault					Yelena Isinbayeva, RUS
Hammer			Yipsi Moreno , CUB