# 1998 IAAF Grand Prix

The 1998 IAAF Grand Prix was the fourteenth edition of the annual global series of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series changed format that year to incorporate the six 1998 IAAF Golden League meetings as the top tier, followed by the existing Grand Prix I and Grand Prix II level meetings, then finally the Permit level meetings. Grand Prix I featured nine meetings from 3 May to 25 August and Grand Prix II featured 11 meetings from 25 February to 30 August, making a combined total of 26 meetings for the series. An additional 11 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meetings were attached to the circuit. Permit Meetings originally scheduled for Jakarta and San Jose, California were later dropped.
Performances on designated events on the circuit earned athletes points which qualified them for entry to the 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final, held on 5 September in Moscow, Russia. A further four IAAF Permit Meetings of non-Grand Prix status included point-scoring events in order to allow athletes full opportunities to compete in certain events. Middle-distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj was the points leader for the series, taking 96 points from eight meetings. The highest scoring female athlete was Marion Jones on 88 points over eight meetings – a feat also achieved by men's runner-up Bryan Bronson.

## Meetings

Key:  Non-Grand Prix, scoring meeting
| # | Date | Meeting name | City | Country | Level |
| 1 | 25 February | Melbourne Track Classic | Melbourne | Australia | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| - | 28 February | Sydney Track Classic | Sydney | Australia | Permit Meeting |
| - | 20 March | Engen Grand Prix Final | Cape Town | South Africa | Permit Meeting |
| 2 | 27 March | All Africa Invitational | Johannesburg | South Africa | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| - | 1 May | Meeting IAAF du Conseil de Général | Fort-de-France | Martinique | Permit Meeting |
| 3 | 3 May | Grand Prix Brasil de Atletismo | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| 4 | 7 May | Qatar International Athletic Meet | Doha | Qatar | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| 5 | 9 May | Japan Grand Prix | Osaka | Japan | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| - | 16 May | Adidas Oregon Track Classic | Portland | United States | IAAF Permit Meeting |
| - | 23 May | Jamaica Invitational | Kingston | Jamaica | IAAF Permit Meeting |
| 6 | 30 May | Gran Premio Diputacion | Seville | Spain | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| 7 | 31 May | Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | United States | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| 8 | 1 June | Adriaan Paulen Memorial | Hengelo | Netherlands | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| 9 | 4 June | St Denis – l'Humanité | Saint-Denis | France | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| 10 | 9 June | Slovnaft Meeting | Bratislava | Slovakia | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| 11 | 13 June | Ericsson GP | Helsinki | Finland | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| - | 24 June | Meeting di Atletica Leggera Torino | Turin | Italy | Permit Meeting |
| - | 26–27 June | ITC International Meet New Delhi | New Delhi | India | IAAF Permit Meeting |
| 12 | 5 July | Zipfer Gugl Grand Prix | Linz | Austria | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| - | 5 July | International Meeting Budapest | Budapest | Hungary | Permit Meeting |
| 13 | 9 July | Bislett Games | Oslo | Norway | 1998 IAAF Golden League |
| - | 10 July | Live Nuremberg | Nuremberg | Germany | IAAF Permit Meeting |
| - | 11 July | Meeting Lille-Métropole | Lille | France | IAAF Permit Meeting |
| 14 | 14 July | Golden Gala | Rome | Italy | 1998 IAAF Golden League |
| 15 | 16 July | Nikaia | Nice | France | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| 16 | 19 July | Grand Prix II | Gateshead | United Kingdom | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| 17 | 25 July | US Open Meet | St. Louis | United States | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| - | 24 July | Adidas – Ciutat de Barcelona | Barcelona | Spain | Permit Meeting |
| 18 | 29 July | Meeting Gaz de France | Paris | France | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| 19 | 2 August | British Grand Prix | Sheffield | United Kingdom | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| 20 | 5 August | DN Galan | Stockholm | Sweden | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| 21 | 8 August | Herculis | Monte Carlo | Monaco | 1998 IAAF Golden League |
| 22 | 12 August | Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | Switzerland | 1998 IAAF Golden League |
| 23 | 25 August | Athletissima | Lausanne | Switzerland | IAAF Grand Prix I |
| 24 | 28 August | Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | Belgium | 1998 IAAF Golden League |
| 25 | 30 August | Rieti Meeting | Rieti | Italy | IAAF Grand Prix II |
| 26 | 1 September | ISTAF Berlin | Berlin | Germany | 1998 IAAF Golden League |
| F | 5 September | 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final | Moscow | Russia | 1998 IAAF Golden League IAAF Grand Prix Final |
| - | 19 September | Toto International Super Meeting | Tokyo | Japan | IAAF Permit Meeting |

## Points standings
### Overall men

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Meets | Points |
| 1 | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 8 | 94 |
| 2 | Bryan Bronson | United States | 8 | 88 |
| 3 | Jeff Hartwig | United States | 8 | 79 |
| 4 | Michael Johnson | United States | 7 | 77 |
| 5 | Denis Kapustin | Russia | 8 | 76 |
| 6= | Luke Kipkosgei | Kenya | 8 | 73 |
| 6= | Laban Rotich | Kenya | 8 | 73 |
| 8 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 6 | 72 |
| 9 | Ruslan Mashchenko | Russia | 8 | 70 |
| 10= | Maurice Greene | United States | 8 | 68 |
| 10= | Tyree Washington | United States | 8 | 68 |
| 12 | Daniel Komen | Kenya | 8 | 66 |
| 13 | Dinsdale Morgan | Jamaica | 8 | 65 |
| 14= | Frankie Fredericks | Namibia | 7 | 64 |
| 14= | John Kibowen | Kenya | 8 | 64 |
| 16= | Maksim Tarasov | Russia | 7 | 63 |
| 16= | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 8 | 63 |
| 16= | Balázs Kiss | Hungary | 8 | 63 |
| 19 | Alvin Harrison | United States | 8 | 60 |
| 20 | Jonathan Edwards | Great Britain | 6 | 59 |
| 21 | Sergey Klyugin | Russia | 7 | 58.5 |
| 22= | Mark Richardson | Great Britain | 7 | 57 |
| 22= | Samuel Matete | Zambia | 8 | 57 |
| 24= | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 8 | 56 |
| 24= | Jerome Young | United States | 8 | 56 |
| 26 | Pat Manson | United States | 8 | 52.5 |
| 27= | Assefa Mezgebu | Ethiopia | 6 | 52 |
| 27= | Jon Drummond | United States | 7 | 52 |
| 27= | LaMark Carter | United States | 8 | 52 |
| 27= | Tom Nyariki | Kenya | 8 | 52 |

### Overall women

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Meets | Points |
| 1 | Marion Jones | United States | 8 | 88 |
| 2 | Svetlana Masterkova | Russia | 8 | 83 |
| 3 | Trine Hattestad | Norway | 8 | 80 |
| 4= | Falilat Ogunkoya | Nigeria | 8 | 77 |
| 4= | Charity Opara | Nigeria | 8 | 77 |
| 6 | Melissa Morrison | United States | 8 | 74 |
| 7 | Michelle Freeman | Jamaica | 8 | 71 |
| 8 | Chryste Gaines | United States | 8 | 67 |
| 9 | Gabriela Szabo | Romania | 7 | 66 |
| 10 | Savatheda Fynes | Bahamas | 8 | 65 |
| 11 | Tanja Damaske | Germany | 7 | 62 |
| 12= | Zahra Ouaziz | Morocco | 7 | 61 |
| 12= | Tatyana Shikolenko | Russia | 8 | 61 |
| 14 | Glory Alozie | Nigeria | 6 | 59.5 |
| 15= | Heike Drechsler | Germany | 7 | 57 |
| 15= | Kutre Dulecha | Ethiopia | 8 | 57 |
| 15= | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 8 | 57 |
| 18= | Jackline Maranga | Kenya | 8 | 56 |
| 18= | Jearl Miles Clark | United States | 8 | 56 |
| 20= | Dionne Rose | Jamaica | 8 | 55 |
| 20= | Gete Wami | Ethiopia | 8 | 55 |
| 22 | Inger Miller | United States | 8 | 53.5 |
| 23= | Grit Breuer | Germany | 5 | 50 |
| 23= | Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 6 | 50 |
| 25= | Sandie Richards | Jamaica | 7 | 47 |
| 25= | Angie Vaughn | United States | 7 | 47 |
| 25= | Dawn Burrell | United States | 8 | 47 |
| 25= | Lorraine Graham | Jamaica | 8 | 47 |
| 29 | Fiona May | Italy | 6 | 46 |
| 30 | Keturah Anderson | Canada | 8 | 45.5 |