The Golden League consists of Europe's seven biggest single-day athletics meetings of the summer.
These meets are the Golden Gala in Rome, the Meeting Gaz de France in Paris, the Bislett Games in Oslo, the Herculis meet in Monaco, the Weltklasse in Zurich, the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels and the ISTAF in Berlin.
The League was introduced in 1998 to unify and promote the elite individual European meetings.
For competing athletes, the concept is simple: win your discipline at five of the seven Golden League events and share a jackpot of 50kg of gold ingots.
 Gaby Szabo and Wilson Kipketer shared the jackpot in 1999
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Because of the jackpot and the big prize money on offer, the Golden League attracts the best athletes in the world. Last year the jackpot was split between Andr� Bucher (800m), Hicham El Guerrouj (1500m/mile), Allen Johnson (110m hurdles), Marion Jones (100m), Violeta Beclea-Szekely (1500m/mile), and Olga Yegorova (3,000m/5,000m).
As an extra incentive, anyone who breaks a world record receives a �32,350 bonus.
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