NEWS
The IFAM aims to give young athletes the chance to qualify for an international championship in an ideal environment with adapted opposition and pace makers in running events (800m, 1500m, 5000m, 3000mST). Quite a few of today's top athletes have visited the IFAM in the past. The Ifam is the ideal meeting to launch them towards world top.
We are therefore proud to have worked out a poster with Daniel Segers on it this year. And that is no coincidence. Daniel ran excellent results at Athletics Club Eendracht Aalst for many years. When things broke down at support level along the Flemish side, Daniel switched to Excelsior. Let it be precisely these two clubs that are joining forces to organise the IFAM in Brussels! And oh yes, Daniel ran an impressive 45.38 on 400m last year and was a semi-finalist at the European Indoor Championships.
Registrations for Brussels are already open: https://www.atletiek.nu/wedstrijd/main/42196/
In 2025 IFAM is back with 2 events: IFAM Brussels on the 24th and 25th of May 2025 and IFAM Oordegem on the glad new track on the 9th of August 2025. We are sure there will be a lot of records on these 2 fastest tracks of Belgium. Good luck everyone!
This year, there will be only running events and no field events. We added a 5000m women to the program. We will have pacemakers in every heat.
Registrations for Brussels are already open: https://www.atletiek.nu/wedstrijd/main/42196/
Come and enjoy top athletics at the King Baudouin Stadium on 24 & 25 May 2025!
Shout out to our top athletes to get them at the European Championships U20, U23 or World Championships in Tokyo!
Normal tickets can be purchased at 10 euro per day, combi tickets for both days at 15 euro.
We updated our Timetable.. but last week, when the registrations closes, we check that everything is still possible, so there are some little changes possible. We 'll inform you ons week before the event with the final version.
Registrations for Brussels can be checked: https://www.atletiek.nu/wedstrijd/main/42196/
IFAM Outdoor will be held in Brussels this year!
How it all started..
In 2010, the IFAM started as an ordinary "open" meeting. The meeting immediately became a major hit with many international Championship minima and some European Lead performances. IFAM has a clear vision to help athletes reach minima towards international championships.
Given this success and the completely unique approach for and by athletes, the meeting rose the following year to a B meeting at the Flemish Athletics League, a theme meeting with a focus on a few disciplines. But that level was also quickly surpassed, so that in 2012 the IFAM grew into a "Flanders Cup" meeting. This is the circuit of the better Flemish meetings. After a few years, IFAM also quickly turned out to be the best student in the class. And internationally, too, the level continued to rise. For example, IFAM has been a value in the top 100 for years, normally around the 50th place in the world!
Click this LINK to see the whole list: click here!
With the upgrade to World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger Meeting in 2023, the international allure of the meeting also increases.
2024 will be a special year. Not only because we moved to Word Athletics BRONZE meeting where we will belong to level C events at World Athletics.
This is very important for the international athletes, who strive for a high ranking in the world rankings. The extra placing scores on IFAM are:
1st - 60p, 2nd - 50p, 3rd - 45p, 4th - 40p, 5th - 35p, 6th - 30p, 7th - 27p, 8th - 25p
If you want to know more about the World Rankings: click here
Furthermore we moved to Brussels and the meeting will be held on two days! This will make it possible for some athletes to combine events on the two days and we can welcome even more athletes then in the past!
