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2009 IAAF Golden League

athletics competition series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2553929 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2009 Golden League is the 12th edition of the IAAF's annual series of six athletics meets, held across Europe, with athletes having the chance to win the Golden League Jackpot of $1 million.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2009 IAAF Golden League” is athletics competition series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through IAAF, Golden and League, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, IAAF, Golden and League is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2009 IAAF Golden League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.