Centring on the meeting, this year we celebrate thirty anniversary of the dispute of the first edition, as far back as 1979, and for this competition there have happened athletes as legendary as Said Aouita, Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses, Michael Johnson or more recently the pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and the jumping one of high jumper Blanca Vlasic in his diverse scenes: Stadium Vallehermoso, Stadium of the Community, Las Rozas, Alcobendas or Alcorcón. Along histwenty-five previous editions there have been innumerable the records of Spain beaten in the Meeting of Madrid, which also has seen the attainment of a world records: the one that was achieving Isinbayeva in pole vault in 2005 with 4,95 meters.

    In this occasion the Meeting of Madrid 2009 his organizational capacity turns into the best possible shop window in order that the city of Madrid returns to show to the world to little less than three months for the election) of her sedate of the Olympic Games of 2016, where the city is candidate city together with Chicago, Rio of Janeiro and Tokyo. Undoubtedly, Moratalaz's Sports Municipal Center will return to concentrate the looks of all the fans of our sport next July 4 with the hope that some day the Olympian flame crosses the streets of the capital of Spain.