ISTAF Berlin 2011: ISTAF celebrates its 90th by announcing discounts on the best available tickets

Berlin – A 90^thbirthday party is usually a quiet affair, not a time for setting records. Just don't try and tell the ISTAF that. The Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) turns ninety this year, making it the world's oldest athletics meeting. Reason enough to notch up another world record: the aim is to get 50,000 spectators into Berlin's Olympic stadium on 11^th September and to make the world's biggest ever 1-day meeting out of the ISTAF's 90^th birthday bash.

Although it was not until 1937 that the ISTAF began its regular meetings in Berlin's Olympiastadion, the Grunewald Stadium served as the venue for an event of the same name as far back as 3^rdJuly 1921. This first meeting was organised by three clubs – the Berliner Sport-Club, the Sport-Club Charlottenburg and the Schwimm-Club "Poseidon". 20,000 spectators packed the terraces to enjoy what was, for the time, a spectacular sporting occasion.

And the 70^th‘International Stadium Festival' on 11^th September 2011 is set to be no less spectacular. 220 supreme sportsmen and women from 16 disciplines have a date in Berlin hard on the heels of the World Athletics Championships in Daegu. And you can be there to witness the event first-hand as it unfolds!

For the following 70 days, and as long as stocks last, the ISTAF is running a special anniversary offer! Get two Category-1 tickets (normal price: EUR 39.00 each) for just EUR 59.00 – a saving of 19 euros! Not only that: you'll have the best seats in the house, level with the finishing line! Tickets can be reserved immediately by visiting www.istaf.de, by phoning the ticketing hotline on 01803-20 60 70* or from any CTS outlet.

Don't miss this unique sporting experience! This year the ISTAF is looking to top the success of its 2010 meeting, when the Kenyan David Rudisha broke the world 800m record that had stood for 13 years and the Ethiopian Tariku Bekele ran the fastest 3,000m of that year.