On 3 July 1921 the '' Berliner Sport-Club '' ( BSC ) , the '' Sport-Club Charlottenburg '' ( SCC ) and the '' Schwimm-Club Poseidon '' organised the first sports festival under the current name Internationales Stadionfest . On 23 March 1937 the '' ' BSC ' '' , the '' Deutscher Sport-Club '' ( DSC , later '' Olympischer Sport-Club '' OSC ) and the '' ' SCC ' '' decided to hold international sports festivals together and organized the first edition at its current place which took place on 1 August 1937 . The ISTAF was interrupted in 1940 , as well as between 1943 and 1948 ( war and post war conditions ) , in 1950 and 1951 , and in 1972 and 1973 ( as a result of the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics ) . From 1993 to 1997 IAAF classified the ISTAF among the IAAF Golden Four meetings . From 1998 to 2009 it was part of the IAAF Golden League . When the IAAF Diamond League was introduced , Berlin was provisionally planned as one of its meets , but the organisers were unable to meet the criteria for the new elite series , so the meet became part of the second tier World Challenge circuit from 2010 instead
Munich massacre
Munich massacre
ISTAF Berlin