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The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event, a month and a half after the Olympics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the first World Championships that the IAAF had hosted separately from the Olympic Games.
These are the first World Athletics Championships in Hungary. The city of Budapest had previously stated an interest in hosting the 2007 World Championships, but withdrew and it was eventually held in Osaka. [3] The official mascot of the event is a Racka, called Youhuu. [4] [5]
The world’s best athletes have descended on Budapest for the 2023 World Athletics Championships.. The 19th Championships will be hosted in Hungary for the first time, and comes just 12 months on ...
In October 2019, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe stated consideration of a direct choice for Kenya to host this championship. [7] [8] Kenya confirmed its bid for the championships in October 2021. [3] In 2022, Japan and Singapore entered bids to host the championships.
The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon , United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the first time.
The World Athletics Championships is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations.
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running.
The 2013 World Championships saw one elimination in Masoud Azizi. [5] Among the men's world champions, only Donovan Bailey, Usain Bolt, Fred Kerley and Noah Lyles have not been implicated in doping during their careers; three-time champion Maurice Greene never failed a drug test, but admitted purchasing drugs on other athletes behalf. [6]