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The process to found World Athletics began in Stockholm, Sweden, on 18 July 1912 soon after the completion of the 1912 Summer Olympics in that city. At that meeting, 27 representatives from 17 national federations agreed to meet at a congress in Berlin, Germany, the following year, overseen by Sigfrid Edström who was to become the fledgling organisation's first president.
Two IAAF world championship events preceded the inaugural edition of the World Championships in Athletics in 1983. The 1976 World Championships had just one event – the men's 50 kilometres walk which was dropped from the Olympic programme for the 1976 Summer Olympics and the IAAF responded by setting up their own contest.
Sprinter Usain Bolt, here holding the 2011 trophy, was World Athlete of the Year in 2008, 2009, 2011–2013, and 2016, more times than any other athlete.. The World Athletics Awards are annual awards to honor athletes participating in events within the sport of athletics.
The 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour is the tenth edition of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, the highest series of international indoor track and field meetings.. The tour returns with the same number of meetings as the previous year, with 67 meetings across Europe, North America, and Asia, nine of which comprise the highest tier of events labelled Gold.
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The 2024 World Athletics Rankings document the best-performing athletes in the sport of athletics, according to World Athletics' individual athlete ranking system. . Individual athletes are assigned a points score best on an average of their best recent competition per
In late 2019, another rebranding began, with World Athletics as the new title of the governing body. World Athletics has 215 member nations and territories, which are divided into six continental areas (or area associations). [67] The six association areas are for Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, North and Central America and Caribbean and South ...
This category is linked to World Athletics (previously IAAF) the international governing body for the sport of athletics as recognised by the International Olympic Committee. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.