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The World Masters Athletics Championships are the biennial championships for masters athletics events held under the auspices of World Masters Athletics, formerly called the World Association of Veteran Athletes, for athletes 35 years of age or older. [1] [2]: 75 Masters athletes are divided into 5-year age groups. [3]: 35
The biennial World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships debuted in March 2004 in Sindelfingen, Germany, continuing in even years until 2014, then switching to odd years from 2017. The most recent outdoor world meet was in Málaga , Spain , from September 4–16, 2018 .
This Championships is organized by World Masters Athletics (WMA) in coordination with a Local Organising Committee (LOC): Juha Yli-Rajala (City of Tampere), Harri Aalto (Finnish Athletics). [9] The WMA is the global governing body of the sport of athletics for athletes 35 years of age or older, setting rules for masters athletics competition. [10]
The World Association of Veteran Athletes was founded August 9, 1977, at the second World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. World masters championships have been held outdoors every two years ever since, and a biennial World Masters Indoor Championships debuted in March 2004 in Sindelfingen, Germany.
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
Official daily results are archived at domtel-sport.pl. [12] Official world records for each event are archived at WMA. [13] Several masters world records were set at this Indoor Championships. World records for 2023 are from WMA unless otherwise noted. [14] [15]
2024 World Masters Athletics Championships was the 25th in a series of World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships (WMAC) that took place in Gothenburg, Sweden from 13 to 25 August 2024. [1] [2] [3] These Championships were originally scheduled for 2023, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] [5] The main venue was Slottsskogsvallen.
0–9. 1975 World Association of Veteran Athletes Championships; 1977 World Masters Athletics Championships; 1979 World Masters Athletics Championships