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The idea of having an Athletics World Championships was around well before the competition's first event in 1983. In 1913, the IAAF decided that the Olympic Games would serve as the World Championships for athletics. This was considered suitable for over 50 years until in the late 1960s the desire of many IAAF members to have their own World ...
[5] [4] [9] In July 2022, Tokyo was selected by World Athletics to host the 2025 event, [2] after it scored the highest in the bid evaluation. The National Stadium in Tokyo will be the first major spectator event for athletics after the 2020 Summer Olympics were held behind closed doors in response with the then-still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic .
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics were held during the last ten days of the Games. They were due to be held from 31 July – 9 August 2020, at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the games were postponed to 2021, with the track and field events set for 30 July – 8 August. [1]
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 rescheduling meant that the World Athletics Championships, originally set for 2021, was postponed given the presence of the Olympics in a World Championships year. Several other competitions were held in 2021 after being delayed from their usual schedule in 2020, including 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships .
2023 World Athletics Championships schedule event-by-event (all times BST) ... Friday 25 August. 100m 9.05am. Long jump 9.55am . ... Full harvest supermoon also creates a partial lunar eclipse.
World Cross Country Championships: Aarhus, Denmark 1st Senior race 31:40 [43] 1st Senior team 20 pts World Championships: Doha, Qatar 1st 10,000 m 26:48.36 WL [44] 2021 Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan 1st 5,000 m 12:58.15: 2nd 10,000 m 27:43.63: 2022 World Championships: Eugene, United States 9th 5,000 m 13:13.12: 1st 10,000 m 27:27.43: 2023
At the 2019 World Athletics Championships, three world records, one world under-20 record, six championships records, 21 area records and 86 national records in athletics were set. [96] Furthermore, two championship combined event bests were set and 23 world-leading performances (WL) were achieved at the competition.