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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.
4x100m dq2 The United States team of Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell and Tim Montgomery originally won the 2001 World Championship in a time of 37.96 seconds, but were disqualified after Montgomery admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCO scandal in 2005.
The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics.
Athletics: World Athletics Championships: Individuals: 1983: Winners in 24 events 2025: Biennial 1983–1991 quadrennially, biennially from 1993 World Athletics Indoor Championships: Individuals: 1985: Winners in 13 events 2025: Biennial World Athletics Cross Country Championships: Individuals 1973: Beatrice Chebet 2026: Biennial Nations
World Para Athletics Championships: 1994: Ongoing: Biennial: Senior: Global championships: Athletes with a disability of all nations World Para Athletics European Championships: 2003: Ongoing: Biennial: Senior: Continental championships: Athletes with disabilities from European nations World Para Athletics Junior Championships: 2017: Ongoing ...
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 ...
List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women) This article includes a sports-related list of lists . If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Pages in category "World Athletics Championships medalists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,801 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .