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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.
A small number of events, such as the 60 metres, are exclusive to the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Two further, separate World Championship events are held for their specific events: the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships and the World Athletics Cross Country Championships. Cross country is one of many events which have ...
The women's heptathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre Budapest on 19 and 20 August 2023. [1] The winning margin was 20 points which as of 2024 is the only time the heptathlon has been won by fewer than 40 points at these championships.
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 Gold-level meetings award extra World Athletics Rankings cross country placement points, which can be used to earn automatic qualification into the 10,000 metres track race at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. [1] The Tour is also seen by some as a way to prepare for the 2024 European Cross Country Championships. [2]
The world leader coming into this was 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton with a 19.49. Alexander Ogando set a national record to win heat 1, Knighton won heat 3 and defending champion Noah Lyles won semi 2 ahead of the next fastest qualifier Kenny Bednarek , putting those four in the center of the track for the final.
The World Athletics Combined Events Tour (formerly IAAF Combined Events Challenge and World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events) is an annual series of combined track and field events meetings, organised since 1998 by World Athletics, with heptathlon for women and decathlon for men. The winners are decided by totalling the number of points ...
World record Jan Železný (CZE) 98.48 m: Jena, Germany: 25 May 1996 Championship record: 92.80 m: Edmonton, Canada: 12 August 2001 World Leading Anderson Peters (GRN) 93.07 m: Doha, Qatar: 13 May 2022 African Record Julius Yego (KEN) 92.72 m: Beijing, China: 26 August 2015 Asian Record Cheng Chao-tsun (TPE) 91.36 m: Taipei City, Taipei: 26 ...