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The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. 1517 athletes from 167 countries participated in the event. [1]
[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 .
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 ...
2025; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. E. Events at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (44 P) N.
World Championships in Athletics ... 1987; 1991; 1993; 1995; 1997; 1999; 2001; 2003; ... Pages in category "2025 World Athletics Championships" This category contains ...
0–9. 1976 World Championships in Athletics; 1980 World Championships in Athletics; 1983 World Championships in Athletics; 1987 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
The relay team of the United States in the men's 4 × 100 m, formed by Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard and Carl Lewis, equal the current world record, set the previous year by France at the European Championships, clocking 37.79 on 1991-08-03 at a meet in Monaco.