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The 1976 World Championships in Athletics (Swedish: Världsmästerskapen i friidrott 1976) was the first global, international athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Hosted on 18 September 1976 in Malmö, Sweden, it featured just one event: a men's 50 kilometres race walk contest. [1]
Nations at the 1976 World Championships in Athletics (19 P) Pages in category "1976 World Championships in Athletics" This category contains only the following page.
Pages in category "Nations at the 1976 World Championships in Athletics" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was held in 1976 for the men's 50 kilometres race walk only, as the International Olympic Committee excluded that event for the Olympic athletics programme that year.
1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships (4 P) Pages in category "1976 in athletics (track and field)" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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.
This category is for competitors within the sport of athletics, comprising track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.It is not to be used for competitors in other sports or to categorize anyone who is physically fit, two other definitions of the word athlete.
At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 37 events were contested in athletics.There were a total number of 1005 participating athletes from 80 countries. The men's 50 kilometres walk competition was dropped from the Olympic athletics programme, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932.