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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 ...
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 2023 World Athletics Championships (Hungarian: 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. [2]
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.
Defending champion Soufiane El Bakkali had taken residence on the podium since 2017, including the 2020 Olympics. Lamecha Girma had taken silver twice in a row and another at the Olympics. The difference this year was that Girma had taken down Saif Saaeed Shaheen's world record in Paris just over a month earlier. And he didn't just nip the ...
Featuring the reigning Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European champions, who between them had dominated the global podiums since Tokyo in 2021, the women's 800 metres was one of the most hotly anticipated races of the championships. After winning the 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Championships, Athing Mu started looking for new horizons to ...
The United States competed at the 2023 World Championships in Athletics in Budapest, Hungary, from 19 to 27 August 2023. The selection meet for these championships was the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Team members were announced on August 7. [1] [2]
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 Jakub Vadlejch (CZE) 89.51 m: Turku, Finland: 13 June 2023 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 ...