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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]
2023 World Championships: Budapest, Hungary [13] Pole vault: 5.50 m Sébastien Levicq France 25 August 1999 1999 World Championships: Seville, Spain Javelin throw: 79.05 m Niklas Kaul Germany 3 October 2019 2019 World Championships: Doha, Qatar [14] 1500 m: 4:11.82 Beat Gähwiler Switzerland 30 August 1991 1991 World Championships: Tokyo, Japan
The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon , United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the first time.
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 ...
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.
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.
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Israel's third medal came in 2015 when former Ukrainian Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko improved on her national record with a 14.78 m jump. Knyazyeva-Minenko's medal was the first World Championship medal for an Israeli woman. [5] On 18 July 2022, Kenyan-born Israeli runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter won the bronze medal in the women's marathon to give ...