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The World Athletics Championships is the foremost World Championship event, holding the vast majority of World Championship-level events within the competition. A small number of events, such as the 60 metres, are exclusive to the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
The 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour is the 26th edition of the global series of combined track and field event meetings organised by World Athletics.This is the third season to feature the three-tier World Tour format, dividing the meetings into three competition sub-groups: Gold, Silver and Bronze.
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.
Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed with World Athletics rights-holders Eurovision Sport and ESPN to broadcast the nine-day event on its channels – Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and Eurosport App – including its platform Discovery+ on a non-exclusive basis in more than 45 countries across Europe, excluding the Nordics region – Denmark, Finland ...
The 100m final in Budapest will be one of the most anticipated events at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. American Fred Kerley, the world champion, will look to defend his men’s title at ...
World Athletics was the first international sporting body to suspend the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) from World Athletics starting in 2015, for eight years, due to doping violations, making it ineligible to host World Athletics events or send teams to international championships. [10]
[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 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour is the tenth edition of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, the highest series of international indoor track and field meetings.. The tour returns with the same number of meetings as the previous year, with 54 meetings across Europe, North America, and Asia, nine of which comprise the highest tier of events labelled Gold.