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[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 ...
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
Updated July 25, 2022 at 8:20 AM. Nearly a year ago to the day at the Tokyo Olympics, Tobi Amusan finished the women's 100 meter hurdles medal race in arguably the worst place you can finish at a ...
The European Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that 2024 was the world's hottest year on record, and the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold of 1.5°C of global warming. [ 22 ] January 11 – A gas station explosion in al-Bayda , Yemen , results in 15 deaths and at least 67 others injured, including 50 critically.
As a consequence of the pandemic, an extra edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships originally planned for 2020 will also be held in 2025 in Nanjing, China. It will be the first time since 2003 that the indoor and outdoor events will occur in the same year, before the indoor championships revert to an even-numbered year schedule in 2026.
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]
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.