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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 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.
The World Team trophy of the 2022 World Athletics Championships was awarded to the teams with the most points earned based on points won by the athletes in each event. The World Team Champions' title was awarded to the hosts United States, which accumulated a total of 328 points, and were crowned "World Team Champions". [1]
The selection meet for these championships was the 2022 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Team members were announced on July 5. [1] The United States won the first ever title of "World Team Champions", a trophy inaugurated by the IAAF during this championships.
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 semi-final took every athlete who broke 45 seconds into the final. By contrast, in 2015, sixteen athletes broke 45 in the semi-final round. 2015 was the second World Championships for two of the finalists, both former champions, Kirani James and world record holder Wayde van Niekerk. After what should have been a career-ending knee injury ...
The men's 100 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 15 and 16 July 2022. [ 1 ] 76 athletes from 53 nations entered to the competition. [ 2 ]
World Leading Anderson Peters (GRN) 93.07 m: Doha, Qatar: 13 May 2022 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 August 2017 North, Central American and Caribbean record Anderson Peters (GRN) 93.07 m: Doha, Qatar: 13 May 2022 South American Record