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There are 46 outdoor men's and women's athletics events that are subject to World Athletics Rankings and categorised as "Main Events". For each sex, this covers nineteen track and field events (seven track running events, three obstacle track events, four jumping events, four throwing events, and a combined event), two road running events, and two racewalking events.
For track and combined events, the term "indoor world records" were changed to "short track world records". In some field events, including long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault, and shot put, indoor world records were eliminated. These changes came into effect on 1 November 2023.
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.
Team USA's bronze medals in track and field Men’s 10,000 meters, Aug. 2: Distance runner Grant Fisher was the first American to win a medal in a track and field event at this year's Summer Games.
The first world record to be set at the World Championships was by Jarmila Kratochvílová of Czechoslovakia, who ran 47.99 seconds to win the 1983 women's 400 m final. A peak of five world records came at the 1993 Championships. The most recent world record was in the Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay in 2023, when the US team set a time of 3:08.80 ...
The World Athletics Championships is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations.
Thomas started locking in on track and field her junior year of high school in Massachusetts; Harvard recruited her to run in the 100 m, 200 m, and do the long jump and triple jump. In 2018 ...
It’s the United States’ best track and field showing since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, where it won 40 medals, 16 gold on home soil. The Americans reached the podium in 20 of the 35 track ...