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Twenty-two teams will directly book a slot for their corresponding event at the Olympics through the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships, scheduled for April 20–21, in Antalya, Turkey, while the remaining three teams outside the key qualifier will be selected based on the World Athletics performance list for the mixed relays ...
The process to found World Athletics began in Stockholm, Sweden, on 18 July 1912 soon after the completion of the 1912 Summer Olympics in that city. At that meeting, 27 representatives from 17 national federations agreed to meet at a congress in Berlin, Germany, the following year, overseen by Sigfrid Edström who was to become the fledgling organisation's first president.
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. [1]
March 30: 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Belgrade; April 21–22: 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Antalya; May 4–5: 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau; August 26–31: 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima
The Gold-level meetings award extra World Athletics Rankings cross country placement points, which can be used to earn automatic qualification into the 10,000 metres track race at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. [1] The Tour is also seen by some as a way to prepare for the 2024 European Cross Country Championships. [2]
• The new false start rule is introduced, causing the athlete to get immediately disqualified after just their false start. [27] The previous rule allowed for one false start in a given heat without consequences to the athlete. The combined eventers are allowed one false start each without disqualification (previously two).
The 2024 World Athletics Label Road Races are road running competitions scheduled for 2024 that have met the standard for World Athletics to include the race in its Label Road Races program. [1] Like the Diamond League for track and field, the list represents the highest level international road racing circuit. The list contained 303 races ...
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.