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The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( Hungarian: 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság ), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. [ 2] The tournament returned to its usual two-year cycle after the previous event in Eugene, Oregon ...
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. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The competition was originally scheduled for August 6–15, 2021, but it was ...
Jessica Jolliffe OLY (née Hull born 22 October 1996 [2]) is an Australian middle and long distance runner who is the current world record holder in the 2000 metres, set on 12 July 2024 with a time of 5:19.70.
The World Athletics Championships, known as the IAAF World Championships in Athletics until 2019, are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics, formerly International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Alongside Olympic Games, they represent the highest level championships of senior international outdoor athletics ...
The 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships will be held at TBA in TBA from July 31–August 3, 2025. They served as USA Track & Field 's (USATF) national championships in track and field for the United States. [ 2] The results of the event determined qualification for the September 13th - 21st 2025 World Athletics Championships, held in ...
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.
At major championships, the women's equivalent of the decathlon is the seven-event heptathlon; before 1981 it was the five-event pentathlon. [8] However, in 2001, the IAAF (now World Athletics) approved scoring tables for a women's decathlon; the current world record holder is Austra Skujytė of Lithuania, with 8,358. [9]
On the tenth and final day of the championships, seven finals were held. Malaika Mihambo of Germany won a clear gold in the women's long jump final by producing the twelfth best ever performance of 7.30 m (23 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 in). In the men's 1500 metres final Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot set a quick pace and surged at the end to take the gold medal.