page_title: 2017 World Championships in Athletics
section_title: Venue
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 World Championships in Athletics / Venue
caption_attribution_description: Crowds at the 2017 Athletics World Championships at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford PERMISSION TO USE: Please check the licence for this photo on Flickr. If the photo is marked with the &lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/"&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; licence, you are welcome to use this photo free of charge for any purpose including commercial. I am not concerned with how attribution is provided - a link to my flickr page or my name is fine. If used in a context where attribution is impractical, that's fine too. I enjoy seeing where my photos have been used so please send me links, screenshots or photos where possible. If the photo is not marked with the Creative Commons licence, only my friends and family are permitted to use it.
context_page_description: The 2017 IAAF World Championships, the sixteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 4 to 13 August at London Stadium in London, UK. London was officially awarded the championships on 11 November 2011.
context_section_description: The championships were held in the London Stadium in Stratford, London, which hosted the athletics events and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has a capacity of 60,000.
  Six days before the events were due to begin, it was reported that more than 660,000 tickets had been sold, which was a record for the World Championships, surpassing the previous record of 417,156 tickets sold for Berlin 2009.
caption: The London Stadium during the championships. Big crowds were a constant, with all evening sessions being sell-outs
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