World Athletics Championships

De **World Athletics Championships**, dem know as de **IAAF World Championships in Athletics** til 2019, be biennial athletics competition organize by World Athletics, formerly International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Alongsyd Olympic Games, dem dey represent de highest level championships of senior international outdoor athletics competition give track den field athletics globally, wey dey include marathon running den race walking. Dem dey hold separate World Championships by World Athletics give certain oda outdoor events, wey dey include cross-country running den half-marathon, as well as indoor den age-group championships.

Na dem start de World Championships insyd 1976 insyd response to de International Olympic Committee wey drop de men's 50 km walk from de Olympic programme give de 1976 Montreal Olympics, despite ein constant presence for de games since 1932. De IAAF choose make dem host ein own world championship event instead, a month den half after de Olympics. Na ebe de first World Championships wey de IAAF host separately from de Olympic Games (traditionally de main championship give de sport).

Na dem hold de second limited event insyd 1980, den de inaugural championships insyd 1983, plus all de events, dem consider de official start of de competition. Til 1980, na dem sanso consider de Olympic champions as reigning world champions.

For dema debut, na dem dey hold dese championships every four years, til 1991 wen na dem switch am to two-year cycle. Insyd 2024, World Athletics announce say de fresh biennial competition – World Athletics Ultimate Championship (wey dey feature up to 16 of de world ein top-ranked athletes per discipline per) – dem go hold am every even year from 2026 dey go (i.e. insyd de years between World Athletics Outdoor Championships).

## History

Na de idea of make dem have Athletics World Championships be around well before de competition ein first event insyd 1983. Insyd 1913, de IAAF decide dat de Olympic Games go serve as de World Championships give athletics. Na dem consider dis suitable for over 50 years til insyd de late 1960s de desire of cha3 IAAF members make dem get dema own World Championships begin dey grow. Insyd 1976 for de IAAF Council Meeting insyd Puerto Rico dem approve Athletics World Championships separate from de Olympic Games.

Dey follow bids from both Stuttgart, West Germany den Helsinki, Finland, de IAAF Council award de inaugural competition to Helsinki, make dem take place insyd 1983 wey dem go hold am insyd de Helsinki Olympic Stadium (wer na dem hold de 1952 Summer Olympics).

Two IAAF world championship events precede de inaugural edition of de World Championships insyd Athletics insyd 1983. De 1976 World Championships get just one event – de men's 50 kilometres walk wich na dem drop from de Olympic programme for de 1976 Summer Olympics den de IAAF respond by make dem set up dema own contest. Four years later, de 1980 World Championships contain two freshly women's events per dem approve, (400 metres hurdles den 3000 metres), neither of wich feature for de programme top give de 1980 Summer Olympics.

Over de years de competition grow for size insyd. Insyd 1983 1,333 athletes wey komot 153 countries participate. By de 2003 competition, insyd Paris, na e grow to 1,679 athletes wey komot 198 countries plus dem dey transmit coverage to 179 countries.

From 2019 to 2022 na de championships be sponsored by Qatar National Bank, wich na dem describe am as ebe part of Qatar ein soft power policy.

Na der sanso be change insyd composition over de years, plus several fresh events, all give women, dem add. By 2005, na de differences per be men's competition insyd de 50 km walk, den equivalent events insyd women's 100 m hurdles den heptathlon to men's 110 m hurdles den decathlon.

De list wey dey follow dey show wen dem add fresh events for de first time.

* **1987**, na dem add women's 10,000 m den 10 km walk.
* **1993**, na dem add women's triple jump.
* **1995**, na dem replace women's 3,000 m by de 5000 m.
* **1999**, na dem add women's pole vault den hammer den de women's 20 km walk replace de 10 km walk.
* **2005**, na dem add women's 3000 m steeplechase.
* **2017**, na dem add women's 50 km walk.
* **2019**, na dem add mixed 4 × 400 m relay.
* **2022**, na men's den women's 35 km walk replace de 50 km walk.

## Championships

## All-time medal table

Source: World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 – Statistical Booklet 2023 Medal Table

; Notes

**^[1]**  ANA be de name under wich Russian athletes compete insyd de 2017 den 2019 Championships. Dem no include dema medals insyd de official medal table.

## All-time placing table
Insyd de *IAAF placing table* de total score dem obtain from dem dey assign eight points to de first place den so on to one point give de eight placed finalists. Dem dey share points for situations wer a tie dey occur. However, de IAAF site dey show all points dem round to de nearest integer.

*Dem update after de 2022 Championships*

; Notes

* **^[a]** dey include points earn by athletes from East Germany (510 pts) den West Germany (191.5 pts) for de 1976, 1980, 1983 den 1987 Championships.
* **^[b]** dey include points earn by Authorised Neutral Athletes (103.5 pts) for de 2017 den 2019 Championships.

## Multiple winners
Boldface dey denote active athletes den highest medal count among all athletes (wey dey include dese wey dem no include insyd dese tables) per type.

### Men

#### All events

 dey include one medal insyd de relay event insyd wich he participate insyd de heats per

#### Individual events

### Women

#### All events

 dey include one medal insyd de relay event for wich she participate insyd de heats per

 dey include two medal insyd de relay event for wich she participate insyd de heats per

 dey include three medal insyd de relay event for wich she participate insyd de heats per

 dey include four medal insyd de relay event for wich she participate insyd de heats per

#### Individual events

## Multiple medalists
Na der be 44 athletes (18 men den 26 women) wey won at least 6 medals.

## Athletes plus most appearances
Na der be 71 athletes (37 men den 34 women) wey compete insyd at least eight editions.

 For de 1993 World Championships insyd Athletics insyd Stuttgart, Germany, Dragutin Topić compete as an Individual World Championship Participant (IWP) as dem suspend Athletic Federation of Yugoslavia by IAAF due to United Nations sanctions wey dey stem from de Yugoslav wars.

## World records

Na dem set anaa equal total of 36 world records for de competition: 18 by men, 15 by women, den 3 insyd de mixed relay.

De first world record make dem set for de World Championships be by Jarmila Kratochvílová of Czechoslovakia, wey ran	47.99 seconds make she win de 1983 women's 400 m final.

Peak of five world records cam for de 1993 Championships. 

Na de most recent world record be insyd de Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay insyd 2023, wen de US team set time of 3:08.80. World records cam turn less common as de history of de event expand, plus no world records set insyd de 1997, 2001, 2007 anaa 2013 editions.

American athletes be de most successful plus fifteen world records, follow by Jamaica den Great Britain for four each. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt break de most world records for de competition, for four, while American Carl Lewis set three. Jonathan Edwards dey hold de distinction of he break de world record twice insyd one championships: wey dey improve upon ein own newly-set world record insyd de 1995 men's triple jump final. Na de men's 4 × 100 metres relay yield de most world records, plus five set between 1983 den 2011.

Ben Johnson ein time of 9.83 seconds for de 1987 World Championships men's 100 m final na dem initially consider am to be world record, buh na dem rescind am insyd 1989 after Johnson admit to steroid use between 1981 den 1988.

De 2009 Jamaican men's 4 × 100 metres relay team time of 37.31 seconds be retrospectively recognised to as de world record after de team ein time of 37.10 for de 2008 Olympics na dem rescind am after de disqualification of Nesta Carter (wey he no be present insyd de World Championships team).

## References


## External links
Wikimedia Commons get media wey relate to ******.

* Official World Athletics site for World Championships
* Results of past World Championships at de Wayback Machine (archived 2011-10-26)
* Track and Field Results Almanac at de Wayback Machine (archived 2009-03-27)
* Top medalists from World Athletics Championships at de Wayback Machine (archived 2014-09-04)
* IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Championships London 2017
* IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019