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World Athletics Series
World Athletics Championships
NEXT EVENT
19 AUG 2023 - 27 AUG 2023
Budapest
HUN
The World Athletics Championships is the jewel in the crown of World Athletics' global competition programme. It is the third-largest sporting event in the world, involving approximately 2000 athletes from more than 200 nations competing for 49 gold medals. The first World Championships in athletics was held in Helsinki in 1983. Today, the competition is staged biennially, usually in the month of August.
World Athletics Indoor Championships
NEXT EVENT
01 MAR 2024 - 03 MAR 2024
Glasgow
GBR
The World Athletics Indoor Championships is held every two years and provides three action-packed days of intense competition in an intimate arena where fans can see many of the world’s best athletes at close range. The event is generally held in March.
World Athletics U20 Championships
NEXT EVENT
26 AUG 2024 - 31 AUG 2024
Lima
PER
The World Athletics U20 Championships brings together the best junior athletes from around the world to compete against each other on the global stage. It gives 18- and 19-year-old competitors a valuable first experience of a world championships. Up to 2200 athletes and officials from 170 national federations can be expected to take part. The six-day event is generally staged in July, every even year.
World Athletics U18 Championships
The World Athletics U18 Championships brought together the best youth athletes from around the world to compete against each other on the global stage. It gave 16- and 17-year-old competitors a valuable first experience of a world championships. Typically, up to 1600 athletes and officials from 165 national federations took part. The five-day event was generally staged in July, every odd year. The 2017 edition was the last one.
World Athletics Continental Cup
Formerly known as the World Cup, this event changed format and name in 2010 to become the Continental Cup. This premier team competition of world athletics sees the greatest talents on earth compete, not for individual medals, but to accumulate points for their continental teams. The Continental Cup is contested by mixed teams representing Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The event takes place over two or three days and is held generally in September, every four years. The 2018 edition was the last one.
World Athletics Cross Country Championships
NEXT EVENT
10 FEB 2024 - 11 FEB 2024
Medulin
CRO
Natural land is the stage on which many of the world’s greatest distance runners learn their craft. The ‘World Cross’ is the oldest competition on the World Athletics calendar, connecting the modern professional sport with its roots in the 19th century. Medals are awarded for both team and individual performances in senior and junior categories. The event is generally held in March, every odd year.
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships
The World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships is a two-day festival celebrating one of the sport’s most punishing disciplines. With six races (men's 35km and 20km; women's 35km and 20km; and U20 men's and women's 10km), the event provides the best race walkers in the world with an opportunity to shine on the global stage. About 500 athletes from 60 countries take part in the biennial event, generally held in May every even year.
World Athletics Half Marathon Championships
Road running’s international elite compete against the backdrop of the some of the world’s most attractive locations in this annual event. First held in 1992, the event includes men’s and women’s races with individual and team honours at stake. It is usually held on public roads, often with the addition of a public mass entry race, every even year.
World Athletics Relays
NEXT EVENT
04 MAY 2024 - 05 MAY 2024
Bahamas
BAH
The World Athletics Relays provides an opportunity for the world’s best runners to showcase the sport’s most exciting team competition: relay events. For national 4x100m and 4x400m teams, this two-day event staged every odd year also counts as a qualifying opportunity for that year’s World Athletics Championships.
World Athletics Road Running Championships
NEXT EVENT
30 SEP 2023 - 01 OCT 2023
Riga
LAT
The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships, which will take place on 30 September and 1 October 2023, in Riga, will be the most significant public sporting and athletics event in the history of the Baltic countries.
One-Day Meeting Circuits
Diamond League
NEXT EVENT
02 JUN 2023
Firenze
ITA
The Wanda Diamond League is the top tier of athletics' global invitational track and field meeting competition structure which began in 2010. Comprising 14 meetings, spread across Asia, Africa, Europe and the USA, each offering US$350,000 in prize money, this annual series showcases 32 disciplines, 16 each for women and men, which are carefully distributed among the meetings. Athletes accumulate points throughout the season to earn a place in the Diamond League final, where they will compete to become Diamond League Champions, win a Diamond Trophy and a US$30,000 cash prize. The Diamond League annually offers a total of close to US$6million in prize money.
World Athletics Continental Tour
NEXT EVENT
02 JUN 2023
Schönebeck
GER
World Athletics Indoor Tour
NEXT EVENT
29 DEC 2023
Pamplona
ESP
The World Athletics Indoor Tour is an annual circuit of the premier indoor track and field meetings in the world. Athletes accumulate points throughout the series and can earn wildcards to the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
World Athletics Challenge
LAST EVENT
20 JUN 2019
Ostrava
CZE
The World Challenge is the second tier of World Athletics' global invitational track and field meeting competition structure, which was set up in 2010. The World Challenge is composed of meetings spread across Asia, Europe, South America and NACAC, each offering $200,000 in prize money.
World Athletics Cross Country Tour
LAST EVENT
26 FEB 2023
Albufeira
POR
World Athletics Cross Country Tour meetings is an annual circuit of the premier cross-country meetings in the world.
World Athletics Race Walking Tour
NEXT EVENT
03 JUN 2023
La Coruña
ESP
The World Athletics Race Walking Tour is an annual worldwide competition series in which athletes accumulate points towards a final ranking and to share more than US$200,000 in prize money.
World Athletics Combined Events Tour
NEXT EVENT
10 JUN 2023 - 11 JUN 2023
Borås
SWE
The World Athletics Combined Events Tour is an annual worldwide competition series for decathlon (men) and heptathlon (women) in which athletes accumulate points towards a final ranking and to share more than US$200,000 in prize money.
World Athletics Road Race Labels
World Athletics Label Road Races
NEXT EVENT
03 JUN 2023
Stockholm
SWE
Each year, World Athletics awards a designation referred to as a World Athletics Road Race Label to leading road races around the world. The races are divided into three categories: marathons, half marathons and other races. There are four levels of label for each of these categories: platinum, gold, silver and bronze.
World Athletics Challenges
World Athletics Challenge - Hammer Throw
LAST EVENT
27 SEP 2019 - 06 OCT 2019
Doha
QAT
The World Athletics Challenge - Hammer Throw is an annual worldwide competition series for the hammer in which athletes accumulate points towards a final ranking and to share more than US$200,000 in prize money.
Other International Championships
Olympic Games
NEXT EVENT
01 AUG 2024 - 11 AUG 2024
Paris-St-Denis
FRA
Youth Olympic Games
LAST EVENT
11 OCT 2018 - 16 OCT 2018
Buenos Aires
ARG
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