<h2 style="text-align: center;">View Heritage Plaque ceremonies and events, and scroll through some of the donations, plaques and historical videos and images</h2>

Collection – 2022

Collection – 2021

Collection – 2020

Collection – 2019

Collection – 2018

Giro Podistico Di Castelbuono – Heritage Plaque

Heritage Legends Reception 2018

Emil Voigt - Heritage Plaque presentation

World Athletics Heritage Plaque Ceremony, Fukuoka, Japan 7 Dec 2020

World Athletics Heritage Plaque Ceremony, Bydgoszcz August 2020

World Athletics Heritage Plaque Ceremony, Paavo Nurmi & Paavo Nurmi Games, Turku, August 2020

World Athletics Heritage Plaque unveiling - Athens Marathon, July 2020

Millrose Games & Wanamaker Mile awarded WA Heritage Plaque - Armory Foundation Co-Presidents Rita Finkel and Jonathan Schindel and NYRR CEO Michael Capiraso accept the award from USATF CEO Max Siegel and USATF COO Renee Washington. (LOC) 

Jon Ridgeon presents World Athletics Heritage Plaque to Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe (LOC) 

World Athletics Heritage Plaque announcements - Heritage Mile Night, 21 November 2019

World Athletics Heritage Plaque - Announcement, Yokohama 2019 

Opening ceremony - World Athletics Heritage Exhibition, Doha, April 2019

Heritage Legends Reception 2018 - Sebastian Coe announces the award of the 12 inaugural Heritage Plaques

Heritage Plaques – 2022

Heritage Plaques – 2021

Heritage Plaques – 2020

IAAF Athlete Ambassadors visit the IAAF Heritage Exhibition in Doha (IAAF) © Copyright

Visit of Sebastian Coe and Thomas Bach to the Heritage Exhibition in Doha (IAAF) © Copyright

VIDEO TOUR - IAAF Heritage World Athletics Championships Exhibition, Doha 2019 (IAAF) 

Seb Coe & XC Legends visit the IAAF Heritage Cross Country Running Display, Aarhus, Denmark (IAAF) 

IAAF Continental Cup Team Captains visit the IAAF Heritage Exhibition in Ostrava (LOC) © Copyright

Heritage Collection – CONSUDATLE Donation: 1900 to 1950

TOUR of IAAF Heritage World / Continental Cup - 1977 to 2018 - Exhibition

Opening of the IAAF Heritage World / Continental Cup - 1977 To 2018 - Exhibition, Ostrava CZE, 5 June 2018

Heritage Collection Launch - Highlights

Heritage Collection - CONSUDATLE Donation: 5th Century BC to 1900 AD

Heritage Collection Launch, Sebastian Coe - Sir Roger Bannister

IAAF Centenary Historic Exhibition

Ron Delany wins the Bankers Mile at the Chicago Daily News Relays, 14 March...

'World Athletics Heritage Mile Night' Historical Timeline - Monaco, 21 November 2019 (World Athletics) © Copyright

World Cross Country history

World Athletics Championships – 1983 to 2017 highlights

IAAF World Athletics Heritage Plaque - design & 6 locations, Aarhus, Denmark (IAAF) © Copyright

VI Volta a Peu - 6.2km road race in Valencia, Spain, held on 27 October 1929

IAAF World Athletics Heritage Plaque - inaugural recipients / locations (IAAF) © Copyright

IAAF Heritage Historical Highlights - IAAF World Indoor Championships

Galleries

<h1 style="color: #1e1e1e; text-align: center;">WELCOME TO THE MUSEUM OF WORLD ATHLETICS</h1>
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<p>The Museum of World Athletics&trade;, or MOWA, is a 3D fully virtual museum of athletics, which will take you on an interactive journey through the history of athletics, highlighting many of the legends of the sport.<br /><br />MOWA is the first sports museum to be established in the digital world, bringing a new level of innovation and creative technologies to the world of sport. The museum gives visitors a unique 3D online experience, highlighting key athletics champions from each continent, and celebrating each edition of the World Athletics Championships.<br /><br />Through realistic interactive content, including state-of-the-art 360 photographic reproduction of items donated by the athletes, MOWA&rsquo;s four galleries bring to life the stories of athletics.<br /><br />Among the exhibits are competition items &ndash; clothing, shoes, trophies and equipment &ndash; donated by or own behalf of many of the greatest athletes in history, including Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Herb Elliott, Irena Szewinska, Carl Lewis, Marie-Jose Perec, Michael Johnson, Jan Zelezny, Allyson Felix, Usain Bolt, Valerie Adams and many more.<br /><br />The Museum of World Athletics is free to access and is available with text commentary in English, French and Spanish.</p>

MOWA - Close Up

<h1 style="color: #1e1e1e; text-align: center;">Attention athletes! Honour our history.</h1>
<h1 style="color: #1e1e1e; text-align: center;">Contribute to the collection</h1>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We actively encourage all world and Olympic finalists and world record-breakers to donate items of clothing, shoes and equipment to the World Athletics Heritage Collection which is displayed in MOWA.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Please contact <a style="color: #ff873c;" href="mailto:MOWA@worldathletics.org">MOWA@worldathletics.org</a> to find out how your career can be featured in the museum.</p>
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Exhibition catalogues and Centenary celebrations

MOWA Olympic Athletics Collection souvenir pamphlet

'Progression of World Athletics Records' - 2024 edition. View ebook

'A Magical Athletics Journey' MOWA comic book - view ebook

'A Magical Athletics Journey' MOWA comic book - PDF download

50 Years of the World Athletics Cross Country Championships (2023)

Progression of World Athletics Records (2020 edition)

IAAF Centenary 2012 E-Book

Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Athletics (SCIF)

Museo del Deporte

The official site of the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi

New York Athletic Club

Quick Links

D'or, d'argent, de bronze - press release

IAAF Heritage concept document

INVENTORY - IAAF Centenary Historic Exhibition 2012

COLLECTION: “Athletics from Ancient Times to the end of the 19th Century” catalogue

The Beginning of the IAAF: A Study of its Background and Foundation

INVENTORY - IAAF Heritage World / Continental Cup - 1977 to 2018 - Exhibition (Ostrava 2018)