World Athletics Championships
Also known as World Championships in Athletics, IAAF World Championships in Athletics, IAAF World Athletics Championships
biennial international athletics competition
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The World Athletics Championships is an international competition held every two years that brings together the world's best track and field athletes to compete at the highest level. It matters because it determines who are the top performers in athletics globally and serves as one of the sport's most prestigious events.
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- Official website
- worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/tokyo25/event-calendar
- Image
- Beijing National Stadium Interior.jpg
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- Commons category
- World Championships in Athletics
- inception
- 1983-00-00
- event interval
- 2
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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. Alongside the Olympic Games, the championships represents the highest level of senior international outdoor athletics competition for track and field athletics globally, including marathon running and race walking. Separate World Championships are held by World Athletics for certain other outdoor events, including cross-country running and half-marathon, as well as indoor and age-group championship.
The World Championships were started in 1976 in response to the International Olympic Committee dropping the men's 50 km walk from the Olympic programme for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932. The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event, a month and a half after the Olympics. It was the first World Championships that the IAAF had hosted separately from the Olympic Games.