IAAF World Championships in Athletics
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| IAAF World Championships in Athletics | |
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Founded | 1983 |
| No. of teams | 203 (2007) |
| Continent | International (IAAF) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
Last winners lists |
The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It is one of the largest sporting events in the world, and depending on how it is measured, possibly smaller only than the Summer Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup. Originally, it was organised every four years, but this changed in 1991, and it has since been organised biennially.
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[edit] History
The idea of having an Athletics World Championships was around well before the competitions first event in 1983. In 1913, the IAAF decided that the Olympic Games would serve as the World Championships for athletics. This was considered suitable for over 50 years until in the 1960's the desire of many IAAF members to have their own World Championships began to grow. In 1976 at the IAAF Council Meeting in Puerto Rico an Athletics World Championships separate from the Olympic Games was approved.
Following bids from both Stuttgart, West Germany and Helsinki, Finland, the IAAF Council awarded the inaugural competition to Helsinki, to take place in 1983 and be held in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium (where the 1952 Summer Olympics were held).
Over the years the competition has grown in size. In 1983 an estimated 1,300 athletes from 154 countries participated. By the 2003 competition, in Paris, it had grown to 1,907 athletes from 203 countries with coverage being transmitted to 179 different countries.
There has also been a change in the schedule over the years, with several new events, mostly for women, being added. By 2005 the schedule for men and women was all but equal. The only differences being the men had the extra event of the 50 km Walk, while women competed in the 100 m Hurdles and Heptathlon compared to the men in the 110m Hurdles and Decathlon respectively.
The following shows when new events were added for the first time.
- 1987, women's 10,000 m and 10 km walk were added.
- 1993, women's triple jump was added.
- 1995, women's 5000 m was added, replacing the 3000 m race.
- 1999, women's pole vault and hammer were added and the women's 20 km walk replaced the 10 km walk.
- 2005, women's 3000 m Steeplechase was added.
[edit] Championships
For the detailed article, click on the year.
[edit] All-time medal table 1983-2007
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  United States |
114 | 61 | 59 | 234 |
| 2 |  Russia |
33 | 51 | 37 | 121 |
| 3 |  Kenya |
27 | 22 | 23 | 72 |
| 4 |  Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) |
26 | 26 | 34 | 86 |
| 5 |  Soviet Union |
21 | 27 | 28 | 76 |
| 6 |  East Germany |
21 | 19 | 15 | 55 |
| 7 |  Cuba |
17 | 16 | 6 | 39 |
| 8 |  Ethiopia |
16 | 14 | 11 | 41 |
| 9 |  Great Britain |
13 | 24 | 26 | 63 |
| 10 |  Italy |
11 | 14 | 12 | 37 |
| 11 |  Belarus |
10 | 11 | 11 | 32 |
| 12 |  Morocco |
10 | 11 | 6 | 27 |
| 13 |  Czech Republic |
10 | 3 | 3 | 16 |
| 14 |  France |
9 | 11 | 12 | 32 |
| 15 |  Ukraine |
8 | 9 | 11 | 28 |
| 16 |  China |
8 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
| 17 |  Jamaica |
7 | 29 | 30 | 66 |
| 18 |  Finland |
7 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
| 19 |  Poland |
7 | 5 | 9 | 21 |
| 20 |  Australia |
7 | 5 | 8 | 20 |
| 21 |  Sweden |
7 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 22 |  Spain |
6 | 15 | 12 | 33 |
| 23 |  Algeria |
6 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 24 |  Romania |
5 | 8 | 8 | 21 |
| 25 |  Bahamas |
5 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 26 |  Portugal |
5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| 27 |  Bulgaria |
5 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 28 |  Norway |
5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 29 |  South Africa |
5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 30 |  Canada |
4 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 31 |  Greece |
4 | 5 | 10 | 19 |
| 32 |  Czechoslovakia |
4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 33 |  Switzerland |
4 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 34 |  Japan |
3 | 5 | 10 | 18 |
| 35 |  Mexico |
3 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 36 |  Mozambique |
3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 37 |  Ecuador |
3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 38 |  Bahrain |
3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 39 |  Denmark |
3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 40 |  Estonia |
2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 41 |  Lithuania |
2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 42 |  Ireland |
2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 43 |  Dominican_Republic |
2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 44 |  Qatar |
2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 45 |  New Zealand |
2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 46 |  Tajikistan |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 47 |  Namibia |
1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 48 |  Netherlands |
1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 49 |  Trinidad and Tobago |
1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 50 |  Zambia |
1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 51 |  Uganda |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 52 |  Saint Kitts and Nevis |
1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 53 |  Somalia |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 54 |  Syria |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 55 |  Senegal |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 56 |  North Korea |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 57 |  Croatia |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 58 |  Panama |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 59 |  Brazil |
0 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 60 |  Hungary |
0 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 61 |  Nigeria |
0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 62 |  Kazakhstan |
0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 63 |  Djibouti |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 64 |  Cameroon |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 65 |  Turkey |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 66 |  Austria |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 67 |  Burundi |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 68 |  Suriname |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 69 |  Sri Lanka |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 70 |  Israel |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 71 |  Slovenia |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 72 |  Ghana |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 73 |  Bermuda |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 74 |  Tanzania |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 75 | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 76 |  Slovakia |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 77 |  Dominica |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 78 |  Saudi Arabia |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 79 |  American Samoa |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 80 |  Haiti |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 81 |  India |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 82 |  Cyprus |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 83 |  Tunisia |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 491 | 494 | 488 | 1473 | |
NOTE: The Federal Republic of Germany refers to the former West Germany (1983-90) and the unified Germany (1990-present) NOTE: Some United States medals are expected to be stripped following the Marion Jones drug admission in 2007.
[edit] Ceremonies
The opening and closing ceremonies of the 8th IAAF World Championships held in Edmonton, Alberta in 2001 were broadcast live to over 200 countries and featured a thousand voice choir and original music by Jan Randall.
[edit] Other Athletics World Championship events
Prior to the inaugural IAAF World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 there had been several single events and races in the years leading up to them which were considered World Championships in those events. These mostly consisted of non-Olympic events for which the Olympics didn't provide the opportunity for the holding of World Championships. Below are the medal winners from these events.
[edit] 1976 (Malmö, Sweden)
| Event: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | ||||
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| 50 km Walk | Men | Veniamin Soldatenko USSR |
3:54:40 | Enrique Vera Mexico |
3:58:14 | Reima Salonen Finland |
3:58:53 |
[edit] 1980 (Sittard, Netherlands)
| Event: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | ||||
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| 3000 m | Women | Brigit Friedmann West Germany |
8:48.05 | Karoline Nemetz Sweden |
8:50.22 | Ingrid Kristiansen Norway |
8:58.80 |
| 400 m hurdles | Women | Bärbel Broschat East Germany |
54.55 | Ellen Neumann East Germany |
54.56 | Petra Pfatt East Germany |
55.84 |
[edit] External links
- Results of past World Championships
- Official site of the 2007 World Championships in Osaka
- Official site of the 2009 World Championships in Berlin
- Deagu bid website for the 2011/13 World Championships
- Moscow bid website for the 2011/13 World Championships
- Track and Field Results Almanac
- Results and detailed statistics of past World Championships in Athletics
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