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2020 in the sport of athletics
Overview of the events of 2020 in the sport of athletics
In 2020, the foremost competitions in the sport of athletics were the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships held in Nanjing, China and the 2020 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland. All three were rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemicm with the 2020 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships being the only event still held in 2020.
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- February 15: 2020 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul
- 60 m winners: Konstantinos Zikos (m) / Diana Vaisman (f)
- 400 m winners: Ivan Budzynskyi (m) / Andrea Miklós (f)
- 800 m winners: Yevhen Hutsol (m) / Cristina Daniela Bălan (f)
- 1500 m winners: Elzan Bibić (m) / Roxana Bârcă (f)
- 3000 m winners: Andreas Vojta (m) / Luiza Gega (f)
- 60 m Hurdles winners: Mikdat Sevler (m) / Ivana Lončarek (f)
- Long Jump winners: Izmir Smajlaj (m) / Florentina Iusco (f)
- Triple Jump winners: Nazim Babayev (m) / Elena Panțuroiu (f)
- High Jump winners: Dmytro Nikitin (m) / Yuliya Chumachenko (f)
- Pole Vault winners: Ersu Şaşma (m) / Iana Gladiichuk (f)
- Shot Put winners: Mesud Pezer (m) / Dimitriana Surdu (f)
- 4 × 400 m winners: Slovenia (m) / Turkey (f)
- March 7: 2020 World University Cross Country Championships in Marrakesh
- March 29: 2020 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia[1]
- May 2 & 3: 2020 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Minsk[2]
- July 7–12: 2020 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi[3]
- July 16–19: 2020 European Athletics U18 Championships in Rieti[4]
- August 26–30: 2020 European Athletics Championships in Paris[5]
- December 13: 2020 European Cross Country Championships in Dublin
- Diamond League
- Continental Tour
- IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge
- World Marathon Majors
- Tokyo Marathon[6]
- Boston Marathon (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)[7]
- London Marathon[8]
- Berlin Marathon (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)[9]
- Chicago Marathon (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)[10]
- New York City Marathon (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)[11]
- IAAF Road Race Label Events
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Shot put | (25x17px) | m | (25x17px) | m | ||
Discus throw | (25x17px) | m | (25x17px) | m | ||
Javelin throw | (25x17px) | m | (25x17px) | m | ||
Hammer throw | (25x17px) | m | (25x17px) | m | ||
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Heptathlon | (25x17px) | pts | (25x17px) | pts | ||
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All information on the season's top ten performers in outdoor events is published by World Athletics.[12]
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2019–2020 EA Cross Country Permit Meetings
- September 28, 2019: TCS Lidingöloppet in Lidingö (CC #1)
- Winners: Robel Fsiha (m) / Sylvia Medugu (f)
- November 24, 2019: Cross de l'Acier in Leffrinckoucke (CC #2)
- Winners: Berihu Aregawi (m) / Aberash Belay (f)
- November 24, 2019: International Warandecross Tilburg in Netherlands (CC #3)
- Winners: Mike Foppen (m) / Anna Emilie Møller (f)
- December 1, 2019: Cross Internacional de la Constitución in Aranda de Duero (CC #4)
- Winners: Thierry Ndikumwenayo (m) / Marta Pérez (f)
- "London Marathon Website". Archived from the original on 25 July 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
- Toplists 2020. World Athletics. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
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