The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the first time.^[2][3][4] The competition was originally scheduled for August 6–15, 2021, but it was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted a postponement and subsequent rescheduling of the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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World Athletics Championships
Oregon 2022

Host city	Eugene, Oregon
Country	United States
Motto	Feel the Glory
Organizers	World Athletics, USATF
Edition	18th
Nations	179+1 [1]
Athletes	1,705
Sport	Athletics
Events	49 + 1 team
Dates	15–24 July 2022
Opened by	Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff
Main venue	Hayward Field
Individual prize money (US$)	70,000
Team prize money (US$)	80,000
Website	Oregon22
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After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, World Athletics banned all Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from participating at the championships. In addition, the stringent vaccination requirements for people entering the United States caused visa delays for participants and officials, with some ultimately being unable to enter the country.^[5][6] These issues caused the final total to stand at 179 nations (180 including the Athlete Refugee Team), the lowest number since Tokyo 1991.

A record 29 countries won at least one gold medal during the championships. Peru, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria won their first-ever gold medals. India and Burkina Faso had their best medal performances, winning a silver, and the Philippines won a bronze. A new award was the team event trophy,^[7] which was won by the United States, which also won the most gold medals, with 13, and the most medals overall, with 33 (a record for a single edition). The event was the most-watched edition ever in US television history.^[1] More than 146,000 tickets were sold, with several evening sessions sold out.^[8]

There were four athletes who won two gold medals: Kimberly García in the Women's 20km Race Walk and the Women's 35km Race Walk; Michael Norman in the Men's 400m and the Men's 4x400m Relay; Sydney McLaughlin in the Women's 400m Hurdles and the Women's 4x400m Relay; and Abby Steiner in the Women's 4x100m Relay and Women's 4x400m Relay. In addition to the athletes who won two gold medals, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson both of Jamaica, earned 3 medals, 1 gold and 2 silvers in the Women's 100m (Fraser-Pryce gold; Jackson silver), the Women's 200 metres (Jackson gold; Fraser-Pryce silver) and the Women's 4x100m Relay (silver for both).

Three world records and 13 championship records were broken. The world records were set by Sydney McLaughlin, who ran 50.68 seconds in the Women's 400m Hurdles final; Tobi Amusan, who won the Women's 100m Hurdles semi-final in 12.12 seconds; and Armand Duplantis, who reached 6.21 meters in the Men's Pole Vault final.

The selection of the host city was announced on April 16, 2015 in Beijing, China.^[9][10] Eugene was selected without a traditional bidding process, though Eugene did put in a bid for the 2019 World Championships, losing out to Doha.

Runner's World magazine reported that Eugene's selection by World Athletics, then known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, was an "unusual move".^[2] They report the Association "bypassed the usual bidding process," and that the choice of Eugene would make the 2022 event "the first held in the United States." The event was the second held in North America, after Edmonton in 2001.

The Guardian reported that the lack of bidding triggered concern in European cities that had bid to host the event.^[4] They quoted Lamine Diack, IAAF president, who justified the lack of bidding with the claim the selection of Eugene to host the event, "enables us to take advantage of a unique opportunity to host a financially successful tournament that may never arise again."

Despite this, the 2022 event was not the first to lack the usual bidding process: as the 2007 World Championships were awarded to Osaka without bidding after the withdrawal of the two other candidate cities.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States*	13	9	11	33
2	Ethiopia	4	4	2	10
3	Jamaica	2	7	1	10
4	Kenya	2	5	3	10
5	China	2	1	3	6
6	Australia	2	0	1	3
7	Peru	2	0	0	2
8	Poland	1	3	0	4
9	Canada	1	2	1	4
	Japan	1	2	1	4
11	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1	1	5	7
12	Norway	1	1	1	3
13	Dominican Republic	1	1	0	2
	Grenada	1	1	0	2
	Nigeria	1	1	0	2
16	Belgium	1	0	2	3
	Sweden	1	0	2	3
	Uganda	1	0	2	3
19	Brazil	1	0	1	2
	Germany	1	0	1	2
	Italy	1	0	1	2
22	Bahamas	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
	Morocco	1	0	0	1
	Portugal	1	0	0	1
	Qatar	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
30	Netherlands	0	3	1	4
31	Lithuania	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
33	Algeria	0	1	0	1
	Burkina Faso	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	India	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
39	Spain	0	0	2	2
40	Barbados	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Philippines	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (45 entries)		49	49	49	147

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World Athletics announced that athletes would qualify by their World Athletics Rankings position, wild card (reigning world champion or 2021 Diamond League winner) or by achieving the entry standard.^[13]

To qualify as a Wild Card you had to be one of the following things:

• Reigning World Outdoor Champion
• Winner of the 2021 Diamond League
• By finishing position at designated competitions (Area competitions)
• Leader (as at closing date of the qualification period):
  • IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge
  • World Athletics Challenge - Race Walking
  • World Athletics Challenge - Combined Events

Countries who had no male and/or no female athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard or considered as having achieved the entry standard (see above) or a qualified relay team, could enter one unqualified male athlete OR one unqualified female athlete in one event of the championships (except the road events and field events, combined events, 10,000 m and 3000 m steeplechase).

1,972 athletes from 192 member federations were scheduled to compete at the championships,^[15] but owing to vaccination requirements and resulting visa issues the final total was reduced to 179 nations (plus the Athlete Refugee Team) and more than 1,700 athletes, the lowest number since 1991 for the former and 2005 for the latter.^[1]

A record 29 countries won at least one gold medal during the championships. Peru, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria won their first-ever gold medals, while India and Burkina Faso had their best medal performances, with silver, and the Philippines with bronze.^[1][16]

There was a world record programme where if a world record was broken the athlete who broke it would get $100,000.

A total amount of $8,498,000 was also offered by World Athletics to finalists at Oregon 2022, of which $2 million has been ringfenced from the fines paid by the Russian Athletics Federation (for doping rules offenses).^[18]

The prize money is as follows:

Individual events

• Gold: $70,000
• Silver: $35,000
• Bronze: $22,000
• Fourth place: $16,000
• Fifth place: $11,000
• Sixth place: $7,000
• Seventh place: $6,000
• Eighth place: $5,000

Relays (per each team)

• Gold: $80,000
• Silver: $40,000
• Bronze: $20,000
• Fourth place: $16,000
• Fifth place: $12,000
• Sixth place: $8,000
• Seventh place: $6,000
• Eighth place: $4,000

The event was streamed live in some territories on the World Athletics YouTube and Facebook channels.^[19]

The event was the most watched World Athletics Championships in US television history, reaching an excess of 13.7 million viewers.^[1]