2023_World_Championships_in_Athletics

2023 World Athletics Championships

2023 World Athletics Championships

Sports competition in Budapest, Hungary


The 2023 World Athletics Championships (Hungarian: 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary.[2] The tournament returned to its usual two-year cycle after the previous event in Eugene, Oregon, United States was postponed to 2022, held a little 13 months earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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These are the first World Athletics Championships in Hungary. The city of Budapest had previously stated an interest in hosting the 2007 World Championships, but withdrew and it was eventually held in Osaka.[3] The official mascot of the event is a Racka, called Youhuu.[4][5]

Schedule

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Venue

The championships are being held in the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, which was specially built for this event, and has a provisional capacity of 36,000.[8]

Entry standards

World Athletics announced that athletes would qualify by their World Athletics Rankings position, wild card (reigning world champion or 2022 Diamond League winner) or by achieving the entry standard.[9]

To qualify as a Wild Card required fulfilling one of the following conditions:[10]

Countries who had no male and/or no female athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard or considered as having achieved the entry standard 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).

Since the postponement of the 2023 World Relays to 2024 Nassau, for Covid-pandemic reasons, a modified qualification system has been available for relay teams.[11]

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Target numbers

At the end of the qualification period, the 2023 World Athletics Rankings were published. They were used to invite additional athletes to the World Championships where the target number of athletes had not been achieved for that event through other methods of qualification.

The maximum of three athletes per country in individual events was not affected by this rule. Member federations retained the right to confirm or reject athlete selections through this method.

Where the highest ranked athletes were from a country that already had three entrants for the event, or where member federations had rejected an entrant, the next highest ranked athlete became eligible for entry via the world rankings.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

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Results

Men

Track

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
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* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
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Combined

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
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Women

Track

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
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* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
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Combined

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
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Mixed

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Participating nations

Media coverage

In the United States, television rights to the championships belong to NBC Sports.[13]

Eurovision Sport and ESPN jointly hold and distribute World Athletics media rights in Europe and Africa for 2023. Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed with World Athletics rights-holders Eurovision Sport and ESPN to broadcast the nine-day event on its channels – Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and Eurosport App – including its platform Discovery+ on a non-exclusive basis in more than 45 countries across Europe, excluding the Nordics region – Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden. Streaming is available on Discovery+ in Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, UK and Ireland.[14]

In India, live streaming is available on JioCinema.[15]


References

  1. "Competition decisions made at 220th World Athletics Council Meeting". World Athletics. 23 November 2019. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  2. "IAAF Council makes key decisions in Monaco". IAAF. 4 December 2018. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  3. "2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics will be held in Osaka". World Athletics. 15 November 2002. Archived from the original on 11 August 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  4. "Bemutatkozott Youhuu, az atlétikai vb kabalafigurája" [Introducing Youhuu, the mascot of the World Athletics Championships]. Magyar Nemzet (in Hungarian). 4 August 2023. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  5. "Youhuu, a native Hungarian racka sheep is the mascot for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  6. "Timetable released for World Athletics Championships Budapest 23". World Athletics. 26 August 2022. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  7. "Budapest 23 World Athletics Championships - Timetable". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 25 November 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  8. "National Athletics Centre". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  9. "Qualifying systems approved for World Athletics Championships Budapest23" (PDF). World Athletics. 19 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  10. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  11. "World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 Qualification System – Amended" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  12. "Road to Budapest 23 - Women's 4x400 m Relay". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 12 August 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  13. "NBC Sports Group & World Athletics Partner on Long-Term Media Rights Agreement for World Championships in Track and Field". NBC Sports. 23 November 2020. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  14. "Warner Bros. Discovery secures rights to broadcast 2023 World Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 28 November 2022. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  15. Nag, Utathya (20 August 2023). "Live streaming, World Athletics Championships 2023: Where to watch in India - full schedule". Olympics. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2023.

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