World Athletics Championships

World Athletics Championships
World Athletics Championships
Status	Active
Genre	Athletics World Championships
Date(s)	Varying
Frequency	Biennial
Country	Varying
Inaugurated	1983 Helsinki
Previous event	2023 Budapest
Next event	2025 Tokyo
Organised by	World Athletics
Website	worldathletics.org

Last updated November 18, 2024

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 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.^[1]^[2] It was the first World Championships that the IAAF had hosted separately from the Olympic Games.

A second limited event was held in 1980, and the inaugural championships in 1983, with all the events, is considered the official start of the competition. Until 1980, the Olympic champions were also considered as reigning world champions.^[3]

At their debut, these championships were then held every four years, until 1991 when they switched to a two-year cycle.^[4] In 2024, World Athletics announced that the new biennial competition, World Athletics Ultimate Championship, featuring only up to 16 of the world's top-ranked athletes per discipline, would be held every even year from 2026 onwards.^[5]

History

The idea of having an Athletics World Championships was around well before the competition's 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 late 1960s 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 had been held).

Two IAAF world championship events preceded the inaugural edition of the World Championships in Athletics in 1983. The 1976 World Championships had just one event – the men's 50 kilometres walk which was dropped from the Olympic programme for the 1976 Summer Olympics and the IAAF responded by setting up their own contest. Four years later, the 1980 World Championships contained only two newly approved women's events, (400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres), neither of which featured on the programme for the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[6]^[7]

Over the years the competition has grown in size. In 1983 1,333 athletes from 153 countries participated.^[8] By the 2003 competition, in Paris, it had grown to 1,679 athletes from 198 countries with coverage being transmitted to 179 countries.

From 2019 to 2022 the championships were sponsored by Qatar National Bank,^[9] which has been described as being part of Qatar's soft power policy.^[10]

There has also been a change in composition over the years, with several new events, all for women, being added. By 2005, the only differences were men's competition in the 50 km walk, and equivalent events in women's 100 m hurdles and heptathlon to men's 110 m hurdles and decathlon.

The following list 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 3,000 m was replaced by the 5000 m.
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.
2017, women's 50 km walk was added.
2019, mixed 4 × 400 m relay was added.
2022, men's and women's 35 km walk replaced the 50 km walk.

Championships

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	Capacity	Events	Nations	Athletes	Top of the medal table
–	1976	Malmö	Sweden	18 Sep	Malmö Stadion	30,000	1	20	42	Soviet Union
–	1980	Sittard	Netherlands	14 – 16 Aug	De Baandert	22,000	2	22	42	East Germany
1st	1983	Helsinki	Finland	7 – 14 Aug	Olympiastadion	50,000	41	153	1,333	East Germany
2nd	1987	Rome	Italy	28 Aug – 6 Sep	Stadio Olimpico	60,000	43	156	1,419	East Germany
3rd	1991	Tokyo	Japan	23 Aug – 1 Sep	National Stadium	48,000	43	162	1,491	United States
4th	1993	Stuttgart	Germany	13 – 22 Aug	Neckarstadion	70,000	44	187	1,630	United States
5th	1995	Gothenburg	Sweden	5 – 13 Aug	Ullevi	42,000	44	190	1,755	United States
6th	1997	Athens	Greece	1 – 10 Aug	Olympiako Stadio	75,000	44	197	1,785	United States
7th	1999	Seville	Spain	20 – 29 Aug	Estadio de La Cartuja	70,000	46	200	1,750	United States
8th	2001	Edmonton	Canada	3 – 12 Aug	Commonwealth Stadium	60,000	46	189	1,602	Russia
9th	2003	Paris	France	23 – 31 Aug	Stade de France	78,000	46	198	1,679	United States
10th	2005	Helsinki	Finland	6 – 14 Aug	Olympiastadion	45,000	47	191	1,687	United States
11th	2007	Osaka	Japan	24 Aug – 2 Sep	Yanmar Stadium Nagai	45,000	47	197	1,800	United States
12th	2009	Berlin	Germany	15 – 23 Aug	Olympiastadion	74,000	47	200	1,895	United States
13th	2011	Daegu	South Korea	27 Aug – 4 Sep	Daegu Stadium	65,000	47	199	1,742	United States
14th	2013	Moscow	Russia	10 – 18 Aug	Luzhniki Stadium	78,000	47	203	1,784	United States
15th	2015	Beijing	China	22 – 30 Aug	Beijing National Stadium	80,000	47	205	1,761	Kenya
16th	2017	London	Great Britain	4 – 13 Aug	London Stadium	60,000	48	199	1,857	United States
17th	2019	Doha	Qatar	27 Sep – 6 Oct	Khalifa International Stadium	48,000	49	206	1,775	United States
18th	2022	Eugene	United States	15 – 24 Jul	Hayward Field	25,000	49	180	1,705	United States
19th	2023	Budapest	Hungary	19 – 27 Aug	National Athletics Centre	36,000	49	202	2,187	United States
20th	2025	Tokyo	Japan	13 – 21 Sep	Japan National Stadium	68,000
21st	2027	Beijing	China	11 – 19 Sep	Beijing National Stadium	80,000

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2023 World Athletics Championships.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	195	134	114	443
2	Kenya	65	58	48	171
3	Russia	42	52	48	142
4	Jamaica	40	61	48	149
5	Germany	39	36	48	123
6	Ethiopia	35	38	31	104
7	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	33	40	48	121
8	Soviet Union	23	27	28	78
9	China	22	26	27	75
10	Cuba	22	25	16	63
11	East Germany	21	19	16	56
12	Poland	20	20	25	65
13	Australia	15	16	14	45
14	Czech Republic	15	5	8	28
15	France	14	19	23	56
16	Italy	13	18	20	51
17	Ukraine	12	15	16	43
18	Morocco	12	12	9	33
19	South Africa	12	7	8	27
19	Sweden	12	7	8	27
21	Norway	12	6	6	24
22	Spain	11	19	16	46
23	Canada	11	18	17	46
24	Belarus	10	11	12	33
25	Bahamas	9	9	8	26
26	Japan	8	9	18	35
27	Bahrain	8	3	3	14
28	Netherlands	7	9	12	28
29	Finland	7	8	8	23
30	Portugal	7	7	9	23
31	Uganda	7	2	4	13
32	Greece	6	7	12	25
33	Algeria	6	2	3	11
34	New Zealand	6	1	1	8
35	Romania	5	8	12	25
36	Bulgaria	5	3	8	16
37	Qatar	5	2	4	11
38	Czechoslovakia	4	4	3	11
39	Croatia	4	4	2	10
40	Colombia	4	3	2	9
41	Dominican Republic	4	2	1	7
42	Ireland	4	2	0	6
43	Switzerland	4	0	5	9
44	Venezuela	4	0	1	5
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes ^[1]	3	8	1	12
45	West Germany	3	6	3	12
46	Trinidad and Tobago	3	5	7	15
47	Mexico	3	4	7	14
48	Lithuania	3	3	3	9
49	Ecuador	3	2	1	6
50	Grenada	3	1	2	6
51	Mozambique	3	1	1	5
52	Denmark	3	0	1	4
53	Brazil	2	6	8	16
54	Estonia	2	6	2	10
55	Belgium	2	2	7	11
56	Slovenia	2	2	3	7
57	Peru	2	1	0	3
57	Tajikistan	2	1	0	3
59	Nigeria	1	5	5	11
60	Namibia	1	4	1	6
61	Kazakhstan	1	3	5	9
62	Turkey	1	3	0	4
63	Botswana	1	2	1	4
64	Zambia	1	2	0	3
65	Burkina Faso	1	1	1	3
	India	1	1	1	3
	Tunisia	1	1	1	3
68	Eritrea	1	1	0	2
68	Panama	1	1	0	2
70	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	0	4	5
71	Serbia	1	0	3	4
71	Slovakia	1	0	3	4
73	Barbados	1	0	2	3
73	Syria	1	0	2	3
75	Senegal	1	0	1	2
75	Somalia	1	0	1	2
77	North Korea	1	0	0	1
78	Hungary	0	7	8	15
79	Ivory Coast	0	4	1	5
80	Israel	0	3	2	5
81	Puerto Rico	0	3	1	4
82	Burundi	0	2	1	3
82	Djibouti	0	2	1	3
84	Cameroon	0	2	0	2
85	Austria	0	1	3	4
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	1	2
	Cyprus	0	1	1	2
	Ghana	0	1	1	2
	Latvia	0	1	1	2
	Philippines	0	1	1	2
	South Korea	0	1	1	2
	Sri Lanka	0	1	1	2
	Suriname	0	1	1	2
	Tanzania	0	1	1	2
95	Bermuda	0	1	0	1
	British Virgin Islands	0	1	0	1
	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	Pakistan	0	1	0	1
	Sudan	0	1	0	1
100	American Samoa	0	0	1	1
	Cayman Islands	0	0	1	1
	Dominica	0	0	1	1
	Haiti	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe	0	0	1	1
Totals (106 entries)		878	884	880	2,642

Source: World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 – Statistical Booklet 2023 Medal Table

Notes

^[1] ANA is the name under which Russian athletes competed in the 2017 and 2019 Championships. Their medals were not included in the official medal table.^[11]^[12]

All-time placing table

In the IAAF placing table the total score is obtained from assigning eight points to the first place and so on to one point for the eight placed finalists. Points are shared in situations where a tie occurs. However, the IAAF site shows all points rounded to the nearest integer.

Updated after the 2022 Championships^[13]

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Medals	Points
1	United States	183	125+1=	103+2=	77+5=	90+3=	84+3=	74+2=	80+4=	414	4240.5
2	Germany ^[a]	63	61	65+2=	78+2=	66+2=	61+2=	53+5=	45+1=	191	2347.5
3	Russia ^[b]	45	54+6=	47+2=	56+2=	39+3=	43+2=	35+1=	40+1=	154	1771.5
4	Kenya	62	55	44	48	40	28	47	21	161	1744
5	Jamaica	37	56	43+1=	34	31	29	31	24	137	1418.5
6	Great Britain & N.I.	31	37	43	43+2=	50+1=	34+1=	31+1=	21	111	1381
7	Ethiopia	33	34	28	26	21	18	20	20	95	998
8	China	22	25+1=	25	20	34+1=	21+1=	21	24+1=	73	879
9	France	14	18	21+2=	27	28+2=	31+1=	24+1=	32+1=	55	804.1
10	Poland	20	17+1=	21+4=	23+1=	24	22+2=	27	21+2=	63	794.8
11	Soviet Union	23	25+2=	28	21+1=	17	12	11	17+1=	78	793
12	Cuba	22	23+1=	13+1=	33	10+2=	17+1=	23	19	60	757.5
13	Italy	12	15+1=	19	15	17+2=	24+1=	32+2=	30+2=	47	642.5
14	Spain	7	17+1=	15+1	19	20	24	18	20	41	580
15	Ukraine	11	12+2=	16	19	21	16+1=	21+1=	9	41	561.6

Notes

^[a] including points earned by athletes from East Germany (510 pts) and West Germany (191.5 pts) at the 1976, 1980, 1983 and 1987 Championships.
^[b] including points earned by Authorised Neutral Athletes (103.5 pts) at the 2017 and 2019 Championships.

Multiple winners

Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Men

All events

Rank	Athlete	Country	Events	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	100 m / 200 m / 4 × 100 m relay	2007	2017	11	2	1	14
2	LaShawn Merritt	United States	400 m / 4 × 400 m relay	2005	2015	* 8 *	3	–	* 11 *
3	Carl Lewis	United States	100 m / 200 m / 4 × 100 m relay / Long jump	1983	1993	8	1	1	10
4	Michael Johnson	United States	200 m / 400 m / 4 × 400 m relay	1991	1999	8	–	–	8
5	Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I.	5000 m / 10,000 m	2011	2017	6	2	–	8
6	Noah Lyles	United States	100 m / 200 m / 4 × 100 m relay	2019	2023	6	1	–	7
7	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union Ukraine	Pole vault	1983	1997	6	–	–	6
8	Jeremy Wariner	United States	400 m / 4 × 400 m relay	2005	2009	5	1	–	6
9	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	5000 m / 10,000 m	2003	2009	5	–	1	6
9	Lars Riedel	Germany	Discus throw	1991	2001	5	–	1	6

* including one medal in the relay event in which he participated in the heats only

Individual events

Rank	Athlete	Country	Events	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	100 m / 200 m	2007	2017	7	1	1	9
2	Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I.	5000 m / 10,000 m	2011	2017	6	2	–	8
3	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union Ukraine	Pole vault	1983	1997	6	–	–	6
3	Michael Johnson	United States	200 m / 400 m	1991	1999	6	–	–	6
5	Carl Lewis	United States	100 m / 200 m / Long jump	1983	1993	5	1	1	7
6	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	5000 m / 10,000 m	2003	2009	5	–	1	6
6	Lars Riedel	Germany	Discus throw	1991	2001	5	–	1	6
8	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	Hammer throw	2013	2022	5	–	–	5
9	Ezekiel Kemboi	Kenya	3000 m steeplechase	2003	2015	4	3	–	7
10	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	5000 m / 10,000 m	1993	2003	4	2	1	7

Women

All events

Rank	Athlete	Country	Events	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Allyson Felix	United States	200 m / 400 m / 4 × 100 m relay / 4 × 400 m relay / 4 × 400 m mixed relay	2005	2022	14	3	3	20
2	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	100 m / 200 m / 4 × 100 m relay	2007	2023	10	* 5 *	1	* 16 *
3	Gail Devers	United States	100 m / 100 m hurdles / 4 × 100 m relay	1991	2001	5	3	–	8
4	Sanya Richards-Ross	United States	400 m / 4 × 400 m relay	2003	2015	5	2	–	7
5	Jessica Beard	United States	4 × 400 m relay / 4 × 400 m mixed relay	2009	2019	* 5 *	* 1 *	–	** 6 **
	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	5000 m / 10,000 m	2003	2017	5	1	–	6
	Natasha Hastings	United States	4 × 400 m relay	2007	2017	** 5 **	1	–	** 6 **
8	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica	100 m / 200 m / 400 m / 4 × 100 m relay / 4 × 400 m relay	2015	2023	4	4	3	11
9	Jearl Miles Clark	United States	400 m / 4 × 400 m relay	1991	2003	4	3	2	9
10	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	1500 m / 5000 m	2015	2023	4	2	–	6

* including one medal in the relay event in which she participated in the heats only
** including two medals in the relay events in which she participated in the heats only
*** including three medals in the relay events in which she participated in the heats only
**** including four medals in the relay events in which she participated in the heats only

Individual events

Rank	Athlete	Country	Events	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	100 m / 200 m	2009	2023	6	1	1	8
2	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	5000 m / 10,000 m	2003	2017	5	1	–	6
3	Gail Devers	United States	100 m / 100 m hurdles	1991	2001	4	2	–	6
3	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	1500 m / 5000 m	2015	2023	4	2	–	6
5	Allyson Felix	United States	200 m / 400 m	2005	2017	4	1	2	7
6	Valerie Adams (Vili)	New Zealand	Shot put	2005	2013	4	1	–	5
	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	5000 m / 10,000 m	2007	2015	4	1	–	5
	Liu Hong	China	20 km walk	2009	2019	4	1	–	5
9	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	Heptathlon / Long jump	1987	1993	4	–	–	4
	Brittney Reese	United States	Long jump	2009	2017	4	–	–	4
	Yulimar Rojas	Venezuela	Triple jump	2017	2023	4	–	–	4
	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	Hammer throw	2009	2017	4	–	–	4

Multiple medalists

There are 44 athletes (18 men and 26 women) that have won at least 6 medals.^[13]

Men

Athlete	Country	Events	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Usain Bolt	Jamaica	3	11	2	1	14
LaShawn Merritt	United States	2	8	3	0	11
Carl Lewis	United States	4	8	1	1	10
Justin Gatlin	United States	3	4	6	0	10
Michael Johnson	United States	3	8	0	0	8
Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I.	2	6	2	0	8
Noah Lyles	United States	3	6	1	0	7
Ezekiel Kemboi	Kenya	1	4	3	0	7
Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	2	4	2	1	7
Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union / Ukraine	1	6	0	0	6
Jeremy Wariner	United States	2	5	1	0	6
Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	2	5	0	1	6
Lars Riedel	Germany	1	5	0	1	6
Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	2	4	2	0	6
Christian Coleman	United States	2	3	3	0	6
Butch Reynolds	United States	2	3	2	1	6
Bernard Lagat	Kenya / United States	2	2	3	1	6
Greg Haughton	Jamaica	2	0	4	2	6

Women

Athlete	Country	Events	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Allyson Felix	United States	5	14	3	3	20
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	3	10	5	1	16
Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	3	3	4	7	14
Shericka Jackson	Jamaica	5	4	4	3	11
Veronica Campbell Brown	Jamaica	3	3	7	1	11
Jearl Miles Clark	United States	2	4	3	2	9
Gail Devers	United States	3	5	3	0	8
Gwen Torrence	United States	4	3	4	1	8
Gong Lijiao	China	1	2	2	4	8
Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain & N.I.	2	2	1	5	8
Sanya Richards-Ross	United States	2	5	2	0	7
Carmelita Jeter	United States	3	3	1	3	7
Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova)	Russia	2	2	3	2	7
Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	2	1	4	2	7
Lorraine Fenton (Graham)	Jamaica	2	1	3	3	7
Jessica Beard	United States	2	5	1	0	6
Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	2	5	1	0	6
Natasha Hastings	United States	1	5	1	0	6
Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	2	4	2	0	6
Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	2	3	3	0	6
Heike Drechsler (Daute)	East Germany / Germany	3	2	2	2	6
Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	3	2	1	3	6
Novlene Williams-Mills	Jamaica	2	1	4	1	6
Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain & N.I.	3	1	3	2	6
Irina Privalova	Soviet Union / Russia	4	1	3	2	6
Grit Breuer	Germany	3	1	2	3	6

Athletes with most appearances

There are 71 athletes (37 men and 34 women) that have competed in at least eight editions.^[13]

App.	Name	Country	Years contested	Events
13	Jesús Ángel García	Spain	93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 19	50 km walk
13	João Vieira	Portugal	99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	20 km walk / 35 km walk / 50 km walk
11	Susana Feitor	Portugal	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	10 km walk / 20 km walk
	Inês Henriques	Portugal	01, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	20 km walk / 35 km walk / 50 km walk
	Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od	Mongolia	03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	Marathon
10	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09	Discus throw
	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13	Discus throw
	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13	Discus throw
	Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 15	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	01, 03, 07, 09, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	Discus throw
	Allyson Felix	United States	03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22	200 m / 400 m / 4x100 m / 4x400 m / 4x400 m mixed
9	Laverne Eve	Bahamas	87, 91, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07	Javelin throw
	Tim Berrett	Canada	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07	20 km walk / 50 km walk
	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07	Long jump / Triple jump
	Maria Mutola	Mozambique	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07	800 m
	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	91, 93, 97, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	Shot put / Discus throw
	Venelina Veneva-Mateeva	Bulgaria	91, 95, 99, 01, 03, 05, 09, 11, 15	High jump
	Danny McFarlane	Jamaica	93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09	400 m / 400 m hurdles / 4x400 m
	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia	93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 13	20 km walk
	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 07, 09, 11, 13	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13	Hammer throw
	Chris Brown	Bahamas	99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15	400 m / 4x400 m
	Zhang Wenxiu	China	01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17	Hammer throw
	Andrés Chocho	Ecuador	07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	20 km walk / 35 km walk / 50 km walk
	Gong Lijiao	China	07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	Shot put
	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	High jump
8	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica / Slovenia	83, 87, 91, 93, 95, 97, 03, 07	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Jan Železný	Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic	87, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03	Javelin throw
	Yelena Nikolayeva	Soviet Union / Russia	87, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05	10 km walk / 20 km walk
	Fiona May	Great Britain & N.I. / Italy	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05	Long jump
	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Lars Riedel	Germany	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05	Discus throw
	Dragutin Topić	SFR Yugoslavia / IWP * / FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia	91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 05, 07, 09	High jump
	Iryna Yatchenko	Soviet Union / Belarus	91, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 07, 09	Discus throw
	Eunice Barber	Sierra Leone / France	93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07	Heptathlon / Long jump / 100 m hurdles
	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07	1500 m
	Manuel Martínez	Spain	93, 95, 97, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09	Shot put
	Steffi Nerius	Germany	93, 95, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09	Javelin throw
	Amy Acuff	United States	95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09	High jump
	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09	Discus throw
	María Vasco	Spain	95, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	10 km walk / 20 km walk
	Koji Murofushi	Japan	95, 97, 99, 01, 03, 07, 11, 13	Hammer throw
	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	95, 99, 01, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13	Hammer throw
	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I.	97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	Shot put
	Sergey Makarov	Russia	97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	Javelin throw
	Ēriks Rags	Latvia	97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	Javelin throw
	Roman Šebrle	Czech Republic	97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11	Decathlon
	Omar Zepeda	Mexico	97, 01, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 17	20 km walk / 50 km walk
	Mario Pestano	Spain	99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13	Discus throw
	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13	400 m hurdles / 4x400 m
	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13	1500 m / 3000 m steeplechase
	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 15, 17	Discus throw
	Ruth Beitia	Spain	03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17	High jump / 4x100 m
	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17	Discus throw
	Ezekiel Kemboi	Kenya	03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17	3000 m steeplechase
	Churandy Martina	Netherlands Antilles / Netherlands	03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 19	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19	400 m hurdles / 4x400 m
	Horacio Nava	Mexico	05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19	20 km walk / 50 km walk
	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19	Hammer throw
	Martyn Rooney	Great Britain & N.I.	05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19	400 m / 4x400 m / 4x400 m mixed
	Levern Spencer	Saint Lucia	05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19	High jump
	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia	05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19	Discus throw
	Renny Quow	Trinidad and Tobago	05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 23	400 m / 4x400 m
	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 19, 22, 23	100 m / 200 m / 4x100 m
	Liu Hong	China	07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 19, 22, 23	20 km walk
	Bianca Ghelber (Perie)	Romania	07, 09, 11, 13, 17, 19, 22, 23	Hammer throw
	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	07, 09, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	1500 m / 5000 m / 3000 m steeplechase
	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	High jump
	Kimberly Williams	Jamaica	09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23	Triple jump

* At the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart, Germany, Dragutin Topić competed as an Individual World Championship Participant (IWP) as Athletic Federation of Yugoslavia was suspended by IAAF due to United Nations sanctions stemming from the Yugoslav wars.

World records

A total of 36 world records have been set or equalled at the competition: 18 by men, 15 by women, and 3 in the mixed relay.

The first world record to be set at the World Championships was by Jarmila Kratochvílová of Czechoslovakia, who ran 47.99 seconds to win the 1983 women's 400 m final.

A peak of five world records came at the 1993 Championships.

The most recent world record was in the Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay in 2023, when the US team set a time of 3:08.80. World records have become less common as the history of the event has expanded, with no world records set in the 1997, 2001, 2007 or 2013 editions.

American athletes have been the most successful with fifteen world records, followed by Jamaica and Great Britain on four each. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has broken the most world records at the competition, at four, while American Carl Lewis set three. Jonathan Edwards holds the distinction of breaking the world record twice in one championships: improving upon his own newly-set world record in the 1995 men's triple jump final. The men's 4 × 100 metres relay has yielded the most world records, with five set between 1983 and 2011.

Ben Johnson's time of 9.83 seconds at the 1987 World Championships men's 100 m final was initially considered to be a world record, but this was rescinded in 1989 after Johnson admitted to steroid use between 1981 and 1988.

Also, the 2009 Jamaican men's 4 × 100 metres relay team time of 37.31 seconds was retrospectively recognised to as the world record after the team's time of 37.10 at the 2008 Olympics was rescinded after the disqualification of Nesta Carter (who was not present in the World Championships team).

Sex	Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Year
Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.86	Emmit King Willie Gault Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	10 August	1983
Women	400 metres	47.99	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	10 August	1983
Women	High jump	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria (BUL)	30 August	1987
Men	100 metres	9.86	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	25 August	1991
Men	Long jump	8.95 m	Mike Powell	United States (USA)	30 August	1991
Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.50	Andre Cason Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1 September	1991
Men	110 metres hurdles	12.91	Colin Jackson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20 August	1993
Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.40	Jon Drummond Andre Cason Dennis Mitchell Leroy Burrell	United States (USA)	21 August	1993
Men	4 × 400 metres relay	2:54.29	Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson	United States (USA)	22 August	1993
Women	400 metres hurdles	52.74	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	19 August	1993
Women	Triple jump	15.09 m	Anna Biryukova	Russia (RUS)	21 August	1993
Men	Triple jump	18.16 m	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	7 August	1995
Men	Triple jump	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	7 August	1995
Women	400 metres hurdles	52.61	Kim Batten	United States (USA)	11 August	1995
Women	Triple jump	15.50 m	Inessa Kravets	Ukraine (UKR)	10 August	1995
Men	400 metres	43.18	Michael Johnson	United States (USA)	26 August	1999
Women	Pole vault	4.60 m	Stacy Dragila	United States (USA)	21 August	1999
Men	20 kilometres race walk	1:17:21	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador (ECU)	23 August	2003
Men	50 kilometres race walk	3:36:03	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland (POL)	27 August	2003
Women	Pole vault	5.01 m	Yelena Isinbaeva	Russia (RUS)	12 August	2005
Women	Javelin throw	71.70 m	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba (CUB)	14 August	2005
Women	20 kilometres race walk	1:25:41	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia (RUS)	7 August	2005
Men	100 metres	9.58	Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	16 August	2009
Men	200 metres	19.19	Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	20 August	2009
Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.31	Steve Mullings Michael Frater Usain Bolt Asafa Powell	Jamaica (JAM)	22 August	2009
Women	Hammer throw	77.96 m	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland (POL)	22 August	2009
Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.04	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	4 September	2011
Men	Decathlon	9,045 pts	Ashton Eaton	United States (USA)	29 August	2015
Women	50 kilometres race walk	4:05:56	Inês Henriques	Portugal (POR)	13 August	2017
Mixed	4 × 400 metres relay	3:12.42	Tyrell Richard Jessica Beard Jasmine Blocker Obi Igbokwe	United States (USA)	28 September	2019
Mixed	4 × 400 metres relay	3:09.34	Wilbert London III Allyson Felix Courtney Okolo Michael Cherry	United States (USA)	29 September	2019
Women	400 metres hurdles	52.16	Dalilah Muhammad	United States (USA)	4 October	2019
Women	400 metres hurdles	50.68	Sydney McLaughlin	United States (USA)	22 July	2022
Women	100 metres hurdles	12.12	Tobi Amusan	Nigeria (NGR)	24 July	2022
Men	Pole vault	6.21 m	Armand Duplantis	Sweden (SWE)	24 July	2022
Mixed	4 × 400 metres relay	3:08.80	Justin Robinson Rosey Effiong Matthew Boling Alexis Holmes	United States (USA)	19 August	2023

Notes and references

↑ Matthews, Peter (2012). Historical Dictionary of Track and Field (pg. 217). Scarecrow Press (eBook). Retrieved on 8 September 2013.
↑ Butler, Mark (9 September 2013). "IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013" (PDF). IAAF/AFTS (2013). p. 179. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
↑ "The formation of the World Athletics Championships".
↑ "Two years from now, in 2025, the next heated battle will take place in Tokyo | News | Tokyo 25 | World Athletics Championships". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
↑ "World Athletics Ultimate Championship: a new global championship for the sport | PRESS-RELEASES | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
↑ "IAAF World Championships in Athletics". www.gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
↑ Archive of Past Events. IAAF. Retrieved on 8 September 2013.
↑ "First World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki a landmark for track & field." Usatf.org. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
↑ "QNB and IAAF sign worldwide sponsorship agreement in Qatar | PRESS-RELEASE | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
↑ "A global map of Qatar's sponsorships in sports". www.playthegame.org. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
↑ "IAAF World Championships London 2017 Medal Table". worldathletics.org.
↑ "IAAF World Championships DOHA 2019 Medal Table". worldathletics.org.
1 2 3 "World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 – Statistical Booklet". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 10 August 2023.

External links

Official World Athletics site for World Championships
Results of past World Championships at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-10-26)
Track and Field Results Almanac at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-03-27)
Top medalists from World Athletics Championships at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-09-04)
IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Championships London 2017
IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019

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v t e World Championships organised by World Athletics
Outdoor	1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2022 2023 2025 2027
Indoor	1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2022 2024 2025 2026
Continental Cup*	1977 1979 1981 1985 1989 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
U20	1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2021 2022 2024 2026
U18	1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017
Cross Country	1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2023 2024 2026
Race Walking	1961 1963 1965 1967 1970 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2022 2024 2026
Women's Road Race	1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
Marathon	1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011
Half Marathon	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
Road Relay	1986 1992 1994 1996 1998
Relays	2014 2015 2017 2019 2021 2024 2025
Ultimate	2026
Road Running	2023 2025
Sport of athleticsportal

v t e World Athletics Championships
Early editions	Malmö 1976 (one event only) Sittard 1980 (two events only)
Championships	Helsinki 1983 Rome 1987 Tokyo 1991 Stuttgart 1993 Gothenburg 1995 Athens 1997 Seville 1999 Edmonton 2001 Saint-Denis 2003 Helsinki 2005 Osaka 2007 Berlin 2009 Daegu 2011 Moscow 2013 Beijing 2015 London 2017 Doha 2019 Eugene 2022 Budapest 2023 Tokyo 2025 Beijing 2027
Related lists	Championships records Doping Medalists Men Women Medal sweeps Medal table Nations
Disciplines	100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 5000 m 10,000 m 4 × 100 m relay 4 × 400 m relay Sprint hurdles 400 m hurdles Steeplechase Marathon Race walking Shot put Discus throw Hammer throw Javelin throw Pole vault High jump Long jump Triple jump Combined events

v t e Nations at the World Athletics Championships
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Congo DR Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Brunei Cambodia China Chinese Taipei Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Great Britain and Northern Ireland Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
North America	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands United States U.S. Virgin Islands
Oceania	Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
South America	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Other/Former	Athlete Refugee Team Authorised Neutral Athletes Czechoslovakia East Germany West Germany Netherlands Antilles Serbia and Montenegro Soviet Union Yugoslavia

v t e World Marathon Majors
Marathons	Tokyo winners Boston winners London winners Sydney Berlin winners Chicago winners New York City winners
Results	Final standings
Marathons at the World Athletics Championships IAAF World Marathon Cup Marathons at the Olympics

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Contents

History

Championships

All-time medal table

All-time placing table

Multiple winners

Men

All events

Individual events

Women

All events

Individual events

Multiple medalists

Men

Women

Athletes with most appearances

World records

See also

Notes and references

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