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World Athletics Series

World Athletics Championships
NEXT EVENT
13 SEP 2025 - 21 SEP 2025 Tokyo
JPN

The World Athletics Championships is the jewel in the crown of World Athletics' global competition programme. It is the third-largest sporting event in the world, involving approximately 2000 athletes from more than 200 nations competing for 49 gold medals. The first World Championships in athletics was held in Helsinki in 1983. Today, the competition is staged biennially, usually in the month of August.
World Athletics Indoor Championships
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21 MAR 2025 - 23 MAR 2025 Nanjing
CHN

The World Athletics Indoor Championships is held every two years and provides three action-packed days of intense competition in an intimate arena where fans can see many of the world’s best athletes at close range. The event is generally held in March.
World Athletics U20 Championships
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27 AUG 2024 - 31 AUG 2024 Lima
PER

The World Athletics U20 Championships brings together the best junior athletes from around the world to compete against each other on the global stage. It gives 18- and 19-year-old competitors a valuable first experience of a world championships. Up to 2200 athletes and officials from 170 national federations can be expected to take part. The six-day event is generally staged in July, every even year.
World Athletics U18 Championships
The World Athletics U18 Championships brought together the best youth athletes from around the world to compete against each other on the global stage. It gave 16- and 17-year-old competitors a valuable first experience of a world championships. Typically, up to 1600 athletes and officials from 165 national federations took part. The five-day event was generally staged in July, every odd year. The 2017 edition was the last one.
World Athletics Continental Cup
Formerly known as the World Cup, this event changed format and name in 2010 to become the Continental Cup. This premier team competition of world athletics sees the greatest talents on earth compete, not for individual medals, but to accumulate points for their continental teams. The Continental Cup is contested by mixed teams representing Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The event takes place over two or three days and is held generally in September, every four years. The 2018 edition was the last one.
World Athletics Cross Country Championships
NEXT EVENT
10 JAN 2026 Tallahassee, FL
USA

Natural land is the stage on which many of the world’s greatest distance runners learn their craft. The ‘World Cross’ is the oldest competition on the World Athletics calendar, connecting the modern professional sport with its roots in the 19th century. Medals are awarded for both team and individual performances in senior and junior categories. The event is generally held in March, every odd year.
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships
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21 APR 2024 Antalya
TUR

The World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships is a two-day festival celebrating one of the sport’s most punishing disciplines. With six races (men's 35km and 20km; women's 35km and 20km; and U20 men's and women's 10km), the event provides the best race walkers in the world with an opportunity to shine on the global stage. About 500 athletes from 60 countries take part in the biennial event, generally held in May every even year.
World Athletics Half Marathon Championships
Road running’s international elite compete against the backdrop of the some of the world’s most attractive locations in this annual event. First held in 1992, the event includes men’s and women’s races with individual and team honours at stake. It is usually held on public roads, often with the addition of a public mass entry race, every even year.
World Athletics Relays
NEXT EVENT
04 MAY 2024 - 05 MAY 2024 Bahamas
BAH

The World Athletics Relays provides an opportunity for the world’s best runners to showcase the sport’s most exciting team competition: relay events. For national 4x100m and 4x400m teams, this two-day event staged every odd year also counts as a qualifying opportunity for that year’s World Athletics Championships.
World Athletics Road Running Championships
NEXT EVENT
01 OCT 2025 San Diego, CA
USA

The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships, which will take place on 30 September and 1 October 2023, in Riga, will be the most significant public sporting and athletics event in the history of the Baltic countries.

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World Athletics Road Race Labels

World Athletics Label Road Races
LAST EVENT
31 DEC 2023 Madrid
ESP

Each year, World Athletics awards a designation referred to as a World Athletics Road Race Label to leading road races around the world. The races are divided into three categories: marathons, half marathons and other races. There are four levels of label for each of these categories: platinum, gold, silver and bronze.

World Athletics Challenges

World Athletics Challenge - Hammer Throw
LAST EVENT
27 SEP 2019 - 06 OCT 2019 Doha
QAT

The World Athletics Challenge - Hammer Throw is an annual worldwide competition series for the hammer in which athletes accumulate points towards a final ranking and to share more than US$200,000 in prize money.

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