In 2020, the main athletic events were scheduled to be the

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held in Tokyo, Japan, 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

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with the 2020 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships being the only event still held in 2020.

Major championships

World

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

Paralympic Games The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

World Half Marathon Championships The World Athletics Half Marathon Championships is a biennial international half marathon competition organised by World Athletics. The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. It ...

* World U20 Championships *

World Mountain Running Championships The World Mountain Running Championships (''World Mountain Running Trophy'' until 2008), is an international mountain running competition contested by athletes of the members of WMRA, World Mountain Running Association, the sport's global governing ...

Regional

African Championships An African Championship is a top level international sports competition between African athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. List of Championships ;Athletics *African Championships in Ath ...

* Asian Indoor Championships *

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

* European Throwing Cup *

CARIFTA Games The CARIFTA Games is an annual athletics competition founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). The games was first held in 1972 and consists of track and field events including sprint races, hurdles, middle distance track event ...

* South American Indoor Championships *

Pan American Cross Country Cup The Pan American Cross Country Cup (''Copa Panamericana de Cross Country'') is an international cross country running competition organized by the Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA) for athletes representing the countries and territories o ...

World and continental athletics events

* February 15: 2020 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

** 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 Elzan Bibić (; born 8 January 1999) is a Serbian middle- and long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2019 European Under-23 Championships. Bibić was the 3000 metres 2016 European youth champion and won a bron ...

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Roxana Bârcă Roxana Elisabeta Rotaru, née Bârcă (born 22 June 1988) is a Romanian long-distance runner. She represented her country in the 5000 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. She also competed at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor ...

(f) ** 3000 m winners:

Andreas Vojta Andreas Vojta (born 9 June 1989 in Vienna) is an Austrian distance runner. He competed in the 1500 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the current Austrian marathon champion. Running career Andreas Vojta began his running c ...

(m) / Luiza Gega (f) ** 60 m Hurdles winners: Mikdat Sevler (m) /

Ivana Lončarek Ivana Lončarek (born 8 April 1991) is a Croatian athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle ...

(f) ** Long Jump winners:

Izmir Smajlaj Izmir Smajlaj (born 29 March 1993) is an Albanian athlete who specialises in the long jump. He won the gold medal at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, the first gold medal for his country at a major athletics competit ...

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Florentina Iusco Florentina Costina Iusco, born Marincu (born 8 April 1996 in Deva) is a Romanian track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. Iusco grew up in Deva, Romania, a city famous for gymnastics. She was interested in sports and as her physique ...

(f) ** Triple Jump winners:

Nazim Babayev Nazim Tahir oğlu Babayev (born 8 October 1997) is an Azerbaijani track and field athlete who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. Biography In 2015, he won the triple jump competition at 2015 European Games in Baku. A month later, ...

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Elena Panțuroiu Elena may refer to: People * Elena (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name * Joan Ignasi Elena (born 1968), Catalan politician * Francine Elena (born 1986), British poet Geography * Elena (town), a town in Veliko ...

(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: (m) / (f) * March 7: 2020

World University Cross Country Championships The World University Cross Country Championships is an international biennial cross country running competition for student athletes, organised by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The 2012 edition of the competition featured 76 ...

Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...

* March 29: 2020 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in

Gdynia Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and ...

* May 2 & 3: 2020 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

* July 7–12: 2020 World Athletics U20 Championships in

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...

* July 16–19: 2020 European Athletics U18 Championships in

Rieti Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabina re ...

* August 26–30: 2020 European Athletics Championships in Paris * December 13: 2020 European Cross Country Championships in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

Annual competitions

Diamond League The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day mee ...

* Continental Tour *

IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge The IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge was an annual hammer throw series, organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) from 2010 until the end of 2019 season. The series of hammer throw competitions for men and women were pri ...

World Marathon Majors The World Marathon Majors (WMM) (known for sponsorship reasons as the Abbott World Marathon Majors) is a championship-style competition for marathon runners that started in 2006. A points-based competition founded on six major marathon races reco ...

Tokyo Marathon The is an annual marathon sporting event in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. It is a World Athletics Platinum Label marathon and one of the six World Marathon Majors. The latest edition of the race took place on . It is sponsored by Tokyo Metro. H ...

Boston Marathon The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was i ...

''(cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)'' **

London Marathon The London Marathon is an annual marathon held in London, United Kingdom, and is the 2nd largest annual road race in the UK, after the Great North Run in Newcastle. Founded by athletes Chris Brasher and John Disley in 1981, it is typically held ...

Berlin Marathon The Berlin Marathon (german: Berlin-Marathon, ) is a marathon event held annually on the streets of Berlin, Germany on the last weekend of September. Held annually since 1974, the event includes multiple races over the marathon distance of , inclu ...

''(cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)'' **

Chicago Marathon The Chicago Marathon is a marathon (long-distance foot race) held every October in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the six World Marathon Majors. Thus, it is also a World Athletics Label Road Race. The Chicago Marathon is the fourth-largest r ...

''(cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)'' **

New York City Marathon The New York City Marathon (currently branded TCS New York City Marathon after its headline sponsor) is an annual marathon () that courses through the five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon in the world, with 53,627 finishe ...

''(cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)'' *

IAAF Road Race Label Events World Athletics Label Road Races are races that the World Athletics (until 2019: ''IAAF'') designates as one of the "leading road races around the world." The classification was first introduced for the 2008 running season, upon the suggestion of ...

Season's bests

Outdoor season's top ten performers

All information on the season's top ten performers in outdoor events is published by World Athletics.Toplists 2020
World Athletics. Retrieved 2021-07-14.

100 metres

200 metres

400 metres

800 metres

1500 metres

5000 metres

10,000 metres

110/100 metres hurdles

400 metres hurdles

3000 metres steeplechase

Half marathon

Marathon

Pole vault

High jump

Long jump

Triple jump

Shot put

Discus throw

Javelin throw

Hammer throw

Decathlon/Heptathlon

Competitions winners

2019–2020 EA Cross Country Permit Meetings

* September 28, 2019: TCS Lidingöloppet in

Lidingö Lidingö, also known in its definite form ''Lidingön'' and as ''Lidingölandet'', is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010, the population of the Lidingö urban area on the island was 31,561. It is ...

(CC #1) ** Winners:

Robel Fsiha Robel Fsiha (born 7 March 1996) is a Swedish long-distance runner. Fsiha emigrated from Eritrea to Sweden as a refugee in 2013. Career In 2019, he competed in the senior men's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 2019 ...

(m) / Sylvia Medugu (f) * November 24, 2019:

Cross de l'Acier The Cross de l'Acier ( en, Cross of Steel) was an annual cross country running competition held in late November in Leffrinckoucke, France. First held in 1990, it was one of the foremost competitions of its type in France. Ten races were held at th ...

Leffrinckoucke Leffrinckoucke (; nl, Leffrinkhoeke; vls, Leffrinkoeke) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Heraldry Population Twin towns Leffrinckoucke is twinned with: * Węgorzewo in Poland In popular culture The end scenes of ...

(CC #2) ** Winners:

Berihu Aregawi Berihu Aregawi (born 28 February 2001) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He placed fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Aregawi currently holds world record in the 5 kilometres road race. Career Berihu Aregawi was the br ...

(m) / Aberash Belay (f) * November 24, 2019: International Warandecross

Tilburg Tilburg () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 222,601 (1 July 2021), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-larg ...

in (CC #3) ** Winners: Mike Foppen (m) / Anna Emilie Møller (f) * December 1, 2019:

Cross Internacional de la Constitución Cross Internacional de la Constitución is an annual cross country running event which is held in early December in Alcobendas, Spain. The competition was first held in 1982 and began attracting top-level elite distance runners from the 1990s onw ...

Aranda de Duero Aranda de Duero is a city and municipality, capital of the Ribera del Duero comarca, in the south of the province of Burgos, in Castile and León, Spain. It has a population of roughly 33,000 people and lies on the River Duero. The closest int ...

(CC #4) ** Winners:

Thierry Ndikumwenayo Thierry Ndikumwenayo (born 26 March 1997) is a Spanish-Burundian long-distance runner, most well-known for his cross-country running results. Biography Junior Athlete (- 2016) Ndikumwenayo was introduced to athletics in 2012 by a friend, wh ...

(m) / Marta Pérez (f)

References

External links

World Athletics official website
{{Years in Athletics

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