Women have contested events at the
World Athletics Championships
The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...
since its inauguration in 1983. The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off
edition of the championships was also held the same year at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
to include the
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...
-approved international women's events in
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women.
On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...
and
3000 metres
The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track.
It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...
which were not added to the
Olympic athletics programme that year due to a dispute with the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
.
Track
100 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1500 m
3000 m
5000 m
10,000 m
100 m hurdles
400 m hurdles
3000 m steeplechase
4 × 100 metres relay
4 × 400 metres relay
4 × 400 metres mixed relay
Road
Marathon
10 km walk
20 km walk
35 km walk
50 km walk
Field
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put
Discus throw
Javelin throw
Hammer throw
Heptathlon
See also
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List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in athletics.
Women’s events
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres
5000 metres
10,000 metres
Marathon
100 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
3000 met ...
*
List of World Championships in Athletics medalists (men)
Men have contested events at the World Athletics Championships since its inauguration in 1983. The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was held in 1976 for the ...
References
IAAF World Championships in Athletics GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-07-04.
External links
IAAF official website
{{Athletics medalists
World Athletics Championships
World Championships in Athletics medalists
Athletics World Championships
*Women
World Championships women