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 men's

50 kilometres race walk The 50 kilometre race walk was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the ...

only, as the International Olympic Committee excluded that event for the

Olympic athletics programme Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program in ...

that year.

Track

100 m

200 m

400 m

800 m

1500 m

5000 m

10,000 m

110 m hurdles

400 m hurdles

3000 m steeplechase

4 × 100 metres relay

4 × 400 metres relay

4 × 400 metres mixed relay

Road

Marathon

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

Decathlon

References

IAAF World Championships in Athletics
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-07-04.

External links

IAAF official website
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