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 fo ...

-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 ...

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 Swis ...

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

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

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