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Ryan Crouser of the United States poses after winning the gold medal in the shot put at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Crouser is a fan of World Athletics' plan to pay gold medalists in athletics at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

World Athletics’ Cash for Paris Olympic Winners Debated Worldwide

Winning an Olympic gold medal gives an athlete a spot in history, the chance to forever be called a gold medalist and go down in the record books. But in the modern era of the Games, athletes have pointed out repeatedly how those things are intrinsic but do not pay the increasing bills that come […]

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World Athletics Announces Ultimate Championship for 2026

World Athletics will start a new competition featuring a $10 million prize pool for gold medalists called ‘Ultimate Championship’ with its inaugural competition in September 2026 in Budapest. The new event will feature world champions, Olympic champions, Wanda Diamond League winners and the year’s best performing athletes against each other. World Athletics said the event […]

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Hansle Parchment, of Jamaica, center, the gold medal winner in the men's 110-meter hurdles poses with Grant Holloway, of United States, left, silver, and Ronald Levy, of Jamaica, bronze, at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Matthias Hangst/Pool Photo via AP)

World Athletics to Pay Paris Olympic Winners

World Athletics will become the first international federation to award prize money to winning athletes at an Olympic Games starting at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. The federation will make available a total prize pot of $2.4 million, which will come from the International Olympic Committee’s revenue share allocation that World Athletics receives every […]

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Beijing to Host 2027 World Athletics Championships

The World Athletics Council has selected Beijing to host the 2027 World Athletics Championships, the first time the event has been in the Chinese capital since 2015. “With a population of more than 1.4 billion, China is one of the biggest sports markets in the world,” said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. “This poses a […]

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2024 World Athletics Tour Features Events in Los Angeles, New York City

Los Angeles and New York City will host Gold level events as part of the 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour released this month with 12 events in the highest of four levels. The USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix on May 18 and the USATF New York City Grand Prix on June 9 as among the […]

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World Athletics and Asics to Present Business of Running Events

World Athletics and Asics are partnering to create The Business of Running Events, a new conference for running and trail event industry professionals hosted in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in July 2024. Specific topics include sales training for sponsorship acquisition, marketing with limited resources, how to leverage data as a competitive advantage, how to engage and […]

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Lord Sebastian Coe, double Olympic gold medalist and president of World Athletics, discusses the sports world and the legacy of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games at the inaugural TEAMS Europe withJason Gewirtz, vice president, Sports Division, Northstar Meetings Group and the executive editor and publisher of SportsTravel.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe Re-Elected to Third Term

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was elected for a third term at the 54th World Athletics Congress in Budapest as the international federation also announced its goal of having 13 members of each gender elected to its council has been reached four years ahead of schedule. A total of 192 voting members of Congress voted […]

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Eugene, San Diego Awarded World Athletics Championship Events

World Athletics has awarded the 2025 Road Running World Championships to San Diego and the 2026 U20 World Championships to Eugene, Oregon, the international federation’s council announced on Monday. “We are grateful that so many great cities around the world are interested in hosting our events and we’re delighted with the quality of the candidates […]

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