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World Athletics Championships
Budapest 2023
2023 World Athletics Championships logo.svg
Host city Budapest
Country  Hungary
Motto Witness The Wonder (Hungarian: Láss csodát!)
Organisers World Athletics, Hungarian Athletics Association
Edition 19th
Events 49
Dates 19–27 August 2023
Opened by President Katalin Novák
Main venue National Athletics Centre
Website Budapest23
← Eugene 2022
Tokyo 2025 →

The 2023 World Athletics Championships (Hungarian: 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are currently being held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary.

These are the first World Athletics Championships in Hungary. The city of Budapest had previously stated an interest to host the 2007 World Championships, but withdrew and it was eventually held in Osaka. The official mascot of the event is a Racka, called Youhuu.

Schedule

Venue

The championships will be held in the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, which was specially built for this event, and has a provisional capacity of 36,000.

Entry standards

World Athletics announced that athletes would qualify by their World Athletics Rankings position, wild card (reigning world champion or 2022 Diamond League winner) or by achieving the entry standard.

To qualify as a Wild Card required fulfilling one of the following conditions:

  • Reigning World Outdoor Champion
  • Winner of the 2022 Diamond League
  • By finishing position at designated competitions (Area competitions)
  • Leader (as at closing date of the qualification period):
    • Hammer Throw 2022 World Athletics Continental Tour
    • World Athletics Challenge - Race Walking aka World Race Walking Tour
    • World Athletics Challenge - Combined Events aka World Combined Events Tour

Countries who had no male and/or no female athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard or considered as having achieved the entry standard (see above) or a qualified relay team, could enter one unqualified male athlete OR one unqualified female athlete in one event of the championships (except the road events and field events, combined events, 10,000 m and 3000 m steeplechase).

Since the postponement of the 2023 World Relays to 2024 Nassau, for Covid-pandemic reasons, a modified qualification system has been available for relay teams.

Event Men Quota Women Quota
100 metres 10.00 48 11.08 48
200 metres 20.16 48 22.60 48
400 metres 45.00 48 51.00 48
800 metres 1:44.70 56 1:59.80 56
1500 metres / Mile 3:34.20 / 3:51.00 56 4:03.50 / 4:22.00 56
5000 metres 13:07.00 42 14:57.00 42
10,000 metres / 10 km road 27:10.00 27 30:40.00 27
Marathon 2:09:40 100 2:28:00 100
3000 metres steeplechase 8:15.00 36 9:23.00 36
110/100 metres hurdles 13.28 40 12.78 40
400 metres hurdles 48.70 40 54.90 40
High jump 2.32 36 1.97 36
Pole vault 5.81 36 4.71 36
Long jump 8.25 36 6.85 36
Triple jump 17.20 36 14.52 36
Shot put 21.40 36 18.80 36
Discus throw 67.00 36 64.20 36
Hammer throw 78.00 36 73.60 36
Javelin throw 85.20 36 63.80 36
Decathlon / Heptathlon 8460 24 6480 24
20 kilometres race walk 1:20:10 50 1:29:20 50
35 kilometres race walk 2:29:40 50 2:51:30 50
4 × 100 metres relay Top 8 at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
+ 8 from Top Lists
16 Top 8 at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
+ 8 from Top Lists
16
4 × 400 metres relay Top 8 at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
+ 8 from Top Lists
16 Top 8 at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
+ 8 from Top Lists
16
4 × 400 metres relay mixed Top 8 at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
+ 8 from Top Lists
16 Top 8 at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
+ 8 from Top Lists
16

Target numbers

At the end of the qualification period, the 2023 World Athletics Rankings will be published. They were used to invite additional athletes to the World Championships where the target number of athletes had not been achieved for that event through other methods of qualification.

The maximum of three athletes per country in individual events was not affected by this rule. Member federations retained the right to confirm or reject athlete selections through this method.

Where the highest ranked athletes were from a country that already had three entrants for the event, or where member federations had rejected an entrant, the next highest ranked athlete became eligible for entry via the world rankings.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States 5 2 2 9
2  Spain 2 0 0 2
3  Ethiopia 1 1 2 4
4  Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1 1 1 3
5  Sweden 1 1 0 2
6  Burkina Faso 1 0 0 1
 Canada 1 0 0 1
 Serbia 1 0 0 1
 Uganda 1 0 0 1
10  Jamaica 0 2 1 3
11  Cuba 0 1 1 2
 Italy 0 1 1 2
13  Australia 0 1 0 1
 Botswana 0 1 0 1
 Kenya 0 1 0 1
 Poland 0 1 0 1
 Slovenia 0 1 0 1
18  Brazil 0 0 1 1
 Czech Republic 0 0 1 1
 Hungary* 0 0 1 1
 Lithuania 0 0 1 1
 Netherlands 0 0 1 1
 Romania 0 0 1 1
Totals (23 entries) 14 14 14 42

Participating nations

  •  Afghanistan (1)
  •  Albania (2)
  •  Algeria (10)
  •  American Samoa (1)
  •  Andorra (1)
  •  Angola (1)
  •  Anguilla (1)
  •  Antigua and Barbuda (1)
  •  Argentina (10)
  •  Armenia (1)
  •  Aruba (1)
  •  Athlete Refugee Team (6)
  •  Australia (66)
  •  Austria (8)
  •  Azerbaijan (2)
  •  Bahamas (11)
  •  Bahrain (6)
  •  Bangladesh (1)
  •  Barbados (3)
  •  Belgium (31)
  •  Belize (1)
  •  Benin (1)
  •  Bermuda (1)
  •  Bolivia (1)
  •  Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)
  •  Botswana (14)
  •  Brazil (56)
  •  British Virgin Islands (3)
  •  Bulgaria (3)
  •  Burkina Faso (2)
  •  Burundi (6)
  •  Cameroon (3)
  •  Canada (55)
  •  Cape Verde (1)
  •  Cayman Islands (1)
  •  Central African Republic (1)
  •  Chad (1)
  •  Chile (9)
  •  China (41)
  •  Chinese Taipei (4)
  •  Colombia (16)
  •  Comoros (1)
  •  Republic of the Congo (1)
  •  Cook Islands (1)
  •  Costa Rica (1)
  •  Croatia (9)
  •  Cuba (21)
  •  Cyprus (6)
  •  Czech Republic (23)
  •  Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
  •  Denmark (11)
  •  Djibouti (3)
  •  Dominica (1)
  •  Dominican Republic (7)
  •  East Timor (1)
  •  Ecuador (17)
  •  Egypt (6)
  •  El Salvador (1)
  •  Equatorial Guinea (1)
  •  Eritrea (7)
  •  Estonia (7)
  •  Eswatini (1)
  •  Ethiopia (42)
  •  Federated States of Micronesia (1)
  •  Fiji (1)
  •  Finland (40)
  •  France (78)
  •  French Polynesia (1)
  •  Gabon (1)
  •  The Gambia (2)
  •  Georgia (1)
  •  Germany (78)
  •  Ghana (7)
  •  Gibraltar (1)
  •  Great Britain and Northern Ireland (55)
  •  Greece (22)
  •  Grenada (4)
  •  Guam (1)
  •  Guatemala (4)
  •  Guinea-Bissau (1)
  •  Guyana (2)
  •  Haiti (1)
  •  Honduras (1)
  •  Hong Kong (1)
  •  Hungary (63)
  •  Iceland (3)
  •  India (28)
  •  Indonesia (1)
  •  Iran (2)
  •  Iraq (1)
  •  Ireland (24)
  •  Israel (6)
  •  Italy (78)
  •  Ivory Coast (6)
  •  Jamaica (68)
  •  Japan (76)
  •  Jordan (1)
  •  Kazakhstan (8)
  •  Kiribati (1)
  •  Kenya (52)
  •  Kosovo (1)
  •  Kuwait (3)
  •  Kyrgyzstan (2)
  •  Laos (1)
  •  Latvia (9)
  •  Lebanon (1)
  •  Lesotho (2)
  •  Liberia (3)
  •  Libya (1)
  •  Lithuania (16)
  •  Luxembourg (4)
  •  Macau (1)
  •  Madagascar (1)
  •  Malawi (1)
  •  Malaysia (1)
  •  Maldives (1)
  •  Mali (1)
  •  Malta (1)
  •  Marshall Islands (1)
  •  Mauritania (1)
  •  Mauritius (1)
  •  Mexico (25)
  •  Moldova (4)
  •  Monaco (1)
  •  Mongolia (4)
  •  Montenegro (1)
  •  Morocco (18)
  •  Mozambique (1)
  •  Myanmar (1)
  •  Namibia (3)
  •  Nauru (1)
  •  Nepal (1)
  •  Netherlands (41)
  •  New Zealand (19)
  •  Nicaragua (1)
  •  Niger (2)
  •  Nigeria (27)
  •  North Macedonia (1)
  •  Northern Mariana Islands (1)
  •  Norway (27)
  •  Oman (1)
  •  Pakistan (1)
  •  Palau (1)
  •  Palestine (1)
  •  Panama (2)
  •  Papua New Guinea (1)
  •  Paraguay (2)
  •  Peru (12)
  •  Philippines (3)
  •  Poland (67)
  •  Portugal (29)
  •  Puerto Rico (10)
  •  Qatar (3)
  •  Romania (16)
  •  Rwanda (3)
  •  Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
  •  Saint Lucia (2)
  •  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
  •  Samoa (1)
  •  San Marino (1)
  •  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
  •  Saudi Arabia (2)
  •  Senegal (2)
  •  Serbia (9)
  •  Seychelles (1)
  •  Sierra Leone (1)
  •  Singapore (2)
  •  Slovakia (9)
  •  Slovenia (13)
  •  Solomon Islands (1)
  •  Somalia (1)
  •  South Africa (36)
  •  South Korea (4)
  •  South Sudan (1)
  •  Spain (58)
  •  Sri Lanka (7)
  •  Suriname (1)
  •  Sweden (32)
  •  Switzerland (39)
  •  Tajikistan (1)
  •  Tanzania (1)
  •  Thailand (1)
  •  Togo (1)
  •  Tonga (1)
  •  Trinidad and Tobago (16)
  •  Tunisia (4)
  •  Turkey (17)
  •  Turkmenistan (1)
  •  Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
  •  Tuvalu (1)
  •  Uganda (21)
  •  Ukraine (30)
  •  United Arab Emirates (1)
  •  United States (138)
  •  Uruguay (6)
  •  Uzbekistan (5)
  •  Vanuatu (1)
  •  Venezuela (5)
  •  Vietnam (1)
  •  Virgin Islands (1)
  •  Zambia (2)
  •  Zimbabwe (4)

Media coverage

In the United States, television rights to the championships belong to NBC Sports.

Eurovision Sport and ESPN jointly hold and distribute World Athletics media rights in Europe and Africa for 2023. Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed a deal with World Athletics rights-holders Eurovision Sport and ESPN to broadcast the nine-day event on its channels – Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and Eurosport App – including its platform discovery+ on a non-exclusive basis in more than 45 countries across Europe (excluding the Nordics region – Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). Streaming is available on discovery+ in Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, UK and Ireland.

See also

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