2023 World Athletics Championships

World Athletics Championships
Budapest 2023
Host cityBudapest
Country Hungary
MottoWitness The Wonder (Hungarian: Láss csodát!)
OrganisersWorld Athletics, Hungarian Athletics Association
Edition19th
Events49
Dates19–27 August 2023
Opened byPresident Katalin Novák
Main venueNational Athletics Centre
WebsiteBudapest23

The 2023 World Athletics Championships (Hungarian: 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. The tournament returned to its usual two-year cycle after the previous event in Eugene, Oregon, United States was postponed to 2022, held a little 13 months earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

These are the first World Athletics Championships in Hungary. The city of Budapest had previously stated an interest in hosting 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 are being 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:

Countries who had no male and/or no female athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard or considered as having achieved the entry standard 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.

Target numbers

At the end of the qualification period, the 2023 World Athletics Rankings were 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)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States128929
2 Canada4206
3 Spain4105
4 Jamaica35412
5 Kenya33410
6 Ethiopia2439
7 Great Britain and Northern Ireland23510
8 Netherlands2125
9 Norway2114
10 Sweden2103
11 Uganda2002
12 Australia1236
13 Italy1214
14 Ukraine1102
15 Greece1012
 Japan1012
 Morocco1012
18 Bahrain1001
 Burkina Faso1001
 Dominican Republic1001
 India1001
 Serbia1001
 Venezuela1001
24 Poland0202
25 Cuba0123
26 Botswana0112
27 British Virgin Islands0101
 Colombia0101
 Ecuador0101
 France0101
 Israel0101
 Pakistan0101
 Peru0101
 Philippines0101
 Puerto Rico0101
 Slovenia0101
37 China0022
 Czech Republic0022
39 Barbados0011
 Brazil0011
 Finland0011
 Grenada0011
 Hungary*0011
 Lithuania0011
 Qatar0011
 Romania0011
Totals (46 entries)504850148

Results

Men

Track

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Noah Lyles
 United States
9.83 =WL Letsile Tebogo
 Botswana
9.88 NR Zharnel Hughes
 Great Britain and Northern Ireland
9.88
200 metres
details
Noah Lyles
 United States
19.52 Erriyon Knighton
 United States
19.75 Letsile Tebogo
 Botswana
19.81
400 metres
details
Antonio Watson
 Jamaica
44.22 Matthew Hudson-Smith
 Great Britain and Northern Ireland
44.31 Quincy Hall
 United States
44.37 PB
800 metres
details
Marco Arop
 Canada
1:44.24 Emmanuel Wanyonyi
 Kenya
1:44.53 Ben Pattison
 Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1:44.83
1500 metres
details
Josh Kerr
 Great Britain and Northern Ireland
3:29.38 SB Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 Norway
3:29.65 Narve Gilje Nordås
 Norway
3:29.68
5000 metres
details
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 Norway
13:11.30 SB Mohamed Katir
 Spain
13:11.44 Jacob Krop
 Kenya
13:12.28
10,000 metres
details
Joshua Cheptegei
 Uganda
27:51.42 SB Daniel Ebenyo
 Kenya
27:52.60 Selemon Barega
 Ethiopia
27:52.72
Marathon
details
Victor Kiplangat
 Uganda
2:08.53 Maru Teferi
 Israel
2:09.12 SB Leul Gebresilase
 Ethiopia
2:09.19
110 metres hurdles
details
Grant Holloway
 United States
12.96 SB Hansle Parchment
 Jamaica
13.07 SB Daniel Roberts
 United States
13.09
400 metres hurdles
details
Karsten Warholm
 Norway
46.89 Kyron McMaster
 British Virgin Islands
47.34 Rai Benjamin
 United States
47.56
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Soufiane El Bakkali
 Morocco
8:03.53 Lamecha Girma
 Ethiopia
8:05.44 Abraham Kibiwot
 Kenya
8:11.98
20 kilometres walk
details
Álvaro Martín
 Spain
1:17:32 WL Perseus Karlström
 Sweden
1:17:39 NR Caio Bonfim
 Brazil
1:17:47 NR
35 kilometres walk
details
Álvaro Martín
 Spain
2:24:30 NR Brian Daniel Pintado
 Ecuador
2:24:34 AR Masatora Kawano
 Japan
2:25:12 SB
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Christian Coleman
Fred Kerley
Brandon Carnes
Noah Lyles
J.T. Smith*
37.38 WL  Italy (ITA)
Roberto Rigali
Marcell Jacobs
Lorenzo Patta
Filippo Tortu
37.62 SB  Jamaica (JAM)
Ackeem Blake
Oblique Seville
Ryiem Forde
Rohan Watson
37.76
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Quincy Hall
Vernon Norwood
Justin Robinson
Rai Benjamin
Trevor Bassitt*
Matthew Boling*
Christopher Bailey*
2:57.31 WL  France (FRA)
Ludvy Vaillant
Gilles Biron
David Sombé
Téo Andant
Loïc Prévot*
2:58.45 NR  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Alex Haydock-Wilson
Charlie Dobson
Lewis Davey
Rio Mitcham
2:58.71 SB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Gianmarco Tamberi
 Italy
2.36 m =WL JuVaughn Harrison
 United States
2.36 m =WL Mutaz Essa Barshim
 Qatar
2.33 m
Pole vault
details
Armand Duplantis
 Sweden
6.10 m EJ Obiena
 Philippines
6.00 m =AR Kurtis Marschall
 Australia
Chris Nilsen
 United States
5.95 m =PB
5.95 m SB
Long jump
details
Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.52 m SB Wayne Pinnock
 Jamaica
8.50 m Tajay Gayle
 Jamaica
8.27 m =SB
Triple jump
details
Hugues Fabrice Zango
 Burkina Faso
17.64 m Lázaro Martínez
 Cuba
17.41 m Cristian Nápoles
 Cuba
17.40 m PB
Shot put
details
Ryan Crouser
 United States
23.51 m CR Leonardo Fabbri
 Italy
22.34 m PB Joe Kovacs
 United States
22.12 m
Discus throw
details
Daniel Ståhl
 Sweden
71.46 m CR Kristjan Čeh
 Slovenia
70.02 m Mykolas Alekna
 Lithuania
68.85 m
Javelin throw
details
Neeraj Chopra
 India
88.17 m Arshad Nadeem
 Pakistan
87.82 m SB Jakub Vadlejch
 Czech Republic
86.67 m
Hammer throw
details
Ethan Katzberg
 Canada
81.25 NR Wojciech Nowicki
 Poland
81.02 Bence Halász
 Hungary
80.82 SB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Combined

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Decathlon
details
Pierce LePage
 Canada
8909 WL Damian Warner
 Canada
8804 SB Lindon Victor
 Grenada
8756 NR
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Track

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Sha'Carri Richardson
 United States
10.65 CR Shericka Jackson
 Jamaica
10.72 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
 Jamaica
10.77 SB
200 metres
details
Shericka Jackson
 Jamaica
21.41 CR Gabrielle Thomas
 United States
21.81 Sha'Carri Richardson
 United States
21.92 PB
400 metres
details
Marileidy Paulino
 Dominican Republic
48.76 NR Natalia Kaczmarek
 Poland
49.57 Sada Williams
 Barbados
49.60
800 metres
details
Mary Moraa
 Kenya
1:56.03 PB Keely Hodgkinson
 Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1:56.34 Athing Mu
 United States
1:56.61 SB
1500 metres
details
Faith Kipyegon
 Kenya
3:54.87 Diribe Welteji
 Ethiopia
3:55.69 Sifan Hassan
 Netherlands
3:56.00
5000 metres
details
Faith Kipyegon
 Kenya
14:53.88 Sifan Hassan
 Netherlands
14:54.11 Beatrice Chebet
 Kenya
14:54.33
10,000 metres
details
Gudaf Tsegay
 Ethiopia
31:27.18 Letesenbet Gidey
 Ethiopia
31:28.16 SB Ejgayehu Taye
 Ethiopia
31:28.31
Marathon
details
Amane Beriso
 Ethiopia
2:24:23 SB Gotytom Gebreslase
 Ethiopia
2:24:34 SB Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi
 Morocco
2:25:17
100 metres hurdles
details
Danielle Williams
 Jamaica
12.43 SB Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
 Puerto Rico
12.44 Kendra Harrison
 United States
12.46
400 metres hurdles
details
Femke Bol
 Netherlands
51.70 Shamier Little
 United States
52.80 SB Rushell Clayton
 Jamaica
52.81 PB
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Winfred Yavi
 Bahrain
8:54.29 WL Beatrice Chepkoech
 Kenya
8:58.98 SB Faith Cherotich
 Kenya
9:00.69 PB
20 kilometres walk
details
María Pérez
 Spain
1:26:51 Jemima Montag
 Australia
1:27:16 AR Antonella Palmisano
 Italy
1:27:26 SB
35 kilometres walk
details
María Pérez
 Spain
2:38:40 CR Kimberly García
 Peru
2:40:52 Antigoni Drisbioti
 Greece
2:43:22 SB
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Tamari Davis
Twanisha Terry
Gabrielle Thomas
Sha'Carri Richardson
Tamara Clark*
Melissa Jefferson*
41.03 CR  Jamaica (JAM)
Natasha Morrison
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shashalee Forbes
Shericka Jackson
Briana Williams*
Elaine Thompson-Herah*
41.21 SB  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Asha Philip
Imani Lansiquot
Bianca Williams
Daryll Neita
Annie Tagoe*
41.98 SB
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Netherlands (NED)
Eveline Saalberg
Lieke Klaver
Cathelijn Peeters
Femke Bol
Lisanne de Witte*
3:20.72 WL NR  Jamaica (JAM)
Candice McLeod
Janieve Russell
Nickisha Pryce
Stacey-Ann Williams
Charokee Young*
Shiann Salmon*
3:20.88 SB  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Laviai Nielsen
Amber Anning
Ama Pipi
Nicole Yeargin
Yemi Mary John*
3:21.04 SB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
 Ukraine
2.01 Eleanor Patterson
 Australia
1.99 Nicola Olyslagers
 Australia
1.99
Pole vault
details
Nina Kennedy
 Australia
Katie Moon
 United States
4.90 =WL Not awarded Wilma Murto
 Finland
4.80 =SB
Long jump
details
Ivana Vuleta
 Serbia
7.14 WL Tara Davis-Woodhall
 United States
6.91 Alina Rotaru-Kottmann
 Romania
6.88
Triple jump
details
Yulimar Rojas
 Venezuela
15.08 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk
 Ukraine
15.00 SB Leyanis Pérez
 Cuba
14.96
Shot put
details
Chase Ealey
 United States
20.43 SB Sarah Mitton
 Canada
20.08 SB Gong Lijiao
 China
19.69
Discus throw
details
Laulauga Tausaga
 United States
69.49 PB Valarie Allman
 United States
69.23 Feng Bin
 China
68.20 SB
Hammer throw
details
Camryn Rogers
 Canada
77.22 Janee' Kassanavoid
 United States
76.36 DeAnna Price
 United States
75.41
Javelin throw
details
Haruka Kitaguchi
 Japan
66.73 Flor Ruiz
 Colombia
65.47 AR Mackenzie Little
 Australia
63.38
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Combined

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Heptathlon
details
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
 Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6740 Anna Hall
 United States
6720 Anouk Vetter
 Netherlands
6501
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Mixed

Event Gold Silver Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Justin Robinson
Rosey Effiong
Matthew Boling
Alexis Holmes
Ryan Willie*
3:08.80 WR  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Lewis Davey
Laviai Nielsen
Rio Mitcham
Yemi Mary John
Joseph Brier*
3:11.06 NR  Czech Republic (CZE)
Matěj Krsek
Tereza Petržilková
Patrik Šorm
Lada Vondrová
3:11.98 NR

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Participating nations

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 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.

In India, live streaming is available on JioCinema.


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