2017 World Championships in Athletics

The 2017 IAAF World Championships, the sixteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 4 to 13 August at London Stadium in London, United Kingdom. London was officially awarded the championships on 11 November 2011.[1]

IAAF World Championships
London 2017
Host cityLondon
Country Great Britain and Northern Ireland
OrganizersIAAF, UK Athletics
Edition16th
Nations205
Athletes2038 (1080 men, 958 women)
SportAthletics
Events48 (24 men, 24 women)
Dates4–13 August 2017
Opened byQueen Elizabeth II
Main venueLondon Stadium

Bidding process

When the seeking deadline passed on 1 September 2011, two candidate cities (London and Doha) had confirmed their candidatures.[2] Barcelona, which investigated a bid, withdrew citing a lack of support from the local population and financial difficulties.[3]

On 5 September 2011, Doha launched its marketing bid for the 2017 World Championships.[4] The slogan of the bid was "The RIGHT PARTNER for a stronger World Championships." The bid was led by Abdullah Al Zaini and Aphrodite Moschoudi. Moschoudi successfully led Qatar's bid for the 2015 Handball World Championships. Doha also brought in Brian Roe, a member of the IAAF Technical Committee. The bid was for the championships to be held in the renovated, climate-controlled Khalifa Stadium.[5] The Corniche promenade was to hold the road races, with the committee proposing to hold the marathon at night after the opening ceremony.[6]

On 6 September 2011, London unveiled its bid for the 2017 championships with the slogan "Ready to break records." This was London's fourth bid in less than 15 years to host the event.[7][8] The London bid team said that if their bid was successful they would introduce the "Women in World Athletics" programme.[9]

The IAAF Evaluation Commission visited London on 2–4 October and Doha on 4–6 October. On 11 November 2011, the winner was officially announced as London.[10]

Venue

The London Stadium during the championships. Big crowds were a constant, with all evening sessions being sell-outs

The championships were held in the London Stadium in Stratford, London, which hosted the athletics events and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has a capacity of 60,000.

Six days before the events were due to begin, it was reported that more than 660,000 tickets had been sold, which was a record for the World Championships, surpassing the previous record of 417,156 tickets sold for Berlin 2009.[11]

Media coverage

Rights to televise the championships in the United Kingdom were held by the BBC.[12] NBCUniversal was the rights holder in the United States.[13][14][15] In Canada, rights to televise the championships belonged to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[16]

Mascot

The mascots for the IAAF Championships and World ParaAthletics Championships were unveiled in April 2017, and chosen through a children's design contest organised by the BBC programme Blue Peter. The mascots represent "everyday" endangered species of the UK; the IAAF Championships mascot is an anthropomorphic hedgehog named Hero the Hedgehog, and for the ParaAthletics, Whizbee the Bee.[17]

Entry standards

The qualification period for the 10,000 metres, marathon, race walks, relays, and combined events runs from 1 January 2016 to 23 July 2017. For all other events, the qualification period runs from 1 October 2016 to 23 July 2017.

Event schedule

The Women's 50 kilometres walk was held for the first time.[18]

All dates are BST (UTC+1)
PPreliminary RoundQQualificationHHeatsSSemi-finalFFinal
Event4
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12
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13
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AMAMAAAAAMAMAMA
Men100 mPS
HF
200 mHSF
400 mHSF
800 mHSF
1500 mHSF
5000 mHF
10,000 mF
MarathonF
3000 m steeplechaseHF
110 m hurdlesHSF
400 m hurdlesHSF
DecathlonFFFF
High jumpQF
Pole vaultQF
Long jumpQF
Triple jumpQF
Shot putQF
Discus throwQF
Hammer throwQF
Javelin throwQF
20 km walkF
50 km walkF
4 × 100 m relayHF
4 × 400 m relayHF
Women100 mHS
F
200 mHSF
400 mHSF
800 mHSF
1500 mHSF
5000 mHF
10,000 mF
MarathonF
3000 m steeplechaseHF
100 m hurdlesHSF
400 m hurdlesHSF
HeptathlonFFFF
High jumpQF
Pole vaultQF
Long jumpQF
Triple jumpQF
Shot putQF
Discus throwQF
Hammer throwQF
Javelin throwQF
20 km walkF
50 km walkF
4 × 100 m relayHF
4 × 400 m relayHF

Event summary

Men

Track

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
EventGoldSilverBronze
100 metres
details
Justin Gatlin
 United States (USA)
9.92 SB, WMRChristian Coleman
 United States (USA)
9.94Usain Bolt
 Jamaica (JAM)
9.95 SB
200 metres
details
Ramil Guliyev
 Turkey (TUR)
20.09Wayde van Niekerk
 South Africa (RSA)
20.11Jereem Richards
 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)
20.11
400 metres
details
Wayde van Niekerk
 South Africa (RSA)
43.98Steven Gardiner
 Bahamas (BAH)
44.41Abdalelah Haroun
 Qatar (QAT)
44.48 SB
800 metres
details
Pierre-Ambroise Bosse
 France (FRA)
1:44.67 SBAdam Kszczot
 Poland (POL)
1:44.95 SBKipyegon Bett
 Kenya (KEN)
1:45.21
1500 metres
details
Elijah Manangoi
 Kenya (KEN)
3:33.61Timothy Cheruiyot
 Kenya (KEN)
3:33.99Filip Ingebrigtsen
 Norway (NOR)
3:34.53
5000 metres
details
Muktar Edris
 Ethiopia (ETH)
13:32.79Mo Farah
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
13:33.22Paul Chelimo
 United States (USA)
13:33.30
10,000 metres
details
Mo Farah
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
26:49.51 WLJoshua Cheptegei
 Uganda (UGA)
26:49.94 PBPaul Tanui
 Kenya (KEN)
26:50.60 SB
Marathon
details
Geoffrey Kirui
 Kenya (KEN)
2:08:27Tamirat Tola
 Ethiopia (ETH)
2:09:49Alphonce Simbu
 Tanzania (TAN)
2:09:51
110 metres hurdles
details
Omar McLeod
 Jamaica (JAM)
13.04Sergey Shubenkov
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)
13.14Balázs Baji
 Hungary (HUN)
13.28
400 metres hurdles
details
Karsten Warholm
 Norway (NOR)
48.35Yasmani Copello
 Turkey (TUR)
48.49Kerron Clement
 United States (USA)
48.52
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Conseslus Kipruto
 Kenya (KEN)
8:14.12Soufiane El Bakkali
 Morocco (MAR)
8:14.49Evan Jager
 United States (USA)
8:15.53
20 kilometres walk
details
Éider Arévalo
 Colombia (COL)
1:18:53 NRSergey Shirobokov
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)
1:18:55Caio Bonfim
 Brazil (BRA)
1:19:04 NR
50 kilometres walk
details
Yohann Diniz
 France (FRA)
3:33:12 CRHirooki Arai
 Japan (JPN)
3:41:17 SBKai Kobayashi
 Japan (JPN)
3:41:19 PB
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Chijindu Ujah
Adam Gemili
Danny Talbot
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake
37.47 WL, AR  United States (USA)
Mike Rodgers
Justin Gatlin
Jaylen Bacon
Christian Coleman
BeeJay Lee*
37.52 SB  Japan (JPN)
Shuhei Tada
Shota Iizuka
Yoshihide Kiryu
Kenji Fujimitsu
Asuka Cambridge*
38.04 SB
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)
Jarrin Solomon
Jereem Richards
Machel Cedenio
Lalonde Gordon
Renny Quow*
2:58.12 WL, NR  United States (USA)
Wilbert London
Gil Roberts
Michael Cherry
Fred Kerley
Bryshon Nellum*
Tony McQuay*
2:58.61SB  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Matthew Hudson-Smith
Rabah Yousif
Dwayne Cowan
Martyn Rooney
Jack Green*
2:59.00 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 athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
EventGoldSilverBronze
High jump
details
Mutaz Essa Barshim
 Qatar (QAT)
2.35 mDanil Lysenko
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)
2.32 mMajd Eddin Ghazal
 Syria (SYR)
2.29 m
Pole vault
details
Sam Kendricks
 United States (USA)
5.95 mPiotr Lisek
 Poland (POL)
5.89 mRenaud Lavillenie
 France (FRA)
5.89 m SB
Long jump
details
Luvo Manyonga
 South Africa (RSA)
8.48 mJarrion Lawson
 United States (USA)
8.44 mRushwahl Samaai
 South Africa (RSA)
8.32 m
Triple jump
details
Christian Taylor
 United States (USA)
17.68 mWill Claye
 United States (USA)
17.63 mNelson Évora
 Portugal (POR)
17.19 m
Shot put
details
Tomas Walsh
 New Zealand (NZL)
22.03 mJoe Kovacs
 United States (USA)
21.66 mStipe Žunić
 Croatia (CRO)
21.46 m
Discus throw
details
Andrius Gudžius
 Lithuania (LTU)
69.21 m PBDaniel Ståhl
 Sweden (SWE)
69.19 mMason Finley
 United States (USA)
68.03 m PB
Javelin throw
details
Johannes Vetter
 Germany (GER)
89.89 mJakub Vadlejch
 Czech Republic (CZE)
89.73 m PBPetr Frydrych
 Czech Republic (CZE)
88.32 m PB
Hammer throw
details
Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
79.81 mValeriy Pronkin
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)
78.16 mWojciech Nowicki
 Poland (POL)
78.03 m
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: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
EventGoldSilverBronze
Decathlon
details
Kevin Mayer
 France (FRA)
8768 WLRico Freimuth
 Germany (GER)
8564Kai Kazmirek
 Germany (GER)
8488 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)

Women

Track

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
EventGoldSilverBronze
100 metres
details
Tori Bowie
 United States (USA)
10.85 SBMarie-Josée Ta Lou
 Ivory Coast (CIV)
10.86 PBDafne Schippers
 Netherlands (NED)
10.96
200 metres
details
Dafne Schippers
 Netherlands (NED)
22.05 SBMarie-Josée Ta Lou
 Ivory Coast (CIV)
22.08 NRShaunae Miller-Uibo
 Bahamas (BAH)
22.15
400 metres
details
Phyllis Francis
 United States (USA)
49.92 PBSalwa Eid Naser
 Bahrain (BHR)
50.06 NRAllyson Felix
 United States (USA)
50.08
800 metres
details
Caster Semenya
 South Africa (RSA)
1:55.16 WL, NRFrancine Niyonsaba
 Burundi (BDI)
1:55.92Ajeé Wilson
 United States (USA)
1:56.65
1500 metres
details
Faith Kipyegon
 Kenya (KEN)
4:02.59Jennifer Simpson
 United States (USA)
4:02.76Caster Semenya
 South Africa (RSA)
4:02.90
5000 metres
details
Hellen Obiri
 Kenya (KEN)
14:34.86Almaz Ayana
 Ethiopia (ETH)
14:40.35 SBSifan Hassan
 Netherlands (NED)
14:42.73
10,000 metres
details
Almaz Ayana
 Ethiopia (ETH)
30:16.32 WLTirunesh Dibaba
 Ethiopia (ETH)
31:02.69 SBAgnes Jebet Tirop
 Kenya (KEN)
31:03.50 PB
Marathon
details
Rose Chelimo
 Bahrain (BHR)
2:27:11Edna Kiplagat
 Kenya (KEN)
2:27:18Amy Cragg
 United States (USA)
2:27:18
100 metres hurdles
details
Sally Pearson
 Australia (AUS)
12.59Dawn Harper-Nelson
 United States (USA)
12.63 SBPamela Dutkiewicz
 Germany (GER)
12.72
400 metres hurdles
details
Kori Carter
 United States (USA)
53.07Dalilah Muhammad
 United States (USA)
53.50Ristananna Tracey
 Jamaica (JAM)
53.74 PB
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Emma Coburn
 United States (USA)
9:02.58 CRCourtney Frerichs
 United States (USA)
9:03.77 PBHyvin Jepkemoi
 Kenya (KEN)
9:04.03
20 kilometres walk
details
Yang Jiayu
 China (CHN)
1:26:18 PBLupita González
 Mexico (MEX)
1:26:19 SBAntonella Palmisano
 Italy (ITA)
1:26:36 PB
50 kilometres walk
details
Inês Henriques
 Portugal (POR)
4:05:56 WRYin Hang
 China (CHN)
4:08:58 ARYang Shuqing
 China (CHN)
4:20:50
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Aaliyah Brown
Allyson Felix
Morolake Akinosun
Tori Bowie
Ariana Washington*
41.82 WL  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Asha Philip
Desirèe Henry
Dina Asher-Smith
Daryll Neita
42.12  Jamaica (JAM)
Jura Levy
Natasha Morrison
Simone Facey
Sashalee Forbes
Christania Williams*
42.19 SB
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Quanera Hayes
Allyson Felix
Shakima Wimbley
Phyllis Francis
Kendall Ellis*
Natasha Hastings*
3:19:02 WL  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Zoey Clark
Laviai Nielsen
Eilidh Doyle
Emily Diamond
Perri Shakes-Drayton*
3:25:00  Poland (POL)
Małgorzata Hołub
Iga Baumgart
Aleksandra Gaworska
Justyna Święty
Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz*
Martyna Dąbrowska*
3:25:41 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 athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
EventGoldSilverBronze
High jump
details
Mariya Lasitskene
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)
2.03 mYuliya Levchenko
 Ukraine (UKR)
2.01 m PBKamila Lićwinko
 Poland (POL)
1.99 m SB
Pole vault
details
Katerina Stefanidi
 Greece (GRE)
4.91 m WL, NRSandi Morris
 United States (USA)
4.75 mRobeilys Peinado
 Venezuela (VEN)
Yarisley Silva
 Cuba (CUB)
4.65 m =NR
4.65 m
Long jump
details
Brittney Reese
 United States (USA)
7.02 mDarya Klishina
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)
7.00 m SBTianna Bartoletta
 United States (USA)
6.97 m
Triple jump
details
Yulimar Rojas
 Venezuela (VEN)
14.91 mCaterine Ibargüen
 Colombia (COL)
14.89 m SBOlga Rypakova
 Kazakhstan (KAZ)
14.77 m SB
Shot put
details
Gong Lijiao
 China (CHN)
19.94 mAnita Márton
 Hungary (HUN)
19.49 mMichelle Carter
 United States (USA)
19.14 m
Discus throw
details
Sandra Perković
 Croatia (CRO)
70.31 mDani Stevens
 Australia (AUS)
69.64 mMélina Robert-Michon
 France (FRA)
66.21 m SB
Hammer throw
details
Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
77.90 mWang Zheng
 China (CHN)
75.98 mMalwina Kopron
 Poland (POL)
74.76 m
Javelin throw
details
Barbora Špotáková
 Czech Republic (CZE)
66.76 mLi Lingwei
 China (CHN)
66.25 m PBLü Huihui
 China (CHN)
65.26 m
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: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
EventGoldSilverBronze
Heptathlon
details
Nafissatou Thiam
 Belgium (BEL)
6784Carolin Schäfer
 Germany (GER)
6696Anouk Vetter
 Netherlands (NED)
6636
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)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Host nation)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)1011930
2  Kenya (KEN)52411
3  South Africa (RSA)3126
4  France (FRA)3025
5  China (CHN)2327
6  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)*2316
7  Ethiopia (ETH)2305
8  Poland (POL)2248
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)[1]1506
9  Germany (GER)1225
10  Czech Republic (CZE)1113
11  Australia (AUS)1102
 Bahrain (BHR)1102
 Colombia (COL)1102
 Turkey (TUR)1102
15  Jamaica (JAM)1034
 Netherlands (NED)1034
17  Croatia (CRO)1012
 Norway (NOR)1012
 Portugal (POR)1012
 Qatar (QAT)1012
 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)1012
 Venezuela (VEN)1012
23  Belgium (BEL)1001
 Greece (GRE)1001
 Lithuania (LTU)1001
 New Zealand (NZL)1001
27  Ivory Coast (CIV)0202
28  Japan (JPN)0123
29  Bahamas (BAH)0112
 Hungary (HUN)0112
31  Burundi (BDI)0101
 Mexico (MEX)0101
 Morocco (MAR)0101
 Sweden (SWE)0101
 Uganda (UGA)0101
 Ukraine (UKR)0101
37  Brazil (BRA)0011
 Cuba (CUB)0011
 Italy (ITA)0011
 Kazakhstan (KAZ)0011
 Syria (SYR)0011
 Tanzania (TAN)0011
Totals (42 entries)484849145
Source: [1]
Notes

^[1] IAAF does not include the six medals (1 gold and 5 silver) won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes in their official medal table.[19]

Placing table

In the IAAF placing table the total score is obtained from assigning eight points to the first place and so on to one point for the eight placed finalists. Points are shared in situations where a tie occurs. 65 IAAF members received points.[20]

  *   Host nation

RankCountry 45678Points
1  United States (USA)1011926544272
2  Kenya (KEN)52452231124
3  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)23153623105
4  Poland (POL)2240335186
5  China (CHN)2323113481
6  Germany (GER)1223431278
7  Ethiopia (ETH)2302313270
8  France (FRA)3024120268
8  Jamaica (JAM)1034320468
10  South Africa (RSA)3121100052
11  Netherlands (NED)1030202240
12  Czech Republic (CZE)1112100237
13  Cuba (CUB)0013211135
14  Canada (CAN)0000252330
15  Bahrain (BHR)1100120126
16  Japan (JPN)0120101025
17  Australia (AUS)1100021023
17  Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)1010021123
19  Brazil (BRA)0011103021
19  Turkey (TUR)1100101021
21  Bahamas (BAH)0111000119
21  Ivory Coast (CIV)0201000019
21  Colombia (COL)1100100019
21  Croatia (CRO)1011000019
25  Portugal (POR)1010010017
26  Hungary (HUN)0110010016
26  Qatar (QAT)1010001016
28  Ukraine (UKR)0101010015
29  Botswana (BOT)0001111014
29  Spain (ESP)0001102114
29  Norway (NOR)1010000014
29  Venezuela (VEN)1010000014
33  Belgium (BEL)1001000013
34  Mexico (MEX)0101000012
35  Greece (GRE)1000010011
36  Lithuania (LTU)1000001010
37  Italy (ITA)001001009
37  New Zealand (NZL)100000019
37  Switzerland (SUI)000020019
40  Azerbaijan (AZE)000020008
40  Belarus (BLR)000002108
40  Morocco (MAR)010000018
40  Sweden (SWE)010000018

Participants

Below is the list of countries and other neutral groupings who participated in the championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.

Participating National Olympic Committees

Russian suspension

Russia is currently indefinitely suspended from international competition due to a doping scandal, and will therefore not be present at the Championships. Nevertheless, 19 Russian athletes have been allowed to participate in international competition included as "authorised neutral athletes" at London 2017 following a long process to show that they were not directly implicated in Russia's state doping program.[21] These athletes include Mariya Lasitskene (high jump), Sergey Shubenkov (110 metres hurdles), Ilya Shkurenev (decathlon), Aleksandr Menkov (long jump) and Anzhelika Sidorova (pole vault) plus names from 2016 such as Darya Klishina (long jump) [22][a]

Refugees

For the first time, an Athlete Refugee Team delegation was present at the competition, mirroring the efforts to include refugee athletes that had occurred at the athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics. A total of five athletes – all of them Kenya-based refugees – were entered as part of the Athlete Refugee Team, including Somalian Ahmed Bashir Farah, Ethiopian Kadar Omar Abdullahi, and South Sudanese middle-distance runners Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu, Rose Lokonyen and Anjelina Lohalith.[24][25][26]

Quarantine

An outbreak of norovirus occurred at a local hotel affecting 30 athletes and officials.[27]

Doping

An anti-doping programme was overseen at the championships for the first time by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) – an independent anti-doping board within the IAAF. A total of 1513 samples were collected at the competition and were sent to Ghent for analysis by a World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited laboratory . The samples comprised 596 urine sample (212 of which were tested for erythropoietin) and 917 blood samples. The blood samples were divided into two forms – 725 were taken to feed into the long-term athlete biological passport initiative and 192 were taken specifically to identify use of human growth hormone and erythropoiesis stimulating agents. The in-competition anti-doping scheme was complemented by a more extensive out-of-competition testing programme, which was intelligence and performance-led and amounted to over 2000 blood tests and over 3000 urine samples.[28][29] An anti-doping education initiative also took place, led by the AIU and the IAAF Athletes' Commission, including an Athletes' Integrity Pledge which was taken by around 2500 athletes.[30]

Two of Ukraine's foremost athletes, Olesya Povkh and Olha Zemlyak, were suspended for failed doping tests immediately before the championships in London.[31]

The initial findings of the in-competition tests were that three athletes tested positive for doping, none of whom were medalists.[32] The names of the athletes were not announced, allowing the athletes to contest the result and request a b-sample test.

Notes

See also

References