World Athletics Championships 2023 Ends. Here’s A Full Report

The World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 ended on Sunday, August 27 after nine days of thrilling action in which superstars of the sport made a statement at the event. New stars also arose as global champions, truth be told.

A record all out of 2100 athletes from 195 countries have completed in the Hungarian capital, watched by in excess of 400,000 ticketed spectators from 120 countries, and producing one world record, one world U20 record, seven championship records, 11 area records and 73 national records.

The heightened competitiveness provided enormous drama in the field events in particular, where 13 athletes across eight events recorded their best mark in the final round of competition to improve their positions, five of them clinching the gold medal.

Multiple title winners included the dominant Spanish walkers Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez, Kenyan middle distance diva Faith Kipyegon, Dutch 400m hurdles specialist Femke Bol, and US sprinters Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson.

Richardson set a championship record of 10.65 to win her first global title in the 100m and then anchored the USA team to a second championship record in the women’s 4x100m relay. Lyles won the 100m and 200m double and guided the USA men’s 4x100m relay team to victory. Richardson also won her first global title in the 100m.

Kipyegon secured a memorable double, becoming the first woman to win both the 1500m and 5000m at the World Athletics Championship subsequent to breaking the world records over the two distances this year.

Martin (20km and 35km race walk) and Perez (20km and 35km race walk) completed the first gold medal sweep of the race walks programme by one country, Spain.

Bol completed a drama-filled nine days by anchoring the Dutch women’s 4x400m team to a last-gasp victory in the final event, having fallen within metres of the finish line in the 4x400m mixed relay on the first night and won her first individual world title in the 400m hurdles in between.

Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas won her fourth world triple jump title, while Lyles (200m), Kipyegon (1500m), Joshua Cheptegei (10,000m), Grant Holloway (110m hurdles) and Karsten Warholm (400m hurdles) have each won three titles in their core event.

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The World Athletics Championship Budapest 2023 will go down as the most captivating edition throughout the entire existence of the sport.

The official website traffic for the championship was more than double that of any other event on day one. At busy times, the site got more than 400,000 visitors each minute, and up to 14 million every hour.

14,000 news articles have been published over the championships’ nine days, reaching a total of 28.5 billion people.

A record number of in excess of 1200 licensed broadcast staff from 46 telecasters, as well as 850 certified media and photographic artists from 75 countries, covered the championship.

During the championships, the event’s social media platforms reached 11 million followers, and the Museum of World Athletics exhibition in Budapest’s Etele Plaza was visited by over 38,000 people.

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, stated:

“Together with the Budapest Organising Committee we have created a new standard for our outdoor World Championships going forward. It is the new blueprint. We have seen full stadia which creates an electric atmosphere, we have had the highest ever number of participating athletes, we have witnessed jaw-dropping and nail-biting performances, and we have had huge audiences as a result.

“Innovation has been a driving force for these championships. They have had more innovation embedded in them than we have seen in the last decade. From a medal plaza where athletes are treated like rock stars, to the awarding of coaches’ medals, striking branding that can be seen across the city, and a clear sustainability vision. This is a World Championships city and a country with a long-term, ambitious vision for sport and legacy that goes way beyond a nine-day competition.

“Together with the Hungarian government, and science and technology institutions like the Hungarian University of Sport Sciences, we are drawing up plans to create a permanent World Athletics centre of coaching excellence, which will be housed at the National Athletics Centre. This centre will broaden access to world-class coaching around the world and carry out research in sport science, medicine, biometrics, AI, sport equipment and other areas that can help advance and support our pool of super talented athletes and coaches.”

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