| World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022 | |
| Dates: | 15–24 July 2022 |
| Motto: | Feel the Glory |
| Host City: | Eugene, Oregon |
| Nations: | 179+1 |
| Athletes: | 1,705 |
| Events: | 49 + 1 team |
| Opened By: | Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff |
| Previous: | Doha 2019 |
| Next: | Budapest 2023 |
| Organizer: | World Athletics, USATF |
| Sports: | Athletics |
| Edition: | 18th |
| Stadium: | Hayward Field |
| Ind Prize: | 70,000 |
| Team Prize: | 80,000 |
| Website: | Oregon22 |
The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the first time. The competition was originally scheduled for August 6–15, 2021, but it was pushed back by one year due to the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics to 2021.
After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, World Athletics banned all Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from participating at the championships. In addition, the stringent vaccination requirements for people entering the United States caused visa delays for participants and officials, with some ultimately being unable to enter the country.[1] [2] These issues caused the final total to stand at 179 nations (180 including the Athlete Refugee Team), the lowest number since Tokyo 1991.
A record 29 countries won at least one gold medal during the championships. Peru, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria won their first-ever gold medals. India and Burkina Faso had their best medal performances, winning a silver, and the Philippines won a bronze. A new award was the team event trophy,[3] which was won by the United States, which also won the most gold medals, with 13, and the most medals overall, with 33 (a record for a single edition). The event was the most-watched edition ever in US television history. More than 146,000 tickets were sold, with several evening sessions sold out.[4]
There were four athletes who won two gold medals: Kimberly García in the Women's 20km Race Walk and the Women's 35km Race Walk; Michael Norman in the Men's 400m and the Men's 4x400m Relay; Sydney McLaughlin in the Women's 400m Hurdles and the Women's 4x400m Relay; and Abby Steiner in the Women's 4x100m Relay and Women's 4x400m Relay. In addition to the athletes who won two gold medals, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson both of Jamaica, earned 3 medals, 1 gold and 2 silvers in the Women's 100m (Fraser-Pryce gold; Jackson silver), the Women's 200 metres (Jackson gold; Fraser-Pryce silver) and the Women's 4x100m Relay (silver for both).
Three world records and 13 championship records were broken. The world records were set by Sydney McLaughlin, who ran 50.68 seconds in the Women's 400m Hurdles final; Tobi Amusan, who won the Women's 100m Hurdles semi-final in 12.12 seconds; and Armand Duplantis, who reached 6.21 meters in the Men's Pole Vault final.
The selection of the host city was announced on April 16, 2015 in Beijing, China.[5] [6] Eugene was selected without a traditional bidding process, though Eugene did put in a bid for the 2019 World Championships, losing out to Doha.
Runner's World magazine reported that Eugene's selection by World Athletics, then known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, was an "unusual move". They report the Association "bypassed the usual bidding process," and that the choice of Eugene would make the 2022 event "the first held in the United States." The event was the second held in North America, after Edmonton in 2001.
The Guardian reported that the lack of bidding triggered concern in European cities that had bid to host the event.They quoted Lamine Diack, IAAF president, who justified the lack of bidding with the claim the selection of Eugene to host the event, "enables us to take advantage of a unique opportunity to host a financially successful tournament that may never arise again."
Despite this, the 2022 event was not the first to lack the usual bidding process: as the 2007 World Championships were awarded to Osaka without bidding after the withdrawal of the two other candidate cities.
The championships were held at the University of Oregon Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, which has 12,650 permanent seats and a temporary capacity of 25,000. The venue had previously hosted the 2020 USA Olympic Track and Field Trials, the 2021 and 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track Field Championships and the 2022 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The track, installed in 2021, was manufactured by Beynon Sports.[7]
The race walking was held on a 1-km loop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, near Autzen Stadium, and the marathon race started from the same stadium, towards Pre's Trail and going to Springfield, Oregon and back.[8]
| 9.86 | 9.88 | 9.88 | |||||
| 19.31, | 19.77 | 19.80 | |||||
| 44.29 | 44.48 | 44.66 | |||||
| 1:43.71 | 1:44.14 | 1:44.28 | |||||
| 3:29.23, | 3:29.47 | 3:29.90 | |||||
| 13:09.24 | 13:09.98 | 13:10.20 | |||||
| 27:27.43 | 27:27.90 | 27:27.97 | |||||
| 2:05:36 | 2:06:44 | 2:06:48 | |||||
| 13.03 | 13.08 | 13.17 | |||||
| 46.29,, | 46.89 | 47.39 | |||||
| 8:25.13 | 8:26.01 | 8:27.92 | |||||
| 1:19:07 | 1:19:14 | 1:19:18 | |||||
| 2:23:14, | 2:23:15 | 2:23:44 | |||||
| 37.48, | 37.55 | Jona Efoloko Zharnel Hughes Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Reece Prescod Adam Gemili | 37.83 | ||||
Elija Godwin Michael Norman Bryce Deadmon Champion Allison Vernon Norwood | 2:56.17 | Akeem Bloomfield Nathon Allen Jevaughn Powell Christopher Taylor Karayme Bartley* Anthony Cox* | 2:58.58 | Dylan Borlée Julien Watrin Alexander Doom Kevin Borlée Jonathan Sacoor | 2:58.72 | ||
| 2.37 m | 2.35 m | 2.33 m | |||||
| 6.21 m | 5.94 m | 5.94 m | |||||
| 8.36 m | 8.32 m | 8.16 m | |||||
| 17.95 m | 17.55 m | 17.31 m | |||||
| 22.94 m | 22.89 m | 22.29 m | |||||
| 71.13 m | 69.27 m | 67.55 m | |||||
| 90.54 m | 88.13 m | 88.09 m | |||||
| 81.98 m | 81.03 m | 80.87 m | |||||
| 10.67, | 10.73 | 10.81 | |||||
| 21.45,, | 21.81 | 22.02 | |||||
| 49.11 | 49.60 | 49.75 | |||||
| 1:56.30 | 1:56.38 | 1:56.71 | |||||
| 3:52.96 | 3:54.52 | 3:55.28 | |||||
| 14:46.29 | 14:46.75 | 14:47.36 | |||||
| 30:09.94 | 30:10.02 | 30:10.07 | |||||
| 02:18:11 | 02:18:20 | 02:20:18 | |||||
| 12.06 | 12.23 | 12.23 | |||||
| 50.68 | 52.27 | 53.13 | |||||
| 8:53.02, | 8:54.61 | 8:56.08 | |||||
| 1:26:58 | 1:27.31 | 1:27:56 | |||||
| 2:39:16, | 2:40.03 | 2:40:37 | |||||
Melissa Jefferson Abby Steiner Jenna Prandini Twanisha Terry Aleia Hobbs | 41.14 | Kemba Nelson Elaine Thompson-Herah Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Shericka Jackson Briana Williams | 41.18 | 42.03 | |||
Talitha Diggs Abby Steiner Britton Wilson Sydney McLaughlin Allyson Felix | 3:17.79 | Candice McLeod Janieve Russell Stephenie Ann McPherson Charokee Young Stacey-Ann Williams | 3:20.74 | Victoria Ohuruogu Nicole Yeargin Jessie Knight Laviai Nielsen Ama Pipi | 3:22.64 | ||
| 2.02 m = | 2.02 m | 2.00 m | |||||
| 4.85 m | 4.85 m | 4.80 m | |||||
| 7.12 m | 7.02 m | 6.89 m | |||||
| 15.47 m | 14.89 m | 14.72 m | |||||
| 20.49 m | 20.39 m | 19.77 m | |||||
| 69.12 m | 68.45 m | 68.30 m | |||||
| 66.91 m | 64.05 m | 63.27 m | |||||
| 78.96 | 75.52 | 74.86 | |||||
| 3:09.82 | Liemarvin Bonevacia Lieke Klaver Tony van Diepen Femke Bol Eveline Saalberg | 3:09.90 | Elija Godwin Allyson Felix Vernon Norwood Kennedy Simon Wadeline Jonathas | 3:10.16 |
| 328 pts | 110 pts | 106 pts |
See main article: 2022 World Athletics Championships – World Team.
World Athletics announced that athletes would qualify by their World Athletics Rankings position, wild card (reigning world champion or 2021 Diamond League winner) or by achieving the entry standard.[9]
To qualify as a Wild Card you had to be one of the following things:
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).
| Event | Men | Quota | Women | Quota | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres | 10.05 | 48 | 11.15 | 48 | |
| 200 metres | 20.24 | 56 | 22.80 | 56 | |
| 400 metres | 44.90 | 48 | 51.35 | 48 | |
| 800 metres | 1:45.20 | 48 | 1:59.50 | 48 | |
| 1500 metres | 3:35.00 | 45 | 4:04.20 | 45 | |
| 5000 metres | 13:13.50 | 42 | 15:10.00 | 42 | |
| 10,000 metres | 27:28.00 | 27 | 31:25.00 | 27 | |
| Marathon | 2:11:30 | 100 | 2:29:30 | 100 | |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | 8:22.00 | 45 | 9:30.00 | 45 | |
| 110/100 metres hurdles | 13.32 | 40 | 12.84 | 40 | |
| 400 metres hurdles | 48.90 | 40 | 55.40 | 40 | |
| High jump | 2.33 | 32 | 1.96 | 32 | |
| Pole vault | 5.80 | 32 | 4.70 | 32 | |
| Long jump | 8.22 | 32 | 6.82 | 32 | |
| Triple jump | 17.14 | 32 | 14.32 | 32 | |
| Shot put | 21.10 | 32 | 18.50 | 32 | |
| Discus throw | 66.00 | 32 | 63.50 | 32 | |
| Hammer throw | 77.50 | 32 | 72.50 | 32 | |
| Javelin throw | 85.00 | 32 | 64.00 | 32 | |
| Decathlon/Heptathlon | 8350 | 24 | 6420 | 24 | |
| 20 kilometres race walk | 1:21:00 | 60 | 1:31:00 | 60 | |
| 35 kilometres race walk | 2:33:00 (3:50:00 for 50 km) | 60 | 2:54:00 (4:25:00 for 50 km) | 60 | |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Top 10 at the 2021 World Athletics Relays + 6 from Top Lists | 16 | Top 10 at the 2021 World Athletics Relays + 6 from Top Lists | 16 | |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Top 10 at the 2021 World Athletics Relays + 6 from Top Lists | 16 | Top 10 at the 2021 World Athletics Relays + 6 from Top Lists | 16 | |
| 4 × 400 metres relay mixed | Top 12 at the 2021 World Athletics Relays + 4 from Top Lists | 16 | Top 12 at the 2021 World Athletics Relays + 4 from Top Lists | 16 |
At the end of the qualification period, the 2021 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.
The following regulations shall applied for Automatic Qualification to the 2022 World Athletics Championships (not applicable for relays and marathon).
1. The Area Champion (in each individual event to be contested at the World Championships) automatically qualifies for the World Championships, irrespective of whether his performance has reached the Entry Standard. This does not apply to 10,000 m, 3000 m Steeplechase, Combined Events, Field Events and Road Events where the entry of the athlete will be subject to the approval of the Technical Delegates
2. The Area Champion shall be the one who has achieved the title either in 2020, 2021 or 2022
3. The Member Federation of the Area Champion will have the ultimate authority to enter the athlete or not, based on its own domestic standard or qualification system
4. If the Member Federation of the Area Champion enters the athlete, he will be considered as having achieved the Entry Standard
5. If the Area Champion, for whatever reason, is not entered, his quota will not be delegated to the second placed athlete and the normal entry rules and conditions apply
6. For those Area Championships that do not have certain events, the Area Associations can organize alternate Area-specific event Championships with conditions conforming to Area Championships Regulations. World Athletics shall be notified of such alternative Championships at least one month in advance of the events being held
| Friday July 15, 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 9:05 | M | Hammer Throw | Group A | ||
| 10:10 | M | High Jump | Qualification | ||
| 10:30 | M | Hammer Throw | Group B | ||
| 11:45 | Mixed | 4x400 Metres Relay | Heats | ||
| 12:05 | W | Hammer Throw | Group A | ||
| 12:30 | M | 100 Metres | Preliminary Round | ||
| 13:10 | W | 20 Kilometres Race Walk | Final | ||
| 13:30 | W | Hammer Throw | Group B | ||
| 15:10 | M | 20 Kilometres Race Walk | Final | ||
| 17:05 | W | Shot Put | Qualification | ||
| 17:15 | M | 3000 Metres Steeplechase | Heats | ||
| 17:20 | W | Pole Vault | Qualification | ||
| 18:00 | M | Long Jump | Qualification | ||
| 18:10 | W | 1500 Metres | Heats | ||
| 18:50 | M | 100 Metres | Heats | ||
| 18:55 | M | Shot Put | Qualification | ||
| 19:50 | Mixed | 4x400 Metres Relay | Final | ||
| Saturday July 16, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 10:35 | W | 3000 Metres Steeplechase | Heats | ||
| 10:40 | W | Triple Jump | Qualification | ||
| 11:10 | W | High Jump | Qualification | ||
| 11:25 | M | 110 Metres Hurdles | Heats | ||
| 12:00 | M | Hammer Throw | Final | ||
| 12:20 | W | 10,000 Metres | Final | ||
| 13:20 | M | 400 Metres Hurdles | Heats | ||
| 17:10 | W | 100 Metres | Heats | ||
| 18:00 | M | 100 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 18:20 | W | Shot Put | Final | ||
| 18:25 | M | Long Jump | Final | ||
| 18:30 | M | 1500 Metres | Heats | ||
| 19:05 | W | 1500 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 19:50 | M | 100 Metres | Final | ||
| Sunday July 17, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 6:15 | M | Marathon | Final | ||
| 10:35 | W | 100 Metres Hurdles | Heptathlon | ||
| 11:05 | M | 400 Metres | Heats | ||
| 11:35 | W | High Jump | Heptathlon | ||
| 11:35 | W | Hammer Throw | Final | ||
| 12:00 | W | 400 Metres | Heats | ||
| 13:00 | M | 10,000 Metres | Final | ||
| 13:45 | W | Shot Put | Heptathlon | ||
| 17:05 | M | 110 Metres Hurdles | Semi-Final | ||
| 17:05 | M | Discus Throw | Group A | ||
| 17:25 | W | Pole Vault | Final | ||
| 17:33 | W | 100 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 18:03 | M | 400 Metres Hurdles | Semi-Final | ||
| 18:27 | M | Shot Put | Final | ||
| 18:30 | M | Discus Throw | Group B | ||
| 18:38 | W | 200 Metres | Heptathlon | ||
| 19:00 | M | 1500 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 19:30 | M | 110 Metres Hurdles | Final | ||
| 19:50 | W | 100 Metres | Final | ||
| Monday July 18, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 6:15 | W | Marathon | Final | ||
| 9:35 | W | Long Jump | Heptathlon | ||
| 10:50 | W | Javelin Throw | Heptathlon Group A | ||
| 12:05 | W | Javelin Throw | Heptathlon Group B | ||
| 17:05 | M | 200 Metres | Heats | ||
| 17:10 | W | Discus Throw | Group A | ||
| 17:45 | M | High Jump | Final | ||
| 18:00 | W | 200 Metres | Heats | ||
| 18:30 | W | Triple Jump | Final | ||
| 18:35 | W | Discus Throw | Group B | ||
| 18:55 | W | 800 Metres | Heptathlon | ||
| 19:20 | M | 3000 Metres Steeplechase | Final | ||
| 19:50 | W | 1500 Metres | Final | ||
| Tuesday July 19, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 17:15 | W | 400 Metres Hurdles | Heats | ||
| 17:40 | W | High Jump | Final | ||
| 18:05 | W | 200 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 18:33 | M | Discus Throw | Final | ||
| 18:50 | M | 200 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 19:30 | M | 1500 Metres | Final | ||
| 19:50 | M | 400 Metres Hurdles | Final | ||
| Wednesday July 20, 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 15:20 | W | Javelin Throw | Group A | ||
| 16:25 | W | 5000 Metres | Heats | ||
| 16:50 | W | Javelin Throw | Group B | ||
| 17:20 | M | 800 Metres | Heats | ||
| 18:15 | W | 400 Metres Hurdles | Semi-Final | ||
| 18:30 | W | Discus Throw | Final | ||
| 18:45 | W | 400 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 19:15 | M | 400 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 19:45 | W | 3000 Metres Steeplechase | Final | ||
| Thursday July 21, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 17:05 | M | Javelin Throw | Group A | ||
| 17:10 | W | 800 Metres | Heats | ||
| 18:10 | M | 5000 Metres | Heats | ||
| 18:20 | M | Triple Jump | Qualification | ||
| 18:45 | M | Javelin Throw | Group B | ||
| 19:00 | M | 800 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 19:35 | W | 200 Metres | Final | ||
| 19:50 | M | 200 Metres | Final | ||
| Friday July 22, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 6:15 | W | 35 Kilometres Race Walk | Final | ||
| 17:05 | M | Pole Vault | Qualification | ||
| 17:40 | W | 4x100 Metres Relay | Heats | ||
| 18:05 | M | 4x100 Metres Relay | Heats | ||
| 18:20 | W | Javelin Throw | Final | ||
| 18:35 | W | 800 Metres | Semi-Final | ||
| 19:15 | W | 400 Metres | Final | ||
| 19:35 | M | 400 Metres | Final | ||
| 19:50 | W | 400 Metres Hurdles | Final | ||
| Saturday July 23, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 9:50 | M | 100 Metres | Decathlon | ||
| 10:40 | M | Long Jump | Decathlon | ||
| 11:20 | W | 100 Metres Hurdles | Heats | ||
| 12:00 | W | Long Jump | Qualification | ||
| 12:10 | M | Shot Put | Decathlon | ||
| 16:10 | M | High Jump | Decathlon | ||
| 17:10 | W | 4x400 Metres Relay | Heats | ||
| 17:45 | M | 4x400 Metres Relay | Heats | ||
| 18:05 | M | Triple Jump | Final | ||
| 18:10 | M | 800 Metres | Final | ||
| 18:25 | W | 5000 Metres | Final | ||
| 18:35 | M | Javelin Throw | Final | ||
| 18:55 | M | 400 Metres | Decathlon | ||
| 19:30 | W | 4x100 Metres Relay | Final | ||
| 19:50 | M | 4x100 Metres Relay | Final | ||
| Sunday July 24, 2022 | |||||
| Time (PDT) | Gender | Event | Division Round | ||
| 6:15 | M | 35 Kilometres Race Walk | Final | ||
| 9:35 | M | 110 Metres Hurdles | Decathlon | ||
| 10:30 | M | Discus Throw | Decathlon Group A | ||
| 11:40 | M | Discus Throw | Decathlon Group B | ||
| 12:15 | M | Pole Vault | Decathlon Group A | ||
| 13:15 | M | Pole Vault | Decathlon Group B | ||
| 17:05 | W | 100 Metres Hurdles | Semi-Final | ||
| 17:05 | M | Javelin Throw | Decathlon Group A | ||
| 17:25 | M | Pole Vault | Final | ||
| 17:55 | W | Long Jump | Final | ||
| 18:05 | M | 5000 Metres | Final | ||
| 18:10 | M | Javelin Throw | Decathlon Group B | ||
| 18:35 | W | 800 Metres | Final | ||
| 19:00 | W | 100 Metres Hurdles | Final | ||
| 19:20 | M | 1500 Metres | Decathlon | ||
| 19:35 | M | 4x400 Metres Relay | Final | ||
| 19:50 | W | 4x400 Metres Relay | Final | ||
1,972 athletes from 192 member federations were scheduled to compete at the championships,[11] but owing to vaccination requirements and resulting visa issues the final total was reduced to 179 nations (plus the Athlete Refugee Team) and more than 1,700 athletes, the lowest number since 1991 for the former and 2005 for the latter.
A record 29 countries won at least one gold medal during the championships. Peru, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria won their first-ever gold medals, while India and Burkina Faso had their best medal performances, with silver, and the Philippines with bronze.[12] [13]
There was a world record programme where if a world record was broken the athlete who broke it would get $100,000.
A total amount of $8,498,000 was also offered by World Athletics to finalists at Oregon 2022, of which $2 million has been ringfenced from the fines paid by the Russian Athletics Federation (for doping rules offenses).[15]
The prize money is as follows:
The event was streamed live in some territories on the World Athletics YouTube and Facebook channels.[16]
The event was the most watched World Athletics Championships in US television history, reaching an excess of 13.7 million viewers.[12]
Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo,North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
MENA Region
Latin America (except Brazil)
Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and United States[17]
Brazil
Pan Caribbean
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela (except Brazil)