From August 19 to August 27, 2023, the 19th World Championships in Athletics will be held in Budapest, Hungary. Since 1983 in Helsinki, Finland, the World Championships in Athletics have officially reached their 40th mark.
5 years and 10 years, all are special nodes. The 40-year threshold naturally means a lot for this event.
The World Athletics Federation began to publicize the event early, including the current coverage of national athletics trials and an inventory of the past 40 years of glory at the World Championships, in order to raise the attention and expectations of track and field fans for this World Championships.
Budapest is still more than a month away, and in this issue, let's start with the 40 glorious moments in the history of the World Championships selected by the World Athletics Federation, and look forward to the arrival of this event.
At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, the king of the 1500m Sicham El Queiroi won the championship with a time of 3:35.83, winning his first individual outdoor championship, and since then he has started his fourth consecutive world championship in the 1500m. In 1998, he broke the world record in the men's 1500m race of the IAAF Gold League in Rome with a time of 3:26 full seconds.
So far he holds the outdoor 1500m, 1 mile and indoor 2000m world records.
As one of the best athletes in the event at the time, Ezekel Kemboy was one of the best athletes in the 3,000m steeplechase. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, he won the men's 3000m steeplechase again, making him unlock the fourth consecutive World Championships 3000m steeplechase title. He is also one of only three athletes in the event to have won gold medals at both the Olympic and World Championships, the other two being Robben Koski and Brimmin Kipruto.
The men's shot put final at the World Championships Doha 2019 definitely deserves to be on the list. At the start of the race, New Zealand's Thomas Walsh threw 22.90 meters. No one else could come close. However, when the race came to the final moments, Joe Kovacs of the United States threw 22.91 meters, successfully surpassing Thomas Walsh. Later, another American athlete, Ryan Krauss, also threw 22.90 meters, which brought the race to a climax in the final moments.
The difference in results between the champions and runners-up was only 1cm. At that time, the results of the three were tied for the fourth best result in history and the sixth best result in history.
Heiko Heinkel is a German female track and field athlete. He represented West Germany and Germany in the high jump at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics, winning the championship in 1992. In 1991, when she was world number one, she jumped 2.05 meters at the Tokyo World Championships to win the championship, just 4cm away from the world record.
Fiona May is a British-Italian female long jumper. She represented Great Britain and Italy in athletics at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, winning two silver medals. In 2001, she won her first world championship gold medal at the World Championships in Edmonton.
Christian Taylor is an American triple jumper and gold medalist at the 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 World Championships in Athletics and the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. In 2015, he jumped 18.21m at the World Championships in Beijing to win the championship with the second best time in history. This result is also the only two in history to exceed 18.20 meters. The first was Britain's Jonathan Edwards jumping 18.29m in 1995.
Known as the Century Hurdle King and the "Wilson Gentleman," Colin Jackson has won a total of 25 medals in his career. He has won the 110m Hurdles World Championships twice and the European Championships four times. In Stuttgart in 1993, he set a world record at the time by running 12.91 seconds in the 110m hurdles final.
48 World Series, 36 championships, 6 runners-up, 3 third place, 1 time to tie the world record, 1 time to break the world record, 5 times to break the Asian record, 3 times to break the Asian Games record, as China's hurdles deservedly the first person, Liu Xiang, at the 2007 Osaka World Championships, performed the ninth miracle, with a time of 12.95 seconds, which is also the first Chinese men's track and field world championship champion.
Of course, Liu Xiang became an Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder in the men's 110m hurdles Grand Slam winner.
The best female high jumper since Kostadinova (world record holder), she won one silver and one bronze at the Olympic Games, two gold and two silver at the World Championships, and a personal best of 2.08 meters. In 2009, she won Croatia's first gold medal in the history of the World Championships in Athletics with 2.05m in Berlin, as well as the first medal.
Kostadinova, a legend of the world high jump. She was a silver medallist in the women's high jump at the 1988 Seoul (Seoul) Olympics and a gold medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He won five World Indoor Athletics Championships in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1993 and 1997, and winner of two World Athletics Championships in 1987 and 1995.
In 1987, she set the women's high jump world record of 2.09 meters at the World Championships in Athletics in Rome, which has remained unbroken for 36 years.
In 1991, Jamaica won its first gold medal in the women's 4X100m relay at the World Championships in Tokyo, beginning a glorious era in Jamaican sprinting.
At the 2017 World Championships in London, the trinidad and Tobago men's 4X400m relay team won the gold medal in the men's 4X400m relay in the final 100m, breaking the US team's desire to win seven consecutive championships in this event.
Australian women's 400m athletes. She became the first Australian female athlete to win the women's 400m event at the 1997 World Championships in Greece, and successfully defended her title at the 1999 World Championships in Serbia, achieving two consecutive World Championships. She was also the women's 400m champion at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
At the 2003 World Championships in Paris, Carolina Kruft won the women's heptathlon with 7,001 points, becoming the first women's heptathlon athlete to break the 7,000-point mark again in nearly a decade. Before Carolina Kruft, only two athletes scored more than 7,000 points, namely the world record of 7,291 points set by "female Lewis" Jackie Joyna Kessi at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 7,007 points set by Nick Tina.
It is worth mentioning that Jackie Joyner Kexi's world record of 7291 points has not been broken to this day.
Sally Persson is an Australian track and field athlete. Specializes in sprinting and sprint hurdles. She won silver in the women's 100m hurdles at Beijing 2008 and gold in the women's 100m hurdles at London 2012. In 2011, Sally Persson ran a record 12.28 seconds in the women's 100m hurdles final at the World Championships in Daegu.
Gal DeFoss is an American track and field athlete. Specializes in sprinting and sprint hurdles. In the 90s, Gal Defuss dominated both the 100m dash and the 100m hurdles. She won back-to-back gold medals in the 100-meter dash at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
At the 1993 World Championships, Gal DeVoss won two gold medals in the 100m dash and 100m hurdles, and she again defended her hurdles title at the 1995 World Championships.
In the women's 400m hurdles event at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, after breaking the 16-year-old women's 400m hurdles world record of 52.20 seconds at the Americas Championships in July, Dalila Mohammed went one step further and improved the world record to 52.16 seconds, breaking the women's 400m hurdles world record for the first time in three months.
Ukrainian "trapeze" Sergei Bubka, who has set 35 indoor and outdoor world records in pole vaulting, is an example of early results in this event and continuous improvement. From the first World Championships in Athletics in 1983 to 1997, he won six consecutive world championships (1983, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997).
Jackie Joyner Kersy, one of the greatest athletes of all time, Sports Illustrated named Jesse the Outstanding Female Athlete of the 20th Century and ESPN named her one of the 50 greatest athletes.
She is praised for being the first female athlete to score 7,000 points in the heptathlon, the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the long jump, and a six-time Olympic gold medalist. She holds the women's heptathlon world record of 7,291 points, which no one else has come close to.
In 1987, she won gold in both the long jump and the heptathlon at the World Championships in Rome.
The emperor of long-distance running, Heller Gebrsirasier, has broken world records in 17 events 27 times in his career, ranging from indoor 2,000 meters to outdoor marathons, and is a well-deserved long-distance running GOAT. On the stage of the World Championships, Gebrsirassie won the 10,000-meter gold medal four times.
Sevilla FC in 1999 was the birthplace of his fourth consecutive 10,000-meter title.
The above is the TOP 21-40 of the 40 major moments of the World Championships in this issue, and in the next issue, we will bring the TOP 1-20 great moments to share. Great players make great events, I don't know what kind of story will happen in Budapest this year! Let's look forward to it together! From August 19 to August 27, 2023, the 19th World Championships in Athletics will be held in Budapest, Hungary. Since 1983 in Helsinki, Finland, the World Championships in Athletics have officially reached their 40th mark.
5 years and 10 years, all are special nodes. The 40-year threshold naturally means a lot for this event.
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The World Athletics Federation began to publicize the event early, including the current coverage of national athletics trials and an inventory of the past 40 years of glory at the World Championships, in order to raise the attention and expectations of track and field fans for this World Championships.
Extreme pace, like 66
Budapest is still more than a month away, and in this issue, let's start with the 40 glorious moments in the history of the World Championships selected by the World Athletics Federation, and look forward to the arrival of this event.
Note: Due to space problems, we divide into two issues. This issue is 40-21~
At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, the king of the 1500m Sicham El Queiroi won the championship with a time of 3:35.83, winning his first individual outdoor championship, and since then he has started his fourth consecutive world championship in the 1500m. In 1998, he broke the world record in the men's 1500m race of the IAAF Gold League in Rome with a time of 3:26 full seconds.
So far he holds the outdoor 1500m, 1 mile and indoor 2000m world records.
As one of the best athletes in the event at the time, Ezekel Kemboy was one of the best athletes in the 3,000m steeplechase. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, he won the men's 3000m steeplechase again, making him unlock the fourth consecutive World Championships 3000m steeplechase title. He is also one of only three athletes in the event to have won gold medals at both the Olympic and World Championships, the other two being Robben Koski and Brimmin Kipruto.
The men's shot put final at the World Championships Doha 2019 definitely deserves to be on the list. At the start of the race, New Zealand's Thomas Walsh threw 22.90 meters. No one else could come close. However, when the race came to the final moments, Joe Kovacs of the United States threw 22.91 meters, successfully surpassing Thomas Walsh. Later, another American athlete, Ryan Krauss, also threw 22.90 meters, which brought the race to a climax in the final moments.
The difference in results between the champions and runners-up was only 1cm. At that time, the results of the three were tied for the fourth best result in history and the sixth best result in history.
Heiko Heinkel is a German female track and field athlete. He represented West Germany and Germany in the high jump at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics, winning the championship in 1992. In 1991, when she was world number one, she jumped 2.05 meters at the Tokyo World Championships to win the championship, just 4cm away from the world record.
Fiona May is a British-Italian female long jumper. She represented Great Britain and Italy in athletics at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, winning two silver medals. In 2001, she won her first world championship gold medal at the World Championships in Edmonton.
Christian Taylor is an American triple jumper and gold medalist at the 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 World Championships in Athletics and the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. In 2015, he jumped 18.21m at the World Championships in Beijing to win the championship with the second best time in history. This result is also the only two in history to exceed 18.20 meters. The first was Britain's Jonathan Edwards jumping 18.29m in 1995.
Known as the Century Hurdle King and the "Wilson Gentleman," Colin Jackson has won a total of 25 medals in his career. He has won the 110m Hurdles World Championships twice and the European Championships four times. In Stuttgart in 1993, he set a world record at the time by running 12.91 seconds in the 110m hurdles final.
48 World Series, 36 championships, 6 runners-up, 3 third place, 1 time to tie the world record, 1 time to break the world record, 5 times to break the Asian record, 3 times to break the Asian Games record, as China's hurdles deservedly the first person, Liu Xiang, at the 2007 Osaka World Championships, performed the ninth miracle, with a time of 12.95 seconds, which is also the first Chinese men's track and field world championship champion.
Of course, Liu Xiang became an Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder in the men's 110m hurdles Grand Slam winner.
The best female high jumper since Kostadinova (world record holder), she won one silver and one bronze at the Olympic Games, two gold and two silver at the World Championships, and a personal best of 2.08 meters. In 2009, she won Croatia's first gold medal in the history of the World Championships in Athletics with 2.05m in Berlin, as well as the first medal.
Kostadinova, a legend of the world high jump. She was a silver medallist in the women's high jump at the 1988 Seoul (Seoul) Olympics and a gold medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He won five World Indoor Athletics Championships in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1993 and 1997, and winner of two World Athletics Championships in 1987 and 1995.
In 1987, she set the women's high jump world record of 2.09 meters at the World Championships in Athletics in Rome, which has remained unbroken for 36 years.
In 1991, Jamaica won its first gold medal in the women's 4X100m relay at the World Championships in Tokyo, beginning a glorious era in Jamaican sprinting.
At the 2017 World Championships in London, the trinidad and Tobago men's 4X400m relay team won the gold medal in the men's 4X400m relay in the final 100m, breaking the US team's desire to win seven consecutive championships in this event.
Australian women's 400m athletes. She became the first Australian female athlete to win the women's 400m event at the 1997 World Championships in Greece, and successfully defended her title at the 1999 World Championships in Serbia, achieving two consecutive World Championships. She was also the women's 400m champion at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
At the 2003 World Championships in Paris, Carolina Kruft won the women's heptathlon with 7,001 points, becoming the first women's heptathlon athlete to break the 7,000-point mark again in nearly a decade. Before Carolina Kruft, only two athletes scored more than 7,000 points, namely the world record of 7,291 points set by "female Lewis" Jackie Joyna Kessi at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 7,007 points set by Nick Tina.
It is worth mentioning that Jackie Joyner Kexi's world record of 7291 points has not been broken to this day.
Sally Persson is an Australian track and field athlete. Specializes in sprinting and sprint hurdles. She won silver in the women's 100m hurdles at Beijing 2008 and gold in the women's 100m hurdles at London 2012. In 2011, Sally Persson ran a record 12.28 seconds in the women's 100m hurdles final at the World Championships in Daegu.
Gal DeFoss is an American track and field athlete. Specializes in sprinting and sprint hurdles. In the 90s, Gal Defuss dominated both the 100m dash and the 100m hurdles. She won back-to-back gold medals in the 100-meter dash at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
At the 1993 World Championships, Gal DeVoss won two gold medals in the 100m dash and 100m hurdles, and she again defended her hurdles title at the 1995 World Championships.
In the women's 400m hurdles event at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, after breaking the 16-year-old women's 400m hurdles world record of 52.20 seconds at the Americas Championships in July, Dalila Mohammed went one step further and improved the world record to 52.16 seconds, breaking the women's 400m hurdles world record for the first time in three months.
Ukrainian "trapeze" Sergei Bubka, who has set 35 indoor and outdoor world records in pole vaulting, is an example of early results in this event and continuous improvement. From the first World Championships in Athletics in 1983 to 1997, he won six consecutive world championships (1983, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997).
Jackie Joyner Kersy, one of the greatest athletes of all time, Sports Illustrated named Jesse the Outstanding Female Athlete of the 20th Century and ESPN named her one of the 50 greatest athletes.
She is praised for being the first female athlete to score 7,000 points in the heptathlon, the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the long jump, and a six-time Olympic gold medalist. She holds the women's heptathlon world record of 7,291 points, which no one else has come close to.
In 1987, she won gold in both the long jump and the heptathlon at the World Championships in Rome.
The emperor of long-distance running, Heller Gebrsirasier, has broken world records in 17 events 27 times in his career, ranging from indoor 2,000 meters to outdoor marathons, and is a well-deserved long-distance running GOAT. On the stage of the World Championships, Gebrsirassie won the 10,000-meter gold medal four times.
Sevilla FC in 1999 was the birthplace of his fourth consecutive 10,000-meter title.
The above is the TOP 21-40 of the 40 major moments of the World Championships in this issue, and in the next issue, we will bring the TOP 1-20 great moments to share. Great players make great events, I don't know what kind of story will happen in Budapest this year! Let's look forward to it together!