2019 World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships is the eighth in a series of World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships (also called World Masters Athletics Championships Indoor, or WMACi). This eighth edition took place in

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, from 24 to 30 March 2019. The main venue was

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, which has a banked six-lane indoor track where the turns are raised to neutralize the

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of athletes running the curves. Supplemental venues included

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for throws, and Rudelka Park for Cross Country. This Championships was organized by

World Masters Athletics World Masters Athletics (WMA) is the worldwide governing body for the sport of masters athletics – which includes track and field, cross country, and road running events – as participated by people over 35 years of age. As the need became ...

(WMA) in coordination with a Local Organising Committee (LOC): Sandy Pashkin, Brian Keaveney, Wackaw Krankowski. The WMA is the global governing body of the sport of

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for athletes 35 years of age or older, setting rules for

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competition. A full range of

indoor track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

events were held. In addition to indoor competition, non-stadia events included

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, 8K Cross Country, 10K Race Walk, 10K Road Race,

Weight Throw Weight throw (or Weight for distance) is a traditional strength sport and throwing event derived from ancient Scottish Highland games. Unlike its other counterpart, the Weight over bar which involves a stationary pendulum like swing for height, ...

Hammer Throw The hammer throw (HT for short) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and Javelin throw, javelin. The hammer used in this sport is not like any of the tools a ...

Discus Throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

and

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World Records

Official daily results are archived at domtel-sport.pl. Past Championships results are archived at WMA. as a searchable pdf. Additional archives are available from

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as a searchable pdf, USATF Masters keeps a list of American record holders. wmaci2023
the site that hosts the next (ninth) edition of the series (also in Toruń), publishes a list of world records set at the eighth edition. Several masters world records were set at this Indoor Championships. World records for 2019 are from the list of World Records in the European Masters Athletics searchable pdf unless otherwise noted.

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World Masters Athletics Championships The World Masters Athletics Championships are the biennial championships for masters athletics events held under the auspices of World Masters Athletics, formerly called the World Association of Veteran Athletes, for athletes 35 years of age or ...

International athletics competitions hosted by Poland

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Masters athletics (track and field) records