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2023 in athletics is a year of
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 ...
, highlighted by the main event of
2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships (), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre (Budapest), National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. The tourna ...
in
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, 40 years after the very first edition in 1983.


World records


Indoor


Outdoor


Main events


World events

* The nineteenth edition of the
World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...
, from 19 August to 27 August at the National Athletics Centre, in
Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
, Hungary. *
World Cross Country Championships World Athletics Cross Country Championships is the most important competition in international cross country running. Formerly held annually and organised by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF), it was inaugurated in 1973, when it replaced the In ...
on 18 February 2023 in Bathurst, Australia. * The first edition of the World Road Running Championships is scheduled to take place in
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, Latvia, from to . * World Mountain & Trail Running Championships * This year, the World Indoor Championships have been cancelled and postponed to 2024.


Continental events

* Americas: ** Pan Am Cross Country **
Pan Am Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...
**
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* Asia: ** Asian Outdoor ** Asian Indoor **
Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with sup ...
* Europe: ** European Indoor ** European Throwing ** European Race Walking Team ** European 10,000 m ** European Team Championships ** European Cross Country * Oceania: **
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**
Pacific Games The Pacific Games (French: Jeux du Pacifique), is a continent, continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from Oceania. The inaugural Games took place in 1963 South Pacific Games, 1963 in Suva, Fiji, and most recently i ...
* Africa: ** The
2023 African Games The 13th African Games, also known as Accra 2023, were hosted by Ghana from 8–23 March 2024. Despite having Accra as the main host city, the games were held in two sub-host cities: Kumasi and Cape Coast. The games were initially planned to be ...
have been rescheduled in March 2024.


International meetings

*
2023 Diamond League The 2023 Diamond League was the 14th season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The number of Diamond Discipline events is 32, and the series ended with a single final at the Prefontaine Classi ...
(15 meetings from 5 May to 17 September). *
2023 World Athletics Continental Tour The 2023 World Athletics Continental Tour, also known as the 2023 Continental Tour, was the fourth season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The Tour forms the second tier of international one-d ...
*
2023 World Athletics Indoor Tour The 2023 World Athletics Indoor Tour was the eighth edition of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, the highest series of international track and field indoor meetings. The tour expanded in 2022 with the introduction of four tiers of competition la ...
*
2023 World Athletics Combined Events Tour The 2023 World Athletics Combined Events Tour was the 25th edition of the global series of combined track and field event meetings organised by World Athletics. This was the second season to feature the three-tier World Tour format, dividing the m ...


Other events

*
2021 Summer World University Games The 2021 Summer World University Games ( zh, , s=2021年夏季世界大学生运动会, labels=no), officially known as the XXXI Summer World University Games and also known as Chengdu 2021, was a multi-sport event sanctioned by the Internationa ...
postponed to July 2023. *
2023 Jeux de la Francophonie The 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as ''IXes Jeux de la Francophonie'' ( French for ''9th Francophone Games''), informally Kinshasa 2023 (), were a multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 6, 2023, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic ...
. *
2023 Arab Athletics Championships The 2023 Arab Athletics Championships was the twenty third edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries that took place from 20 to 24 June 2023 at Marrakesh Stadium in Marrakesh. Around 250 athletes from 16 nations atte ...
. *
2023 Games of the Small States of Europe The 2023 Games of the Small States of Europe, also known as the XIX Games of the Small States of Europe or informally Malta 2023 took place in Valletta, Malta from 28 May to 3 June 2023. Malta previously hosted the 1993 and 2003 editions of the ...
.


Age groups

* African U18 & U20 Championships * 2023 Arab U23 in
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, 1st edition * Asian U20 Championships * Asian U18 Championships *
Caribbean Games The Caribbean Games are a multi-sport regional championship event. The games are for countries in the Caribbean, Central American country Belize and South American Caribbean countries Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. The games are overs ...
(U23) *
CARIFTA Games The CARIFTA Games is an annual athletics competition founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). The games were first held in 1972 and consist of track and field events including sprint races, hurdles, middle distance track ev ...
* European U23 Championships * European U20 Championships * NACAC U23 & U18 Championships


Rankings

*
2023 World Athletics Rankings The 2023 World Athletics Rankings document the best-performing athletes in the sport of athletics, according to World Athletics' individual athlete ranking system. Individual athletes are assigned a points score best on an average of their best re ...


Deaths


Notes


References

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