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The '''World Athletics Championships''', known as the '''IAAF World Championships in Athletics''' until 2019, are a biennial [[sport of athletics|athletics]] competition organized by [[World Athletics]], formerly International Association of Athletics Federations
The World Championships were started in 1976 in response to the [[International Olympic Committee]] dropping the men's 50 km walk from the [[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic programme]] for the [[1976 Montreal Olympics]], despite its constant presence at the games since [[Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk|1932]]. The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event
A second limited event was held in 1980, and the inaugural championships in 1983, with all the events, is considered the official start of the competition. Until 1980, the Olympic champions were also considered as reigning world champions.<ref>{{
At their debut, these championships were then held every four years, until 1991 when they switched to a two-year cycle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Two years from now, in 2025, the next heated battle will take place in Tokyo {{!}} News {{!}} Tokyo 25 {{!}} World Athletics Championships |url=https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/tokyo25/news/news/two-years-from-now-in-2025-the-next-heated-battle-will-take-place-in-tokyo |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref> In 2024, World Athletics announced that the new biennial competition,
==History==
The idea of having an Athletics World Championships was around well before the competition's first event in 1983. In 1913, the IAAF decided that the [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic Games]] would serve as the World Championships for athletics. This was considered suitable for over 50 years until in the late 1960s the desire of many IAAF members to have their own World Championships began to grow. In 1976 at the IAAF Council Meeting in [[Puerto Rico]] an Athletics World Championships separate from the Olympic Games was approved.
Following bids from both [[Stuttgart]], [[West Germany]] and [[Helsinki]],
Two IAAF world championship events preceded the inaugural edition of the World Championships in Athletics in 1983. The [[1976 World Championships in Athletics|1976 World Championships]] had just one event – the men's [[50 kilometres walk]] which was dropped from the Olympic programme for the [[Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Summer Olympics]] and the IAAF responded by setting up their own contest. Four years later, the [[1980 World Championships in Athletics|1980 World Championships]] contained only two newly approved women's events, ([[400 metres hurdles]] and [[3000 metres]]), neither of which featured on the programme for the [[Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="GBR">{{Cite web |title=IAAF World Championships in Athletics |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wc.htm |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=www.gbrathletics.com}}</ref><ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/history Archive of Past Events]. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 8 September 2013.</ref>
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