2022 World Athletics Championships

The 2022 World Athletics Championships, the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held in 2022 in Eugene, Oregon, United States.[1][2][3] Originally scheduled to be held from August 6–15, 2021, after the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics, World Athletics raised the possibility of changing the date of the 2021 Championships, including the possibility of moving into 2022.[4] On April 8, 2020, the World Athletics Championships announced that the event would take place from July 15–24, 2022.[5]

World Athletics Championships
Oregon 2022
Original logo of the 2022 World Athletics Championships
Dates15–24 July 2022
Officially opened byPresident of the United States (expected)

Host selection

The selection of the host city was announced on April 16, 2015 in Beijing.[6][7] Eugene was selected without a traditional bidding process, though Eugene did put in a bid for the 2019 World Championships, losing to Qatar.[2]

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".[1] They report the Association "bypassed the usual bidding process," and that the choice of Eugene will make the 2021 event "the first held in the United States." The event will be the second held in North America, after Edmonton, Canada in 2001.

The Guardian reported that the lack of bidding triggered concern in European cities that had bid to host the event.[3] 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.” The lack of bidding for the 2021 event was not unprecedented. The 2007 World Championship was awarded to Osaka, Japan, without bidding.

Venue

The championships will be held in the Hayward Field, at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, which is currently undergoing re-construction and will have a capacity of 30,000.[8]

Notes and references
  1. David Monti (April 16, 2015). "Eugene to Host 2021 Track World Championships: Oregon City will be first U.S. site of global meet". Runner's World. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2015. In an unusual move that bypassed the usual bidding process, the International Association of Athletics Federations awarded Eugene, Oregon, the 2021 World Championships in Athletics in a special vote on the second day of their Council Meeting in Beijingl
  2. Christopher Clarey (April 16, 2015). "Without Bidding, Eugene, Ore., Is Abruptly Awarded World Track Championships". The New York Times. p. B12. Retrieved August 29, 2015. There was surprise in multiple time zones on Thursday when Eugene, Ore., became the first city in the United States to secure the world outdoor track and field championships. It will stage them in 2021 without the usual constraint of having had to win a formal bidding process.
  3. "IAAF under fire for awarding 2021 World Athletics Championships to Eugene". The Guardian. April 16, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  4. "Coe suggests world athletics championships could slip to 2022". Reuters. March 24, 2020. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  5. "Dates confirmed for World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022". worldathletics.org. April 8, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  6. "USA Track & Field - United States to host 2021 IAAF World Championships". usatf.org. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  7. "Eugene, Oregon awarded 2021 Worlds without bidding process". BBC Sport. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
  8. "New design: The best athletics stadium worldwide?". StadiumDB. April 23, 2018.

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