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2027 World Athletics Championships
| Host city |
|---|
| China |
| World Athletics, Chinese Athletic Association |
| 21st |
| 49 |
| 11–19 September 2027 |
| Beijing National Stadium |
Beijing National Stadium, 2015
The 2027 World Athletics Championships (Chinese: 2027年世界田径锦标赛) will be the twenty-first edition of the World Athletics Championships and are scheduled to be held from 11 to 19 September 2027 in the National Stadium in Beijing, China. It will be the second time Beijing has hosted the event following the 2015 edition.
Cities that expressed interest in hosting the 2027 World Championships were Beijing, Istanbul, Turkey; Rome, Italy; London, United Kingdom; and Nairobi, Kenya, the latter two both eventually declining to bid. When the Italian Athletics Federation withdrew its candidacy after the government declined to fund the event on 28 February 2024, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe announced the decision to award the championships to Beijing.
The track and field events are scheduled to be in the Beijing National Stadium in China.
| Key | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary round | Qualifiers | Heats | Semifinals | Final |
M = morning session, E = evening session
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres | ||||||
| 200 metres | ||||||
| 400 metres | ||||||
| 800 metres | ||||||
| 1500 metres | ||||||
| 5000 metres | ||||||
| 10,000 metres | ||||||
| 4 × 100 metres relay | ||||||
| 4 × 400 metres relay | ||||||
| 110 metres hurdles | ||||||
| 400 metres hurdles | ||||||
| 3000 metres steeplechase | ||||||
| Marathon | ||||||
| 20 kilometres walk | ||||||
| 35 kilometres walk | ||||||
| High jump | ||||||
| Pole vault | ||||||
| Long jump | ||||||
| Triple jump | ||||||
| Shot put | ||||||
| Discus throw | ||||||
| Javelin throw | ||||||
| Hammer throw | ||||||
| Decathlon | ||||||
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |
- Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres | ||||||
| 200 metres | ||||||
| 400 metres | ||||||
| 800 metres | ||||||
| 1500 metres | ||||||
| 5000 metres | ||||||
| 10,000 metres | ||||||
| 4 × 100 metres relay | ||||||
| 4 × 400 metres relay | ||||||
| 100 metres hurdles | ||||||
| 400 metres hurdles | ||||||
| 3000 metres steeplechase | ||||||
| Marathon | ||||||
| 20 kilometres walk | ||||||
| 35 kilometres walk | ||||||
| High jump | ||||||
| Pole vault | ||||||
| Long jump | ||||||
| Triple jump | ||||||
| Shot put | ||||||
| Discus throw | ||||||
| Javelin throw | ||||||
| Hammer throw | ||||||
| Heptathlon | ||||||
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |
- Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 × 400 metres relay |
In the United States, television rights to the championships belong to NBC Sports. China plans to rapidly expand its athletics scope in the coming years, with the country set to host the World Indoor Championships in 2025. With this, the hosting rights of the last four World Athletics Championships have been given to the four most powerful economies of the world, namely the US, the European Union, Japan, and now China.
Eurovision Sport and ESPN jointly hold and distribute World Athletics media rights in Europe and Africa. Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed a deal with World Athletics rights-holders Eurovision Sport and ESPN to broadcast the nine-day event on its channels – Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and Eurosport App – including its platform discovery+ on a non-exclusive basis in more than 45 countries across Europe (excluding the Nordics region – Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). Streaming is available on discovery+ in Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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