The 1976 World Championships in Athletics was the first global, international athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Hosted on 18 September 1976 in
The race started and finished in Malmö Stadion
The 1980 World Championships in Athletics was the second global, international athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Hosted from 14 to 16 August 19
1976 World Championships in Athletics
…as a 1976 IAAF Council meeting decided that the organisation would host its own, full-programme, championships on a quadrennial basis. The two-race 1980 World Championships in Athletics filled in for the lack of a women's 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres run at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The competition came of age at the 41-event…
Hurdles winner Bärbel Broschat was the fastest athlete in all three rounds.