The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations, since renamed
Hayward Field, venue of the Eugene bid, which failed to win the 2019 hosting rights but was awarded the 2022 event. The next event was to have been held in 2021, but the 2021 Summer Olympics rescheduling as a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic forced World Athletics to change the date a year on 30 March 2020.
View of the Doha Corniche which was the route for the marathon and racewalking events.
World champion Sally Pearson announced her retirement in August before the World Championships
The 2017 World Championship women's 800 m final, with excluded athletes Margaret Wambui, Caster Semenya, and Francine Niyonsaba
Konstanze Klosterhalfen
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Konstanze "Koko" Klosterhalfen is a German middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2019 World Championship bronze medallist and 2022 European champion in the 5000 metres, becoming the first Germa
Klosterhalfen in 2022
Klosterhalfen in 2014
Klosterhalfen won the 1500 m title at the 2018 German Championships
Klosterhalfen (left in yellow) en route to the 5000 m gold at Munich 2022