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.
The 2017 World Championship women's 800 m final, with excluded athletes Margaret Wambui, Caster Semenya, and Francine Niyonsaba