2017 World Championships in Athletics

IAAF World Championships
London 2017

Host city	London
Country	England
Organizers	IAAF, UK Athletics
Edition	16th
Nations	205
Athletes	2038 (1080 men, 958 women)
Sport	Athletics
Events	48 (24 men, 24 women)
Dates	4–13 August 2017
Opened by	Queen Elizabeth II
Closed by	IAAF President Sebastian Coe
Main venue	London Stadium

The 2017 IAAF World Championships, the sixteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 4 to 13 August at London Stadium in London, England. London was officially awarded the championships on 11 November 2011.

Bidding process

When the seeking deadline passed on 1 September 2011, two candidate cities (London and Doha) had confirmed their candidatures. Barcelona, which investigated a bid, withdrew citing a lack of support from the local population and financial difficulties.

On 5 September 2011, Doha launched its marketing bid for the 2017 World Championships. The slogan of the bid was "The RIGHT PARTNER for a stronger World Championships." The bid was led by Abdullah Al Zaini and Aphrodite Moschoudi. Moschoudi successfully led Qatar's bid for the 2015 Handball World Championships. Doha also brought in Brian Roe, a member of the IAAF Technical Committee. The bid was for the championships to be held in the renovated, climate-controlled Khalifa Stadium. The Corniche promenade was to hold the road races, with the committee proposing to hold the marathon at night after the opening ceremony.

On 6 September 2011, London unveiled its bid for the 2017 championships with the slogan "Ready to break records." This was London's fourth bid in less than 15 years to host the event. The London bid team said that if their bid was successful they would introduce the "Women in World Athletics" programme.

The IAAF Evaluation Commission visited London on 2–4 October and Doha on 4–6 October. On 11 November 2011, the winner was officially announced as London.

Venue

The London Stadium during the championships. Big crowds were a constant, with all evening sessions being sell-outs

The championships were held in the London Stadium in Stratford, London, which hosted the athletics events and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has a capacity of 60,000.

Six days before the events were due to begin, it was reported that more than 660,000 tickets had been sold, which was a record for the World Championships, surpassing the previous record of 417,156 tickets sold for Berlin 2009.

Media coverage

Rights to televise the championships in the United Kingdom were held by the BBC. NBCUniversal was the rights holder in the United States. In Canada, rights to televise the championships belonged to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Mascot

The mascots for the IAAF Championships and World ParaAthletics Championships were unveiled in April 2017, and chosen through a children's design contest organised by the BBC programme Blue Peter. The mascots represent "everyday" endangered species of the UK; the IAAF Championships mascot is an anthropomorphic hedgehog named Hero the Hedgehog, and for the ParaAthletics, Whizbee the Bee.

Entry standards

The qualification period for the 10,000 metres, marathon, race walks, relays, and combined events runs from 1 January 2016 to 23 July 2017. For all other events, the qualification period runs from 1 October 2016 to 23 July 2017.

Event	Men	Women
100 metres	10.12	11.26
200 metres	20.44	23.10
400 metres	45.50	52.10
800 metres	1:45.90	2:01.00
1500 metres (mile)	3:36.00 (3:53.40)	4:07.50 (4:26.70)
3000 metres steeplechase	8:32.00	9:42.00
5000 metres	13:22.60	15:22.00
10,000 metres	27:45.00	32:15.00
110/100 metre hurdles	13.48	12.98
400 metres hurdles	49.35	56.10
High jump	2.30 m	1.94 m
Pole vault	5.70 m	4.55 m
Long jump	8.15 m	6.75 m
Triple jump	16.80 m	14.10 m
Shot put	20.50 m	17.75 m
Discus throw	65.00 m	61.20 m
Hammer throw	76.00 m	71.00 m
Javelin throw	83.00 m	61.40 m
Marathon	2:19:00	2:45:00
Decathlon/Heptathlon	8100	6200
20 kilometres race walk	1:24:00	1:36:00
50 kilometres race walk	4:06:00	4:30:00

Event schedule

The Women's 50 kilometres walk was held for the first time.

All dates are BST (UTC+1)

P	Preliminary Round	Q	Qualification	H	Heats	S	Semi-final	F	Final

Event summary

Men

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Justin Gatlin  United States (USA)	9.92 SB, WMR	Christian Coleman  United States (USA)	9.94	Usain Bolt  Jamaica (JAM)	9.95 SB
200 metres	Ramil Guliyev  Turkey (TUR)	20.09	Wayde van Niekerk  South Africa (RSA)	20.11	Jereem Richards  Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.11
400 metres	Wayde van Niekerk  South Africa (RSA)	43.98	Steven Gardiner  Bahamas (BAH)	44.41	Abdalelah Haroun  Qatar (QAT)	44.48 SB
800 metres	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse  France (FRA)	1:44.67 SB	Adam Kszczot  Poland (POL)	1:44.95 SB	Kipyegon Bett  Kenya (KEN)	1:45.21
1500 metres	Elijah Manangoi  Kenya (KEN)	3:33.61	Timothy Cheruiyot  Kenya (KEN)	3:33.99	Filip Ingebrigtsen  Norway (NOR)	3:34.53
5000 metres	Muktar Edris  Ethiopia (ETH)	13:32.79	Mo Farah  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:33.22	Paul Chelimo  United States (USA)	13:33.30
10,000 metres	Mo Farah  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	26:49.51 WL	Joshua Cheptegei  Uganda (UGA)	26:49.94 PB	Paul Tanui  Kenya (KEN)	26:50.60 SB
Marathon	Geoffrey Kirui  Kenya (KEN)	2:08:27	Tamirat Tola  Ethiopia (ETH)	2:09:49	Alphonce Simbu  Tanzania (TAN)	2:09:51
110 metres hurdles	Omar McLeod  Jamaica (JAM)	13.04	Sergey Shubenkov  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	13.14	Balázs Baji  Hungary (HUN)	13.28
400 metres hurdles	Karsten Warholm  Norway (NOR)	48.35	Yasmani Copello  Turkey (TUR)	48.49	Kerron Clement  United States (USA)	48.52
3000 metres steeplechase	Conseslus Kipruto  Kenya (KEN)	8:14.12	Soufiane El Bakkali  Morocco (MAR)	8:14.49	Evan Jager  United States (USA)	8:15.53
20 kilometres walk	Éider Arévalo  Colombia (COL)	1:18:53 NR	Sergey Shirobokov  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	1:18:55	Caio Bonfim  Brazil (BRA)	1:19:04 NR
50 kilometres walk	Yohann Diniz  France (FRA)	3:33:12 CR	Hirooki Arai  Japan (JPN)	3:41:17 SB	Kai Kobayashi  Japan (JPN)	3:41:19 PB
4 × 100 metres relay	Great Britain & N.I. Chijindu Ujah Adam Gemili Danny Talbot Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	37.47 WL, AR	United States Mike Rodgers Justin Gatlin Jaylen Bacon Christian Coleman BeeJay Lee*	37.52 SB	Japan Shuhei Tada Shota Iizuka Yoshihide Kiryu Kenji Fujimitsu Asuka Cambridge*	38.04 SB
4 × 400 metres relay	Trinidad and Tobago Jarrin Solomon Jereem Richards Machel Cedenio Lalonde Gordon Renny Quow*	2:58.12 WL, NR	United States Wilbert London Gil Roberts Michael Cherry Fred Kerley Bryshon Nellum* Tony McQuay*	2:58.61SB	Great Britain & N.I. Matthew Hudson-Smith Rabah Yousif Dwayne Cowan Martyn Rooney Jack Green*	2:59.00 SB
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 athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar (QAT)	2.35 m	Danil Lysenko  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	2.32 m	Majd Eddin Ghazal  Syria (SYR)	2.29 m
Pole vault	Sam Kendricks  United States (USA)	5.95 m	Piotr Lisek  Poland (POL)	5.89 m	Renaud Lavillenie  France (FRA)	5.89 m SB
Long jump	Luvo Manyonga  South Africa (RSA)	8.48 m	Jarrion Lawson  United States (USA)	8.44 m	Rushwahl Samaai  South Africa (RSA)	8.32 m
Triple jump	Christian Taylor  United States (USA)	17.68 m	Will Claye  United States (USA)	17.63 m	Nelson Évora  Portugal (POR)	17.19 m
Shot put	Tomas Walsh  New Zealand (NZL)	22.03 m	Joe Kovacs  United States (USA)	21.66 m	Stipe Žunić  Croatia (CRO)	21.46 m
Discus throw	Andrius Gudžius  Lithuania (LTU)	69.21 m PB	Daniel Ståhl  Sweden (SWE)	69.19 m	Mason Finley  United States (USA)	68.03 m PB
Javelin throw	Johannes Vetter  Germany (GER)	89.89 m	Jakub Vadlejch  Czech Republic (CZE)	89.73 m PB	Petr Frydrych  Czech Republic (CZE)	88.32 m PB
Hammer throw	Paweł Fajdek  Poland (POL)	79.81 m	Valeriy Pronkin  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	78.16 m	Wojciech Nowicki  Poland (POL)	78.03 m
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)

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Decathlon	Kevin Mayer  France (FRA)	8768 WL	Rico Freimuth  Germany (GER)	8564	Kai Kazmirek  Germany (GER)	8488 SB
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)

Women

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Tori Bowie  United States (USA)	10.85 SB	Marie-Josée Ta Lou  Ivory Coast (CIV)	10.86 PB	Dafne Schippers  Netherlands (NED)	10.96
200 metres	Dafne Schippers  Netherlands (NED)	22.05 SB	Marie-Josée Ta Lou  Ivory Coast (CIV)	22.08 NR	Shaunae Miller-Uibo  Bahamas (BAH)	22.15
400 metres	Phyllis Francis  United States (USA)	49.92 PB	Salwa Eid Naser  Bahrain (BHR)	50.06 NR	Allyson Felix  United States (USA)	50.08
800 metres	Caster Semenya  South Africa (RSA)	1:55.16 WL, NR	Francine Niyonsaba  Burundi (BDI)	1:55.92	Ajeé Wilson  United States (USA)	1:56.65
1500 metres	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya (KEN)	4:02.59	Jennifer Simpson  United States (USA)	4:02.76	Caster Semenya  South Africa (RSA)	4:02.90
5000 metres	Hellen Obiri  Kenya (KEN)	14:34.86	Almaz Ayana  Ethiopia (ETH)	14:40.35 SB	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands (NED)	14:42.73
10,000 metres	Almaz Ayana  Ethiopia (ETH)	30:16.32 WL	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia (ETH)	31:02.69 SB	Agnes Jebet Tirop  Kenya (KEN)	31:03.50 PB
Marathon	Rose Chelimo  Bahrain (BHR)	2:27:11	Edna Kiplagat  Kenya (KEN)	2:27:18	Amy Cragg  United States (USA)	2:27:18
100 metres hurdles	Sally Pearson  Australia (AUS)	12.59	Dawn Harper-Nelson  United States (USA)	12.63 SB	Pamela Dutkiewicz  Germany (GER)	12.72
400 metres hurdles	Kori Carter  United States (USA)	53.07	Dalilah Muhammad  United States (USA)	53.50	Ristananna Tracey  Jamaica (JAM)	53.74 PB
3000 metres steeplechase	Emma Coburn  United States (USA)	9:02.58 CR	Courtney Frerichs  United States (USA)	9:03.77 PB	Hyvin Jepkemoi  Kenya (KEN)	9:04.03
20 kilometres walk	Yang Jiayu  China (CHN)	1:26:18 PB	Lupita González  Mexico (MEX)	1:26:19 SB	Antonella Palmisano  Italy (ITA)	1:26:36 PB
50 kilometres walk	Inês Henriques  Portugal (POR)	4:05:56 WR	Yin Hang  China (CHN)	4:08:58 AR	Yang Shuqing  China (CHN)	4:20:50
4 × 100 metres relay	United States Aaliyah Brown Allyson Felix Morolake Akinosun Tori Bowie Ariana Washington*	41.82 WL	Great Britain & N.I. Asha Philip Desirèe Henry Dina Asher-Smith Daryll Neita	42.12	Jamaica Jura Levy Natasha Morrison Simone Facey Sashalee Forbes Christania Williams*	42.19 SB
4 × 400 metres relay	United States Quanera Hayes Allyson Felix Shakima Wimbley Phyllis Francis Kendall Ellis* Natasha Hastings*	3:19:02 WL	Great Britain & N.I. Zoey Clark Laviai Nielsen Eilidh Doyle Emily Diamond Perri Shakes-Drayton*	3:25:00	Poland Małgorzata Hołub Iga Baumgart Aleksandra Gaworska Justyna Święty Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz* Martyna Dąbrowska*	3:25:41 SB
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 athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Mariya Lasitskene  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	2.03 m	Yuliya Levchenko  Ukraine (UKR)	2.01 m PB	Kamila Lićwinko  Poland (POL)	1.99 m SB
Pole vault	Katerina Stefanidi  Greece (GRE)	4.91 m WL, NR	Sandi Morris  United States (USA)	4.75 m	Robeilys Peinado  Venezuela (VEN) Yarisley Silva  Cuba (CUB)	4.65 m =NR 4.65 m
Long jump	Brittney Reese  United States (USA)	7.02 m	Darya Klishina  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	7.00 m SB	Tianna Bartoletta  United States (USA)	6.97 m
Triple jump	Yulimar Rojas  Venezuela (VEN)	14.91 m	Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia (COL)	14.89 m SB	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan (KAZ)	14.77 m SB
Shot put	Gong Lijiao  China (CHN)	19.94 m	Anita Márton  Hungary (HUN)	19.49 m	Michelle Carter  United States (USA)	19.14 m
Discus throw	Sandra Perković  Croatia (CRO)	70.31 m	Dani Stevens  Australia (AUS)	69.64 m	Mélina Robert-Michon  France (FRA)	66.21 m SB
Hammer throw	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland (POL)	77.90 m	Wang Zheng  China (CHN)	75.98 m	Malwina Kopron  Poland (POL)	74.76 m
Javelin throw	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic (CZE)	66.76 m	Li Lingwei  China (CHN)	66.25 m PB	Lü Huihui  China (CHN)	65.26 m
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)

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon	Nafissatou Thiam  Belgium (BEL)	6784	Carolin Schäfer  Germany (GER)	6696	Anouk Vetter  Netherlands (NED)	6636
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)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Host nation)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	10	11	9	30
2	Kenya	5	2	4	11
3	South Africa	3	1	2	6
4	France	3	0	2	5
5	China	2	3	2	7
6	Great Britain & N.I.*	2	3	1	6
7	Ethiopia	2	3	0	5
8	Poland	2	2	4	8
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes[1]	1	5	0	6
9	Germany	1	2	2	5
10	Czech Republic	1	1	1	3
11	Australia	1	1	0	2
	Bahrain	1	1	0	2
	Colombia	1	1	0	2
	Turkey	1	1	0	2
15	Jamaica	1	0	3	4
	Netherlands	1	0	3	4
17	Croatia	1	0	1	2
	Norway	1	0	1	2
	Portugal	1	0	1	2
	Qatar	1	0	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0	1	2
	Venezuela	1	0	1	2
23	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
27	Ivory Coast	0	2	0	2
28	Japan	0	1	2	3
29	Bahamas	0	1	1	2
	Hungary	0	1	1	2
31	Burundi	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Uganda	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
37	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
	Tanzania	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		48	48	49	145

Source:

Notes

^[1] IAAF does not include the six medals (1 gold and 5 silver) won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes in their official medal table.

Placing table

In the IAAF placing table the total score is obtained from assigning eight points to the first place and so on to one point for the eight placed finalists. Points are shared in situations where a tie occurs. 65 IAAF members received points.

  *   Host nation

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Points
1	United States	10	11	9	2	6	5	4	4	272
2	Kenya	5	2	4	5	2	2	3	1	124
3	Great Britain & N.I.	2	3	1	5	3	6	2	3	105
4	Poland	2	2	4	0	3	3	5	1	86
5	China	2	3	2	3	1	1	3	4	81
6	Germany	1	2	2	3	4	3	1	2	78
7	Ethiopia	2	3	0	2	3	1	3	2	70
8	France	3	0	2	4	1	2	0	2	68
8	Jamaica	1	0	3	4	3	2	0	4	68
10	South Africa	3	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	52
11	Netherlands	1	0	3	0	2	0	2	2	40
12	Czech Republic	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	2	37
13	Cuba	0	0	1	3	2	1	1	1	35
14	Canada	0	0	0	0	2	5	2	3	30
15	Bahrain	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	26
16	Japan	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	25
17	Australia	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	23
17	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	23
19	Brazil	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	0	21
19	Turkey	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	21
21	Bahamas	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	19
21	Ivory Coast	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	19
21	Colombia	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	19
21	Croatia	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	19
25	Portugal	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	17
26	Hungary	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	16
26	Qatar	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	16
28	Ukraine	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	15
29	Botswana	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	14
29	Spain	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	14
29	Norway	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
29	Venezuela	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
33	Belgium	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	13
34	Mexico	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	12
35	Greece	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	11
36	Lithuania	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	10
37	Italy	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	9
37	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9
37	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	9
40	Azerbaijan	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	8
40	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	8
40	Morocco	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
40	Sweden	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	8

Participants

Below is the list of countries and other neutral groupings who participated in the championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.

Participating teams

Afghanistan (1)  Albania (1)  Algeria (8)  Andorra (1)  Angola (1)  Anguilla (1)  Antigua and Barbuda (5)  Argentina (10)  Armenia (1)  Athlete Refugee Team (5)  Aruba (1)  Australia (62)  Austria (5)  Authorised Neutral Athletes (19)  Azerbaijan (4)  Bahamas (27)  Bahrain (26)  Bangladesh (1)  Barbados (8)  Belarus (16)  Belgium (18)  Bermuda (1)  Benin (2)  Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)  Belize (1)  Bolivia (2)  Botswana (12)  Brazil (39)  British Virgin Islands (3)  Brunei (1)  Bulgaria (8)  Burkina Faso (2)  Burundi (4)  Cambodia (1)  Cameroon (2)  Canada (57)  Cape Verde (1)  Cayman Islands (2)  Central African Republic (1)  Chad (1)  Chile (9)  China (50)  Chinese Taipei (2)  Congo (2)  Colombia (20)  Comoros (1)  Cook Islands (1)  Costa Rica (1)  Croatia (9)  Cuba (28)  Cyprus (5)  Czech Republic (27)  DR Congo (1)  Denmark (4)  Djibouti (4)  Dominica (2)  Dominican Republic (3)  Ecuador (17)  Egypt (4)  El Salvador (1)  Equatorial Guinea (1)  Eritrea (8)  Estonia (14)  Ethiopia (46)  Fiji (1)  Finland (12)  France (55)  French Polynesia (1)  Gabon (1)  Gambia (1)  Georgia (1)  Germany (76)  Ghana (8)  Gibraltar (1)  Great Britain & N.I. (92)  Greece (21)  Grenada (4)  Guam (1)  Guatemala (7)  Guinea (1)  Guinea-Bissau (1)  Guyana (2)  Haiti (2)  Honduras (1)  Hong Kong (1)  Hungary (16)  Iceland (3)  India (25)  Indonesia (1)  Iran (3)  Iraq (1)  Ireland (12)  Israel (8)  Italy (36)  Ivory Coast (4)  Jamaica (63)  Japan (47)  Jordan (1)  Kazakhstan (13)  Kenya (50)  Kiribati (1)  Kosovo (1)  Kuwait (3)  Kyrgyzstan (4)  Laos (1)  Latvia (12)  Lebanon (1)  Lesotho (3)  Liberia (1)  Lithuania (15)  Luxembourg (1)  Macau (1)  Madagascar (1)  Macedonia (1)  Malaysia (1)  Malawi (1)  Maldives (1)  Mali (1)  Malta (1)  Marshall Islands (1)  Mauritania (1)  Mauritius (1)  Mexico (15)  Federated States of Micronesia (1)  Moldova (5)  Monaco (1)  Mongolia (5)  Montenegro (1)  Montserrat (1)  Morocco (15)  Mozambique (1)  Myanmar (1)  Namibia (5)  Nauru (1)  Nepal (1)  Netherlands (30)  New Zealand (12)  Nicaragua (1)  Niger (1)  Nigeria (15)  North Korea (3)  Northern Mariana Islands (1)  Norway (13)  Oman (1)  Palau (1)  Pakistan (1)  Palestine (2)  Panama (3)  Papua New Guinea (3)  Paraguay (2)  Peru (7)  Philippines (1)  Poland (51)  Portugal (21)  Puerto Rico (5)  Qatar (5)  Romania (15)  Rwanda (1)  Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)  Saint Lucia (1)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)  Samoa (2)  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)  Saudi Arabia (1)  Serbia (8)  Seychelles (1)  Sierra Leone (1)  Slovakia (5)  Slovenia (7)  Solomon Islands (1)  Somalia (1)  South Africa (29)  South Korea (17)  South Sudan (1)  Spain (59)  Sri Lanka (4)  Sudan (1)  Suriname (1)  Swaziland (1)  Sweden (32)  Switzerland (19)  Syria (1)  Tajikistan (2)  Tanzania (8)  Thailand (2)  Togo (1)  Trinidad and Tobago (25)  Tunisia (5)  Turkey (27)  Turkmenistan (1)  Turks and Caicos Islands (1)  Tuvalu (1)  Uganda (22)  Ukraine (48)  United Arab Emirates (1)  United States (167)  Uruguay (5)  U.S. Virgin Islands (1)  Uzbekistan (2)  Vanuatu (1)  Venezuela (11)  Vietnam (1)  Zambia (2)  Zimbabwe (5)

Russian suspension

Russia is currently indefinitely suspended from international competition due to a doping scandal, and will therefore not be present at the Championships. Nevertheless, 19 Russian athletes have been allowed to participate in international competition included as "authorised neutral athletes" at London 2017 following a long process to show that they were not directly implicated in Russia's state doping program. These athletes include Mariya Lasitskene (high jump), Sergey Shubenkov (110 metres hurdles), Ilya Shkurenev (decathlon), Aleksandr Menkov (long jump) and Anzhelika Sidorova (pole vault) plus names from 2016 such as Darya Klishina (long jump)

Refugees

For the first time, an Athlete Refugee Team delegation was present at the competition, mirroring the efforts to include refugee athletes that had occurred at the athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics. A total of five athletes – all of them Kenya-based refugees – were entered as part of the Athlete Refugee Team, including Somali Ahmed Bashir Farah, Ethiopian Kadar Omar Abdullahi, and South Sudanese middle-distance runners Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu, Rose Lokonyen and Anjelina Lohalith.

Quarantine

An outbreak of norovirus occurred at a local hotel affecting 30 athletes and officials.

Doping

An anti-doping programme was overseen at the championships for the first time by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) – an independent anti-doping board within the IAAF. A total of 1513 samples were collected at the competition and were sent to Ghent for analysis by a World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited laboratory . The samples comprised 596 urine sample (212 of which were tested for erythropoietin) and 917 blood samples. The blood samples were divided into two forms – 725 were taken to feed into the long-term athlete biological passport initiative and 192 were taken specifically to identify use of human growth hormone and erythropoiesis stimulating agents. The in-competition anti-doping scheme was complemented by a more extensive out-of-competition testing programme, which was intelligence and performance-led and amounted to over 2000 blood tests and over 3000 urine samples. An anti-doping education initiative also took place, led by the AIU and the IAAF Athletes' Commission, including an Athletes' Integrity Pledge which was taken by around 2500 athletes.

Two of Ukraine's foremost athletes, Olesya Povkh and Olha Zemlyak, were suspended for failed doping tests immediately before the championships in London.

The initial findings of the in-competition tests were that three athletes tested positive for doping, none of whom were medalists. The names of the athletes were not announced, allowing the athletes to contest the result and request a b-sample test.

See also

• 2017 World Para Athletics Championships
• 2017 World Championships in Athletics qualification standards

External links

• Competition timetable
• London 2017 Website
• London 2017 document
• Doha 2017 bid Website
• IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Championships London 2017