IAAF World Indoor Championships

The IAAF World Indoor Championships (official name World Athletics Indoor Championships ) are competitions that the athletics world governing body are performed in halls. They first took place in Paris in 1985, but at that time they were still called World Indoor Games. Since 1987 they have been officially called the World Championships. In 2004, the rhythm of the event was changed in order not to compete with the World Athletics Championships held in the open air up to then in the same year . On January 29, 2020, the World Athletics Federation decided to postpone the event to 2021, as the spread of illnesses caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in China and abroad was at a worrying level despite immense efforts.

Competitions

The running competitions take place on 200-meter lanes with six individual lanes. Due to the limited space, there are no throwing disciplines with the exception of the shot put .

There have been various changes in the competition program over the years: The 4 x 400 meter relay was introduced in 1991 for both men and women. In that year, the triple jump for women was also included in the program, initially for the time being and finally from 1993.

The walking competitions took place for the last time in 1993; that was the only time that a 1600 meter relay was held. The women's pole vault was first held in 1997, two years before its outdoor premiere.

At the 2004 World Championships, the 200-meter run was on the program for the last time . The reason for this is that the outcome of the races became too predictable due to the tight corners. Athletes who had to run on the narrow inner lanes usually had no chance of winning the race.

List of World Indoor Athletics Championships

No.	year	venue	country	date	Competition location	participating athletes	participating countries
-	1985	Paris	France	January 18th and 19th	Palais Omnisports	322	069
1.	1987	Indianapolis	United States	March 6-8	Hoosier Dome	419	085
2.	1989	Budapest	Hungary	March 3rd to 5th	Budapest Sportcsámok	373	062
3.	1991	Seville	Spain	March 8-10	Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo	531	082
4th	1993	Toronto	Canada	March 12-14	SkyDome	537	093
5.	1995	Barcelona	Spain	March 10-12	Palau Sant Jordi	602	130
6th	1997	Paris	France	March 7th to 9th	Palais Omnisports	712	118
7th	1999	Maebashi	Japan	March 5-7	Green Dome	487	115
8th.	2001	Lisbon	Portugal	March 9-11	Pavilhão Atlântico	510	136
9.	2003	Birmingham	United Kingdom	March 14-16	National Indoor Arena	589	133
10.	2004	Budapest	Hungary	March 5-7	Budapest Sports Arena	677	139
11.	2006	Moscow	Russia	March 10-12	Olimpijski sports complex	635	129
12.	2008	Valencia	Spain	March 7th to 9th	Palacio Velódromo Luis Puig	574	147
13.	2010	Doha	Qatar	March 12-14	Aspire Dome	651	142
14th	2012	Istanbul	Turkey	March 9-11	Atakoy Athletics Arena	616	172
15th	2014	Sopot	Poland	March 7th to 9th	Ergo arena
16.	2016	Portland	United States	March 17th to 20th	Oregon Convention Center
17th	2018	Birmingham	United Kingdom	March 2-4	National Indoor Arena
-	2020	-	-	postponed	-	-	-
18th	2021	Nanjing	People's Republic of China	March
19th	2022	Belgrade	Serbia	March 11-13	Štark Arena

Medal table

Status: April 27, 2020 (including all 17 world championships)

Medal table
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	110	77	68	255
2	Russia	51	45	38	134
3	Germany including the German Democratic Republic	28	29	31	88
4th	Ethiopia	26th	8th	10	44
5	Soviet Union	20th	17th	16	53
6th	United Kingdom	18th	32	25th	75
7th	Cuba	17th	17th	15th	49
8th	Jamaica	15th	22nd	10	47
9	France	14th	11	19th	44
10	Sweden	11	7th	8th	26th
11	Ukraine	9	14th	11	34
12	Romania	9	10	9	28
13	Bulgaria	9	5	7th	21st
14th	Kenya	8th	13	14th	35
15th	Czech Republic	8th	7th	14th	29
16	Canada	8th	4th	15th	27
17th	Australia	7th	9	5	21st
18th	Mozambique	7th	1	1	9
19th	Italy	6th	6th	12	24
20th	Morocco	6th	5	8th	19th
21st	Netherlands	6th	3	5	14th
22nd	Ireland	6th	2	2	10
23	New Zealand	6th	0	4th	10
24	Poland	5	11	16	32
25th	Greece	5	2	5	12
26th	Belarus	4th	8th	6th	18th
27	Brazil	4th	5	6th	15th
28	Portugal	4th	4th	6th	14th
29	People's Republic of China	3	8th	8th	19th
30th	Bahamas	3	6th	9	18th
31	South Africa	3	5	2	10
32	Kazakhstan	3	4th	2	9
33	Spain	2	21st	15th	38
34	Nigeria	2	6th	3	11
35	Czechoslovakia	2	4th	0	6th
36	Hungary	2	2	3	7th
37	Burundi	2	2	-	4th
38	Switzerland	2	1	4th	7th
39	Croatia	2	1	3	6th
40	Sudan	2	1	1	4th
41	Authorized Neutral Athletes	2	1	-	3
42	Venezuela	2	-	-	2
42	Grenada	2	-	-	2
44	Belgium	1	4th	4th	9
45	Qatar	1	3	2	6th
46	Denmark	1	3	1	5
47	Ivory Coast	1	3	-	4th
48	Bahrain	1	2	2	5
49	Bermuda	1	1	1	3
49	Serbia	1	1	1	3
51	Namibia	1	1	-	2
51	Ghana	1	1	-	2
53	Norway	1	-	2	3
54	Algeria	1	-	1	2
55	Finland	1	-	-	1
55	Costa Rica	1	-	-	1
55	Djibouti	1	-	-	1
58	Austria	-	4th	1	5
59	Slovenia	-	3	1	4th
60	Trinidad and Tobago	-	2	4th	6th
61	Iceland	-	2	1	3
61	Estonia	-	2	1	3
63	Cameroon	-	2	-	2
63	St. Kitts and Nevis	-	2	-	2
65	Latvia	-	1	1	2
65	Barbados	-	1	1	2
65	Turkey	-	1	1	2
68	Cayman Islands	-	1	-	1
68	Botswana	-	1	-	1
68	Panama	-	1	-	1
71	Japan	-	-	3	3
72	Mexico	-	-	2	2
72	Lithuania	-	-	2	2
72	Yugoslavia	-	-	2	2
75	Chile	-	-	1	1
75	Suriname	-	-	1	1
75	Senegal	-	-	1	1
75	Democratic Republic of Congo	-	-	1	1
75	British Virgin Islands	-	-	1	1
75	Dominican Republic	-	-	1	1
75	Saudi Arabia	-	-	1	1
75	Cyprus	-	-	1	1
75	Gabon	-	-	1	1
75	Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	1	1
75	Brunei	-	-	1	1

literature

• Mark Butler (Ed.): IAAF Statistics Handbook - 14th IAAF World Indoor Championships Istanbul 2012. IAAF, 2012
  • Part 1: PDF; 11.8 MB ( memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  • Part 2: PDF; 1.5 MB ( memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  • Part 3: PDF; 1.3 MB ( memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  • Part 4: PDF; 1.6 MB ( memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• IAAF World Indoor Championships Previous Championships from the IAAF website, accessed September 7, 2013
• IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics - Istanbul 2012 on the IAAF website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Athletics cancels Indoor World Championships 2020 in Nanjing , Corona virus, on: Leichtathletik.de, January 29, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020
2. ↑ Coronavirus: Indoor World Championships for Athletes in Nanjing canceled , Athletics, on: spox.com, from January 29, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020
3. ↑ The World Indoor Championships were originally supposed to take place from March 13th to 15th. On January 29, 2020, the World Athletics Federation decided to postpone the event because the spread of disease caused by a coronavirus in China and abroad remained at a worrying level despite immense efforts.
4. ↑ World Athletics cancels Indoor World Championships 2020 in Nanjing , Corona virus, on: Leichtathletik.de, January 29, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020