World Athletics Label Road Races
World Athletics Label Road Races (2019 IAAF Label Road Races ) is the World Association of Athletics Federations World Athletics (2019 IAAF introduced) 2,008 sorting of road races . In the first two years, World Athletics awarded the gold and silver labels to the selected running events . The bronze label has also existed since 2010 and platinum since 2020 .
In order to benefit from one of the labels, some organizational criteria must be met. The route must be measured, safety and medical standards must be met, and there must be a good infrastructure for the media. The decisive factors which label a run receives are the number of top runners and the amount of international television coverage.
In 2015, a total of 88 running events received one of these labels:
| Distances | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| marathon | 27 | 15th | 13 | 55 |
| half marathon | 10 | 6th | 2 | 18th |
| ≈20 km | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 miles | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 km | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 km | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
With ten runs, most of them were in Japan.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF AWARDS GOLD AND SILVER LABELS FOR ROAD RACES. December 20, 2007, accessed January 16, 2016 .