GBR

Contested by 1857 athletes from 197 countries(plus Authorised Neutral Athletes/ANA (all RUS), and the Athlete Refugee Team/ART)

Number of countries providing:

Champions: 26 + ANA; Medallists: 42 + ANA; Finalists/top 8: 74 + ANA

LOC Co-Chairmen: Ed Warner & Sir Robin Young

Mascot: Hero (hedgehog)

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.

Venue

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.

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

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)	26:49.93 PB	Paul Tanui  Kenya (KEN)	26:50.60 SB
Marathon	Geoffrey Kirui  Kenya (KEN)	2:08:26	Tamirat Tola  Ethiopia (ETH)	2:09:48	Alphonce Simbu  Tanzania (TAN)	2:09:50
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. (GBR) Chijindu Ujah Adam Gemili Danny Talbot Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	37.47 WL, AR	United States (USA) Mike Rodgers Justin Gatlin Jaylen Bacon Christian Coleman BeeJay Lee*	37.52 SB	Japan (JPN) Shuhei Tada Shota Iizuka Yoshihide Kiryu Kenji Fujimitsu Asuka Cambridge*	38.04 SB
4 × 400 metres relay	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) Jarrin Solomon Jereem Richards Machel Cedenio Lalonde Gordon Renny Quow*	2:58.12 WL, NR	United States (USA) Wilbert London Gil Roberts Michael Cherry Fred Kerley Bryshon Nellum* Tony McQuay*	2:58.65 SB	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 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	Kévin 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	Ajee 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 (USA) Aaliyah Brown Allyson Felix Morolake Akinosun Tori Bowie Ariana Washington*	41.82 WL	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Asha Philip Desirèe Henry Dina Asher-Smith Daryll Neita	42.12	Jamaica (JAM) Jura Levy Natasha Morrison Simone Facey Sashalee Forbes Christania Williams*	42.19 SB
4 × 400 metres relay	United States (USA) Quanera Hayes Allyson Felix Shakima Wimbley Phyllis Francis Kendall Ellis* Natasha Hastings*	3:19:02 WL	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Zoey Clark Laviai Nielsen Eilidh Doyle Emily Diamond Perri Shakes-Drayton*	3:25:00	Poland (POL) 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)

Participants

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	10	11	9	30
2	Kenya (KEN)	5	2	4	11
3	South Africa (RSA)	3	1	2	6
4	France (FRA)	3	0	2	5
5	China (CHN)	2	3	2	7
6	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)*	2	3	1	6
7	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	3	0	5
8	Poland (POL)	2	2	4	8
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)[1]	1	5	0	6
9	Germany (GER)	1	2	2	5
10	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	1	3
11	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
	Bahrain (BHR)	1	1	0	2
	Colombia (COL)	1	1	0	2
	Turkey (TUR)	1	1	0	2
15	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	3	4
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	3	4
17	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Portugal (POR)	1	0	1	2
	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	1	0	1	2
	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	1	2
23	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
27	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	2	0	2
28	Japan (JPN)	0	1	2	3
29	Bahamas (BAH)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
31	Burundi (BDI)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
37	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
	Tanzania (TAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 nations)		48	48	49	145

Placing Table 

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth	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	4	4	1	87
5	PR OF 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	JAMAICA	1	0	3	4	3	2	1	3	69
9	FRANCE	3	0	2	4	1	2	0	2	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
15	JAPAN	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	26
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	COTE D'IVOIRE	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	HUNGARY	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	17
25	PORTUGAL	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	17
27	QATAR	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	16
28	BOTSWANA	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	14
28	SPAIN	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	14
28	NORWAY	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
28	VENEZUELA	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
32	BELGIUM	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	13
33	MEXICO	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	12
34	GREECE	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	11
35	ITALY	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	10
35	LITHUANIA	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	10
35	UKRAINE	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	10
38	NEW ZEALAND	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9
38	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
44	BURUNDI	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
44	UGANDA	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
46	KAZAKHSTAN	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
46	SYRIA	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
46	TANZANIA	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
49	ESTONIA	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
49	ISRAEL	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
49	NIGERIA	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5
49	SERBIA	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
53	ERITREA	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4
53	FINLAND	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
55	AUSTRIA	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
55	BARBADOS	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
55	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
58	BULGARIA	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
58	GRENADA	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
58	IRELAND	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
58	BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
58	PERU	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
58	TAJIKISTAN	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
64	MOLDOVA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Note: This placing table does not include the 6 medals (1 gold / 5 silver / 0 bronze) won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes at the IAAF World Championships in London in 2017.

2017 World Championships in Athletics qualification standards

The following marks are the qualification standards for the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. The standards have been changed again from the 2015 standards. Each country may send a maximum of four athletes who have attained the A qualification mark in each specific event. A maximum of three athletes can compete in that event, with the sole exception of the relays, in which four of a possible six athletes may compete.

The qualification period ends on July 23, 2017, the date final entries are due. The start date for the qualification period was October 1, 2016 for all events except for 10,000 metres, Marathon, Race Walks, Relays and Combined Events which began on January 1, 2016.

Wild Card

Area Champions (i.e. athletes who have won an event at their continental level championships) are granted automatic entrance, irrespective of whether they have achieved the qualification marks. The reigning World Champion in each event is also granted a bye into the competition, and does not count as part of their country's quota of athletes in that event. Furthermore, host countries may enter one unqualified athlete if no one of the respective nationality has achieved the required mark.

Target

Qualification standards