2017 World Championships in Athletics

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, United Kingdom. London was officially awarded the championships on 11 November 2011.[1]

IAAF World Championships
London 2017
Host cityLondon
Country Great Britain and Northern Ireland
OrganizersIAAF, UK Athletics
Edition16th
Nations205
Athletes2038 (1080 men, 958 women)
SportAthletics
Events48 (24 men, 24 women)
Dates4–13 August 2017
Opened byQueen Elizabeth II
Main venueLondon Stadium

Bidding process edit

When the seeking deadline passed on 1 September 2011, two candidate cities (London and Doha) had confirmed their candidatures.[2] Barcelona, which investigated a bid, withdrew citing a lack of support from the local population and financial difficulties.[3]

On 5 September 2011, Doha launched its marketing bid for the 2017 World Championships.[4] 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.[5] The Corniche promenade was to hold the road races, with the committee proposing to hold the marathon at night after the opening ceremony.[6]

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.[7][8] The London bid team said that if their bid was successful they would introduce the "Women in World Athletics" programme.[9]

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.[10]

Venue edit

 
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.[11]

Media coverage edit

Rights to televise the championships in the United Kingdom were held by the BBC.[12] NBCUniversal was the rights holder in the United States.[13][14][15] In Canada, rights to televise the championships belonged to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[16]

Mascot edit

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.[17]

Entry standards edit

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 schedule edit

The Women's 50 kilometres walk was held for the first time.[18]

All dates are BST (UTC+1)
P Preliminary Round Q Qualification H Heats S Semi-final F Final
Event 4
Aug
5
Aug
6
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7
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8
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11
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A M A M A A A A A M A M A M A

Men 100 m P S
H F
200 m H S F
400 m H S F
800 m H S F
1500 m H S F
5000 m H F
10,000 m F
Marathon F
3000 m steeplechase H F
110 m hurdles H S F
400 m hurdles H S F
Decathlon F F F F
High jump Q F
Pole vault Q F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
Shot put Q F
Discus throw Q F
Hammer throw Q F
Javelin throw Q F
20 km walk F
50 km walk F
4 × 100 m relay H F
4 × 400 m relay H F
Women 100 m H S
F
200 m H S F
400 m H S F
800 m H S F
1500 m H S F
5000 m H F
10,000 m F
Marathon F
3000 m steeplechase H F
100 m hurdles H S F
400 m hurdles H S F
Heptathlon F F F F
High jump Q F
Pole vault Q F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
Shot put Q F
Discus throw Q F
Hammer throw Q F
Javelin throw Q F
20 km walk F
50 km walk F
4 × 100 m relay H F
4 × 400 m relay H F

Event summary edit

Men edit

Track edit

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
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
details
Ramil Guliyev
  Turkey (TUR)
20.09 Wayde van Niekerk
  South Africa (RSA)
20.11 Jereem Richards
  Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)
20.11
400 metres
details
Wayde van Niekerk
  South Africa (RSA)
43.98 Steven Gardiner
  Bahamas (BAH)
44.41 Abdalelah Haroun
  Qatar (QAT)
44.48 SB
800 metres
details
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
details
Elijah Manangoi
  Kenya (KEN)
3:33.61 Timothy Cheruiyot
  Kenya (KEN)
3:33.99 Filip Ingebrigtsen
  Norway (NOR)
3:34.53
5000 metres
details
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
details
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
details
Geoffrey Kirui
  Kenya (KEN)
2:08:27 Tamirat Tola
  Ethiopia (ETH)
2:09:49 Alphonce Simbu
  Tanzania (TAN)
2:09:51
110 metres hurdles
details
Omar McLeod
  Jamaica (JAM)
13.04 Sergey Shubenkov
  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)
13.14 Balázs Baji
  Hungary (HUN)
13.28
400 metres hurdles
details
Karsten Warholm
  Norway (NOR)
48.35 Yasmani Copello
  Turkey (TUR)
48.49 Kerron Clement
  United States (USA)
48.52
3000 metres steeplechase
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
  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
details
  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*
2:58.61SB   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 edit

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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 edit

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Decathlon
details
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 edit

Track edit

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
Sally Pearson
  Australia (AUS)
12.59 Dawn Harper-Nelson
  United States (USA)
12.63 SB Pamela Dutkiewicz
  Germany (GER)
12.72
400 metres hurdles
details
Kori Carter
  United States (USA)
53.07 Dalilah Muhammad
  United States (USA)
53.50 Ristananna Tracey
  Jamaica (JAM)
53.74 PB
3000 metres steeplechase
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
  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
details
  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 edit

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
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
details
Gong Lijiao
  China (CHN)
19.94 m Anita Márton
  Hungary (HUN)
19.49 m Michelle Carter
  United States (USA)
19.14 m
Discus throw
details
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
details
Anita Włodarczyk
  Poland (POL)
77.90 m Wang Zheng
  China (CHN)
75.98 m Malwina Kopron
  Poland (POL)
74.76 m
Javelin throw
details
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 edit

Chronology: 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Heptathlon
details
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 edit

  *   Host nation (Host nation)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)1011930
2  Kenya (KEN)52411
3  South Africa (RSA)3126
4  France (FRA)3025
5  China (CHN)2327
6  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)*2316
7  Ethiopia (ETH)2305
8  Poland (POL)2248
  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)[1]1506
9  Germany (GER)1225
10  Czech Republic (CZE)1113
11  Australia (AUS)1102
  Bahrain (BHR)1102
  Colombia (COL)1102
  Turkey (TUR)1102
15  Jamaica (JAM)1034
  Netherlands (NED)1034
17  Croatia (CRO)1012
  Norway (NOR)1012
  Portugal (POR)1012
  Qatar (QAT)1012
  Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)1012
  Venezuela (VEN)1012
23  Belgium (BEL)1001
  Greece (GRE)1001
  Lithuania (LTU)1001
  New Zealand (NZL)1001
27  Ivory Coast (CIV)0202
28  Japan (JPN)0123
29  Bahamas (BAH)0112
  Hungary (HUN)0112
31  Burundi (BDI)0101
  Mexico (MEX)0101
  Morocco (MAR)0101
  Sweden (SWE)0101
  Uganda (UGA)0101
  Ukraine (UKR)0101
37  Brazil (BRA)0011
  Cuba (CUB)0011
  Italy (ITA)0011
  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0011
  Syria (SYR)0011
  Tanzania (TAN)0011
Totals (42 entries)484849145
Source: [1]
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.[19]

Placing table edit

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.[20]

  *   Host nation

Rank Country       4 5 6 7 8 Points
1   United States (USA) 10 11 9 2 6 5 4 4 272
2   Kenya (KEN) 5 2 4 5 2 2 3 1 124
3   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 2 3 1 5 3 6 2 3 105
4   Poland (POL) 2 2 4 0 3 3 5 1 86
5   China (CHN) 2 3 2 3 1 1 3 4 81
6   Germany (GER) 1 2 2 3 4 3 1 2 78
7   Ethiopia (ETH) 2 3 0 2 3 1 3 2 70
8   France (FRA) 3 0 2 4 1 2 0 2 68
8   Jamaica (JAM) 1 0 3 4 3 2 0 4 68
10   South Africa (RSA) 3 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 52
11   Netherlands (NED) 1 0 3 0 2 0 2 2 40
12   Czech Republic (CZE) 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 37
13   Cuba (CUB) 0 0 1 3 2 1 1 1 35
14   Canada (CAN) 0 0 0 0 2 5 2 3 30
15   Bahrain (BHR) 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 26
16   Japan (JPN) 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 25
17   Australia (AUS) 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 23
17   Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 23
19   Brazil (BRA) 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 21
19   Turkey (TUR) 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 21
21   Bahamas (BAH) 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 19
21   Ivory Coast (CIV) 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 19
21   Colombia (COL) 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 19
21   Croatia (CRO) 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 19
25   Portugal (POR) 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 17
26   Hungary (HUN) 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 16
26   Qatar (QAT) 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 16
28   Ukraine (UKR) 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 15
29   Botswana (BOT) 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 14
29   Spain (ESP) 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 14
29   Norway (NOR) 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14
29   Venezuela (VEN) 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14
33   Belgium (BEL) 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 13
34   Mexico (MEX) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 12
35   Greece (GRE) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 11
36   Lithuania (LTU) 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10
37   Italy (ITA) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 9
37   New Zealand (NZL) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9
37   Switzerland (SUI) 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 9
40   Azerbaijan (AZE) 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8
40   Belarus (BLR) 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 8
40   Morocco (MAR) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
40   Sweden (SWE) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 8

Participants edit

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 National Olympic Committees

Russian suspension edit

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.[21] 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) [22][a]

Refugees edit

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 Somalian Ahmed Bashir Farah, Ethiopian Kadar Omar Abdullahi, and South Sudanese middle-distance runners Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu, Rose Lokonyen and Anjelina Lohalith.[24][25][26]

Quarantine edit

An outbreak of norovirus occurred at a local hotel affecting 30 athletes and officials.[27]

Doping edit

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.[28][29] 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.[30]

Two of Ukraine's foremost athletes, Olesya Povkh and Olha Zemlyak, were suspended for failed doping tests immediately before the championships in London.[31]

The initial findings of the in-competition tests were that three athletes tested positive for doping, none of whom were medalists.[32] The names of the athletes were not announced, allowing the athletes to contest the result and request a b-sample test.

Notes edit

  1. ^ On 31 July 2017, IAAF announced that Russia was still banned indefinitely unless several criteria for reinstatement were met, including meaningful drugs testing being conducted and more acceptance of the McLaren report which exposed the country's state-sponsored doping and led to the ban.[23]

See also edit

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