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All-Time World Championships Statistics is an excellent trackstats package announced on the "front page" portion of T&FN website near the opening date of 2009 WC at Berlin.
The listed "World Championships" start in the ealy 1980s when IAAF began such competition as a stand-alone track meet -- possibly a reaction to partial boycoltts of Olympic Games in that timeframe.
Interestingly, IAAF handbooks of earlier years stated that the quadrennial Oympic Games served as the world championships of track and field athletics.
The listed "World Championships" start in the ealy 1980s when IAAF began such competition as a stand-alone track meet -- possibly a reaction to partial boycoltts of Olympic Games in that timeframe.
Interestingly, IAAF handbooks of earlier years stated that the quadrennial Oympic Games served as the world championships of track and field athletics.