2022 World Athletics Championships

The selection of the host city was announced on April 16, 2015 in Beijing, China.[9][10] Eugene was selected without a traditional bidding process, though Eugene did put in a bid for the 2019 World Championships, losing out to Doha.

Runner's World magazine reported that Eugene's selection by World Athletics, then known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, was an "unusual move".[2] They report the Association "bypassed the usual bidding process," and that the choice of Eugene would make the 2022 event "the first held in the United States." The event was the second held in North America, after Edmonton in 2001.

The Guardian reported that the lack of bidding triggered concern in European cities that had bid to host the event.[4] They quoted Lamine Diack, IAAF president, who justified the lack of bidding with the claim the selection of Eugene to host the event, "enables us to take advantage of a unique opportunity to host a financially successful tournament that may never arise again."

Despite this, the 2022 event was not the first to lack the usual bidding process: as the 2007 World Championships were awarded to Osaka without bidding after the withdrawal of the two other candidate cities.

Venue

Hayward Field in 2007, prior to 2018-2020 renovation

The championships were held at the University of Oregon Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, which has 12,650 permanent seats and a temporary capacity of 25,000. The venue had previously hosted the 2020 USA Olympic Track and Field Trials, the 2021 and 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track Field Championships and the 2022 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The track, installed in 2021, was manufactured by Beynon Sports.[11]

The race walking was held on a 1-km loop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, near Autzen Stadium, and the marathon race started from the same stadium, towards Pre's Trail and going to Springfield, Oregon and back.[12]

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States*	13	9	11	33
2	Ethiopia	4	4	2	10
3	Jamaica	2	7	1	10
4	Kenya	2	5	3	10
5	China	2	1	3	6
6	Australia	2	0	1	3
7	Peru	2	0	0	2
8	Poland	1	3	0	4
9	Canada	1	2	1	4
	Japan	1	2	1	4
11	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1	1	5	7
12	Norway	1	1	1	3
13	Dominican Republic	1	1	0	2
	Grenada	1	1	0	2
	Nigeria	1	1	0	2
16	Belgium	1	0	2	3
	Sweden	1	0	2	3
	Uganda	1	0	2	3
19	Brazil	1	0	1	2
	Germany	1	0	1	2
	Italy	1	0	1	2
22	Bahamas	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
	Morocco	1	0	0	1
	Portugal	1	0	0	1
	Qatar	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
30	Netherlands	0	3	1	4
31	Lithuania	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
33	Algeria	0	1	0	1
	Burkina Faso	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	India	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
39	Spain	0	0	2	2
40	Barbados	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Philippines	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (45 entries)		49	49	49	147

World Athletics announced that athletes would qualify by their World Athletics Rankings position, wild card (reigning world champion or 2021 Diamond League winner) or by achieving the entry standard.[13]

To qualify as a Wild Card you had to be one of the following things:

• Reigning World Outdoor Champion
• Winner of the 2021 Diamond League
• By finishing position at designated competitions (Area competitions)
• Leader (as at closing date of the qualification period):
  • IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge
  • World Athletics Challenge - Race Walking
  • World Athletics Challenge - Combined Events

Countries who had no male and/or no female athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard or considered as having achieved the entry standard (see above) or a qualified relay team, could enter one unqualified male athlete OR one unqualified female athlete in one event of the championships (except the road events and field events, combined events, 10,000 m and 3000 m steeplechase).

The 1500 meter final at the 2022 World Athletics Championship at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon

1,972 athletes from 192 member federations were scheduled to compete at the championships,[15] but owing to vaccination requirements and resulting visa issues the final total was reduced to 179 nations (plus the Athlete Refugee Team) and more than 1,700 athletes, the lowest number since 1991 for the former and 2005 for the latter.[1]

A record 29 countries won at least one gold medal during the championships. Peru, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria won their first-ever gold medals, while India and Burkina Faso had their best medal performances, with silver, and the Philippines with bronze.[1][16]

There was a world record programme where if a world record was broken the athlete who broke it would get $100,000.

A total amount of $8,498,000 was also offered by World Athletics to finalists at Oregon 2022, of which $2 million has been ringfenced from the fines paid by the Russian Athletics Federation (for doping rules offenses).[18]

The prize money is as follows:

Individual events

• Gold: $70,000
• Silver: $35,000
• Bronze: $22,000
• Fourth place: $16,000
• Fifth place: $11,000
• Sixth place: $7,000
• Seventh place: $6,000
• Eighth place: $5,000

Relays (per each team)

• Gold: $80,000
• Silver: $40,000
• Bronze: $20,000
• Fourth place: $16,000
• Fifth place: $12,000
• Sixth place: $8,000
• Seventh place: $6,000
• Eighth place: $4,000

The event was streamed live in some territories on the World Athletics YouTube and Facebook channels.[19]

The event was the most watched World Athletics Championships in US television history, reaching an excess of 13.7 million viewers.[1]

• Statistics Handbook IAAF Media