New 2023 World Championship entry criteria are wild

On Thursday evening, World Athletics announced the entry criteria for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The amount of time athletes have to run for automatic qualifying has never been shorter.

Below are the new standards.

The Championship will run later than 2022, from August 19th to August 27th, 2023. These criteria imply automatic entitlement, Ridiculous qualification system What World Athletics did quickly for the 2019 World Championships. Even if an athlete is ranked within the top 50 in their respective event and is not performing the standard, that athlete is still eligible for nomination by the national governing body.

The 2023 championship will be held at the National Athletics Center in Budapest, currently under construction, with a capacity of 36,000.

of 2022 Championship Criteria was similar, but some events were faster. Most notably, her 800m, 100m, 5,000m and marathon standards for men have become more challenging, along with her 3,000m steeplechase, 1,500m and her 10,000m for women. is. The criteria for 2022 are:

With the postponement of the 2022 World Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, athletes will have five consecutive years of major competition in Budapest 2023, the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2025 Tokyo World Championships.