World Athletics Championships Oregon22 to be held July 15-24, 2022
Indianapolis — In a joint announcement today (Wednesday), World Athletics, USATF and Oregon21, LLC confirmed new dates for the World Athletics Championships, originally scheduled to be held in Oregon, from August 6 -15, 2021. The new dates for the first-ever, global outdoor track and field championships to be held in the United States will be July 15-24, 2022.
“USATF worked diligently with all the key stakeholders to find a suitable date for rescheduling,” said USATF CEO Max Siegel. “Postponing to 2022 will allow us even more time to prepare for the world’s best athletes to descend on Eugene, Oregon. We appreciate the alliance of all partners including World Athletics, the local organizing committee and the state of Oregon.”
Oregon last played host to the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2016 in Portland where 44 national indoor records and two championship records were set. Team USATF had their best indoor performance in history with 23 medals, a new record for any country at a single World Indoors, breaking 19 medals by the U.S. in 1999. American’s 13 gold medals broke the previous record of 10, achieved by the U.S. in 2012.
The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 will be held at the new Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.
About USA Track & Field
USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States. USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, some of the most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the country’s #1 high school and junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult runners in the United States. For more information on USATF, visit www.usatf.org.
About Oregon21, LLC
Oregon21, LLC is the local organizing committee managing the 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships in partnership with USA Track & Field (USATF). This is the first time the competition will take place in the United States, with over 2,000 athletes from more than 200 countries expected to compete.
