New and improved prize monies for World Champs world document setters, particular person & relay winners

Japanese electronics firm TDK and World Athletics’ new Inside Monitor platform will supply athletes who set new world information a particular award of US$100,000, the world governing physique has introduced.

The achievement have to be an enchancment on the prevailing World Athletics world document, as performances equalling the prevailing world information won’t be eligible for the particular awards.

TDK will supply the particular awards for the boys’s occasions, whereas World Athletics Inside Monitor will help the ladies’s occasions.

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Inside Monitor is an internet hub the place followers can entry unique content material, particularly these of feminine athletes.

The 2 sponsors will help the blended 4x400m relay programme.

The Japanese firm’s involvement goes past the particular awards, because it has been an authentic sponsor of the World Athletics Championships since its inception 40 years in the past. It has been the boys’s bib sponsor for all 18 editions of the occasion, whereas new official associate NTN would be the bib sponsor for the ladies’s occasions in Budapest for this yr’s renewal.

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Over 2000 athletes from 200 nations will compete on the 2023 World Athletics Championships contained in the Nationwide Athletics Centre beginning on Saturday, and operating by way of to Sunday, August 27.

The particular world document award apart, World Athletics has introduced a complete of US$8.5 million in prize monies to be received.

IN particular person occasions, gold medal winners will earn US$70,000; silver medal – US$35,000; bronze medal – US$22,000; fourth place – US$16,000; fifth place – US$11,000; sixth place – US$7,000; seventh place – US$6,000 and eighth place – US$5,000.

For relay occasions (per staff), gold medal winners earn US$80,000; silver medal – US$40,000; bronze medal – US$20,000; fourth place – US$16,000; fifth place – US$12,000; sixth place – US$8,000;

Seventh place – US$6,000, and eighth place – US$4,000.

The cost of prize monies and bonuses relies upon the same old ratification course of.