Olympic champions Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Letsile Tebogo, Julien Alfred and Ethan Katzberg of Canada are among the many first 26 athletes to qualify mechanically for the brand new World Final Championships, to happen for the primary time on Sept. 11-13, 2026 on the Nationwide Athletics Centre in Budapest.
The three-day meet, introduced a 12 months in the past, will happen each two years (in non-world championships/Olympic years) and carries a prize purse of US$10 million–the most important prize purse for a single meet–with winners in every occasion pocketing $150,000.
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World Athletics created the occasion, which is providing extra prize cash than another worldwide meet, to deliver extra consideration and followers to the game of monitor and discipline.
Prize cash can be as follows for particular person occasions:
1st: US$150,000
2nd: $75,000
third: $40,000
4th: $25,000
fifth: $16,000
sixth: $14,000
seventh: $12,000
eighth: $10,000
ninth: $9,000
tenth: $8,000
eleventh: $7,000
twelfth: $6,000
thirteenth: $5,000
14th: $4,000
fifteenth: $3,000
sixteenth: $2,000
Winners of the blended 4x100m and 4x400m relays will obtain $80,000, with prize cash right down to eighth place.
World Athletics declares new final championship occasion in 2026
The record additionally contains Olympic champions Religion Kipyegon, Noah Lyles, Gabby Thomas, Keely Hodgkinson, Cole Hocker, Beatrice Chebet, Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. A few of these athletes additionally just lately competed on the inaugural Grand Slam Monitor occasion in Jamaica, which awarded winners US$100,000 every.
Gold medallists at this 12 months’s World Athletics Championships, to happen Sept. 13-21 in Tokyo, in addition to winners of this 12 months’s Diamond League Finals (scheduled for Aug. 27 and 28 in Zurich) can even qualify mechanically.
The assembly will include a collection of three evenings of two semi-finals and finals amongst Olympic, world and Diamond League champions, with no heats; the highest 4 from every semi-final will advance to the ultimate. The 1,500m, 5,000m and relays can be run as straight finals. The meet will embrace blended 4x100m and 4x400m relays, however no single-sex relays.
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