The primary version of the 2026 World Athletics Final Championship shall be in Budapest.
World Athletics has introduced the qualification for the inaugural Final Championship (September 11-13, 2026), which is able to deliver collectively world champions, Olympic champions, Wanda Diamond League winners and the yr’s greatest performing athletes.
Every of the three classes will include finals and sure occasions could have two semi-finals, the place 4 out of eight athletes in every will make the ultimate. The 1500m, 5000m and relay races shall be straight last. Some discipline occasions could have eight athletes competing.
The focused personnel dimension for the next observe occasions: 100m – 16, 200m – 16, 400m – 16, 800m – 16, 1500m – 12, 5000m – 12, 100mH /110mH /400mH – 16
The focused personnel dimension for the next discipline occasions : Excessive bounce, Pole vault, Lengthy bounce, Triple bounce (ladies solely), Javelin throw, hammer throw (males solely) – 8Â
The focused personnel dimension for the relays: 4x100m & 4x400m blended relays – 8 groups
The occasions going down on September 11: Males’s 5000m, 100m hurdles, 110m hurdles, ladies’s excessive bounce, males’s pole vault, ladies’s lengthy bounce, males’s hammer, blended 4x100m and blended 4x400m
The occasions going down on September 12: Girls’s 100m, males’s 100m, ladies’s 800m, ladies’s 1500m, ladies’s 400m hurdles, males’s 400m hurdles, ladies’s pole vault, males’s lengthy bounce, ladies’s javelin
The occasions going down on September 13: Girls’s 200m, males’s 200m, ladies’s 400m, males’s 400m, males’s 800m, males’s 1500m, ladies’s 5000m, males’s excessive bounce, ladies’s triple bounce, males’s javelin
A record-setting prize pot of $10 million – the most important ever provided in a single observe and discipline occasion – is on provide in Budapest.
The prize cash breakdown for particular person occasions: 1st – $150,000, 2nd – $75,000, third – $40,000, 4th – $25,000, fifth – $16,000, sixth – $14,000, seventh – $12,000, eighth – $10,000, ninth – $9000, tenth – $8000, eleventh – $7000, twelfth – $6000, thirteenth – $5000, 14th – $4000, fifteenth – $3000, sixteenth – $2000
The prize cash breakdown for relays: 1st – $80,000, 2nd – $40,000, third – $24,000, 4th – $20,000, fifth – $16,000, sixth – $14,000, seventh – $10,000, eighth – $8000
The best way particular person athletes can earn invitations consists of by:
• Being an Olympic champion from Paris 2024• Being a world champion from the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo• Successful the 2026 Brussels Diamond League Remaining• Their place on the world rankings in the course of the rating interval of September 2, 2025 to September 1, 2026
As eligible athletes are personally invited to take part, there’s no cap on what number of stars from a rustic can compete in every particular person occasion.
For the blended 4x100m and 4x400m, there will even be computerized invites for the primary six positioned groups on the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. The remaining two groups shall be chosen primarily based on one of the best performances achieved in the course of the qualification interval of August 22, 2025 to September 1, 2026.
