Editing World Athletics (section)

===One-day events===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; float:right"
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!Competition
!Sport
!First held
!Last held
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|align=left|[[Diamond League]] || Outdoor track and field || 2010 || Ongoing
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|align=left|[[World Athletics Continental Tour]] || Outdoor track and field || 2020 || Ongoing
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|align=left|[[World Athletics Indoor Tour]] || Indoor track and field || 2016 || Ongoing
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|align=left|[[World Athletics Label Road Races]]|| Road running || 2008 || Ongoing
|-
|align=left|[[World Athletics Cross Country Tour]]|| Cross country || 2021 || Ongoing
|-
|align=left|[[World Athletics Combined Events Tour]]|| Decathlon/heptathlon || 1998 || Ongoing
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|align=left|[[World Athletics Race Walking Tour]]|| Racewalking || 2003 || Ongoing
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|align=left|[[World Athletics Cross Country Permit]]|| Cross country || 1999 || 2021
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|align=left|[[IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge]] || Hammer throw || 2010 || 2019
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|align=left|[[WMRA World Cup]] || Mountain running || 1997 || Ongoing -->
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|align=left|[[IAAF World Challenge]] || Outdoor track and field || 2010 || 2019
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|align=left|[[IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings]] || Indoor track and field || 1997 || 2015
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|align=left|[[IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final]] || Racewalking || 2007 || 2012
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|align=left|[[IAAF World Athletics Tour]] || Outdoor track and field || 2006 || 2009
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|align=left|[[IAAF Golden League]] || Outdoor track and field || 1998 || 2009
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|align=left|[[IAAF Super Grand Prix]] || Outdoor track and field || 2003 || 2009
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|align=left|[[IAAF Grand Prix]] || Outdoor track and field || 1985 || 2009
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|align=left|[[IAAF World Athletics Final]] || Outdoor track and field || 2003 || 2009
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|align=left|[[IAAF World Outdoor Meetings]] || Outdoor track and field || 2003 || 2006
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|align=left|[[IAAF Grand Prix Final]] || Outdoor track and field || 1985 || 2002
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|align=left|[[IAAF World Cross Challenge]] || Cross country || 1990 || 2000
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|align=left|[[IAAF Golden Events]] || Outdoor track and field || 1978 || 1982
|}

World Athletics became involved in annual one-day meetings as the sport began to professionalise in the late 1970s. Between 1978 and 1982, World Athletics staged twelve [[IAAF Golden Events|Golden Events]], all for men and principally in track running, which saw World Athletics offer prizes to encourage competition. Three years later in 1985, an annual [[track and field]] circuit was created in the form of the [[IAAF Grand Prix]], which linked existing top-level one-day meetings with a season-ending [[IAAF Grand Prix Final]] for a selection of men's and women's events.<ref name=GP>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/gp.htm Grand Prix] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806170842/http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/gp.htm |date=6 August 2012 }}. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 20 October 2019.</ref> The [[IAAF World Cross Challenge]] followed in 1990 and began an annual series for [[cross country running]].<ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/xc.htm World Cross Challenge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916042438/http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/xc.htm |date=16 September 2018 }}. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 20 October 2019.</ref> The track and field circuit was expanded in 1993 with the creation of the [[IAAF Grand Prix II]] level, and the [[IAAF Golden League]] in 1998. World Athletics began recognising annual indoor track meets via the [[IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings]] series in 1997,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19970223033540/http://www.iaaf.org/competition/calendar97/5.html Indoor Permit Meetings 1997]. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 20 October 2019.</ref> and in 1998 decathletes and heptathletes found seasonal support with the creation of the [[IAAF Combined Events Challenge]].<ref name=GP/> The World Cross Challenge was disbanded in 2000 and cross country reverted to a permit format via the [[IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings]].<ref>[https://www.iaaf.org/Competitions/iaaf-cross-country-permit/calendar/1999 1999 IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506235213/https://www.iaaf.org/Competitions/iaaf-cross-country-permit/calendar/1999 |date=6 May 2019 }}. IAAF. Retrieved 20 October 2019.</ref> The [[IAAF Race Walking Challenge]] was initiated in 2003 to provide a seasonal calendar for racewalking.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031003062042/http://www.iaaf.org/WRC03/results/year=2003/event=WRC/index.html IAAF World Race Walking Challenge]. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 20 October 2019.</ref>

World Athletics reformed its track and field circuit in 2003, with the [[IAAF World Outdoor Meetings]] series grouping five tiers of annual track and field competitions: the Golden League, [[IAAF Super Grand Prix]], Grand Prix, Grand Prix II, and the [[IAAF World Athletics Final]]. The new final format was introduced with a new global performance ranking system for qualification and featured an increased programme of track and field events, mirroring the [[World Championships in Athletics]] programme bar the road events, combined events, relays, and the [[10,000 metres]]. The final achieved gender parity in events in 2005, with the inclusion of a women's [[3000 metres steeplechase]].<ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/waf.htm World Athletics Final] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025042904/http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/waf.htm |date=25 October 2019 }}. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 20 October 2019.</ref> The track and field circuit was rebranded as the [[IAAF World Athletics Tour]] in 2006, which removed the global rankings and the IAAF Grand Prix II (replaced with a level of meetings given permit status by continental governing bodies).<ref>Turner, Chris (2005). [http://www.aipsmedia.com/index.php?page=news&cod=199&tp=n IAAF - World Athletics Tour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916042902/http://www.aipsmedia.com/index.php?page=news&cod=199&tp=n |date=16 September 2018 }}. International Sports Press Association. Retrieved on 11 September 2009.</ref> With World Athletics having recognised the sport of [[mountain running]] in 2002,<ref>[https://www.iaaf.org/disciplines/mountain-running/mountain-running Mountain Running] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605190415/https://www.iaaf.org/disciplines/mountain-running/mountain-running |date=5 June 2018 }}. IAAF. Retrieved 20 October 2019.</ref> the annual [[WMRA World Cup]] meetings received official sanctioning in 2006, organised under [[World Mountain Running Association]].<ref>[http://www.wmra.ch/files/results/grand_prix/GP-2006-final.pdf WMRA Grand Prix 2006]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122092913/http://www.wmra.ch/files/results/grand_prix/GP-2006-final.pdf |date=22 January 2015 }}. WMRA. Retrieved on 24 March 2015.</ref> The [[IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final]] was created in 2007 to serve as a seasonal final for the Race Walking Challenge. World Athletics designed a sanctioning process for the [[road running]] competitions in 2008, with races having to meet organisational requirements to achieve Gold or Silver status under the [[IAAF Road Race Label Events]] brand. This incorporated the [[World Marathon Majors]] (a privately run series for major marathons initiated in 2006) within the Gold Label category. Road running was the last sport governed by World Athletics to receive seasonal sanctioning.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitioninfo/c2127e60-9aa4-40d9-bd90-43fd7db3d607.pdf |title=IAAF Road Race Labels: Regulations 2014 |publisher=International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) |access-date=4 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105050815/https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitioninfo/c2127e60-9aa4-40d9-bd90-43fd7db3d607.pdf |archive-date=5 January 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 2010 season saw several changes to World Athletics' one-day governance. The World Athletics Tour was made defunct and replaced with three separate series: the 14-meet [[Diamond League]] as the top level of track meetings, the [[IAAF World Challenge]] as a second tier of track meetings, and the [[IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge]] as the top level of hammer throwing contests (as hammer was not included in the Diamond League). The Road Race Label grouping was also expanded that year with the creation of a Bronze label status.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-label-road-races/calendar/2010 |title=Calendar: 2010 |publisher=IAAF |access-date=4 January 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924164431/http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-label-road-races/calendar/2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Race Walking Challenge Final was removed from the racewalking schedule after 2012, as the series focused on international championship performances.<ref>[https://www.iaaf.org/Competitions/iaaf-race-walking-challenge/calendar/2013 2013 IAAF Race Walking Challenge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020141126/https://www.iaaf.org/Competitions/iaaf-race-walking-challenge/calendar/2013 |date=20 October 2019 }}. IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2019.</ref> In 2016, the [[IAAF World Indoor Tour]] was introduced as a replacement of the Indoor Permit Meetings series.<ref>{{cite web | title=IAAF to launch World Indoor Tour | work=IAAF | url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/world-indoor-tour | access-date=8 December 2015 | date=8 December 2015 | archive-date=18 April 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418143436/https://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/world-indoor-tour | url-status=live }}</ref>

The track and field circuit is due for further changes in 2020, including an increase in the number of Diamond League meetings, the reduction of Diamond League events from 32 to 24, reduction of the Diamond League television running time to 90 minutes, the creation of a one-day Diamond League final, and the relaunch of the World Challenge series as the [[World Athletics Continental Tour]].<ref>Rowbottom, Mike (7 October 2019). [https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1085615/mike-rowbottom-discus-iaaf Mike Rowbottom: New arguments for an ancient event - discus makes a throw for IAAF Diamond League survival] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008183244/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1085615/mike-rowbottom-discus-iaaf |date=8 October 2019 }}. Inside the Games. Retrieved 2019-10-20.</ref><ref>[https://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/wanda-group-title-sponsor-for-diamond-league IAAF announces Wanda Group in landmark title sponsorship of Diamond League] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926220050/https://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/wanda-group-title-sponsor-for-diamond-league |date=26 September 2019 }}. IAAF (25 September 2019). Retrieved 2019-10-20.</ref>