World Athletics championships has today announced that the marathon and race walk for 2022 World championships will be Eugene and Springfield, Oregon.
The world championships, which were moved from 2021 to 2022 due to the biting coronavirus, will be staged in Eugene Oregon’s Hayward University but only the marathons and race walk that has been moved.
The marathoners will start from the Oregon University and ending at the same point for men’s and women’s marathon and men’s and women’s race walk events.
“We’re thrilled to have the chance to manage the WCH Oregon22 road events next summer,” Eugene Marathon Race Director and Oregon22 Road Events Course Manager Ian Dobson said. “We run on these roads every day and the thought of showing off our extraordinary community to the world, while also inspiring our own running community by bringing the world’s best athletes to them, is an opportunity unlike any other.”
On the first day of competition, July 15, 2022, the women’s and men’s 20-kilometers race walk will take place. The only morning session of Day 8 is the women’s 35-kilometers race walk, the first of its kind in the World Championship series. Day 10, the final day of WCH Oregon22 is opened with the men’s 35-kilometers race walk. All race walk events will be conducted on a 1-kilometer looped course near Autzen Stadium.
The men’s marathon is set to open Day 3 of competition. The women’s marathon will be held the following morning on Day 4 of competition. Both the men’s and women’s marathon course will be a 14-kilometer looped course circling through Eugene and Springfield, Oregon. It will highlight the natural beauty and history of the heart and home of track and field in the U.S.
Source: World Athletics