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World Athletics president Seb Coe explained the Ultimate Championships’ streamlined format.
World Athletics president Seb Coe has defended the Ultimate Championships despite facing backlash for excluding a number of events.
The event, organised by World Athletics will debut in Budapest, Hungary in the summer of 2026, featuring only 16 track events and 10 field events, with all going straight to the final.
The track events featured will be the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, High hurdles, 400m hurdles, 4x100m mix and the 4x400m mix. The field events set to be featured will be the Pole vault, High jump, Long jump, Triple jump (W), Hammer throw (M) and the javelin.
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Defending the project and why it has few events, Seb Coe explained that the event would be televised and they will not afford to include all the track and field disciplines if they want it to be a success.
He urged investors to take their time and analyse how the event will be and hopefully invest their money in there since it a great project.
“I would encourage anybody that wanted to invest in that space to do so. If I narrowly talk for a moment about Budapest, it’s not really about winners and losers,” Seb Coe said.
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“I’m unashamed about this. This is an event designed for television. It’s three hours over three nights. We can’t possibly put all the disciplines in there. We don’t have every track discipline in there.”
He explained that they narrowed down to the best possible events and come another year, they might include other events that have been excluded from the first edition.
He assured fans and other stakeholders that those events that have been excluded from the debut of event are still held in high regard and there is no need to worry about their appearance at the World Championships, Olympic Games or European Championships.
He insisted that the main aim for that event would be to get a brand new audience to add to the original track and field fans.
“What we’ve tried to do is meld the best events at this moment into the right format. It may be that when we come to 2028 it’s different disciplines. But the main point here is there aren’t winners and losers,” Seb Coe affirmed.
“It’s not like we’re going to suddenly lose those events that are not appearing in Budapest. They’re not going to go from the Europeans or the area championships or our national championships, or the World Championships, or even the Olympic Games.
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“This is very much about attracting new audiences, about taking our sport as mainstream as we can, tapping into people that like big events but may not watch athletics… all of these things.”
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