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For Rudisha, becoming an ambassador for the event in Budapest is an opportunity to return to the stage on which he claimed two of his four global gold medals in the 800m.
World 800m record holder David Rudisha, Daley Thompson, and Blanka Vlasic have been announced as ambassadors of the 2023 World Athletics Championships scheduled for Budapest, Hungary from August 19 to 27.
The global greats, who boast five World titles between them, will be in Budapest for the championships that will be held over nine days.
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As reported by World Athletics, the ambassadors will be joined by a number of other legends who will be in Budapest in various roles including as team leaders, coaches, broadcasters, and reporters as the sport celebrates 40 years of the World Athletics Championships in 2023.
For Rudisha, becoming an ambassador for the event in Budapest is an opportunity to return to the stage on which he claimed two of his four global gold medals in the 800m.
In 2009 he missed out on the World Championships final in Berlin but in 2010 he set two of his three world records and he carried that momentum through to Daegu 12 months later. With a commanding performance, he took the world title in 1:43.91 and regained it in Beijing four years later, returning to the top after two injury-ridden years.
That second world crown came after another world record run to gain Olympic gold in London, and he would retain the title in Rio.
“I am deeply honoured to be appointed as an ambassador for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 by World Athletics.
Congratulations to all the athletes who have made it to the World Championships this year. I take this opportunity to wish everyone a successful competition and I ask all the fans and athletes to uphold the spirit of sportsmanship during the event,” Rudisha said.
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Meanwhile, Thompson was there at the start. Competing at the inaugural World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983, the British decathlon great overcame injury to win with 8666 points, adding the world title to his Olympic, European, and Commonwealth Games triumphs.
The following year, the multiple-world record-breaker retained his Olympic title in Los Angeles.
“Both participating and winning medals at the World Championships is a major landmark in any athlete’s career,” Thompson said.
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Croatia’s Vlasic is also a two-time world champion, her high jump wins clinched in Osaka in 2007 and Berlin in 2009. In 2007 she cleared 2.05m and two years later, 2.04m. On both occasions, she did her trademark dance to celebrate and went on to attempt a world record.
“The sense of pride and accomplishment will stay with me forever, that’s for sure,” she said in an interview reflecting on her second world title win when she became the second woman to claim back-to-back world crowns in the event.
Now this trio of stars will watch on as some of the world’s current best athletes descend on Hungary’s new National Athletics Centre seeking to emulate them as world champions.
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