World Military Track and Field Championships

The World Military Track & Field Championships are the world championships of athletics organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). Initially an annual competition, the championships have been held on an irregular schedule since 1971. The 2011 Championships was the 44th edition.^[1]

The 37th (1995), 38th (1999), 41st (2003), 42nd (2007) and 44th (2011) editions coincided with the first five editions of the Summer Military World Games.

In addition to this outdoor competition, a World Military Indoor Athletics Cup was staged in 2009 in Athens.^[2]

Editions

From 2011 the track and field world championships are the track and field competitions of the Military World Games.

Edition	Venue	Country	Date	Notes
1st	Berlin	Allied-occupied Germany	7–8 September 1946	[3][4][5]
2nd	Berlin	Allied-occupied Germany	13–14 September 1947	[4][6]
3rd	Brussels	Belgium	4 September 1948	[7][8]
4th	Bordeaux	France	22 August-9 September 1949	[9]
5th	Pau	France	5–10 September 1950	[9]
6th	Rome	Italy	23 September-5 October 1951	[10]
7th	Copenhagen	Denmark	13–14 September 1952	[9]
8th	Brussels	Belgium	24–25 July 1953	[7][8]
9th	Tilburg	Netherlands	30–31 July 1954	[9]
10th	Athens	Greece	29 July-6 August 1955	[9]
11th	West Berlin	West Berlin	3–5 August 1956	[3][4][11]
12th	Athens	Greece	14–17 July 1957	[11][9]
13th	Brussels	Belgium	29–31 August 1958	[7][9]
14th	Rome	Italy	29–31 October 1959	[10]
15th	Athens	Greece	2–4 July 1960
16th	Brussels	Belgium	18–20 August 1961
17th	's-Hertogenbosch	Netherlands	3–5 August 1962
18th	Brussels	Belgium	23–25 August 1963	[7]
19th	La Coruña	Spain	6–9 August 1964
20th	Thessaloniki	Greece	31 July - 1 August 1965	[12]
21st	La Coruña	Spain	2–3 July 1966
22nd	Athens	Greece	5–7 July 1968
23rd	Poitiers	France	12–14 July 1969
24th	Viareggio	Italy	12–14 June 1970
25th	Turku	Finland	19–21 August 1971
26th	Florence	Italy	6–8 June 1973
27th	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	24–26 August 1976	[13]
28th	Mikkeli	Finland	15–17 August 1978
29th	Algiers	Algeria	1–8 July 1979	[9]
30th	São Paulo	Brazil	7–9 November 1980
31st	Alexandria	Egypt	14–16 October 1984
32nd	Rome	Italy	11–13 September 1986
33rd	Warendorf	Germany	24–26 June 1987
34th	Rome	Italy	20–22 September 1989
35th	Kajaani	Finland	27–29 July 1990
36th	Tours	France	28–30 August 1993
37th	Rome	Italy	13–15 September 1995	[14]
38th	Zagreb	Croatia	8–17 August 1999	[14][9]
39th	Beirut	Lebanon	1–4 July 2001
40th	Tivoli	Italy	4–7 September 2002
41st	Catania	Italy	4–11 December 2003	[14]
42nd	Hyderabad	India	14–21 October 2007	[14]
43rd	Sofia	Bulgaria	6–13 June 2009
44th	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	15–24 July 2011	[14]
45th	Mungyeong	South Korea	4–8 October 2015

See also

• Inter-Allied Games
• World Military Championships
• Military World Games
• World Military Cross Country Championships

References

1. "44th World Military Track & Field Championships". cism-milsport.org. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
2. Tomaz Majewski is Training at Chula Vista, Haile Gebrselassie racing Bupa Manchester Great Run, by Alfons Juck, Note by Larry Eder. RunBlogRun (2009-03-12). Retrieved on 2015-03-04.
3. CISM Sports Regulation - Track and Field, Cross Country, Marathon - SHORT HISTORY (PDF), CISM, May 2009, p. 6, retrieved April 15, 2014
4. United States of America (USA) - CISM Member since: 1951, CISM, retrieved April 14, 2014
5. Dixon, Ian, Berlin Medallion 1946, British Army of the Rhine, retrieved April 15, 2014
6. "FRENCH TEAM WINS IN ARMY 'OLYMPICS'; United States Squad Is Next in Berlin Events as Ten Meet Records Fall", The New York Times, September 14, 1947, retrieved April 15, 2014
7. Belgium (BEL) - CISM Member since: 1948, CISM, retrieved April 14, 2014
8. Vanmeerbeek, Roger; Delheye, Pascal (December 20, 2013), Military Sport in the Belgian Congo: From Physical Training and Leisure to Belgian-Congolese Records in Track and Field, 1945–1960 (PDF), The International Journal of the History of Sport, 30:16, pp. 1929–1946, retrieved April 14, 2014
9. "CISM - International Military Sport Council Track and Field".
10. Italy (ITA) - CISM Member since: 1949, CISM, retrieved April 14, 2014
11. Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame - Joshua Culbreath - Class of 2008 - Track and Field, United States Marine Corps, retrieved April 15, 2014
12. Après la défaite américaine à Kiev (PDF) (in French), Feuille d'avis du Valais, August 3, 1965, p. 3, retrieved April 14, 2014
13. L ATHLETISME DANS LES FORCES ARMEES DE COTE D IVOIRE. Confejes. Retrieved on 2013-01-13.
14. Inside the Military World Games

External links

• Page of the Track & Field Championships from official site of CISM