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Federation of Athletics
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World Athletics
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Athletics De international
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International Athletics
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Detailed explanation-1: -The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will now officially be known as World Athletics, a statement said. The IAAF was founded in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation but changed its name to the International Association of Athletics Federations in 2001.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even the IAAF’s name has changed, in 2001 becoming the ‘International Association of Athletics Federations’ to reflect the growth of a professional sporting world which did not exist in 1912, and then again in 2019 to ‘World Athletics’.
Detailed explanation-3: -“We’re now World Athletics,” the sport’s international governing body said in their website.
Detailed explanation-4: -The headquarters of World Athletics is situated in Monaco. World Athletics was founded as the International Amateur Athletic Association in Stockholm in 1912. It is the ratifying body for all official world records in track-and-field events.