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IAAF World Challenge Beijing

track and field competition in Beijing, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ13360165 ↗
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IAAF World Challenge Beijing is an annual track and field competition held in Beijing, China, in May. First held in 2013, it takes place at the Beijing National Stadium, the venue for the Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics. It is part of the IAAF World Challenge circuit, the second tier of international track and field competitions after the IAAF Diamond League.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013. The account is most persuasive where IAAF, World and Challenge can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as track and field competition in Beijing, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “IAAF World Challenge Beijing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.