2005 World Championships in Athletics 2005 World Championships in Athletics The 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland (6 August 2005 – 14 August 2005), the site of the first IAAF World Championships in 1983. One theme of the 2005 championships was paralympic events, some of which were included as exhibition events. Much of the event was played in extremely heavy rainfall. The original winning bid for the competition was for London but the cost to build the required stadium at Picketts Lock and host the event was
Italy at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics doping, 2nd in the high jump, so also Antonietta Di Martino was advanced to bronze medal. Italy national athletics team ranked 17th (with 9 finalists) in the "IAAF placing table". Rank obtained by assigning eight points in the first place and so on to the eight finalists. For the Italian national team participated at the events 35 athletes, 20 men and 15 women. Italy at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics Italy competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, held from August 15 to August 23. On August 3, the Italian national athletics federation (FIDAL) revealed the final team