Over one million tickets applied for at next summer's IAAF World Championships London 2017

London 2017 Ltd have announced that 1,047,000 tickets have been applied for at the IAAF World Championships London 2017 with 5 of 14 sessions oversubscribed across all four price categories.

Applications flooded in from 92 countries around the world including Jamaica, Thailand, Armenia and Uruguay. Whilst over 200,000 tickets were applied for Session 3 featuring the men’s 100m final, 13 of the 14 sessions in one price category or more have been balloted, reflecting the public’s huge appetite for live sport and world-class athletics.

486,000 of the 700,000 IAAF World Championships London 2017 tickets available, have now been sold, a year in advance of the Championships. Applicants will receive email communications from Friday 2 September 2016 to inform them of the outcome of the ballots and details of payment runs. 

The ticket application window was open between 1–29 August 2016. The race is now on for next summer’s World ParaAthletics Championships – also being staged in London in 2017. Organisers expect to capitalise on ParaGB’s predicted ‘gold rush’ at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and encourage the public to secure their tickets for 2017’s summer of world athletics. Tickets will be on sale on a first come, first served basis from 11:00 on 10 September 2016 at tickets.london2017athletics.com.