Aruba at the World Athletics Championships

Aruba has competed at the IAAF World Athletics Championships on eleven occasions, and did not send a delegation for the 1983 championships or the editions from 2001 to 2009. Its competing country code is ARU. The country has not won any medals at the competition and as of 2017 no Aruban athlete has reached the top eight of an event. Its best performance is by Cornelia Melis, who placed 21st in the 1991 women's marathon.[1]

Aruba at the
World Championships in Athletics
IAAF codeARU
National federationAruba Athletic Federation
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
World Championships in Athletics appearances

2019

Aruba will compete at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics in Doha, Qatar, from 27 September to 6 October 2019. Aruba will be represented by 1 athlete.

Jonathan Busby struggled to finish the distance on his own and fellow competitor Braima Suncar Dabo of Guinea-Bissau helped him to the finish line, which ultimately resulted in his disqualification.[2]

Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Jonathan Busby 5000 metres DQ — N/A
gollark: I think the big target for botnets and stuff these days is the wildly insecure routers and IoT devices everyone has.
gollark: Windows lets you do that? Huh.
gollark: So you... made something which opens random programs and creates error windows? And maybe plays music. I don't think it's considered a trojan.
gollark: Probably true.
gollark: It does seem to have a vaguely similar auto-parallel thing, so meh.

References
  1. IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 - Statistics Handbook. IAAF (2019). Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. How's this for great sportsmanship? Dabo helps Busby in men's 5,000m. BBC Sport (2019-09-27). Retrieved 2019-09-29.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.