World Athletics Ultimate Championship: three-day Budapest meet with $10m prize pool
World Athletics has created a new biennial competition, the Ultimate Championship, to be held over three days in Budapest from 11-13 September. The meet offers record prize money and is open to reigning Olympic, world and Diamond League champions plus top-ranked athletes, with 28 finals on a condensed three-night schedule. President Sebastian Coe says it is an experiment to keep the sport in the spotlight between Olympics and World Championships.