Balázs Forges, co-chair of the organizing committee, described the IAAF World Championships in Budapest, which concluded on Sunday, as a global success of cooperation.
The sports leader of MTI indicated on Monday morning that the largest sporting event in the history of Hungary has become a global success in all aspects, which is supported by the numbers.
He stressed that “athletes from 195 countries participated in the World Cup. Such global participation in sports can only be achieved in the Summer Olympic Games, and the World Championships for other sports cannot do that.” He then stated that more than 2,200 athletes participated. Competitions, coaches and team members numbered more than five thousand.
“During the World Cup, 2,500 Hungarian volunteers helped serve the fans and competitors, helping to hold the World Cup successfully. Fans from all continents of the world, from more than 120 countries, came to Budapest,” he concluded.
He confirmed that the number of tickets sold exceeded 400,000 tickets, which was not what even the International Sports Federation Western Australia expected.
“Over the nine days, the average viewership for the evening finals exceeded 95 percent, the majority of the finals were sold out, and on the first day, in the qualifiers for hammer thrower Pence Halach, all tickets were sold out. “We actually went out in the morning, which is unprecedented,” he stressed. However, television broadcasts were watched by more than one billion people around the world for a long period of time.
He said Hungary also benefited from the World Cup. He noted that all the guests, athletes, team members, official guests, fans, journalists and workers who came to Budapest spent more than half a million guest nights in Budapest hotels and spent several billion forints in Hungary.
“The World Cup brought the whole nation together, strengthening Hungarians’ self-esteem, self-confidence and belonging. “The secret to the success was cooperation and teamwork,” explained Balázs-Forges, who believes the success is down to all of Hungary: everyone contributed their part.
“Volunteers, organizers, athletes, coaches, taxpayers, fans, actors, city administration, representatives, head of state, government, large and small. As the President of the Republic, Katalin Novak, said at the opening of the World Cup, it is a good thing that we can do and experience.” World Cup in unity and agreement.
He specifically stated that the volunteers “impressed” the foreign guests. Adding that they have been nominated for the International Fair Play Award along with Western Australian President Sebastian Coe. “According to Ginny Camoti, president of the International Fair Play Committee, there is a good chance of getting this recognition,” he said.
Romania and Hungary finished with one bronze medal each
Romania and Hungary finished the IAAF World Championships in Budapest with one bronze medal each. The United States topped the medal table with 12 gold, 8 silver, and 9 bronze medals. Canada (4 gold, 2 silver) and Spain (4 gold, 1 silver) ranked second and third, respectively. Behind them in the top ten are Jamaica (3-5-4), Kenya (3-3-4), Ethiopia (2-4-3), Great Britain (2-3-5), and the Netherlands (2-1-). 2) Norway (2-1-1) and Sweden (2-1-0) are closed.
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