Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Tasks/World Championships top 8s

=World Championships in Athletics= This is a list of missing biography articles for athletes who reached the top eight of an event at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics from 1983 to present. At creation, on 12 April 2014, there were 120 missing athletes and at last update on 31 July 2016 66 were missing.

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=World Indoor Championships= This is a list of missing biography articles for athletes who reached the final of an event at the IAAF World Indoor Championships from 1999 to present.

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2012

 * Pole vault
 * Katie Byres

2008

 * 3000 metres
 * Ali Maataoui
 * 4x400 relay
 * Angel Perkins
 * Miriam Barnes
 * Heptathlon
 * Mikhail Logvinenko
 * Donovan Kilmartin

2006

 * 800 metres
 * James Watkins (athlete)
 * Combined events
 * Yuliya Ignatkina
 * Svetlana Ladokhina

2004

 * 400 metres
 * Joe Mendel
 * Julian Clay
 * Combined events
 * Kim Schiemenz
 * Ranko Leskovar

2003

 * 3000 metres
 * Maria Tsirba
 * Combined events
 * Maryna Brezhina

2001

 * Triple jump
 * Igor Gavrilenko

1999

 * 1500 metres
 * Richard Boulet
 * Svetlana Kanatova
 * 3000 metres
 * Darren Lynch (athlete)
 * Marco Antonio Rufo
 * Akira Kiniwa
 * Akiko Kawashima
 * High jump
 * Viktoriya Seryogina
 * Long jump
 * Nina Perevedentseva
 * Hitomi Takamatsu
 * Triple jump
 * Yelena Donkina
 * Miao Chunqing

1997
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 * 800 metres
 * Irina Biryukova
 * 1500 metres
 * Margarita Marusova
 * 3000 metres
 * Sergey Drygin
 * Massimo Pegoretti
 * Laurence Duquénoy
 * Luminita Gogîrlea
 * Etaferahu Tarekegne
 * Cheri Goddard
 * Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim
 * 4x400 relay
 * Loic Lerouge
 * Dmitriy Bey
 * Rafik Elouardi
 * Andreas Rechbauer
 * Tatyana Movchan
 * Galyna Misiruk
 * Pole vault
 * Bill Deering
 * Svetlana Abramova
 * Eszter Szemerédi
 * Long jump
 * Yevgeniy Tretyak
 * Romuald Ducros
 * Nina Perevedentseva
 * Triple jump
 * Gennadiy Glushenko
 * Shot put
 * Mark Parlin

=IAAF World Half Marathon/Road Championships= This is a list of missing biography articles for athletes who reached the top eight at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships from 1992 to present. At creation, on 2 April 2016, there were 31 missing athletes. {{columns-list|colwidth=22em| -

1984

 * Sally Pierson

1985

 * Mariya Vasilyuk

1989

 * Wang Huabi

1991

 * Georgetta Stage
 * Lidia Camberg

1992

 * Dave Lewis
 * Artur Castro

1993

 * Valdenor dos Santos
 * John Andrews
 * Adam Motlagale

1995

 * Delmir dos Santos

1996

 * Toshiyuki Hayata
 * Neema Tuluway
 * Delmir dos Santos

1998

 * Ibrahim Seid

2003

 * Yusuf Songoka
 * Jackson Koech

2004

 * Solomon Tsige
 * Alene Emere
 * Yuki Saito

2007

 * Chisato Osaki

2008

 * Yusei Nakao

2010

 * Titus Masai
 * Birhanu Bekele

2012

 * Pauline Njeri Kahenya

2014

 * Mercy Jerotich Kibarus

2018
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 * Bekelech Gudeta

=IAAF World Cross Country Championships= This is a list of missing biography articles for athletes who reached the top eight at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships from 1992 to present. At creation, on 2 April 2016, there were 55 missing athletes. {{columns-list|colwidth=18em| --

1973

 * Roger Clark
 * Juan Hidalgo
 * Jean Lochhead
 * Irja Pettinen

1974

 * Jim Brown
 * Wilfried Scholz
 * Pirjo Vihonen

1977

 * Sue Kinsey

1978

 * Guy Arbogast
 * Monika Greschner
 * Georgeta Gazibara

1979
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 * Frank Zimmermann