{"id":2253,"date":"2019-06-21T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2019-06-21T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:14:39","slug":"international-association-of-athletics-federations-iaaf-re-branded-as-world-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/international-association-of-athletics-federations-iaaf-re-branded-as-world-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) re-branded as World Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The International Association of Athletics\nFederations (IAAF),&nbsp;<\/strong>the international\ngoverning body for the sport of athletics, changed it name from IAAF to<strong>&nbsp;World Athletics.&nbsp;<\/strong>The\nmembers of IAAF council have approved the rebranding at an IAAF Council meeting\nheld in Monaco on 8th June. The process to rebrand IAAF began on January 2018.<br><br><strong>Purpose:<\/strong><br>\nThe new name and logo has been designed to<strong>&nbsp;represent the modern and\npositive face<\/strong>&nbsp;for athletics. Also, it aims to attract the<strong>&nbsp;younger audience.<\/strong><br>\nIt will see the organisation take on its new\nname and a re-designed logo after the 2019&nbsp;<strong>World Athletics Championship&nbsp;<\/strong>in Doha\nin October.<br><br><strong>From\nthe Origin:<\/strong><br>\nIAAF was formed in&nbsp;<strong>17 July 1912<\/strong>. When it\nwas founded the name it had was&nbsp;<strong>International\nAmateur Athletic Federation.<\/strong>&nbsp;It was then changed to&nbsp;<strong>International Association of Athletics\nFederations in 2001.<\/strong><br>\nThe&nbsp;<strong>headquarters\nof IAAF<\/strong>&nbsp;is located in&nbsp;<strong>Monaco.<\/strong>&nbsp;IAAF has&nbsp;215 member\nfederations. The Current<strong>President&nbsp;<\/strong>of\nIAAF is&nbsp;<strong>Sebastian\nCoe. The&nbsp;<\/strong>CEO of IAAF is&nbsp;<strong>Jon Ridgeon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF),&nbsp;the international governing body for the sport of athletics, changed it name from IAAF to&nbsp;World Athletics.&nbsp;The members of IAAF council have approved the rebranding at an IAAF Council meeting held in Monaco on 8th June. The process to rebrand IAAF began on January 2018. Purpose: The new name and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}