OREGON22 IS MOST-WATCHED WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS ON RECORD

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Wednesday, July twenty seventh, 2022

OREGON22 IS MOST-WATCHED WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS ON RECORD

18.7 Million Complete Viewers Throughout NBC Sports activities Platforms for 10-Day Occasion is Most On Report (Since 1988)

July 24 Primetime Program on NBC is Most-Watched Observe & Discipline Occasion on NBC in 26 Years, Excluding Olympics and U.S. Group Trials

Powered by Sydney McLaughlin, Noah Lyles, Athing Mu, Fred Kerley, Katie Nageotte, Ryan Crouser and Many Extra, Group USA Units World Observe & Discipline Championships Report By Profitable 33 Medals

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 27, 2022 – Powered by the unimaginable performances of celebrity athletes Sydney McLaughlin, Noah Lyles, Athing Mu, Fred Kerley, Katie Nageotte, Ryan Crouser and lots of extra, the World Observe & Discipline Championships Oregon22 are the most-watched World Observe & Discipline Championships on file (since 1988), reaching 18.7 million complete viewers throughout NBC Sports activities platforms for the 10-day occasion. The 18.7 million complete viewers surpass NBC Sports activities’ earlier file for the occasion by 65% (London 2017, 11.3 million).

Within the first-ever outside World Observe & Discipline Championships held in the US, Group USA completed with 33 complete medals (13 gold), the highest ever by a single nation, breaking a 35-year-old file (31, East Germany, Rome 1987). The earlier American file was 30 medals for London 2017. See under for the whole Group USA medal haul.

On the ultimate evening of competitors on Sunday, July 24, NBC averaged 2.362 million TV-only viewers (9:00-11:06 p.m. ET/PT), making it the community’s most-watched observe & area program in 26 years, excluding Olympics and U.S. Group Trials. Viewership peaked at 3.2 million viewers on the finish of the competitors evening. It was additionally the second-most watched sports activities program of the weekend.

“Oregon22 was an unprecedented alternative to interact with passionate American observe & area followers and make new ones,” mentioned Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics & Paralympics. “The U.S. Observe & Discipline group, fueled by an electrical, reside crowd at iconic Hayward Discipline, delivered on that chance after which some, with a dominant efficiency throughout a number of occasions on the observe and within the area that units the stage for a record-setting Paris 2024 Olympics.”

Extra viewership highlights:

• Protection for the seven NBC broadcast community packages — together with 4 in primetime, a primary for the occasion – averaged practically two million TV-only viewers (1.934 million), the highest World Observe & Discipline Championships common for the community in 15 years (2007, 2.08 million, one NBC telecast).
• Friday evening’s (July 22) primetime protection on USA Community averaged 783,000 TV-only viewers, NBC Sports activities’ second-most watched observe & area cable telecast on file, excluding Olympics and U.S. Group Trials. It trails solely the 2018 Indoor Championships, which had a Winter Olympics lead-in (1.306 million, NBCSN, Feb. 10).
• Throughout all 43 hours of tv protection (NBC/USA/CNBC), the 2022 World Observe & Discipline Championships averaged 834,000 viewers – the highest common for the occasion since 2015 (1.163 million, 4 NBC-only telecasts). That common viewership is greater than 4 occasions bigger than the 2019 occasion in Doha (199,000 viewers).

• The T&F World Championships set a brand new streaming file with greater than 200 million minutes seen, together with simulstreams, exclusives, and replays, throughout Peacock and NBC Sports activities digital platforms.

NBC Sports activities’ record coverage of the 10-day occasion (July 15-24) included 43 hours of tv programming throughout NBC, USA Community and CNBC, in addition to reside streaming protection of all competitors periods on Peacock. NBC Sports activities digital platforms reside streamed all tv protection.

Through its in depth media rights agreement with World Athletics that runs by way of 2029, NBC Sports activities will current the subsequent 4 outside World Observe & Discipline Championships, together with Budapest 2023 and Tokyo 2025, and lots of different championship meets.

NBCUniversal additionally has unique U.S. media rights to the Olympic Video games by way of 2032, together with the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games which start two years from yesterday, and can function in depth observe & area protection.

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MEDALS WON BY TEAM USA

GOLD (13)

• Girls’s Shot Put, 20.49m/67-2.75 (Chase Ealey)
• Males’s 100m, 9.86 (Fred Kerley)
• Girls’s Hammer, 78.96m/259-1 (Brooke Andersen)
• Girls’s Pole Vault, 4.85m/15-11 (Katie Nageotte)
• Males’s 110m Hurdles, 13.03 (Grant Holloway)
• Males’s Shot Put, 22.94m/75-3.25 (Ryan Crouser)
• Males’s 200m, 19.31 (Noah Lyles)
• Males’s 400m, 44.29 (Michael Norman)
• Girls’s 400m Hurdles, 50.68 WR* (Sydney McLaughlin)
• Girls’s 4x100m Relay, 41.14 (Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner, Jenna Prandini, TeeTee Terry)
• Girls’s 800m, 1:56.30 (Athing Mu)
• Males’s 4x400m Relay, 2:56.17 (Elija Godwin, Michael Norman, Bryce Deadmon, Champion Allison)
• Girls’s 4x400m Relay, 3:17.79 (Talitha Diggs, Abby Steiner, Britton Wilson, Sydney McLaughlin)

SILVER (9)

• Males’s 100m, 9.88 (Marvin Bracy-Williams)
• Girls’s Pole Vault, 4.85m/15-11 (Sandi Morris)
• Males’s Shot Put, 22.89m/75-1.25 (Joe Kovacs)
• Males’s 110m Hurdles, 13.08 (Trey Cunningham)
• Males’s 400m Hurdles, 46.89 (Rai Benjamin)
• Males’s 200m, 19.77 (Kenny Bednarek)
• Girls’s Javelin, 64.05m/210-1 (Kara Winger)
• Males’s 4x100m Relay, 37.55 (Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles, Elijah Corridor-Thompson, Marvin Bracy-Williams)
• Males’s Pole Vault, 5.94m/19-5.75 (Chris Nilsen)

BRONZE (11)

• Blended 4x400m Relay, 3:10.16 (Elija Godwin, Allyson Felix, Vernon Norwood, Kennedy Simon)
• Males’s 100m, 9.88 (Trayvon Bromell)
• Girls’s Hammer, 74.86m/245-7 (Janee’ Kassanavoid)
• Males’s Shot Put, 22.29m/73-1.75 (Josh Awotunde)
• Girls’s Heptathlon, 6,755 (Anna Corridor)
• Girls’s Triple Leap, 14.72m/48-3.5 (Tori Franklin)
• Males’s 400m Hurdles, 47.39 (Trevor Bassitt)
• Girls’s Discus, 68.30m/224-1 (Valarie Allman)
• Males’s 200m, 19.80 (Erriyon Knighton)
• Girls’s 400m Hurdles, 53.13 (Dalilah Muhammad)
• Males’s Decathlon, 8,676 (Zach Ziemek)

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