About World Athletics Scores

The Aim of the Project

World Athletics Scores was created with a simple idea: to make athletics scoring tables easier to consult and use.

Scoring tables can be a very useful tool for athletes, coaches, clubs, meet organisers and developers, but working with them is not always straightforward. My goal is to bring together tools that make it possible to access, calculate and use this data quickly, clearly and easily.

That is why World Athletics Scores aims to be more than just a calculator. I want to build a small set of tools around scoring tables: from a simple calculator to Google Sheets integrations, developer libraries and new tools that can be useful to the athletics community.

Why Did I Create World Athletics Scores?

The story of World Athletics Scores began long before this website existed. When I first started using scoring tables, I came across a fairly simple problem: finding a specific performance and knowing how many points it was worth could be much more complicated than it should have been.

The tables were available, but you would usually have to open documents and search through them until you found the event, gender and performance you needed. For an occasional lookup, that was fine, but when you want to compare many performances or use the data regularly, the process becomes quite cumbersome.

At the time, I was also starting to learn web development. I needed a project to learn JavaScript, and at the same time I had a problem right in front of me that I wanted to solve myself. That is how the first version of the calculator was born.

That first version was much simpler than the website you see today. Over time, I kept learning, adding features, improving the design and finding new ways to work with the tables. What started as a project to learn programming eventually became World Athletics Scores.

From a First Calculator to a Bigger Project

The tool has grown little by little alongside me. The first version was created as a simple solution to a specific problem and, over the years, it has grown into a platform with a calculator, Google Sheets resources, developer tools and new ideas in the works.

Who I Am

I'm David Ballester Ribó, an athlete and the developer behind World Athletics Scores.

My relationship with athletics began in 2016, after discovering the sport while watching the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. During my first few years I competed in many different events, until I decided to move into the sprint and hurdles group.

In 2020, I decided to focus on hurdles, a discipline that had already caught my attention after watching the 110 metres hurdles final in Rio de Janeiro. For several years I mainly competed in hurdles, particularly the 400 metres hurdles, while also competing in sprint events and trying other distances.

In 2024, I competed at the Spanish U20 Championships in the 400 metres hurdles, and in 2025 I also had the opportunity to compete in Spain's second tier of club athletics, Primera División. During those years I also tried the 800 metres, where I managed to break the two-minute barrier, before taking another step towards middle-distance running.

In my most recent season, I competed in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase, a season in which things did not quite work out as I had hoped, with Lô Esport Menorca, after spending most of my previous career with U.G.E. Badalona. I also competed again in Primera División Nacional.

Now I'm thinking about a new chapter and would like to try trail running, particularly vertical kilometre races. I've always really enjoyed uphill training, both short and long efforts, so I'm looking forward to discovering what I can do in a different discipline.

Athletics has been part of my life for many years and, somewhat unexpectedly, it also became the starting point for this project. World Athletics Scores brings together two things I enjoy: athletics and building tools that can be useful to other people.

About the Scoring Tables

World Athletics Scores uses data from the official scoring tables published by World Athletics. My work consists of processing that data and turning it into tools that are easier to access and use.

Each version of the tools uses a specific version of the scoring tables. That is why I always try to make it clear which tables are being used and to keep the information as transparent as possible when a new version is released.

The calculator and the other tools on this website are independent and are not official World Athletics tools, nor are they affiliated with the organisation. World Athletics Scores is an independent project.

The aim is not to replace official publications, but to make their data easier to access and use for lookups, rankings, results, personal projects and other athletics-related applications.

How It Works

I try to make the tools as simple as possible to use. In the calculator, for example, you can select an event and enter a performance to get the corresponding score without having to search through a table manually.

Whenever possible, calculations are performed directly in the browser. This allows certain tools to work without relying on constant requests to a server and keeps the experience fast, even when performing many calculations.

The same idea is behind the developer resources. The JavaScript library allows you to integrate the scoring tables directly into other websites, while the Google Sheets functions let you use the calculations from a spreadsheet.