The Austrian Athletics Championships is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Austrian Athletics Federation, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Austria.

[2] The competition programme features a total of 38 individual Austrian Championship athletics events, 19 for men and 19 for women.

The men's 10,000 metres race walk was a previously regular event that stopped after 1980.

The heptathlon was first held in 1981, replacing the long-standing women's pentathlon as the standard combined event.

The women's field events reached parity with the men's after the addition of the triple jump in 1990, the pole vault in 1995 and the hammer throw in 1996.