World Athletics Championships (athletics) 2025

The 2025 World Athletics Championships (track & field) are set for Tokyo, Japan, in September.

📅 Key Details

• Duration: 9 days of competition (Sep 13–21, 2025)
• Athletes: Around 2,000 competitors from 200+ countries

🌡️ Scheduling Insights

• Why September? Tokyo's summer heat is intense and potentially hazardous, so the Championships were planned for mid-September to ensure safer conditions for distance and endurance events.
• All events—including marathons and race walks—will remain inside Tokyo, unlike the 2020 Olympics which shifted endurance races to Sapporo.

🏟️ Event Format & Highlights

• Event List: 49 disciplines—including sprints (100/200/400m), middle- and long-distance, hurdles, relays (4×100, 4×400, mixed 4×400), jumps, throws, race walks, decathlon/heptathlon, steeplechase, marathon
• Finals Timing: Heats and qualifying rounds typically in morning sessions, with finals in evening prime-time. For example, Day 1 begins at 08:00 with the 35 km walks and Day 2 includes 100 m finals .

🏆 Qualification Path

• Road events (10K, marathon, walks): qualification from Nov 5, 2024 to May 4, 2025. Other events: from Aug 1, 2024 to Aug 24, 2025.

🔭 Looking Ahead

Expect electrifying matchups with global stars like Neeraj Chopra (javelin), Armand Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, and up-and-coming talents such as Gout Gout, Australia’s record-setting 17‑year‑old sprinter, all aiming for medals in Tokyo