The Must-watch Events At The World Championships

The World Athletics Championships get nether measurement successful Tokyo connected Saturday, opening 9 days of captivating play featuring nan world's biggest way and section stars.

There are 147 medals to beryllium awarded crossed 49 events successful an action-packed schedule successful nan Japanese capital, pinch a full prize cookware of $8.5m (£6.3m) connected offer.

Here are immoderate of nan events you decidedly do not want to miss.

Thursday, 18 September 11:55 BST - heats; Friday, 19 September 12:45 BST - semi-finals; Sunday, 21 September 11:35 BST - final

Despite being forced to hold 12 months to compete for nan first clip arsenic Olympic champion because of injury, Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson will statement up successful Tokyo arsenic nan golden badge favourite.

The 23-year-old made her return conscionable 4 weeks earlier nan World Championships, aft 2 torn hamstrings, but clocked nan fastest clip of 2025 successful her comeback and backed that up pinch different triumph astatine past month's Lausanne Diamond League.

Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell has decided to attraction her afloat attraction connected nan 800m, joining training partner Hodgkinson and chap Briton Jemma Reekie successful nan conflict for nan podium.

Among nan athletes hoping to contradict them will beryllium Kenya's reigning champion Mary Moraa, Ethiopia's Olympic metallic medallist Tsige Duguma and Swiss jock Audrey Werro.

Saturday, 13 September 12:35 BST - heats; Sunday, 14 September 12:43 BST - semi-finals and 14:20 - final

American Noah Lyles seeks a 3rd consecutive world 100m title aft pursuing up world glory successful Budapest pinch a melodramatic Olympic golden astatine Paris 2024.

The 28-year-old edged retired Jamaica's Kishane Thompson in nan fastest title successful history past summertime but his season's champion of 9.90 seconds ranks conscionable 11th successful nan world this year.

Thompson arrives arsenic 2025's fastest man successful 9.75, while chap Jamaican Oblique Seville hit Lyles comprehensively successful August.

There will besides beryllium attraction connected Australian teen Gout Gout, who has been likened to sprint icon Usain Bolt.

Zharnel Hughes, nan 2023 bronze medallist and pinch a champion clip this twelvemonth of 9.91, leads British liking arsenic he targets a 2nd world medal.

Saturday, 13 September 10:55 BST - heats; Sunday, 14 September 12:20 BST - semi-finals and 14:13 BST - final

St Lucia's Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred will target a sprint double successful nan absence of injured American 200m golden medallist Gabby Thomas - nan only jock capable to contradict her that accomplishment past summer.

American Sha'Carri Richardson will purpose to clasp her world title aft taking Olympic silver, but it is Paris 2024 bronze medallist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden who has been nan standout performer this season.

Not only has Jefferson-Wooden tally an unmatched 10.65 seconds, but she besides boasts 5 of nan six fastest times this twelvemonth - pinch her fourth-fastest tied pinch Alfred's champion of 10.75 secs.

Great Britain's erstwhile world 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith, Daryl Neita and Amy Hunt will each dream to beryllium successful nan badge mix, arsenic will Jamaican fable Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce astatine her last awesome championship.

Sunday, 14 September 01:35 BST - heats; Monday, 15 September 13:30 BST - semi-finals; Wednesday, 17 September 14:20 BST - final

Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen meet for their latest duel, this clip afloat alert to nan threats astir them.

Defending champion Kerr emulated British team-mate Jake Wightman successful beating Ingebrigtsen to world golden 2 years ago.

But American Cole Hocker delivered a astonishment twist to nan latest showdown betwixt nan 2 fierce rivals arsenic he pipped Kerr to golden successful an Olympic grounds time.

One of nan astir enthralling events of caller years appears wide open, pinch Ingebrigtsen's play disrupted by wounded and Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse failing to qualify.

Friday, 19 September 09:33 BST - 100m hurdles; 10:20 BST - precocious jump; 12:30 BST - changeable put; 13:38 BST - 200m; Saturday, 20 September 03:30 BST - agelong jump; 11:00 BST - javelin; 13:11 BST - 800m

Great Britain's Katerina Johnson-Thompson and Belgian Nafi Thiam spell head-to-head arsenic some activity to go three-time world champions successful Tokyo.

The brace person divided nan past 4 world golds betwixt them, pinch Johnson-Thompson triumphing arsenic Thiam missed nan 2023 championships done injury.

Thiam became a three-time Olympic champion past year, edging Johnson-Thompson to return golden by conscionable 36 points successful a melodramatic concluding 800m successful Paris.

After ending her hold for an Olympic medal, Johnson-Thompson will dream to again spell toe-to-toe pinch Thiam astatine nan stadium wherever she suffered wounded heartbreak astatine nan Games 4 years ago.

Sunday, 14 September 10:35 BST - heats; Tuesday, 16 September 13:35 BST - semi-finals; Thursday, 18 September 14:10 BST - final

Will Tokyo beryllium nan segment of Matthew Hudson-Smith's crowning moment?

The British 30-year-old has gone agonisingly adjacent to golden astatine nan past 2 world championships, missing retired to American Quincy Hall by four-hundredths of a 2nd astatine nan Olympics aft finishing wrong 0.09secs of nan world title 12 months earlier.

His European grounds clip of 43.44 seconds astatine Paris 2024 made him nan fifth-quickest 400m runner successful history, but 3 men person gone faster than his season's champion of 44.10 - including American Diamond League champion Jacory Patterson.

British team-mate Charlie Dobson will target nan podium aft stunning Hudson-Smith astatine July's London Diamond League, taking triumph successful a individual champion 44.14.