World Athletics Championships - Everything You Need To Know

The biggest names successful athletics are poised to spell head-to-head for world honours complete 9 days of action astatine nan World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo, Japan.

The end-of-season championships statesman connected Saturday, pinch regular sum crossed nan BBC.

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson and chap Paris 2024 medallists Josh Kerr, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Matthew Hudson-Smith and Georgia Hunter Bell are among Great Britain's podium hopes.

The relay teams will besides purpose to present erstwhile again aft supplying 5 of GB's 10 athletics medals astatine past summer's Games, opening pinch nan mixed 4x400m last connected nan opening nighttime astatine Japan National Stadium.

That full successful Paris was GB's champion return astatine an Olympics for 40 years, and followed nan team's joint-best World Championships haul of 10 medals successful 2023.

Olympic 100m champions Noah Lyles and Julien Alfred, Swedish rod vault prima Armand Duplantis, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon and Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen are among nan world stars targeting golden successful nan Japanese capital.

Total prize money of $8.5m (£6.2m) is connected offer, pinch golden badge winners receiving $70,000 (£52,000). A $100,000 (£74,000) world grounds prize is besides available.

Tokyo is preparing to big a premier sporting arena for nan first clip since nan 2020 Olympics, which were postponed 1 twelvemonth and had to beryllium held down closed doors because of nan coronavirus pandemic.

Extreme power is expected during nan championships, pinch temperatures apt to transcend 30C.

As Tokyo is 8 hours up of British Summer Time, for UK viewers nan greeting sessions will return spot overnight, while evening sessions tally from greeting to early afternoon.

American Lyles will target a 3rd consecutive world 100m golden aft winning a spectacular Olympic last by conscionable five-thousandths of a second, arsenic he seeks to clasp 3 world titles.

Compatriot - and this year's fastest man - Kenneth Bednarek, Jamaicans Kishane Thompson and Oblique Seville, and Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo are among his main rivals.

Alfred stormed to nan women's 100m title successful Paris to present St Lucia's first Olympic badge of immoderate colour, earlier taking 200m silver, and will erstwhile again target a sprint double.

The women's 100m and 4x100m relay will characteristic Jamaica's 10-time world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce seeking to extremity her profession by adding to her 24 world medals, but Olympic 200m champion Gabby Thomas has been ruled retired by injury.

Having surgery nan men's rod vault world grounds for a 13th clip successful August, Duplantis will beryllium expected to not only seizure his 5th consecutive world title, but besides target a first clearance supra 6.30m and nan $100,000 grounds bonus.

Distance-running awesome Kipyegon, victor of 7 golds and 3 silvers crossed nan past 8 world championships, is nan red-hot favourite to declare a 5th consecutive world 1500m gold.

Ingebrigtsen's preparations person been disrupted by wounded but, aft being thwarted by Britons Kerr and Jake Wightman successful nan past 2 world 1500m finals, nan three-time world 5,000m champion will beryllium wished to unafraid nan 1 awesome title which has evaded him.

Belgian heptathlete Nafi Thiam comes up against chap two-time world champion Johnson-Thompson successful her pursuit of a sixth world title, aft clinching her 3rd consecutive Olympic crown past year.

Despite a 376-day hold to compete aft winning Olympic gold, and making her return from wounded conscionable 4 weeks earlier nan championships, Hodgkinson will statement up arsenic nan golden badge favourite successful nan women's 800m.

The 23-year-old announced her return successful style past month, moving nan fastest clip of nan twelvemonth successful Silesia earlier making it back-to-back wins astatine nan Lausanne Diamond League 4 days later.

Hodgkinson, a two-time world metallic medallist, is joined successful nan 800m by training partner and Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell, who has chosen to move attraction successful pursuit of different world podium, and Jemma Reekie.

Olympic metallic medallists Kerr (men's 1500m) and Johnson-Thompson (heptathlon) some compete arsenic defending world champions, while Hudson-Smith (men's 400m) will target golden aft making nan podium astatine nan past 3 world championships.

The women's 4x100m squad featuring 100m and 200m individual badge hopes Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita and Amy Hunt caput GB's relay badge hopes pursuing Olympic silver.

World bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes doubles successful nan men's 100m and 200m and is joined by world indoor 60m champion Jeremiah Azu successful nan former.

Amber Anning, 5th connected her Olympic debut and nan world indoor champion, will person American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone among nan title aft nan hurdles prima chose to move events.

Molly Caudery (women's rod vault) said she feels "so ready" for a world title bid, while Max Burgin (men's 800m) demonstrated his readiness to situation for a world badge astatine caller Diamond League races.

Marathon runner Emile Cairess will activity to build connected his fourth-place Olympic finish, and precocious jumper Morgan Lake displayed her badge imaginable by clearing 2m for nan first clip past month.

GB's podium prospects besides see British 5,000m grounds holder George Mills, nan knowledgeable Laura Muir (women's 1500m) and rising prima Charlie Dobson (men's 400m), arsenic good arsenic their 5 relay teams.

GB vanished seventh successful nan badge array successful 2023, winning 2 golden medals, 3 metallic and 5 bronze.

You tin travel each nan action connected BBC One aliases BBC Two, and location is besides unrecorded sum connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app from 13-21 September.

There will beryllium a regular highlights show connected BBC Red Button, BBC Three, iPlayer and online.

The BBC Sport website will person regular unrecorded matter commentaries, video highlights, analysis, reports and results, while location will beryllium commentary connected BBC Radio 5 Live.