The 20th World Athletics Championships take place at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo from 13–21 September 2025. Discover the key names to follow and how you can watch live action.
The 2025 World Athletics Championships will be Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s final competitive event.
The athletics season is about to come to a dramatic conclusion. For the first time, the World Athletics Championships will serve as the season-ending track and field competition, with Tokyo hosting this year’s event from 13–21 September 2025.
Tokyo 25 is the milestone 20th World Athletics Championships since track and field’s first-ever world championships were held in Helsinki in 1983, and the first time the Japanese capital has hosted since welcoming the third World Championships in 1991.
Over 2000 athletes from 200 teams are competing in 49 events, with 147 medals on offer.
The Japan National Stadium, which last hosted a major athletics meet at the delayed Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in 2021, will serve as the host stadium for the championships.
These are the key names you should follow and how to watch all the live action.
Track and field stars to watch at Tokyo 25 World Athletics Championships
These World Athletics Championships will mark the end of an era, as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce retires from the sport.
Twice the Olympic champion over the women’s 100m (and winner of a further five world titles over that distance), the 38-year-old will call time on a career that has seen her win eight Olympic and 16 World Championships medals.
After withdrawing from the semi-finals at last year’s Olympic Games, the Jamaican decided to return for one more season, and will now get to go out on her own terms.
Elsewhere, there is a question over Noah Lyles. The reigning men’s 100m and 200m champion began his season late due to injuries, and has yet to win a 100m final this season. However, the USA star has shone over his favoured 200m distance, including winning the Diamond League Final.
There is intrigue in the women’s one-lap race, as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has focussed all her attention on the flat 400m this season. The world record holder over the single-lap hurdles has the third-fastest time in the flat race this year at 48.90, behind only Olympic silver medallist Salwa Eid Naser (48.67) and Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino (48.81).
And there will be lots of reigning champions and world record holders in action who will try to improve their marks further. Returning world champions include Mondo Duplantis, Femke Bol, Neeraj Chopra, Faith Kipyegon, and Yulimar Rojas.
Selected World Athletics Championships 2025 events by day
13 September — Start of Championships, with first medals awarded in men’s 35km race walk
14 September — Men’s and women’s 100m finals
15 September — Men’s marathon and pole vault finals
16 September — Women’s 1500m final
17 September — Men’s 1500m final
18 September — Men’s and women’s 400m finals
19 September — Men’s and women’s 200m finals
20 September — Women’s heptathlon concludes
21 September — End of Championships, with men’s decathlon and men’s and women’s relay finals
Discover the timetable of events here.
How to watch live track and field from World Athletics Championships 2025
There will be coverage of all 14 sessions available to World Athletics’ broadcast partners.
Fans in the U.S. can watch exclusively on NBC and streaming on Peacock, while in Canada the local broadcaster will be CBC Sports/Radio-Canada.
In the United Kingdom, coverage will be on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, as well as TNT Sports. And in Australia, fans can watch on SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand.
Across Europe, Warner Bros. Discovery shares rights with national broadcasters, will action also available in 45 markets on Eurosport (TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland) as well as streaming on HBO Max and discovery+.
While in Jamaica, the Championships will be broadcast on Television Jamaica, TVJ Sports Network, and 1spotmedia.
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