The 2025 World Athletics Championships will be held at Japan’s National Stadium between this Saturday, the 31st, and the 21st of September.
Athletics events will be returning to the iconic National Stadium for the 1st time since it hosted the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
Located in Kasumigaokamachi, Shinjuku-ku, in Tokyo city, the ultramodern stadium was completed on 30th November 2019 in readiness for the Olympic Games.
The venue will host close to 2000 athletes from 200 countries who will be competing in the 20th edition, which will be held over a period of 9 days.
The championships will have a total of 49 medal events with 24 male and 24 female disciplines and one mixed event with a total of 147 medals to be awarded.
The disciplines are:
• 100m – women and men
• 200m – women and men
• 400m – women and men
• 800m – women and men
• 1500m – women and men
• 5000m – women and men
• 10,000 m – women and men
• Marathon – women and men
• 3000m steeplechase – women and men
• 100m hurdles – women
• 110m hurdles – men
• 400m hurdles – women and men
• heptathlon – women
• decathlon – men
• high jump – women and men
• pole vault – women and men
• long jump – women and men
• triple jump – women and men
• shot put – women and men
• discuss – women and men
• hammer – women and men
• javelin – women and men
• 20km race walk – women and men
• 35km race walk – women and men
• 4x100m relay – women and men
• 4x400m relay – women, men and mixed
There is a total prize money pot of US$8,498,000.
Individuals
1st US$70,000
2nd US$35,000
3rd US$22,000
4th US$16,000
5th US$11,000
6th US$7000
7th US$6000
8th US$5000
Teams
1st US$80,000
2nd US$40,000
3rd US$20,000
4th US$16,000
5th US$12,000
6th US$8000
7th US$6000
8th US$4000
There is also a world record bonus of US$100,000.
Champions from the last edition of the World Championships in Budapest in 2023 include:
• Sweden’s world pole vault record holder Mondo Duplantis
• Kenya’s world 1500 m record holder Faith Kipyegon
• USA’s double sprint champion Noah Lyles
• Ukraine’s world high jump record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh
• USA’s world shot put record holder Ryan Crouser
• Dutch Olympic and world 400m hurdles medallist Femke Bol
• India’s Tokyo Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra
• Venezuela’s world triple jump record holder Yulimar Rojas
• Norwegian multiple world record holder Jakob Ingebrigtsen
• Japan’s Olympic javelin champion Haruka Kitaguchi
.Kenya’s Mary Moraa(800m)
