Top Athletes Competing in the 2025 World Athletics Championships

In Japan’s National Stadium, a big event is happening. Crowds cheer and watch in suspense as the best athletes in the world compete against each other for gold. The stadium is packed with people, all watching to see what happens. Sweat pours down the athletes’ backs as they try hard to win. This event is called the World Athletics Championships.

From Saturday, September 13, 2025, to Sunday, September 21, 2025, the top athletes in the world will compete in the World Athletics Championships, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan, this year. The Championships are one of the major events for track and field stars.

The 2025 World Athletics Championships are in Japan’s National Stadium. The competition also took place in Japan in 1991 and 2007.

Tokyo is eight hours ahead of the United Kingdom, so that the morning events will be watched overnight, and the evening events will be watched from the morning to midday in the UK.

There are over 2,000 athletes from approximately 200 countries competing in the World Athletics Championships.

147 medals will be given during the 49 parts of the competition, along with a prize pot of £6.3million. As a result, the athletes all want to win, so they are trying hard.

The World Athletics Championships feature field events, road events, combined events, and track events. Some field events are the high jump, pole vault, and javelin throw. Road events include the marathon. The heptathlon and decathlon are two of the combined events that will take place. The men’s and women’s 100m race is a track event that will happen during the Championships.

Some track and field athletes who are participating in the 2025 World Athletics Championships are Keely Hodgkinson, an Olympic 800m champion, and Paris 2024 medalists Josh Kerr, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Matthew Hudson-Smith, and Georgia Hunter Bell — they are Great Britain’s podium hopes.

Hodgkinson is a two-time world silver medalist. She was crowned the Olympic Champion in Paris last summer, which made her the gold medal favorite for the women’s 800m. Keely Hodgkinson had to wait twelve months to compete again because of two torn hamstrings, but recovered from it four weeks before the World Athletics Championships and won the Lausanne Diamond League last month, just after returning.

SOURCES:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cp8wke2e75no

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/c627rq4050go

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