FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Timetable released for World Athletics Championships Budapest 23
The World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 timetable, revealed today
(26), features 14 action-packed stadium sessions, to be held from 19-27
August in the Hungarian capital.
Instead of a 10-day programme, as has been the case for the past five
senior global championships, the 2023 World Championships schedule spreads
the 49 disciplines across nine days of action. The six road events,
meanwhile, are spread across five separate days and will all be held in the
morning.
All track and field finals will be contested in the evening sessions, with
at least four finals scheduled every day, even on the first day. The final
two days, meanwhile, have eight medal events each, and both will end with
women's relays.
Popular doubles such as the 100m & 200m, 800m & 1500m, 1500m & 5000m, 5000m
& 10,000m, 20km & 35km race walk, women's long jump & triple jump, and
women's 200m & 400m are all possible without athletes having to contest
more than one round in any given session. And, as has been the case at
recent major championships, the mixed and single-sex 4x400m finals are held
either side of the individual one-lap disciplines to allow athletes to
partake in both relays and individual disciplines should they so desire.
The first evening session will end with the mixed 4x400m final, bringing
the opening day to an exciting climax with the only event on the programme
in which men and women compete together for medals.
The men's 100m will be in the spotlight on the second day, while the
women's 100m takes centre stage on day three as athletes compete for the
honour of being crowned the world's fastest sprinter.
The women's 1500m, always a standout event at recent global championships,
will be one of four finals held on day four. The men's 400m hurdles –
another crowd-pleaser – will bring the curtain down on the action on day
five.
Both 35km race walk finals will be held on the morning of day six. And
there will be no rest on the seventh day, as both 200m finals will crown
the evening session.
The women's marathon kick-starts the penultimate day, which will later
include the men's pole vault and both 4x100m finals. The men's marathon
will be held on the morning of the final day and the championships will end
with both 4x400m finals.
Minor adjustments in time may still occur leading up to the championships,
but the allocation of events for each session is considered final.
"The release of the timetable is a significant milestone for the World
Athletics Championships Budapest 23, now less than a year away," World
Athletics President Sebastian Coe said. "After seeing the extraordinary
crowds that descended on Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games and Munich
for the European Championships in the last month, we know the appetite for
our sport across Europe is as strong as ever and we're looking forward to
taking our premier event to central Europe for the first time.
"Creating the timetable for an outdoor World Championships is a complex
balancing act, taking into account the needs of athletes, broadcasters and
the host city, as well as our other stakeholders. I'm confident that a
return to a nine-day programme and evening-only finals in the stadium will
be embraced by our athletes and audience in Budapest, and by those watching
around the world."
Peter Deutsch, CEO of the local organising committee, added: "We have
created a schedule that best serves the interests of the athletes,
including Hungarian athletes and the audience. There will be a lot of
competitions late in the evening because that will be the right weather for
the athletes. Every night there will be great excitement, there will be
finals, and every night there will be Hungarians in the field for the home
fans to cheer on. Our aim is for the World Championships to strengthen
Hungarian athletics, to achieve the best results and to make this wonderful
sport as popular as possible."
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