It’s nearly time for the Big Show in Tokyo! The CITIUS MAG crew is flying halfway across the globe to bring you the best of track and field from Japan starting Saturday, September 13th—or Friday the 12th if you’re living on the American side of the International Date Line.

There’s plenty of running, jumping, and throwing on tap for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, and we’ll have minute-by-minute coverage and daily live shows and newsletters all along the way. You can find a full schedule with entries and live results here. To kick things off, we’re giving you event-by-event previews of every competition on tap for Tokyo so you head into the weekend with all the latest insight and analysis.

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How to keep up with all of CITIUS MAG’s extensive coverage of the World Championships – powered by ASICS:

• 🎥 CHAMPS CHATS - We will be streaming our post-race show live on YouTube at the conclusion of every evening session in Tokyo (AM in America) featuring Chris Chavez, Eric Jenkins, Anderson Emerole, Paul Hof-Mahoney and more from the CITIUS MAG team.
• 🎧 CHAMPS CHATS | Will immediately be available to stream, download and listen as a podcast on Apple Podcasts + Spotify or wherever you get your shows on The CITIUS MAG Podcast feed. Exclusive interviews with athletes will also be published as podcasts.
• 🎧 We will have episodes of Off The Rails live from Tokyo | Apple Podcasts + Spotify
• 📬 Daily newsletters, so be sure you’re subscribed to the CITIUS MAG Newsletter
• 🎦 Post-race interviews on the CITIUS MAG YouTube channel.
• 📲 Follow along for all updates, news, results and more on X and Instagram.
• 📆 Bookmark our full schedule of events here.
• 🏃 If you’re in Tokyo, join us for group runs with Asics on Sept. 12th and Sept. 19th. Details here.

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Schedule + How To Watch

Heats: Monday, September 15th at 7:20am ET on Peacock and USA

Semifinals: Tuesday, September 16th at 7:40am ET on Peacock and USA

Final: Tuesday, September 16th at 9:20am ET on Peacock and USA

Top contenders: American Grant Holloway is the three-time defending World champ and reigning Olympic champ. Generally speaking, that kind of resume would make you the prohibitive favorite for a fourth title… but Holloway has had the first truly rough season of his entire pro career, taking a two-month break from racing earlier in the summer and only coming into Tokyo with a season’s best of 13.11. Instead, the favorite for gold may be fellow American Cordell Tinch, the world leader and Diamond League champ who’s managed to find both a new level of performance and consistency this season.

Tinch, Dylan Beard, and Ja’Kobe Tharp account for three of the five fastest times in the world this year, presenting another opportunity for a Team USA sweep. But which American comes out on top? Holloway or Tinch are the top two by lifetime best, but don’t forget that Tharp is the U.S. champ.

The other two sub-13 runners in the field are less proven but have high upside, especially Japan’s Rachid Muratake, who’ll have the benefit of a home crowd and broke out with a huge 12.92 run (in Japan!) in August after finishing fifth at the Olympics last summer. But then he had a bad run at the Diamond League final, finishing last, so who knows. Frenchman Just Kwaou-Mathey is an even bigger unknown; he ran a huge 12.99 to win his national championship, but his next fastest time this season is 13.10 and hasn’t finished higher than fifth in any other race.

Dark horses: Olympic bronze medalist Rasheed Broadbell won’t be in Tokyo, but his fellow Jamaican Orlando Bennett will lead the way with his 13.09 PB. If the race is a little on the slower side, a trio of Europeans could factor in as well: Spaniard Enrique Llopis, Frenchman Sasha Zhoya, or Swissman Jason Joseph, the last of whom picked up a DL victory in Rome.

One good stat: In 2023 and 2024, Grant Holloway lost five 110m hurdles races total. In 2025, he’s already lost five races in one season.