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: Saturday, September 13th at 10:28pm ET on Peacock

Semifinals: Monday, September 15th at 8:05am ET on Peacock and USA

Final: Monday, September 15th at 9:20am ET on Peacock and USA

Top contenders: As has been the case for the last several years, the women’s high hurdles is one of the most stacked and tightly-packed events of the meet. Even without two-thirds of the Paris podium, as both Cyrena Samba-Mayela and Jasmine Camacho-Quinn have bowed out, Olympic champ Masai Russell (USA) will have her hands full. Reigning World champ Danielle Williams (Jamaica) is only sixth on the entry list by seed time, and she was beaten at her own national championship by Megan Tapper, who’s having a banner year. And yet, neither may claim top Jamaican honors thanks to Ackera Nugent, who won the Diamond League final in a season’s best 12.30.

World record holder Tobi Amusan (Nigeria) has returned to something close to top form after a couple down seasons, clocking a 12.24 in Paris and a 12.25 in Silesia, her fastest marks since 2022, when she won gold. But both times, she lost to a group of Americans that included Russell and Grace Stark, the 1-2 from USAs who’ve both been on their A games all year. Russell set the 12.17 American record back in April, followed that up with a U.S. title in July, and became the first woman ever to twice run sub-12.20 when she won Silesia in 12.19. Even with Amusan and the Jamaicans running well, a Team USA sweep with Russell, Stark, and Alaysha Johnson isn’t totally out of the cards.

Dark horses: Dutchwoman Nadine Visser is the only other sub-12.30 hurdler on the list and picked up a DL win (and victory over Russell, Nugent, and more) in Lausanne. After her 12.28 prelim performance and big PB in Silesia, however, she finished last in the final of that same race, so consistency may be an issue.

Others to keep an eye on include a trio of women who are particularly strong over 60 meter hurdles: Devynne Charlton (Bahamas), Ditaji Kambundji (Switzerland), and Pia Skrzyskowska (Poland). The longer, outdoor version of the high hurdles doesn’t work in their favor, but Charlton and Kambundji went 1-2 ahead of Nugent at World Indoors this year.

One good stat: Seven of the eight fastest women of all time in this event are currently competing, but only four will be in Tokyo, as Americans Keni Harrison, Tonea Marshall, and Tia Jones aren’t on the roster.