World Athletics Championships 2023: Everything You Need To Know

The Events to Watch Out for at the World Athletics Championships 2023

World Athletics Championships 2023, or Budapest 23, is the 19th edition of the biennial worldwide tournament that displays the best of track and field. It will be held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary, from August 19th to the 27th, 2023.

After Berlin in 2009, this will be the second time the World Athletics Championships have been held in Europe.

The World Athletics Championships are the ultimate competition for track and field athletes. Here, the best in the world compete in events including the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 400-meter dash, 800-meter run, 1,500-meter run, 1,500-meter walk/run, 1,500-meter run/walk relay, and the 5,000-meter run. There will also be a half marathon and a marathon during this event, both of which will take place in the streets of Budapest.

The 2023 World Athletics Championships will be an incredible display of human capability. Some details concerning this thrilling occasion are as follows:

What are the events to watch out for?

There will be plenty of excitement and tension at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which will feature 49 individual events. Some of the most talked-about and anticipated happenings are:

• The men's 100-meter dash is the sport's crowning event, where the world's fastest sprinter will be determined. Will it be American Trayvon Bromell, who in 2021 ran the 100-meter dash in 9.77 seconds? What about South Africa's Akani Simbine, who won the Diamond League in 2021? Maybe someone else has something up their sleeve that will blow our minds.

• Women's 200-meter dash: Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah have dominated the event in recent years. At the World Championships in 2019, Fraser-Pryce won both the 100- and 200-meter events, and at the Olympics in 2021, Thompson-Herah accomplished the same feat.

However, they will have to beat out Sha'Carri Richardson of the United States, who was disqualified from the Olympics for a positive marijuana test but ran a blistering 10.72 seconds in the 100m in 2021, and Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain, who was hampered by injury at the Olympics but is the reigning world silver medalist in the 200m.

• Men's Pole Vault: The competition between Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and American pole vaulter Sam Kendricks has made the men's pole vault one of the most fascinating events in recent years.

Duplantis holds the record with a leap of 6.18 meters, and Kendricks has won the world championship twice. They have inspired one another to improve and have thrilled spectators with their good-natured teasing of one another.

They will face stiff competition, though, from the likes of Renaud Lavillenie of France, an Olympic silver medalist and former world record holder, and Mondo Duplantis' younger brother and emerging star, Armand Duplantis of Sweden.

• Women's Heptathlon: In the women's heptathlon, competitors have two days to complete the 100-meter hurdles, 200-meters, high jump, javelin throw, shot put, long jump, and 800-meter run. Belgian Nafi Thiam, a two-time Olympic and world champion, is the event's indisputable queen.

Nafi Thiam has never been defeated in a major championship, but the world silver medalist from the United Kingdom, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, and the Olympic bronze medalist from the Netherlands, Anouk Vetter, both of whom set national records of 6,689 points in Tokyo, could pose a threat.

Who are the athletes to watch out for?

Many additional talented athletes will be competing at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, among the aforementioned legends. The following are examples of some of them:

• The Dutch powerhouse Sifan Hassan is one of the greatest distance runners of all time. She took first place in both the 5,000- and 10,000-meter events, as well as the bronze medal in the 1,500-meter event, in the Olympics. When it comes to the mile and the hour, she also has the world record in both. She can run any distance from 800 meters to a whole marathon, and her competitions are always thrilling to watch.

• Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the youngest of the world-famous Ingebrigtsen brothers, is a prodigy who has been setting records since he was a teenager. He shocked the world by beating the favored and reigning world champion Timothy Cheruiyot of Kenya to win the men's 1,500-meter Olympic gold. He also set the European record in the 5,000-meter run and won silver at the Olympics. His confidence and fearlessness as a runner make him a formidable opponent.

• The American shot putter Ryan Crouser is the indisputable best in the world. With a new world record of 23.30 meters, he won his second Olympic gold in Tokyo. He has been undefeated since 2016, when he won the world title, and he won it again in 2019. He is nearly unbeatable due to his extraordinary reliability and precision.

• Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala holds the African record for the men's 100-meter dash with a timing of 9.77 seconds, set at the same event as Bromell in Nairobi. In addition to being the second-fastest man in 2021, he is the first Kenyan to run in under 10 seconds.

• Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce with a run of 10.60 seconds, set the world record for the women's 100-meter sprint on August 21, 2021, at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene. In addition, she is the current world champion and the second-fastest woman in history, only Florence Griffith-Joyner is faster.

• The Norwegian phenom Karsten Warholm ran the men's 400-meter hurdles in 45.94 seconds at the Olympics, shattering a record that had stood for more than a decade. He has been undefeated since last year, 2018, when he won the world championship. He's a charismatic performer who gives it his all every time he hits the track.