The LetsRun.com Focused 2011 World Track & Field Championships Schedule

Tailor-Made For The US Viewer Who Is Playing In Our Prediction Contest

The 2011 World Track & Field Championships start on Saturday, but in reality they start on Friday night for US fans. What the hell does that mean?

Well, the event is taking place in Daegu, Korea, which is 13 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone in the US, so all of the morning sessions in Daegu are evening sessions here and vice versa. The huge time gap creates some weird oddities as journalists and fans in Korea basically get one full day off - Wednesday August, 31st - as the only event that day is the women's 20km walk but US fans get no days off from big-time action as they catch the next day's morning session the night before. On 8/31, US fans will actually watch a lot of stuff, as the men's 5,000 heats and women's 800 heats all occur on that day for US visitors.

To help US fans better enjoy the 2011 World Championships, we've created two schedules for you that list the time of all the events in a time that US-based visitors should be able to understand - Eastern Standard Time (New York) (Editor's Note: a very smart LRC visitor has written in and said the following:  "In your article about times for the World Championship events, you refer to Eastern Standard Time. Until the beginning of November, the US is on daylight saving time. I believe your references should be to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), not Eastern Standard Time (EST)"'). The schedules should help you plan ahead if you want to watch your favorite events live. To watch anything live in the US, you are going to have to pony up $14.99 to watch it on universalsports.com as unfortunately the people at Universal Sports TV have told us that nothing they broadcast will be on live television (although looking at their schedule, we're wondering if the women's marathon might be live). Alternatively, you can pay $3.99 to catch a single full day but they sell it as a full day in Daegu, not the US.

The two schedules are as follows:

A LetsRun.com Focused Schedule: This includes al the mid-d and distance events plus the finals all the events in the LRC Prediction Contest Powered By Puma.

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A Full Schedule Of Everything

The The LetsRun.com Focused Schedule appears below. The full schedule is here.

Note: All times listed are for people on the East coast. Mid-d and distance finals appear in bold. Note, the tv times listed below have changed.  To see updated tv coverage, look here.

Friday 8/26		TV: 8 pm
800 PM	W	Marathon	Final
935 PM	W	3,000 Metres Steeplechase	Heats
1105 PM	M	800 Metres	Heats
Saturday 8/27		TV: 8 pm
800 AM	W	10,000 Metres	Final
940 PM	W	1,500 Metres	Heats
Sunday 8/28		TV: 2:30pm and 10 pm
500 AM	M	800 Metres	Semifinal
630 AM	M	10,000 Metres	Final
715 AM	M	1,500 Metres	Decathlon
745 AM	M	100 Metres	Final
940 PM	M	3,000 Metres Steeplechase	Heats
Monday 8/29		TV: 5:30pm and 10 pm
625 AM	M	Pole Vault	Final
805 AM	W	400 Metres	Final
825 AM	M	110 Metres Hurdles	Final
845 AM	W	100 Metres	Final
920 PM	W	5,000 Metres	Heats
1020 PM	M	1500 Metres	Heats
Tuesday 8/30		TV: 6:00pm and 10 pm
605 AM	W	Pole Vault	Final
700 AM	W	800 Metres	Heptathlon
735 AM	W	1,500 Metres	Semifinal
800 AM	M	800 Metres	Final
820 AM	W	3,000 Metres Steeplechase	Final
845 AM	M	400 Metres	Final
Wed. 8/31		TV: 6:00pm and 10 pm
905 PM	M	5,000 Metres	Heats
1040 PM	W	800 Metres	Heats
Thursday 9/1		TV: 6:00pm and 10 pm
610 AM	M	High Jump	Final
655 AM	M	1,500 Metres	Semifinal
725 AM	M	3,000 Metres Steeplechase	Final
755 AM	W	1,500 Metres	Final
815 AM	W	400 Metres Hurdles	Final
830 AM	M	400 Metres Hurdles	Final
Friday 9/2		TV: 6:00pm and 10 pm
600 AM	M	Shot Put	Final
620 AM	M	Long Jump	Final
625 AM	W	800 Metres	Semifinal
725 AM	W	5,000 Metres	Final
755 AM	W	200 Metres	Final
815 AM	M	4 x 400 Metres Relay	Final
Saturday 9/3		TV: 3:30pm and 8 pm
600 AM	W	High Jump	Final
715 AM	M	1,500 Metres	Final
740 AM	W	4 x 400 Metres Relay	Final
800 AM	W	100 Metres Hurdles	Final
820 AM	M	200 Metres	Final
800 PM	M	Marathon	Final
Sunday 9/4		TV: 3:00pm
640 AM	M	5,000 Metres	Final
715 AM	W	800 Metres	Final
735 AM	W	4 x 100 Metres Relay	Final
800 AM	M	4 x 100 Metres Relay	Final

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