Event-by-Event Previews For 2025 World Athletics Championships

A lot will be going on at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. And we believe that the more you know about the track and field action the more fun you will have watching it. So we get you ready for each and every track and field event at Worlds. We start with the previews we at Letsrun.com have written and then share the event-by-event previews written by World Athletics.

LRC Previews

Women’s Distance: Women’s distance storylines for Worlds: Are Faith, Keely and Beatrice unbeatable? Who wins the 5000? Will the WR fall in the steeple?We get you ready for the women’s distance events in Tokyo including the marathon. Did you know it might be be the best women’s marathon of the fall and it’s on in prime time in the US at 7 pm ET on Saturday?

M800: Worlds men’s 800: Brazier returns to Worlds as Lutkenhaus debuts; but can anyone stop Wanyonyi? Kenya’s Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi is the favorite, but Team USA has its best team ever and three of the top seven seeds in Donavan Brazier (1:42.16), Cooper Lutkenhaus (1:42.27), and Bryce Hoppel (1:42.49).
*MB: Mike Smith to Brazier in May: ‘Donavan, you might be looking at racing in 2026.’

M1500: A Race For The Ages – Breaking down the men’s 1500 with Niels Laros, Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Phanuel and Jonah Koech & more Our Jonathan Gault breaks down an epic men’s 1500 field which has 7 or 8 legitimate potential winners.
*MB: Tokyo ’25 Men’s 1500m Podium Picks! 🥇 🥈 🥉

M10k: Can Grant Fisher or Nico Young win a 10,000 gold for America in Tokyo 61 years after Billy Mills? Billy Mills shocked the world in Tokyo 61 years ago. Can an American win a second global 10,000 title in the same city 61 years later? This is the ULTIMATE 10,000 preview. *LRC exclusive: Grant Fisher’s coach reveals his 10,,000 strategy (sort of) and Mike Smith talks up Nico Young’s fitness.

*Schedule and Results  *TV  & Streaming *Prediction contest:

World Athletics Event-by-Event Previews

*M100 *W100
*M110h *W100h
*M200 *W200
*M400 *W400
*M400h *W400h
*M800 *W800
*M1500 *W1500
*MSteeple *WSteeple
*M5k *W5k
*M10k *W10k
*MMarathon *WMarathon
*M4x1 *W4 x1
*M4 x 4*W4 x4 *MX 4 x 400
*MDiscus *WDiscus
*MJavelin *W Javelin
*MHammer *WHammer
*MShot *WShot
*MDecathlon *WHeptathlon 
*MTJ *WTJ
*MLJ *WLJ
*MPV *WPV
*MHJ *WHJ
*M35k *W35k
*M20k *W20k