Japan has a passion for athletics and this Saturday will become the first country to house three World Cups, two in Tokyo and one in … Osaka, in addition to two Olympic Games, the last ones in 2021 marked by the Covid pandemic. Four years after those empty and masks games because of the pandemic, the Tokyo Olympic stadium reopens its doors to receive the best athletes on the planet. And he will do it with the full stands to celebrate from the early hours of Saturday until September 21 a postolimpic and late World Cup in the calendar, which has forced the athletes to fine Hilar to arrive in the best conditions to the great event of 2025 after a long season. But beyond decisions such as Sydney McLaughlin, which has parked the fences to focus on the gold of 400 meters smooth, in the historic Shinjuku enclosure will be present a good part of the current Olympic champions of Paris last year and even a handful of those who won four years ago the gold and received the lonely applause of the journalists who could enter the stadium.
This time everything is prepared for the Tokyo World Cup again to be an athletics party, which starts in the early hours of Saturday (Spanish time) with the 35 -kilometer tests march and will end on Sunday 21 with the long relay. This is the list of conferences with the most prominent finals of each day, which can be seen in Teledeport and Eurosport:
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Saturday, September 13
Weight and background to open mouth
With the long moving distance, advanced half an hour to avoid the heat and humidity of the Japanese capital (00.30 hours), a World Cup starts that at its evening time has the men’s weight finals and 10,000 meters feminine, in addition to the mixed relay. That is, in the Ryan Crowser release zone will face its most complicated challenge of the last seasons (14.10 hours). Three times Olympic and twice world champion, the American has dragged an elbow injury that has prevented him from competing for a good part of 2025. It will be necessary to see how Tokyo arrives, but it can be a golden opportunity for the Italian Fabbri or for the two -time world champion Joe Kovacs.
In the female background test (14.30), Beatrice Chebet, double worldwide plusmarchist of 5 and 10,000 meters and double Olympic champion, aspires to do in Tokyo the same as in Paris.
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Sunday September 13
Speed time comes
First intense day of the championship, with a program that starts with the female marathon (1.00) and that has the women’s album final (12.10) with the Olympic champion Valarie Altman in search of a new title, female length (13.40) with Tara Davis as a favorite, the 10,000 male meters (14.30) and the end of 100 meters. In the background appointment, the absence of Joshua Cheptegei opens the door to the Ethiopian army to find the title. On the female line (15.13 hours), in addition to the farewell of Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, a gold that the American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and the Olympic champion Julien Alfred is at stake. In men (15.20) we will have to see if Noah Lyles recovers his best version, if Kishane Thompson confirms the 2025 domain to give another gold to Jamaica or if Kenny Bednarek achieves the victory of his life.
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Monday, September 15
Duplantis flight
The day starts with the male marathon (1.00) and has Armand Duplantis as the main protagonist in the stadium (13.10 hours). Just one question. Will 6.30 meters jump in an enclosure where he was already Olympic champion? The rest of the program highlights the female hammer finals (14 hours), with the duel between Brooke Andersen and Camryn Rogers; The 3,000 obstacles (14.55), with Soufiane el Bakkali looking for his third gold, and 100 meters female fences (15.20), with the face to face between Masai Russell and Danielle Williams.
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Tuesday, September 16
KIPYEGON’s moment
Faith Kipyegon is the great star of this day in Tokyo. The Kenyan champion has the opportunity in the 1,500 meters (15.05) test to match the four world titles of Hicham El Guerrouj, a record only within reach of a chosen one like her, capable of running in 2025 in 3: 48.68. In addition, the 110 meter fence final is disputed, with Grant Holloway also looking for the same number of world titles.
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Wednesday, September 17
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, A Marcar Territorio
Complicated challenge for Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1,500 meters (15.20 hours) after its Achilles heel injury. We will have to see if the Norwegian is able to show his best version in a very open test where the Dutch Niels Laros has been intractable and where the French Azeddine Habz arrives with the best mark of the season (3.27.48). In addition, Katie Moon and Miltiadis Tentoglou defend title in pole (13.10) and length (13.50), respectively.
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Thursday, September 18
Yulimar Rojas and McLaughlin, star duel
It will be one of the moments of the World Cup, see Yulimar Rojas again on the stage where the World Triple Salto record (13.55) beat in 2021. The Venezuelan returns four years later to Tokyo in a very different situation, after having had to overcome a breakage of the Achilles heel and without having competed throughout the season. But Rojas is convinced that he can jump “a lot” and is convinced to reign in his test. He also wants to be the protagonist Sydney McLaughlin. that has resigned to run the 400 meters fences, where it is plusmarchist, to fight for gold in smooth (14.24 hours).
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Friday, September 19
Warlhom and Bol, the Validist’s time
The 400 meters fences (14.15) and the end of 200 meters (15.06 hours) copied the prominence. In the first specialty, the Norwegian Karsten Warholm returns to the stage where he flew four years ago to beat the world record, while Femke Bol has the opportunity to add his second world title. In the double hectometer, many times revenge of the 100 meters, Sherickka Jackson, defender of the title, and Julien Aldred will meet, while Gabby Thomas is low due to injury. In men, Noah Lyles wants to make history with a fourth world title, but Letsile Tebogo will want to bitter the afternoon, as did the Paris Games.
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Saturday, September 20
Chebet and Kipyegon, face to face
Undoubtedly, one of the duels of the championship is the one that Beatrice Chebet and Faith Kipyegon will star in the 5,000 meters final (15.05). Both trust to reach the race with a previous gold and from this duel the queen of the background will come out in a final of a lot of level. In men, the 800 meter final (14.50) stands out, where Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Marco Arop and Djamel Sedjati will also offer a great show.
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Sunday, September 21
Olyslagers’s opportunity
The final traca with nine finals in the program. The session starts with the female height (12.30), where the Australian Nicola Olyslagers is facing her great opportunity after having whipped Yaroslava Mahuchikh during the season. In 800 meters (12.35), Keely Hodgkinson has recovered from her tear in the Ischies and will leave as a favorite, while in the 5,000 male (12.50), Jakob Ingebrigttsen wants to round her presence in the World Cup before the African Navy. The decathlon and relays will end the Tokyo World Cup.