<p><strong>Marathoners and race walkers at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 are set to compete in the heart of Budapest as the routes have been revealed. The marathoners will complete the classic distance on a 10km course, running through the most beautiful, UNESCO World Heritage parts of Budapest. The start-finish area will be in Heroes' Square, also for the 20km and 35km race walk events. The six road races will be free for everyone to watch.</strong></p>
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<p>Budapest has become a trusted host for mass running events over the last decades. The Budapest Marathon, the Budapest Half Marathon and the Vivicitt&aacute; City Run attract nearly 100,000 people every year. Everyday heroes from all over the world come to these events, who, as well as overcoming their own limits, can admire the fabulous city centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along the way.</p>
<p>It will be no different at the biggest sporting event in Hungary's history, the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, where superheroes will take centre stage. On the closing weekend of the World Championships, the world's best women's marathon athletes will take to the streets of Budapest on Saturday 26 August, followed a day later by the men's race.</p>
<p>"We have found a really good route for marathoners. From the beginning we considered about 30 possible options. There were and are many possibilities in this city as to how to draw a route for a marathon. In the end, we chose this 10-kilometre course, which will be completed by the world's best in four laps in August," said &Eacute;va Petrik, competition director of the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, former Hungarian champion marathoner.</p>
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<p>The start and finish area will be at Heroes' Square, from where a fast, straight section awaits the competitors along Andr&aacute;ssy Avenue. The only minor climb will be up the recently renovated Chain Bridge, first opened in 1849. From here, the course sends the athletes under Buda Castle and through the tunnel, one of the curiosities of the route. The athletes then will return from Buda to Pest, bypassing the Buda Castle, running across the Chain Bridge again, and then head for Heroes' Square on Andr&aacute;ssy Avenue.</p>
<p>"It's a well-run course, where the best in the world will be able to deliver their top performance. Its world record potential is slim, not because it's not a fast course. But because the Berlin course, where the recent world records were set, is so good. It was also an important aspect to show as many beautiful parts of Budapest as possible," said the director.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The route has a buffer section on Bajcsy-Zsilinszky road behind the Basilica. This is the only 180-degree turn on the course, but as it is a seven-lane road, runners will be able to handle it with minimal speed loss.</p>
<p>Both the women's marathon on 26 August and the men's marathon on 27 August will start at 7am. The most important aspect in setting the start time of a marathon is what conditions can be expected in the later stages of the competition. The athletes experience the greatest stress after 30-35 kilometres, so during this period the temperature, wind and other weather conditions should be taken into account.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In terms of road closures, the early start is also an advantage. As the marathons will take place over the weekend, the earlier the race starts, the fewer people are disrupted in the city. In addition, as the world's best will be competing, there will be no need for the 6-7 hour closures experienced in traditional mass races.</p>
<p>Since the course bisects the city centre, it is recommended to use the subway: both the underground and metro 2 and 3 will operate without disruption during the race hours. The tram service on the Grand Boulevard will not stop either, but will be split into two sections at Oktogon. The public will be able to continue their journey by crossing the pedestrian bridge over the track. There will also be several designated pedestrian crossings from one side to the other at other locations.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There will be activities at the larger fan areas while waiting for the runners and large screens will also help to follow the events. In Heroes' Square the competition can be watched from the stands.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The race walking finals will follow a formula that has worked well in the last few world races: the men's and women's 20km races will be on a 1km circuit, the men's and women's 35km races will be on a 2km circuit. The start and finish will again be in Heroes' Square, and the course on Andr&aacute;ssy Avenue.</p>
<p>The men's 20km walk, starting at 8:50am on 19 August, will be the first event of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23. The women's 20km walk will start one day later, at 7:15am on 20 August. The women and men will tackle the 35km event at the same time on Thursday 24 August at 7am.</p>

World Athletics Championships, Budapest 2023

Marathoners and race walkers at the World Championships Budapest 23 are set to compete in the heart of Budapest as the routes have been revealed.

Marathon and race walk routes revealed

<p><strong>Heroes' Square, Andr&aacute;ssy Avenue, Chain Bridge, Buda Castle Tunnel, St. Stephen&rsquo;s Basilica - just a few of the historic landmarks that will be on display for participants and spectators of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 marathon races on site and around the world via television coverage. In total, one billion people are expected to watch the World Championships and tens of millions will watch the world's best marathon runners race through the historic UNESCO World Heritage sites in Budapest on 26 and 27 August.</strong></p>
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<p>"The best runners in the world will compete in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, in a historic setting. Witness the Wonder! - is our motto, and there's no question that with this route, you're guaranteed to see the wonder during the marathon. The World Championships have a very important goal: to show Hungary and the Hungarian capital to the world. We are working to help as many people as possible discover that there is a safe, accessible, beautiful and welcoming country at the heart of Europe." - said Bal&aacute;zs N&eacute;meth, CEO of local organising committee of WCH Budapest 23.</p>
<p>Competitors will run four laps on the 10-kilometre course, crossing the Chain Bridge 8 times and the Tunnel 4 times under Buda Castle. Meanwhile the panoramic view of Buda, the Pest quay, Elisabeth Square, the Opera House and the many squares and monuments of the city centre will become visible.</p>
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<p>On 26 August, the women's marathon starts at 7 a.m., the men's marathon at 7 a.m. on 27 August and the 20 and 35-kilometre walking races also take place on Andr&aacute;ssy Avenue. The men's 20 km, starting at 8:50am on 19 August, will be the opening event of the World Championships. The women's 20 km will start one day later at 7:15 am. On 24 August at 7am, the men and women will start together in the challenging 35 km race.</p>
<p>The start and finish for each road race is Heroes' Square, which is the second main venue for the World Championships, alongside the National Athletics Centre.</p>
<p>The World Athletics Championships will be held in Budapest from 19 to 27 August 2023, making it the biggest sporting event in Hungary's history. More than 2,000 athletes from over 200 countries will take part. Tickets are available at <a href="https://tickets.wabudapest23.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tickets.wabudapest23.com</a>.</p>

Heroes' Square, Andrássy Avenue, Chain Bridge, Buda Castle Tunnel, St. Stephen’s Basilica - just a few of the historic landmarks that will be on display for participants and spectators of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 marathon races on site and around the world via television coverage.

Marathon and race walk routes revealed for World Athletics Championships Budapest 23

<p><strong>Three failed attempts at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow completely changed Lamont Marcell Jacobs&rsquo; life. With this disappointing event he said goodbye to long jump and continued as a sprinter. Less than two years later, he became the first Olympic champion in the men's 100 metres after Usain Bolt, and this year he would reach the top at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23.</strong></p>
<p>Lamont Marcell Jacobs' story is anything but ordinary. Born to an Italian mother and an American father, the sprinter was confronted with huge challenges at a very early age. Just three months after his birth on 28 September 1994, his father, serving in the US Army, was transferred to South Korea.</p>
<p>Jacobs then moved back home with his mother to Italy to a small town next to Lake Garda. His parents divorced when he was six months old and all contact was cut off. For a long time he was angry with his father for abandoning them. They reconciled shortly before the Tokyo Olympics.</p>
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<p>Thanks to this liberating event he became the first Italian finalist and first winner of the men's 100 metres in the history of the summer Olympic games since 1896. He didn't break the 10-second barrier until Savona in 2021, when he was 26 years old.</p>
<p>He first went down to the track at the age of 10, his first successes came in the long jump. In 2016 he became Italian champion and at the U23 national championships he flew to 8.48 metres. The latter was not an Italian record only because it was achieved in a higher tailwind than allowed.</p>
<p>Due to a hamstring injury, he could not participate at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, like Gianmarco Tamberi, who is another great Italian star. At the next Olympic Games in Tokyo, however, they both reached the top. Tamberi shared the high jump gold medal with his good friend Mutaz Essa Barshim, while Jacobs stepped on the top of the podium as a sprinter.</p>
<p>He's still using his &lsquo;crazy long jumper&rsquo; nickname in social media and even has a tattoo on his body. A disappointing 2019 European Indoor Championships set him on a new path. In Glasgow, like many other world-class athletes, he experienced what it is like to be eliminated in qualifying without a valid attempt.</p>
<p>Partly because of this failure and partly because of his numerous injuries in the long jump, he decided to focus on sprinting. The breakthrough also required a mental coach. On the advice of the specialist, he made peace with his father before the Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus epidemic.</p>
<p>Right at his first major competition after the covid period, he managed to leave a mark at the 2021 European Indoor Championships in Torun, winning the 60 metres in 6.47 seconds. In his first outdoor competition in Savona, he set an Italian record, becoming the 150th person to break the 10-second barrier. His 9.95 run didn&rsquo;t make him an Olympic favourite though.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Italy's Lamont Marcell Jacobs wins the gold medal in the men's 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics (&copy; Naoki Enokido / Photograph of the Year)</p>
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<p>After Usain Bolt's retirement, one of the biggest questions in Tokyo was who would be the new king of sprints. There were no clear favourites in the 100 metres, but the eventual success of Fred Kerley, Akani Simbine, Trayvon Bromell and Andre De Grasse wouldn&rsquo;t have been as big a surprise as Jacobs'.</p>
<p>Among the favourites, Bromell was surprisingly eliminated in the semi-finals by a single millisecond. Jacobs, on the other hand, was faster lap after lap, starting with 9.94 and securing his place in the final with 9.84.</p>
<p>Not only did he become the first Italian to reach the 100m final, but only Bolt run faster than him in the history of the Olympics. He needed to run 9.80 seconds, as Kerley (9.84) and De Grasse (9.89) both finished behind him with lifetime bests.</p>
<p>A few days after the 100 metres he also made history with the Italian relay. He ran the back straight after Lorenzo Patta, who was responsible for the start, and then passed the baton to Fausto Desalu. Then came Filippo Tortu, who passed everyone with dizzying speed to win the men's 4x100m for the first time in Italy's history. Their time of 37.50 seconds also became a national record. Jacobs returned from Tokyo as a two-time Olympic champion, but only after carrying the Italian flag at the closing ceremony.</p>
<p>The main event of the 2022 indoor season, the World Championships in Belgrade, was also a fantastic success for him. In the 60m final, he fought a tremendous duel with Christian Coleman, whom he beat by three hundredths, while achieving the fourth best result of all time. His 6.41 performance also broke the European record.</p>
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<p>The outdoor season started with food poisoning and continued with a thigh injury. For a long time, it was a question whether he would recover before the World Athletics Championships Oregon 22. He eventually made it overseas and advanced from the preliminaries but withdrew from the semi-finals instead.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This had a beneficial effect: a month later he won the European 100m title in Munich.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He started 2023 in Lodz, Poland, where he ran 6.57 in the 60m. There is no doubt that he will also be the biggest favourite at the European Indoor Championships in early March. While he is going to Istanbul as a defending champion, he will be looking for his first ever outdoor title at Budapest this summer.</p>
<p>However, it will be no easy task for him to claim the last missing major title. In addition to the three Americans who conquered the WCH podium last year - Kerley, Marvin Bracy and Bromell - new challengers also appeared: U20 world record holder Letsile Tebogo and the African record holder Ferdinand Omanyala were also preparing for a breakthrough as big as we saw from him in Tokyo. And perhaps Noah Lyles will also compete in the 100m as well as the 200m in the Hungarian capital.</p>
<p>One thing is for sure: the most anticipated event of the first weekend of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 will be the men's 100 metres. If you don't want to miss the qualifying heats and heats on 19 August before the final on next day, it&rsquo;s worth buying the Flying Start season ticket for the entire opening weekend.</p>

Three failed attempts at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow completely changed Lamont Marcell Jacobs’ life.

The crazy long jumper, who can be the best sprinter in Budapest

<p><strong>The first competitions of the 2023 track and field indoor season have produced some dizzying results, delivered not only on the biggest international stages. Hungarian athletes preparing for the World Championships in Budapest also showed with a few national records that they want to be in the best shape of their lives in front of 35,000 fans at the National Athletics Centre.</strong></p>
<p>Armand Duplantis and ten other top pole vaulters competed in Uppsala, Sweden. In the event organised by Red Bull, the young star attempted a world record of 6.22 metres in his first appearance of the year. He has not succeeded yet - maybe in Budapest on 26 August. Nevertheless, he won the Mondo Classic with a sensational 6.10m, kind of his usual level.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Grant Holloway claimed his 52nd consecutive victory in the 60m hurdles, extending his unbeaten streak since 2017. He won the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix with 7.38 seconds, the world&rsquo;s best this year.</p>
<p>Femke Bol ran the best ever indoor 500m. The Dutch youngster, still only 22, finished in 1:05.63 in Boston on Saturday, where Noah Lyles surprisingly beat Trayvon Bromell in the 60m.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The difference between the two was just 0.002 seconds (!) in favour of the 200m world champion. Will Lyles be preparing to compete in the 100m before the 200 metres on the first weekend of the World Championships? Aleia Hobbs, who has started the season in excellent form, ran 6.98 in Fayetteville and nobody was faster than her in the 60m (7.02) in Boston, too.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, making her first ever 60m race in Boston, made her debut with a 7.33 seconds run. More importantly, in an interview after the race, she called the next World Championships &ldquo;an awesome opportunity" to try herself in the 400m flat in addition to the 400m hurdles. So, the new queen of track and field could fight for victory not only on the evening of 24 August, but also the day before.</p>
<p>Europe's top female sprinters competed first in Karlsruhe and then in D&uuml;sseldorf in the 60 metres. Karlsruhe&rsquo;s Indoor Tour Gold competition was won by Dina Asher-Smith with 7.04 ahead of Ewa Swoboda, who triumphed in the other event in Germany, beating European 100m champion Gina L&uuml;ckenkemper.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She wasn&rsquo;t the only Polish athlete to have a great time at the ISTAF in D&uuml;sseldorf, as European 100 m hurdles champion Pia Skrzyszowska won the 60 m hurdles with a new PB of 7.84.</p>
<p>Ivana Vuleta, who didn&rsquo;t retire this winter due to the World Championships in Budapest, also started the year promisingly in Karlsruhe. The Serbian long jumper's attempt of 6.76m immediately put her on the top of the 2023 rankings. But she didn't stay there for long, as two days later her great rival Malaika Mihambo won the event in D&uuml;sseldorf with 6.83 metres. Their rivalry could also escalate in Budapest in the WCH final in the evening of 20 August.</p>
<p>There is no Karsten Warholm Invitational without a Karsten Warholm victory. The Norwegian 400 m hurdles world record holder won the 400 m in his hometown, Ulsteinvik in a clear victory with a time of 45.31. The Norwegian favourite was back on the indoor track after three years.</p>
<p>There are signs which are definitely showing that Keely Hodgkinson could be an even bigger challenger this year to defending Olympic and world champion Athing Mu in the 800m. The British European champion competed in the 600m at the Manchester World Indoor Tour competition, where she clocked an all-time best of 1:23.41. If you don't want to miss another potentially huge battle between these two, you should buy your tickets now for the final night of the World Championships Budapest 23!</p>
<p>The reigning 1500m champion, Faith Kipyegon, is not only an amazing superhero on the track, but also in cross country. She proved it recently on home soil at the Sirikwa Cross Country Classic, which the Kenyan won confidently.</p>
<p>With less than 200 days to go until the biggest sporting event of the year, the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, Hungary's athletes will be hugely motivated to compete on home soil from 19-27 August. Everyone wants to show their best shape to the public. This is also confirmed by a number of national records that have already been broken in the first days of the season.</p>
<p>Istv&aacute;n Sz&ouml;gi broke the Hungarian indoor record in the 2000 metres last year and the 1500 metres Hungarian indoor record in 2021. The 27-year-old middle distance runner's streak was not broken this year: in Ostrava he became the first Hungarian to complete the one-mile distance indoors in 4 minutes, with a 3:58.00 time.</p>
<p>In their first rumble of the year, both men's and women's 4x400 m relay teams broke the Hungarian indoor record. The quartet of Evelin N&aacute;dh&aacute;zy, Fanni Rapai, S&aacute;ra M&aacute;t&oacute; and Janka Moln&aacute;r finished in 3:37.11, while the team of Tam&aacute;s M&aacute;t&eacute;, D&aacute;niel Huller, Zolt&aacute;n Wahl and Attila Moln&aacute;r destroyed a 23-year-old record with 3:08.58. They are preparing for something similar in the Saturday evening programme of the WCH on 26 August.</p>
<p>Importantly for the future of the host nation&rsquo;s track and field, national indoor records were also broken at youth and junior levels: Zita Szentgy&ouml;rgyi (60m - U18), Alexa Suly&aacute;n (200m - U20) and J&aacute;nos Kubasi (800m - U20) are names that you will hear about in the next few years.</p>

The first competitions of the 2023 track and field indoor season have produced some dizzying results, delivered not only on the biggest international stages.

The superheroes showed their superpowers already at season start

<p><strong>Expectations are high, 100,000 tickets have already been sold, and the volunteer programme is proving to be hugely popular as the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 marks 200 days before the start of competition.</strong></p>
<p>There will be no shortage of volunteers working to make the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest a resounding success. Already 3,500 people have registered for the volunteer programme of the world's biggest sporting event this year, well beyond the number required for the event, the Local Organising Committee in Budapest announced today.</p>
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<p>More than 2,000 athletes from over 200 countries and nearly 8,000 accredited participants will arrive in Budapest for the world's pinnacle event in athletics. So far, fans from 70 countries have bought tickets and potential volunteers from 30 countries have offered their services to the championships. The deadline for applications is 20 February.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It is a great success and a good indication of the high expectations for the World Athletics Championships that in just over a month, many more people have registered to volunteer than will actually be able to participate. Volunteers are key, they will have a huge responsibility and much of the honour will be theirs, because they will also be the ones to thank if our dreams come true and make this the best World Athletics Championships ever" - said &Aacute;d&aacute;m Schmidt, Hungarian Government Commissioner for the World Championships.</p>
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<p>The World Athletics Championships will be held in Budapest from 19 to 27 August 2023, with the brand new National Athletics Centre on the bank of the Danube as the central venue. Other important venues include the start and finish areas of the marathon and race walking competitions, Heroes' Square, and the entire route through the most beautiful and historic parts of Budapest.</p>
<p>100,000 tickets were purchased in the first month of sales, exceeding the expectations of both the organisers and World Athletics. Tickets are available for a total of 14 sessions, of which nine are in the evening and five in the morning. There are also three types of packages available, one for the first weekend, one for the closing weekend and one for all stadium sessions. There will be finals every day, including the first evening, and morning sessions will also offer the chance to cheer on world stars.</p>
<p>Tickets and packages can still be purchased at <a href="https://tickets.wabudapest23.hu" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>tickets.wabudapest23.hu</strong></a>, where you can also view the full World Athletics Championships programme.</p>

Expectations are high, 100,000 tickets have already been sold, and the volunteer programme is proving to be hugely popular as the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 marks 200 days before the start of competition.

200 days to go until the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23

<p>Tickets for the biggest sporting event in Hungary's history, the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023, are selling at a phenomenal speed. Just over a month after going on sale, the number of tickets sold is already over 100,000!</p>
<p>Demand for the World Championships, to be held at the National Athletics Centre from 19 to 27 August, has exceeded the expectations of World Athletics. In addition to domestic spectators, fans from all over the world will be coming to the event.</p>
<p>Following Hungary, Great Britain tops the list of ticket-buying countries, then the United States of America, and Germany. Many fans from Central Europe will come to the biggest sporting event of the year, as well as French, Spanish and Italian fans, among others.</p>
<p>"We have two main objectives: the first is to see the superheroes of athletics compete in front of a sold-out stadium every night, and the second is to get the country moving, so that more people become ordinary heroes and start to exercise, and overcome their own limits.Just like superheroes do at the World Championships. " - said Bal&aacute;zs N&eacute;meth, CEO of Budapest 2023 Zrt, the organiser of the World Championships.</p>
<p>Tickets are selling best for the 26 August, Saturday evening session. This is no surprise, as the most popular athlete of the sport, world pole vault record holder Armand Duplantis, will probably continue his fantastic story on this evening. Final weekend - Cheer them home packages are also very popular, offering the chance to celebrate world champions in 17 events over the last three days.</p>
<p>So, a memorable finale is guaranteed, but unlike many other world competitions, the World Athletics Championships will be a memorable event from the very first days! Just think of the men's shot put final on 19 August, Saturday evening, where both Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs have a good chance of breaking the world record held by the former!</p>
<p>Also, on the first day of the competition will be the start for one of the Hungarian team's top athletes, Bence Hal&aacute;sz, world bronze medallist in the hammer throw, who will hopefully be cheered on by Hungary in the final the following day. On this day, 20 August, there will also be one of the most awaited events, the men's 100m final.</p>
<p>That's why the evening session of 20 August is also popular with ticket buyers, so the best seats for this also promising evening are also running out. The mornings and evenings of the first two days are expected to be extremely packed with Hungarian athletes, so not only tickets for this weekend, but also the Flying Start packages for the whole of the 19th and 20th days, are a good choice!&nbsp;</p>

Tickets for the biggest sporting event in Hungary's history, the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023, are selling at a phenomenal speed. Just over a month after going on sale, the number of tickets sold is already over 100,000!

100,000 tickets already sold for the World Athletics Championships!

<p><strong>As we look ahead to the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, we've put together 23+1 questions to keep an eye out for at the biggest Hungarian sporting event of all time!&nbsp;Following the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/news/news/23-exciting-questions-about-budapest-2023-world-championships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first</a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/news/news/23-exciting-questions-about-world-athletics-championships-budapest-2023-part-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second</a></span> part, here are eight more interesting questions that will make you want to buy your tickets or packages now!</strong></p>
<h2>17. Will Neeraj Chopra win the World Championships title after his Olympic gold medal?</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62da00460f1acf4e85cfe250.jpg" alt="Neeraj Chopra in javelin qualification at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22" />
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<p>Neeraj Chopra brought the Queen of Sports closer to one and a half billion people by winning the Tokyo Olympics two years ago. The 2021 victory for the Indian icon wasn&rsquo;t a huge surprise, as he has been the world junior record holder in javelin throwing since 2016.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Last year at the World Championships, he "only" won a silver medal, but he still could improve his results: his recent personal best of 89.94 is a national record. Also, his six best results all come from 2022. He would arrive in Budapest with two goals: to break the 90m barrier and become India's first world champion in athletics. He will also need to throw more than 90 metres on the final night, because Johannes Vetter, who missed last season due to injury, is already preparing for his return.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>18. Who will win the men's 800 metres?</h2>
<p>The men's middle distances can usually bring more exciting tactical battles than the sprint events. This is no coincidence, as there is no time for such battle in the 100 and 200 metres, nor can it be a body-on-body fight, as they run in separate lanes up to the 400 metres.</p>
<p>This is not the case in the 800m, where the last two seasons of the Wanda Diamond League introduced 11 different winners. However, the most important races of recent years have been won by Emmanuel Korir, who won the Olympic title in 2021 and the WCH title in 2022 and has been unbeaten in the DL finals. He will be the man to beat in Budapest on the evening of 26 August.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>19. What will Oregon history maker Kimberly Garc&iacute;a do?</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62d1dfaa2870dfcfc111288a.jpg" alt="Kimberly Garcia on her way to winning the 20km race walk at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Kimberly Garcia on her way to winning the 20km race walk at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Kimberly Garc&iacute;a put Peru on the map at the 2022 World Championships by winning the 20km and 35km race walk to claim her country's first two medals in outdoor World Championships history. Can she repeat the same feat in the fabulous city centre of Budapest?</p>
<h2>20. Which American shot putter giant will have the centimetres in his favour?</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/638b83c728247630a9526c8a.jpg" alt="Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs at the Millrose Games" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs at the Millrose Games (&copy; Getty Images and Ross Dettman)</p>
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<p>Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs could have the first biggest fight of Budapest 23! The duel between the two best shot putters of all time could bring even a world record on the first night. Crouser, the world record holder with 23.37m, and two-time world champion Kovacs (with a 23.23m PB) will be decided by centimetres again. Just like in 2019, when Kovacs, who has Hungarian roots, won his second world title by throwing a centimetre longer.</p>
<h2>21. How will Shaunae Miller-Uibo's reappearance in the 200 metres go?</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6302004b7a577c0211b6ec3a.JPG" alt="Shaunae Miller-Uibo wins the 400m at the NACAC Championships" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Shaunae Miller-Uibo wins the 400m at the NACAC Championships (&copy; Kermit Taylor)</p>
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<p>The Bahamian star has made a brave move for 2023 by abandoning the single-lap distance as the reigning 400m champion and after a long time focusing on the 200m again. Yet she will be no stranger to the distance in Budapest, having won bronze at the world championships six years ago and made the final at the last Olympics.</p>
<p>Her personal best is 21.74 seconds, but to reach the podium also in Budapest, she would definitely require better time as Jamaica's golden generation, Shericka Jackson, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, as they would continue their fantastic history on the evening of 25 August.</p>
<h2>22. Can Tobi Amusan run under 12 seconds on the 100m hurdles?</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62de912124161e6c1159d961.jpg" alt="Tobi Amusan after breaking the world 100m hurdles record at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Tobi Amusan after breaking the world 100m hurdles record at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Tobi Amusan flew over the hurdles at the last World Championships like they weren't there. She did it with a height of 1.56 metres, which make her performance more unique. Perhaps only Fraser-Pryce being shorter among the superstars of track and field. In Oregon, she ran a world record 12.12 in the semi-finals first and then went on to win gold in the final with an even better time.</p>
<p>However, her time of 12.06 was with too much tailwind for an official record. Nigeria&rsquo;s first ever gold medallist is aiming to break the 12-second barrier in Budapest on 24 August. If she can do it, it will be the biggest sensation of 2023&rsquo;s greatest show on Earth.</p>
<h2>23. Is there a way back to the top for Sifan Hassan after a poor season?</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/61326df73d016387e3841b57.jpg" alt="Sifan Hassan on her way to a mile win at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Sifan Hassan on her way to a mile win at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)</p>
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<p>The Ethiopian-born Dutch athlete was in sensational form at the 2021 Olympics: she won the 5000m and 10,000m in Tokyo and took bronze in the 1500m. In 1500 metres, she even managed to qualify in first place (!) in the heats after falling in the last lap.</p>
<p>After these successes, 2022 was quite a low-key year for her: she failed to finish on the podium at the World Championships (6th in the 5000m, 4th in the 10 000m) and did not even compete at the European Championships. If she can get her motivation back, she could still be the star of the long distances in Budapest.</p>
<h2>+1 Is the medal table getting more colourful?</h2>
<p>More and more people are discovering that athletics is a wonderful and diverse sport, played at a high level all over the world. Athletes from 45 countries have signed up for the medal table in the 2022 World Championships, including 29 countries that have won world titles.</p>
<p>In the history of the world championships, athletes from 104 countries have stood on the podium, with 74 nations taking gold medals. Last year, Tobi Amusan of Nigeria, Kimberly Garc&iacute;a of Peru and Norah Jeruto of Kazakhstan became the first world champions of their countries. More countries could be added to the list of winners in Budapest: between 19 and 27 August, Puerto Rico, Burkina Faso, Serbia, South Korea and the host, Hungary could all introduce a new world champion for instance.</p>
<p><em>With just over 200 days to go until the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, buy your tickets or packages quickly to get the best seats for watching the battle of the superheroes!</em></p>

Following the first and second part, here are eight more interesting questions that will make you want to buy your tickets or packages now!

23 exciting questions about the World Championships Budapest 2023 - Part 3

<p><strong>As we look ahead of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023, we have put together 23+1 questions, which will definitely be worth paying attention to during the biggest Hungarian sports event of all time!&nbsp;After the <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/news/news/23-exciting-questions-about-budapest-2023-world-championships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first</a> part, here are eight more interesting questions, that will make you want to buy your tickets or packages now!&nbsp;</strong></p>
<h2>9. Who will be the new faces among the world stars?</h2>
<p>There are young athletes who surprise the greatest stars with a huge breakthrough in every year. In 2023, several talents may have a good chance to do this: among the boys, Botswana&rsquo;s Letsile Tebogo, the U20 world record holder in the 100 meters, is already at 9.91. Sasha Zhoya could win a surprise medal in the 110 m hurdles in Budapest, while the two-time long jump world champion, Erwan Konat&eacute; can also do great things in the Hungarian capital if he further improves his personal best of 8.12 meters.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Elina Tzengko from Greece, who already celebrated a European title in the women&rsquo;s javelin before the age of 20, and Adriana Vil&aacute;gos from Serbia, two-time U20 world champion, who won the silver medal in Munich behind her, can also be the rising stars of the World Championships. Angelina Topic also from Serbia is barely 17 years old, but she can already achieve 1.96 meters in the high jump. She won bronze at last summer's European Championships. More people may notice her super talent if she gets closer to the two meters barrier in Budapest.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p>In Jamaica, women athletes also look more promising in the younger age groups than men. Tina Clayton won her second world junior title with a U20 national record of 10.95 in the 100 meters in Cali. In the 100 m hurdles no one could improve the 12.77 seconds that Kerrica Hill clocked to win gold at the U20 World Championships.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>10. What will the Jamaican men&rsquo;s sprinters be able to do after the poor results of recent years?</h2>
<p>Speaking of Jamaica, another important question for the Budapest23 World Championships will be, who will lead the Jamaican sprinters back to the top? They didn&rsquo;t have finalists in the 200 meters in Oregon22, with Oblique Seville in the 100 meters &ndash; like their 4x100 relay team &ndash; finishing 4th. A year earlier, at the Tokyo Olympics, the situation was similarly dismal: they had no finalists in the 100 meters, Rasheed Dwyer finished 7th in the 200 meters, and their 4x100 relay finished fourth.</p>
<h2>11. Will Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Pawel Fajdek equal the legendary Sergej Bubka&rsquo;s record?</h2>
<p>Sergey Bubka won the men's pole vault six times between 1983 and 1997, which is the record for World Championships gold medals in a single event. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who has five world titles in the 100 meters, and Pawel Fajdek, who also won five times in the hammer throw, can join him in Budapest.</p>
<h2>12. Will the American women's 4x400 meter relay be able to break one of the oldest world records?</h2>
<p>Two years ago, the Tokyo Olympics raised hopes that the 3:15.17 world record, held by the Soviets since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, could be broken in the next few years. Team USA ran 3:16.85 with Sydney McLaughlin, Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad, Athing Mu.</p>
<p>In 2022, they ran 3:17.79 on home soil, but only Sydney McLaughlin of the Olympic champion quartet remained in the relay. If they could find an equally good fourth person alongside McLaughlin, Athing Mu and Abby Steiner, they could get even closer to that &ldquo;space time&rdquo; in Budapest.</p>
<h2>13. Will the golden generation of Jamaican sprinters put the crown on the past years?&nbsp;</h2>
<p>Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shericka Jackson - three Jamaican runners who dominate the women's field as much as the men&rsquo;s golden generation of Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, and Yohan Blake did in the 2010&rsquo;s. At the World Championships in Budapest, they will be the ones to defeat. Perhaps, along with U20 world champion Tina Clayton, they could have a chance for the 4x100 world record on the penultimate night of the World Champs, a feat they fell just two tenths short of at the Olympics!&nbsp;</p>
<h2>14. How will Anita Wlodarczyk make her comeback?</h2>
<p>Last year, the best female hammer thrower of all time, Anita Wlodarczyk tried to stop a car thief. Unfortunately, the Polish legend was injured in her heroic act, and missed almost the entire summer season. Even though she will be 38 years old at the time of the final on August 24, she will still have a good chance to win her fifth world title after 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>15. Will the talented young Hungarian generation be able to level up on home soil?</h2>
<p>In the 125-year-old Hungarian athletics, in the middle of a generational change, the young talents have already come on stage that the 2020s could be all about. The world championships could also play a decisive role in the careers of Bence Hal&aacute;sz, Luca Koz&aacute;k, Vikt&oacute;ria Madar&aacute;sz, X&eacute;nia Krizs&aacute;n and R&eacute;ka Szil&aacute;gyi.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bogl&aacute;rka Tak&aacute;cs is barely 21 years old, but she can already claim to be the 100 metres national record holder. The highly talented D&aacute;niel Huller could make a splash in the 800 meters, Istv&aacute;n Palkovits could be a finalist in the 3000 m steeplechase, and Petra Farkas could also break into the international elite in the long jump in Budapest. Also, let&rsquo;s not forget our very young relay teams either, which could put the country on their side in the second half of the World Champs.</p>
<h2>16. Who will come out of a possible duel between Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Joshua Cheptegei?</h2>
<p>In the men's long distances, everyone is waiting for the duel between Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Joshua Cheptegei. The Norwegian will be looking for a triple, to be the best in the 10,000 as well as in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters. The Ugandan world star could be the one to stop him, and he may have the most intense battle with him in the 5000m on the final night of the World Championships!</p>
<p><em>To be continued&hellip;</em></p>

As we look ahead of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023, we have put together 23+1 questions, which will definitely be worth paying attention to during the biggest Hungarian sports event of all time!

23 exciting questions about World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 - Part 2

<p><strong>As we look ahead to the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, we've put together 23+1 questions you'll want to keep an eye out for at the biggest sporting event of all time in Hungary!</strong></p>
<h2>1. Will Elaine Thompson-Herah collect her last missing title?</h2>
<p>The fastest woman alive is now just missing the individual world outdoor gold medal, which she can collect in Budapest. However, the five-time Olympic champion will need to return to her 2021 form, when she first tripled at the Olympic Games and then improved her personal best to 10.54 seconds in the 100m. Her success to do so in the Hungarian capital could be prevented by two compatriots, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson.</p>
<h2>2. Will Budapest be Damian Warner's last big chance to win gold at the World Championships?</h2>
<p>Last year's World Championships ended dramatically for Damian Warner. The Canadian Olympic champion was injured in the 400m. After winning the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships and the iconic G&ouml;tzis meeting, he was unable to put the crown to his sensational 2022 season. &nbsp;</p>
<p>As Warner will be close to his 36th birthday by the time of the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, he may have his last realistic chance to win the decathlon title in Budapest this summer.</p>
<h2>3. Will Mondo Duplantis jump up to the third floor in Budapest as well?</h2>
<p>The fact that Armand Duplantis currently holds the pole vault world record with 6.21 metres does not mean that he will not improve on his all-time best until the World Championships. Track and field&rsquo;s current biggest star recently said he would like to break the world record in Budapest. But he may well set the bar at 6.23 or 6.24 metres on 26 August, not &lsquo;just&rsquo; 6.22. Centimetre by centimetre, like his great predecessor Sergey Bubka!</p>
<h2>4. Will the 200m world records be broken?</h2>
<p>At last year's World Championships, Shericka Jackson and Noah Lyles were just 11 and 12 hundredths of a second behind the world record in the 200m. This was not just a breakthrough for either of them, but another milestone in a steady improvement over the years. If they could improve further in 2023, Jackson could surpass a world record from 1988 (Florence Griffith-Joyner - 21.34) and Lyles could beat Usain Bolt's 19.19.</p>
<h2>5. Can Yulimar Rojas do a double?</h2>
<p>Yulimar Rojas, the world record holder in the triple jump has a huge chance to fly over 16 meters in the next few years. We could easily see the Venezuelan's jumping queen in the long jump as well at the 2023 World Championships before her main event in the first weekend at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest. Two years ago, in windy conditions she was already able to fly 7.27m, and if she can approach that in calm weather conditions, she could even surprise Malaika Mihambo and Ivana Vuleta.</p>
<h2>6. Will one of the youngsters defeat Nafi Thiam?</h2>
<p>Until her age of 28, Nafissatou Thiam has built up an unrivalled dominance in the women's combined events field. Since Rio 2016, the only time she has failed to win a gold medal was at the World Championships in Doha, where she was silver medallist. After two Olympic, two World and four European titles (2 indoor and 2 outdoor), she will be the biggest contender in Budapest as well. However, she will have to be at her best in the first two days of the World Championships, as up-and-coming youngsters Anna Hall, 21, and Adrianna Sulek, 23, are looking increasingly dangerous.</p>
<h2>7. Will Hungary's first outdoor world athletics champion be found in Budapest?</h2>
<p>10 gold, 12 silver and 18 bronze medals at the Summer Olympics; 18 gold, 22 silver and 25 bronze at the European Championships; 7 silver and 7 bronze medals in the history of the World Championships outdoors, Hungarian athletics has been a success story for fans for more than 125 years.</p>
<p>Shot putter Anita M&aacute;rton's 2018 world indoor title is also a historic moment in the country&rsquo;s history of track and field. The only title missing from the host's collection is an outdoor world champion. It would be fateful if it came at the biggest Hungarian sporting event of all time. Perhaps Bence Hal&aacute;sz has the best chance to make it real in the Men&rsquo;s hammer throw, so 20 August could be one of the most memorable days of the World Championships for Hungary.</p>
<h2>8. Will the Japanese race walkers continue to build their dominance on the streets of Budapest?</h2>
<p>Japanese walkers have been increasingly dominant in recent years. Toshikazu Yamanishi has won the last two world championships in the 20 km, in which Koki Ikeda can claim Olympic and world silver medals, and Masatora Kawano has taken second place in the 35 km in Oregon, which discipline debuted the 2022 World Championships. Probably only an Italian, Massimo Stano can stop them from conquering the streets of Budapest.</p>
<p><em>To be continued...</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

As we look ahead to the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, we've put together 23+1 questions you'll want to keep an eye out for at the biggest sporting event of all time in Hungary!

23 exciting questions about Budapest 2023 World Championships - Part 1

<p><strong>Based on what we've seen during the 2022 season, we've put together ten clashes that could provide plenty of memorable moments at next summer's World Athletics Championships in Budapest.</strong></p>
<h2>Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce vs Elaine Thompson-Herah vs Shericka Jackson (women's sprints)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b55e9a793d59b73d087b0d.jpg" alt="World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Three" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Three (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Another chapter in the golden generation of Jamaican sprinters could be written in Budapest! Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who recently celebrated her 36th birthday, was unstoppable in 2022, becoming world champion in the 100m for the fifth time and running under 10.70 seven times - neither of which had ever been done before.</p>
<p>Shericka Jackson reached the level of her compatriots this year when she won the gold medal in the 200m at Oregon22. The least successful of the three was Elaine Thompson-Herah last season, who failed to collect the last piece missing from her gold medal collection, the individual World Champion title. Will the second fastest woman of all time be successful in Budapest?</p>
<p><strong>Women's 100 metres:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sunday 20 August, morning: heats</li>
<li>Monday 21 August, evening: semi-finals and FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Women's 200 metres:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Wednesday 23 August, morning: heats</li>
<li>Thursday 24 August, evening: semi-finals</li>
<li>Friday 25 August, evening: FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Erriyon Knighton vs. Noah Lyles (men's 200 metres)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b58116570fa53da8fae141.jpg" alt="World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Seven" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Seven (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Erriyon Knighton, who was proclaimed a prodigy a few years ago, won bronze at the last World Athletics Championships. He will return to Hungary in August, where he competed for the first time outside the USA in 2021 and triumphed in 2022 with a meeting record at the Gyulai Istv&aacute;n Memorial. Noah Lyles may also have beautiful memories of Hungary, as he won both the 100 and 200 metres race at the 2020 Gyulai Istv&aacute;n Memorial.</p>
<p>At 25, Lyles, who is at the perfect age, is coming to Budapest for the triple - he might win the half-lap race for the third time after 2019 and 2022 - and many believe he is also capable of breaking Usain Bolt's world record in 2023. But in the Hungarian capital first he will have to beat Knighton, who is improving at a dizzying pace.</p>
<p><strong>Men's 200 metres:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Wednesday 23 August, morning: heats</li>
<li>Thursday 24 August, evening: semi-finals</li>
<li>Friday 25 August, evening: FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Athing Mu vs Keely Hodgkinson (women's 800 metres)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b55fa3720241c75109441a.jpg" alt="World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Ten" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Ten (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Two young competitors, both barely 20 years old, whose rivalry could be one of the most exciting stories of the next decade. For the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 the American Mu has started to train with a new coach, Bob Kersee, who also has the world 400m hurdles record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone on his team.</p>
<p>Her biggest challenger at the last World Championships and before that at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was Hodgkinson, who is currently the world's second best 800m runner. Admittedly, she was beaten by Kenyan Mary Moraa at the Commonwealth Games, but shortly before that at Oregon22 the Englishwoman finished second behind Mu. And she was just eight hundredths of a second behind her rival at Hayward Field, so with the right tactics the European champion could have a chance against her in Budapest.</p>
<p><strong>Women's 800m:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Wednesday 23 August, morning: heats</li>
<li>Friday 25 August, evening: semi-finals</li>
<li>Sunday 27 August, evening: FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Pawel Fajdek vs Wojciech Nowicki vs Bence Hal&aacute;sz (men's hammer throw)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b56254167785e25618c20d.jpg" alt="24th European Athletics Championships - Day Two" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">24th European Athletics Championships - Day Two (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>As Team Hungary&rsquo;s top medal contender, Bence Hal&aacute;sz will face two Polish hammer throwing icons, five-time world champion Fajdek and Olympic and European champion Nowicki.</p>
<p>The Hungarian athlete in 2022 first broke the 80-metre barrier at the World Championships overseas and then came close to 81 metres at the European Championships in Munich, where he finished as silver medallist behind Nowicki. The 25-year-old athlete could write sport history if he becomes the first world outdoor champion in the history of Hungarian athletics in front of a hopefully packed National Athletics Centre! And he could do so on 20 August, the national holiday of Hungary!</p>
<p><strong>Men's hammer throw:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Saturday 19 August, morning: qualification</li>
<li>Sunday, 20 August, evening: FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Jakob Ingebrigtsen vs Joshua Cheptegei (men's long distances)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b56297167785e25618c210.jpg" alt="World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Ten" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Ten (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Jakob Ingebrigtsen admits that he is preparing to take the gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest in the 1,500m, 5,000m and the 10,000m as well. The main &lsquo;obstacle&rsquo; to this almost impossible mission is Joshua Cheptegei, who has raised Uganda's long-distance running to the level of Kenya and Ethiopia.</p>
<p>Cheptegei will arrive to the Hungarian capital as the defending champion of the 10,000m and Ingebrigtsen of the 5,000m. With the Norwegian approaching these two events from the 1500m and Cheptegei from the longer distances, the most intense battle between the two will come on the final night of the World Athletics Championships, in the 5000m. Moreover, as this could determine a double or a triple for both of them, this is where the stakes will be highest!</p>
<p>Cheptegei is the world record holder in both events, but the young Norwegian will have a chance against him with smart, tactical racing.</p>
<p><strong>Men's 10,000 metres:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sunday 20 August, evening: FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Men's 5,000m:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Thursday 24 August, evening: heats</li>
<li>Sunday 27 August, evening: FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Ivana Vuleta vs Malaika Mihambo vs Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (women's long jump)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b57cf34b643369efcc8cee.png" alt="Long jumpers Ivana Vuleta of Serbia, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk of Ukraine and Malaika Mihambo of Germany" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Long jumpers Ivana Vuleta of Serbia, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk of Ukraine and Malaika Mihambo of Germany (&copy; Alexander Hassenstein, Naomi Baker, Alexander Hassenstein, Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Women's long jump could be the event in Budapest where the order on the podium in the final could change from minute to minute. 7.00 metres jump was not enough for a medal only in the first three World Athletics Championships. It could well be the case again next year after 1983, 1987 and 1991.</p>
<p>Serbia's Ivana Vuleta could be accompanied by many of her fans to the Hungarian capital to try to add an outdoor World Championships victory to her two World Indoor titles and a total of five European Championships golds. However, defending champion, German Malaika Mihambo will be looking to get some revenge on her rival who beat her in the European Championships final in Munich!</p>
<p>Ukraine's Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk started competing in the triple jump in 2022 and surprisingly won the European Championships in it. In the long jump, she will attend the competition in Budapest as world silver medallist, not to mention Ese Brume of Nigeria, who won the Commonwealth Games this year.</p>
<p>And as a secret favourite, Yulimar Rojas, the world record holder and crowned queen of the triple jump, could also be in the line-up, having already considered a double this year. The Venezuelan has already jumped 7.27m in windy conditions a year and a half ago. Needless to say, if she could come close to that in windless conditions, the long jump elite should start to be afraid!</p>
<p><strong>Women's long jump:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Saturday 19 August, morning: qualification</li>
<li>Sunday 20 August, evening: FINAL</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Gianmarco Tamberi vs Mutaz Essa Barshim (men's high jump)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b57acc8f35ccd27044d2ac.jpg" alt="Athletics - Olympics: Day 9" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Athletics - Olympics: Day 9 (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Tamberi and Barshim are not only great friends, but they also provide high jump enthusiasts with some incredibly exciting competitions. The best example of this was the Tokyo Olympics, where they celebrated their shared gold medal by hugging each other after an unforgettable final.</p>
<p>On the evening of 22 August, their duel could turn into a spectacular show again, with South Korea's Woo Sang-hyeok, the world indoor champion, even getting a chance to make an appearance.</p>
<p><strong>Men's high jump:</strong></p>
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<li>Sunday 20 August, morning: qualification</li>
<li>Tuesday 22 August, evening: FINAL</li>
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<h2>Ryan Crouser vs Joe Kovacs (men's shot put)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b586600204c125fe9f681d.jpg" alt="Athletics - Olympics: Day 13" />
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<p>We wouldn't be surprised if everyone coming out to the National Athletics Centre on the first day of the World Championships would see a world record. Ryan Crouser is coming to Budapest to beat his own world record of 23.37m. The two-time Olympic champion "finally" claimed the World Champion title at Oregon22, so he can step into the throwing circle as the defending champion.</p>
<p>But two-time world champion Joe Kovacs is on his tail! At this year's Diamond League Finals in Zurich, he had set a personal best of 23.23 metres, which suggests that this might be a close contest between the two, as it was in Doha in 2019, when Kovacs won by only one centimetre. And because of his Hungarian ancestry, he should expect extra encouragement against the world record holder!</p>
<p><strong>Men's shot put:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Saturday 19 August, morning: qualification</li>
<li>Saturday 19 August, evening: FINAL</li>
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<h2>Yaroslava Mahuchikh vs. Eleanor Patterson (women's high jump)</h2>
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<p>There are almost no words to describe the performance of the 21-year-old Mahuchikh this past season! Despite the war in her country, the Ukrainian high jumper became World Indoor Champion, European Outdoor Champion and Diamond League winner, and improved her outdoor personal best to 2.05m in Brussels.</p>
<p>The young star has only one regret about 2022: he was beaten by Eleanor Patterson at the World Outdoor Championships. Mahuchikh is keen to get revenge on her Australian rival a year later, and will have a very tight&nbsp; duel with her in Budapest on the final night.</p>
<p><strong>Women's high jump:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Friday 25 August, morning: qualification</li>
<li>Sunday, 27 August, evening: FINAL</li>
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<h2>Damian Warner vs Kevin Mayer (men's decathlon)</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/63b57bb54b643369efcc8cea.jpg" alt="17th IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 - Day Seven" />
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<p>For Olympic champion Damian Warner, last year's World Championships have been dramatic: the Canadian legend was in great form and leading in Oregon before the final event of the first day, but was forced to withdraw from the 400m due to injury. The world champion title fell into the lap of world record holder Kevin Mayer, who reached the top again after 2017.</p>
<p>Warner was not left without a big win in 2022, however, as he won the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade and remained unbeaten in G&ouml;tzis. For the 33-year-old athlete, Budapest 2023 will be one of his last chances to claim the missing World Outdoor Champion title!</p>
<p><strong>Men's decathlon, events:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Friday 25 August, morning: 100 m, long jump, shot put</li>
<li>Friday 25 August, evening: high jump, 400 m</li>
<li>Saturday 26 August, morning: 110 m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault</li>
<li>Saturday 26 August, evening: javelin, 1500 m</li>
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<p>As you may see from the above clashes, World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 will be a truly must-see event not only for fans of athletics, but for sports lovers in general! In addition to these ten &lsquo;matches&rsquo;, there might be many more to come during the season, which has not even started yet, and which will also come in nine days between 19 and 27 August!</p>
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Based on what we've seen during the 2022 season, we've put together ten clashes that could provide plenty of memorable moments at next summer's World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

Here are the ten, probably most exciting clashes of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023

<p><strong>Tickets are selling fast for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23. Just four days after the launch of the ticketing programme, the number of tickets sold for the biggest sporting event in Hungary's history, the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, has already reached the 50,000 mark, the organisers announced.</strong></p>
<p>According to the local organising committee, local and international ticket buyers are equally keen to secure their tickets to one of the biggest sporting events of the year. Fans from the UK, the USA and Germany have been quickest to snap up tickets, but those from Spain and France are also eager to buy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There is strong interest from central Europe, as expected, as this is the first time that the region will host the outdoor World Athletics Championships. Several thousand people from Poland have bought tickets or packages.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Fans from as far away as Australia, Chile and Jamaica have reserved their seats, and fans from Qatar took time away during the FIFA World Cup this week to start planning to attend another major sports event.</p>
<p>The World Championships will take place over nine days from 19 to 27 August 2023, at the brand new, purpose-built National Athletics Centre and in the centre of Budapest, where the road competitions, marathon and race walking will be held. Tickets for nine evening and five morning sessions can be purchased at tickets.wabudapest23.com.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Based on early sales, the most popular day for fans is Day 8 of the World Championships, 26 August, when the men's pole vault final will take place. Many people are eager to see if World Male Athlete of the Year Mondo Duplantis can raise the bar again on his current world record of 6.21m. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Day 2 of the World Championships, 20 August, which is a National Holiday in Hungary, proved exciting for Hungarians and foreigners alike. For athletics fans the fireworks will start in the stadium, with the men&rsquo;s 100m final.</p>
<p>Another highlight will be Day 6 of the World Championships, 24 August, when the current superstar of women's athletics, World Female Athlete of the Year Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, will compete in the final of the women's 400m hurdles and could threaten her own world record.</p>
<p>"The interest shown by the ticket sales figures for the first four days has far exceeded all previous estimates and the expectations of World Athletics. So many people want to witness the wonder of the World Championships, where everyday heroes can meet the superheroes of athletics and watch live as they break world records and push the limits of man&rsquo;s physical capacity time and time again," said Bal&aacute;zs N&eacute;meth, CEO of Budapest 2023 Zrt.</p>
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Tickets are selling fast for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23. Just four days after the launch of the ticketing programme, the number of tickets sold for the biggest sporting event in Hungary's history, the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, has already reached the 50,000 mark, the organisers announced.

50 thousand tickets already sold for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23

<h2>20 August, Sunday Evening</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62fc137e0f312c89ca18e845.jpg" alt="Marcell Jacobs claims the 100m title at the European Championships in Munich" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Marcell Jacobs claims the 100m title at the European Championships in Munich (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)</p>
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<p>One of the most-awaited sessions of the World Championships, including the final of the men's 100m, features on day two. Marcell Jacobs should be the European favourite, but he will have strong US opponents like the defending champion Fred Kerley. Also watch out for Botswana's world U20 record-holder Letsile Tebogo, who could make a breakthrough to become one of the world's top sprinters in Budapest.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bence Halasz in the men&rsquo;s hammer throw final could create the most important Hungarian moment of the World Championships. Polish fans should also have the chance to cheer for Pawel Fajdek and Wojciech Nowicki. We will also see if Nafi Thiam can win another world title in the heptathlon.</p>
<p>In the long jump, Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece could have the chance to complete his gold medal collection, as he looks to add a world title to his Olympic and European gold medals, as well as his world indoor and European indoor crowns.</p>
<p>This would be Jakob Ingebrigtsen's toughest night if he chooses to take on historical treble. First he would have to succeed in the 1500m semifinals and then beat athletes such as defending champion Joshua Cheptegei, who would be much fresher than him, in the 10,000m final. The Norwegian will have less than an hour between the two races.</p>
<p>&nbsp;With the 100m, 1500m and 10,000m all on the programme, the best sprinters, middle distance runners and distance runners will all be on the track</p>
<p>This day, 20 August, is a national holiday in Hungary, the celebration of the founding of the state. To mark the occasion there will be magnificent fireworks display over the Danube from 9pm. As a result, this session will finish earlier than on the other evenings.</p>
<h2>21 August, Monday Evening</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62d344fb720df9581d557564.jpg" alt="Karsten Warholm in the 400m hurdles heats at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Karsten Warholm in the 400m hurdles heats at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Each event features world class athletes. Karsten Warholm, the Norwegian 400m hurdles world record-holder, will race for a place in the final, while Grant Holloway, one of the Hungarian fans&rsquo; favourite foreign athletes, should be in the running for gold in the 110m hurdles.</p>
<p>Another hurdles superstar will take to the track as USA&rsquo;s world record-holder Sydney McLaughlin will be among those contesting the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles heats.</p>
<p>The Slovenian fans could have a big night cheering Kristjan Ceh in the discus throw final. He'll have to beat the multiple world and Olympic champion Daniel Stahl and Lithuania&rsquo;s youngster Mykolas Alekna to make it.</p>
<p>Jamaica's golden generation of sprinters will also be looking for a big night. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce could go for an incredible sixth World Championships title in the 100m, while five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah will be targeting her first individual World Championships title and defending 200m champion Shericka Jackson will be hoping to beat her legendary rivals in the 100m.</p>
<p>History could also be made in the women&rsquo;s triple jump final, where Yulimar Rojas will have the chance to break her own world record in front of another global crowd.</p>
<h2>23 August, Wednesday Morning</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6390bc833c3260caefeae4fd.jpg" alt="Mondo Duplantis reacts after breaking the world pole vault record at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Mondo Duplantis reacts after breaking the world pole vault record at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Swedish pole vault star Mondo Duplantis will be making his first appearance but could jump just once in the qualifying round as he looks to advance without trouble.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then it is the turn of the 200m to take the sprint spotlight, with day five featuring the first rounds in the women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s events. In the women&rsquo;s heats, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shericka Jackson could be back in action, joined by multiple global 400m gold medallist Shaunae Miller-Uibo. In the men&rsquo;s event we could see 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton, the world U20 record-holder who has been declared the new Usain Bolt. But he will have to take on the third-fastest of all time, Noah Lyles, who is the defending champion.</p>
<p>If they decide to double up, the women&rsquo;s 5000m heats could see the return of Sifan Hassan, Gudaf Tsegay, and Beatrice Chebet as well.</p>
<p>The women's long jump could also bring a duel of history-making athletes, with Serbia's Ivana Vuleta, and Germany's Malaika Mihambo among those who might star. The timetable allows a women&rsquo;s triple jump and long jump double, offering athletes such as Yulimar Rojas and Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk the chance to go for gold again. Their campaign would begin with this qualification round on day five.</p>
<p>In the women&rsquo;s javelin, the two young Europeans Adriana Vilagos of Serbia and Elina Tzengko from Greece could make another step towards becoming star athletes.</p>
<p>In the women&rsquo;s 800m, three amazing talents will hope to take to the track. Athing Mu, Keely Hodgkinson and Mary Moraa will all be looking for an easy first round.</p>
<h2>26 August, Saturday Evening</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/610d5041420bba34329a7272.jpg" alt="Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Briana Williams and Shericka Jackson celebrate their 4x100m win in Tokyo" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Briana Williams and Shericka Jackson celebrate their 4x100m win in Tokyo (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>One of the highlights of the World Championships will be the men&rsquo;s pole vault. Mondo Duplantis is sure to be eyeing more history with another world record attempt but first he&rsquo;ll have to secure the win against a strong field that could include USA&rsquo;s world and Olympic silver medallist Chris Nilsen.</p>
<p>There are seven finals with plenty of memorable moments in store. In the decathlon it all comes down to the 1500m, where Damian Warner, Kevin Mayer and Simon Ehammer will hope to be in the running for medals.</p>
<p>The 4x100m finals are always full of thrills and spills. Provided all has gone to plan in the qualification round, the Jamaican women's 4x100m team, which could feature the trio of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shericka Jackson, will hope to win the battle but will likely be up against another strong US quartet.</p>
<p>The men's 4x100m final could bring a much more open contest. If Marcell Jacobs arrives in Budapest healthy, then Italy will hope to beat the USA at the World Championships after their Olympic triumph. Canada will be relying on Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse to help them defend their title</p>
<p>Anita Marton, Hungary&rsquo;s 2018 world indoor champion, will hope to star in the shot put final, in which two amazing athletes, Gong Lijiao and Chase Ealey, are likely to fight for the gold medal.</p>
<p>Even the heats of the 4x400m relay could bring huge twists and turns for both women and men.</p>
<p>The final of the women&rsquo;s 5000m will determine whether there will be another double among the long-distance runners. In addition to, Sifan Hassan may still have a chance, if Gudaf Tsegay and Beatrice Chebet do not surprise her. The men's 800m could be ruled by the excellent Emmanuel Korir, who always shows something remarkable at major championships. If he has a bad day, this could be one of the most open finals of the track events at the World Championships.</p>
<h2>27 August, Sunday Evening</h2>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/624caab4441e48155a67d85f.jpg" alt="Athing Mu and Keely Hodgkinson in the Tokyo Olympic 800m final" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Athing Mu and Keely Hodgkinson in the Tokyo Olympic 800m final (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Get ready for a finals-filled last session. In the men's 5000m, two world stars &ndash; Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Joshua Cheptegei &ndash; could give us an unforgettable race. In the women's 800m, Athing Mu, Keely Hodgkinson and Mary Moraa will hope to make the final interesting for three different continents.</p>
<p>Also on the track, Kazakhstan&rsquo;s Norah Jeruto will hope for a second world title as she takes on the world&rsquo;s best steeplechasers.</p>
<p>The javelin can be quite an unpredictable event. Johannes Vetter was very close to the world record in 2021, before he was injured. If he makes a good comeback and throws close to his 97.76m personal best, he will be hard to beat. But Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, who made history for India with his victory in Tokyo, will try. He is fighting to break the 90-metre barrier and was just six centimetres away from it in 2022. Grenada&rsquo;s Anderson Peters has surpassed that mark several times before and will be going for an unprecedented third consecutive world javelin title.</p>
<p>Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the high jump superstar from Ukraine, competed in 2022 in the shadow of war and achieved great success, including winning the European Championships and the World Indoor Championships. To achieve victory in Budapest, she must get past Eleanor Patterson, who defeated her at the last World Championships outdoors.</p>
<p>The 4x400m relays are always a very spectacular conclusion to a major event. In the women's relay, the USA, with Athing Mu, Sydney McLaughlin and Abby Steiner, may have a chance of threatening the world record as they compete against teams such as Poland and Jamaica. The US men&rsquo;s team will also be looking for a successful title defence after a win on home soil in Oregon.</p>
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