The World Athletics Championships will be held in Tokyo from 13-21 September 2025.

More than 2000 athletes from some 200 countries will come to Tokyo to take part in one of the world's biggest sporting events. The first event was held in Helsinki, Finland. Tokyo will host the event for the second time and for the first time since 1991. 

There’s little over a month to go until the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25 and excitement is building for three unforgettable days of top-class competition.

More than 500 athletes from some 120 nations are expected to compete for medals across 26 events at Nanjing’s Cube, part of the Nanjing Sports Training Centre in the Jiangbei New District, on 21-23 March.

There are so many things to get excited about in the sport of athletics in 2025.

Four World Athletics Series events take place this year, kicking off with the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March. The global showpiece is the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 in September and for many athletes the road to Tokyo will include the one-day meeting circuits such as the Diamond League and Continental Tour, the World Indoor Tour, Cross Country Tour, Combined Events Tour and Race Walking Tour throughout the year.

Olympic 5000m and 10.000m champion Beatrice Chebet ended her year on a high by running a stunning 13:54 to shatter the world 5km record at the Cursa dels Nassos, a World Athletics Label road race, in Barcelona on Tuesday (31).

Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the World Athletics women’s field event athlete of the year, and her fellow Paris 2024 Olympic medallists Thea LaFond of Dominica and Neeraj Chopra of India are among the 23 athletes whose competition artefacts are today (12) inducted into the World Athletics Heritage Collection, which is displayed in the online 3D platform of the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA).

“Thank you to the athletes who have so kindly donated their competition clothing, shoes and even medals to our museum’s collection in 2024,” commented World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.

In total, 32 artefacts related to 23 athletes from 12 countries representing four continental areas have today been added across the MOWA’s five online 3D galleries.

African Athletics shined at the World Athletics Awards in Monaco on 1st December 2024 with three representatives on the world podium.

Letsile Tebogo (Botswana), Olympic champion in the 200m and silver medalist in the 4x400m, was crowned Male Athlete of the Year and Athlete of the Year for the men's track category.

Six finalists have been nominated for the Member Federations Award ahead of the World Athletics Awards 2024.

The Member Federations Award recognises a Member Federation that has distinguished itself in its accomplishments throughout the year and, as a result, positively contributed to the growth and profile of the sport. The shortlisted federations were nominated by each of the six area associations.

World Athletics is delighted to announce the three finalists for the 2024 Women's Rising Star Award, which will recognise this year's best U20 athlete at the World Athletics Awards 2024.

World Athletics is delighted to announce the three finalists for the 2024 Men's Rising Star Award, which will recognise this year's best U20 athlete at the World Athletics Awards 2024.