For the next 13 days, RunBlogRun will be posting a story a day on the buildup to the World Athletics Outdoor Championships, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, from August 19-August 27, 2023.
Tonight I am writing about enjoying the 2023 World Outdoor Athletics Championships sessions. Here’s the link to the pdf of the whole World Champs Budapest 2023.
On session 1 of Day 1, you can see the following:
Men’s 20k Race Walk final at 8:30 AM.
10:30 AM, Men’s shot put A&B qualifying. Ryan Crouser, Joe Kovacs, and Tom Walsh should be competing in the Men’s shot put.
10:35 AM, Women’s 100-meter hurdles. We should see Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Kenni Harrison, and Tobu Amusan in the 100 m hurdles.
11:05 AM 4x400m Relay (Mixed), will the Dominican Republic defend this title? Will The Netherlands surprise, and what team with the US put together?
11:35 Men’s steeplechase: Will we see Lamencha Girma and Soufianne El Bakaali meet in the early heat?
11:45 AM High Jump Hep, the Heptathlon will be amazingly competitive, with Nafi Thiam, Anna Hall, and Katerina Johnson Thompson, among others.
12 noon, can the Women’s Hammer throw a surprise? Can Anita Wlodarczyk take the title again?
12:25 Women’s Long Jump, Women’s Qualifying, Ivana Spanavic, Malaika Mihambo, Jazmin Sawyers, Tara Davis, who will medal in this one?
12:35 PM, Men’s 100 meters, this is a round where countries can put their only athlete in this round, and who will be the new sprint stars from Budapest?
1:15 PM, Women’s 1,500 meters, Faith Kipygegon, Laura Muir, and Jemma Reekie will be there; who else?
2:40 PM, can the Men’s hammer throw, Wojciech Nowicki and Pawel Fadjek duel, or can Pawel Fadjeck win his sixth hammer throw title?
Each session will have something exciting to watch. The first session of the World Champs has a fun energy as the fans check out their favorite stars and enjoy the new National Athletics Centre.
One of the benefits of Budapest is that all of the World Champs is close together, and Budapest is eminently walkable.
We will review each of the sessions over the next few days.
National Athletics Center, Budapest, Hungary, photo by 2023 WAC Budapest
To read all of our earlier stories in Witness the Wonder, numbers 1-31:
The World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, will be held August 19-27, 2023, and tickets are available now! Click here to learn more about ticket sales:https://tickets.wabudapest23.com/
RunBlogRun suggests a wonderful book on Hungary, The Hungarians, A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat, by Paul Lendvai, Translated by Ann Major, Princeton University Press,www.pupress.princeton.edu.
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