World Athletics Championships 2023 day five preview and schedule – Wednesday 23 August
Discover the highlights and schedule for Wednesday, 23 August 2023, Day 5 of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 in Hungary, featuring Karsten Warholm, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Katie Moon in finals action, and Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson in 200m heats.
Athletics
World record holder Karsten Warholm is in finals action on Wednesday 23 August, Day 5 of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
The Norwegian, unbeaten in his last 12 meets, will hope to regain his men's 400m hurdles world title after struggling with injury last season and failing to make the Worlds podium.
However, his counterpart world record holder in the women's 400m hurdles, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, will not be in women's 400m flat action. Having originally decided to focus on the flat over the hurdles, the American withdrew from the Championships citing a knee injury a week before the event began. Instead, Dominican Olympic silver medallist Marileidy Paulino is the favourite in a final which also includes the sub-49.5 Europeans Rhasidat Adeleke of Ireland and Natalia Kaczmarek of Poland.
Before that, Warholm's comptatriot Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the favourite to claim the men's 1500m crown. Despite looking ragged in the semi-finals, the Norwegian still had time to play up to the crowd as he came from behind to win his semi-final race. Defending champion Jake Wightman is out through injury leaving the European record holder and Olympic champion as the most likely winner.
Katie Moon and the rest of the women's pole vault field compete in the night's only field event final.
Earlier in the morning session, the men's and women's 200m will begin with the heats. American pair Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson are aiming to book their places safely in the semi-finals as their quest for triple sprint gold resumes.
Day 5 schedule at World Athletics Championships 2023 – 23 August
All times in Central European Summer Time (UTC +2 hours, Eastern time +6 hours, Pacific time +9 hours).
Due to hot weather forecast, the women's 5000m heats have been rescheduled for the evening session, with the timing of the 200m heats being adjusted in the morning session.
- 10:05 - Women's 800m - Heats
- 10:15 - Men's pole vault - Qualification
- 10:20 - Women's javelin throw - Qualification A
- 11:15 - Men's long jump - Qualification
- 11:20 - Women's 200m - Heats
- 11:55 - Women's javelin throw - Qualification B
- 12:15 - Men's 200m - Heats
- 19:00 - Women's 5000m - Heats
- 19:02 - Women's hammer throw - Qualification A
- 19:10 - Women's triple jump - Qualification
- 19:30 - Women's pole vault - Final
- 19:53 - Women's 3000m steeplechase - Heats
- 20:35 - Women's hammer throw - Qualification B
- 20:45 - Women's 100m hurdles - Semi-finals
- 21:15 - Men's 1500m - Final
- 21:35 - Women's 400m - Final
- 21:50 - Men's 400m hurdles - Final
How to watch World Athletics Championships 2023
In the United States, NBC holds the broadcast rights to the World Championships. Coverage will be on NBC's various channels including CNBC and NBC, and streamed on Peacock – check listings for further details.
Track and field fans in Europe can follow and watch the action through Warner Bros. Discovery. The broadcaster signed a deal with World Athletics to air the event live in more than 45 European countries (excluding the Nordic region) on its channels Discovery+, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, and the Eurosport App.
Athletics fans in the UK can also watch action on the BBC, while in Australia, all the sessions will be broadcast live on SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand. CBC has the rights in Canada, and SuperSport and TVMS in Africa.
Sony Liv app and the website will live stream the championships in many countries in South Asia.
A full list of broadcasters is available here.