World Athletics Championships 2023: Ten track and field rising stars to watch at Budapest 23

The 2023 World Athletics Championships will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 19–27 August with Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, Mondo Duplantis, Karsten Warholm, Yulimar Rojas, Faith Kipyegon, Sha'Carri Richardson, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce among the track and field stars on show.

But there's also a big group of younger athletes ready to make their mark. Some of them already have World Championships experience, competing – and even coming close to winning a medal – at last year's Worlds in Eugene, Oregon. Olympics.com has picked out 10 of them – five men and five women – to keep an eye on in Budapest.

This list excludes athletes who have already won medals at the senior World Championships or Olympic Games. Athletes are listed alphabetically by last name.

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Rhasidat Adeleke, 20 (Ireland) – Women's 200m, 400m

The Irishwoman of Nigerian extraction is one to watch in the one-lap event. While she is also entered over 200m, Adeleke ranks as the fourth-fastest woman in the world over 400m this year, clocking 49.20 seconds in June. That time also stands as her personal best. With world leader Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone a late withdrawal through injury, a repeat of that performance could see Adeleke in the mix for the medals.

Jeswin Aldrin, 21 (India) – Men's long jump

Aldrin is the world leader in the long jump in 2023 at 8.42m, leading an Indian one-two on the 2023 performance charts so far. That leap in March was also the 21-year-old's personal best. While the Indian has only exceeded eight metres legally on two further occasions (plus one wind-aided) since, he has podium possibilities if he can go close to his best.

Julien Alfred, 22 (St Lucia) – Women's 100m, 200m

The Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia has never won a World Athletics Championships medal. Alfred is well-placed to change that this year. The 22-year-old, already the NCAA collegiate champion in both women's sprint events, is also the fifth-fastest woman over 100m (10.83) and third-fastest over 200m (21.91, her personal best) in 2023. The time is ripe for St Lucia to finally make it onto a Worlds podium.

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Max Burgin, 21 (Great Britain) – Men's 800m

There was plenty of hype surrounding Burgin last year after this victory at the British Championships, but he had to pull out of the World Championships through injury. Now 21, the Yorkshireman - whose career best of 1:43.52 puts him fourth on the British all-time list - is ready to make his mark on the global stage. His season's best 1:43.85 makes him the seventh-fastest man in the world this year.

Tamari Davis, 20 (USA) – Women's 100m, 4x100m relay

Davis has been a pro track runner since she was 16, having been spotted early by sponsors. In Budapest, the American is set to compete in the women's 100m in which she holds a personal best 10.89. That time makes her the third-fastest American woman this year, and eighth-fastest in the world. How fast can she go in Hungary?

Birke Haylom, 17 (Ethiopia) – Women's 1500m

Haylom has already had an incredible season, setting a new world under-20 record in the women's mile at the Oslo Diamond League meet back in June. The latest in a long line of distance-running specialists from Ethiopia, Haylom has a best 1500m time of 3:54.93 set at last month's Silesia Diamond League. On current form, she could soon be within reach of the under-20 record (which stands around three seconds faster than her personal best) over the metric mile too.

Jaydon Hibbert, 18 (Jamaica) – Men's triple jump

Speaking of under-20 record holders, Hibbert has bucked a trend. While Jamaica is known for producing some of the world's best sprinters, Hibbert is the current world under-20 record holder in the men's triple jump, having set marks of both 17.54m indoors in March followed by 17.87m outdoors (pending ratification) in May. The latter is further than anyone else has leapt this year making Hibbert not just the world leader, but also one of the favourites for gold.

Letsile Tebogo, 20 (Botswana) – Men's 100m, 200m

Tebogo, the fastest teenager over 100m, turned 20 barely two months ago, and is looking to make his mark at senior international level. The youngster from Botswana has run 9.93 this season in the straight sprint, but it may be in the half-lap where he makes his mark. He ran Lyles close at last month's London Diamond League, clocking a personal best 19.50 to the America's world lead 19.47, and could prevent an American sweep in the event.

Angelina Topić, 18 (Serbia) – Women's high jump

At 18 years old, Topić has already set tongues wagging in Serbian athletics. In June, she cleared 1.97m in the women's high jump at the Paris Diamond League meeting, ranking her joint-sixth on the year. Among the top 10 this year, only one other woman was born after 2000 – Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Topić took European bronze last summer in Munich as a 17-year-old, and is one to watch in the coming years.

Emmanuel Wanyonyi, 19 (Kenya) – Men's 800m

If Burgin is the young European hope over two laps, Wanyonyi leads the teenage African charge. Having reached the final of last year's World Championships aged just 18 and finished an agonising fourth, the Kenyan is strongly fancied to make the podium this year. He has lowered his personal best to 1:43.27, making him the fastest man in the line-up in 2023, and will be tough to beat.