Zharnel Hughes, Dina Asher-Smith and Keely Hodgkinson are among the many British athletes aiming for glory on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The game’s greatest names are set to compete throughout 9 days of motion, and protection of each occasion shall be reside on BBC platforms from 19-27 August.
Hughes and Asher-Smith lead their nation’s medal hopes within the sprints, whereas Hodgkinson will hope to improve the silver she gained in Eugene final yr.
Here is all the pieces it’s essential know.
Who’re Britain’s massive medal hopes?
Hughes is within the type of his life, breaking two long-standing British dash data this season.
The 28-year-old ran 19.73 seconds to interrupt John Regis’ 30-year 200m mark eventually month’s London Diamond League, lower than 30 days after smashing Linford Christie’s 100m report in 9.83 – additionally set in 1993.
He’s aiming to turn out to be the primary British man to make the world 100m podium since Darren Campbell 20 years in the past – whereas Regis stays the one 200m medallist.
The quickest man over 100m this yr, Hughes will contest each males’s dash occasions in Budapest – as will compatriot Asher-Smith, the 2019 girls’s 200m champion.
Asher-Smith, 27, grew to become the primary British lady to win a serious international dash title 4 years in the past and has steadily improved all through the season as she seems to be to construct on the 200m bronze she claimed in 2022.
Rising star Hodgkinson, 21, was an agonising 0.08 seconds from 800m gold when she completed runner-up to Athing Mu final yr.
The Olympic silver medallist has been in electrical kind, enhancing her British indoor and outside data and operating greater than a second quicker than anybody else in 2023 with a time of 1 minute 55.77 seconds.
Laura Muir and Matthew Hudson-Smith, bronze medal winners within the girls’s 1500m and males’s 400m respectively final yr, will hope to as soon as once more make the rostrum.
So too will 2019 heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, winner of Commonwealth Video games gold in 2022, and European indoor champion Jazmin Sawyers within the girls’s lengthy bounce.
Nice Britain gained seven medals on the 2022 championships, which have been delayed one yr by the pandemic, with the injured Jake Wightman successful his nation’s solely gold medal within the males’s 1,500m.
World data, rivalries and international stars – what to be careful for
There shall be international stars at each flip – and the opportunity of a number of world data falling in Budapest.
American sprinter Noah Lyles is focusing on three gold medals in Budapest and has said his intention to interrupt sprinting nice Usain Bolt’s 200m report.
Lyles, who gained 200m and relay titles final yr, has predicted a time of 19.10 in his favoured occasion – 9 hundredths of a second faster than eight-time Olympic gold medallist Bolt’s greatest – in addition to a 9.65-second 100m time.
Together with Hughes, the 26-year-old will face compatriot and reigning males’s 100m champion Fred Kerley, who could lastly get his eagerly awaited showdown with Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs.
Jamaican five-time world 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is amongst Asher-Smith’s competitors within the wide-open girls’s dash occasions.
Compatriot Shericka Jackson, the world 200m champion, is the quickest on this planet this yr, whereas American Sha’Carri Richardson and Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast can even have gold medal ambitions.
Religion Kipyegon has set a trio of world data over 1500m, 5,000m and the mile this season as she goals for double gold, whereas London Marathon winner Sifan Hassan plans to contest the 1500m, 5,000m and 10,000m having medalled in all three occasions on the Tokyo Olympics.
Swedish pole vault star Armand Duplantis not often fails to entertain and will enhance his world report for a seventh time.
Elsewhere, Norwegian pair Jakob Ingebrigtsen (males’s 1,500m and 5,000m) and Karsten Warholm (males’s 400m hurdles) chase their newest international titles, plus revolutionary American shot putter Ryan Crouser will search extra historical past utilizing his ‘Crouser Slide’ approach.
observe the World Championships
Hungary is getting ready to host its biggest-ever sporting occasion, welcoming greater than 2,000 athletes from over 200 international locations to Budapest.
The nineteenth version of the championships happen from Saturday 19 to Sunday, 27 August and there shall be complete protection of all 49 occasions throughout BBC TV, iPlayer, Pink Button, Radio 5 Dwell and the BBC Sport web site and app.
The BBC’s staff contains world-class former athletes in Michael Johnson, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson, Paula Radcliffe, Steve Cram and Steve Backley.
Budapest is on Central European Time, one hour forward of the UK, and temperatures of 30C are anticipated throughout the championships.
The nine-day schedule contains morning and night classes, with most finals to be held later within the day.
Key occasions to concentrate on embody the lads’s 100m closing at 18:10 BST on Sunday, 20 August, the ladies’s 100m closing at 20:50 on Monday, 21 August and the ladies’s 800m closing 19:45 on Sunday, 27 August.