World Athletics Championships 2023: How to watch and live stream, schedule, dates, live stream and TV channel

Updated 21/08/2023 at 13:56 GMT

How to watch the 2023 World Athletics Championships on Eurosport and discovery+? What's the schedule and which Brits are competing at the event? The World Athletics Championships are held in Budapest and will feature top stars from the athletics world from August 19-27. There is plenty of GB interest, with Zharnel Hughes on the podium and Katarina Johnson-Thompson clinching gold.

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The 2023 World Athletics Championships kicked off in style, with Zharnel Hughes and Katarina Johnson-Thompson already making their mark in Hungary.

The nine-day event in Budapest began on Saturday, August 19 and runs until Sunday, August 27, and will offer an indication as to which athletes are approaching top form ahead of next year’s Paris Olympics Games.

There is plenty of British interest among the top athletes competing, with success already on the board for Great Britain. Hughes claimed a bronze medal in the men's 100m, while Johnson-Thompson brought home gold in the heptathlon - against all odds - mirroring her success at the Doha World Championships in 2019.

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Keely Hodgkinson and Dina Asher-Smith are yet to grace the track at the National Athletics Centre, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Faith Kipyegon, and Armand Duplantis among the stars on show during the week.

But how can you watch the 2023 World Athletics Championships?

Here’s everything you need to know about live coverage on Eurosport and discovery+, as well as the main events to look out for on the schedule.

How to watch the 2023 World Athletics Championships?

You can watch live coverage of the 2023 World Athletics Championships on discovery+ and eurosport.com, with highlights and reaction on eurosport.com.

Eurosport 1 will broadcast 68 hours of live coverage while viewers watching on discovery+ and the Eurosport app won’t miss a minute of the live action throughout the nine days of competition.

Radzi Chinyanganya, a key face of Eurosport’s coverage of Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022, will present coverage from the National Athletics Centre with former British athlete Iwan Thomas – a 4x400m world champion from 1997 – and Robert Korzeniowski, the Polish four-time Olympic gold medallist in walking, providing analysis and expertise.

Caroline de Moraes and Elisa Lukawski will also be on-the-ground reporting on the action in Budapest and interviewing all of the key athletes involved in the World Championships.

As well as live coverage, a 30-minute show will wrap up the best of the action following each day while on-demand clips will be available via discovery+ and the Eurosport app.

The championships will represent the first time the new timeline marker’s function – allowing users to navigate to the points in the action that they wish to go to as they wish – will be utilised on discovery+.

Which Brits are competing at the 2023 World Athletics Championships?

Keely Hodgkinson (800m) and Dina Asher-Smith (100m) are the remining headline names in Great Britain’s team.

Hodgkinson won silver in the 800m at last year's World Athletics Championships while Asher-Smith will be aiming for success in the 100m and 200m.

What’s the schedule at the 2023 World Athletics Championships?

The 2023 World Athletics Championships will see sprinters, long-distance runners, hammer throwers, long jumpers, and more compete for medals.

Here’s the list of the finals over the remaining days of competition:

Monday, August 21: Men’s discus final, men’s 110m final, women’s 100m final
Tuesday, August 22: Men’s high jump final, women’s discus final, women’s 1,500m final
Wednesday, August 23: Women’s pole vault final, men’s 1,500m final, women’s 400m final, men’s 400m hurdles final
Thursday, August 24: Men’s 35km race walk final, women’s 35km race walk final, men’s long jump final, women’s hammer final, women’s 100m hurdles final, men’s 400m final, women’s 400m hurdles final
Friday, August 25: Women’s triple jump final, women’s javelin final, women’s 200m final, men’s 200m final
Saturday, August 26: Women’s marathon final, men’s pole vault final, women’s shot put final, men’s 800m final, women’s 5,000m final, men’s 4x100m relay final, women’s 4x100m relay final
Sunday, August 27: Men’s marathon final, women’s high jump final, men’s 5,000m final, men’s javelin final, women’s 800m final, women’s 3,000m steeplechase final, men’s 4x400m relay final, women’s 4x400m relay final

For the full schedule and event timings click here.

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