The 2025 World Athletics World Cup is just around the corner. Sport.de has all the information at a glance: venue, schedule, TV broadcast, competitions, prize money, stars and German medal hopes.
Athletics World Cup 2025: When and where do the competitions take place?
The World Athletics Championships are from Saturday, September 13th (1 a.m. German time), until Sunday, the September 21, 2025 (about 2:30 p.m. CEST).
The organizer is this time Tokyothe capital of Japan. The time difference to Germany is seven hours. The competitions are in Nation -stadium held where 2021 the Olympic Summer Games took place – at that time largely without a spectator due to the Corona virus.
The stadium holds around 68,000 places and was opened in 2019.
The World Athletics Championships took place in Tokyo in 1991.
The nation stadium in Tokyo, Japan, at night
Who will broadcast the 2025 World Athletics World Cup on TV and live stream?
On television you can see the competitions of the 2025 Athletics World Cup live at ARD and ZDF.
The ARD Transfer on Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
The ZDF broadcasts on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Both transmitters also show their program free of charge online in the live stream.
Eurosport broadcasts the World Cup live every day and free of charge on free TV. The stream on Discovery+, on the other hand, is chargeable. Sigi Heinrich and Markus Röhrig are commenting.
Athletics World Cup 2025: Which German and international superstars have medal opportunities?
Of course we are looking forward to the athletes of the DLV. Here is a small overview of the currently best German athletes with medal opportunities:
Long jumping (women): Malaika Mihambo (Olympic silver 2024, two-time world champion)
Malaika Mihambo
Shot put (women) Yemisi Ogunleye (Olympic champion 2024)
100 m (women): Gina Lückenkemper (European champion 2022)
Spear throw (men): Julian Weber (EM silver 2024)
Decathlon: Leo Neugebauer (Olympic silver 2024)
Discus (women): Marike Steinacker (Olympic fourth 2024)
International athletics stars
Shak jumping (men): Arnaud “Mundo” Duplantis (SWE, world record holder and Olympic champion 2024)
Armand Duplantis
100 meters (men): Noah Lyles (USA, Olympic champion 2024)
100 meters (women): Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jam, three -time Olympic champion)
400 meters hurdles (men): Karsten Warholm (Nor, world record holder)
Heditor (women): Nafissatou Thiam (Bel, three -time Olympic champion)
High jump (women): Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR, world record holder and Olympic champion 2024)
1500 m (women): Faith Kipyegon (Ken, three times Olympic champion)
Athletics World Cup 2025: The prize money for medals and world records
For a Gold medal every athlete receives converted 60,350 euros ($ 70,000). There are half for silver, i.e. 30,175 euros and for bronze 18,960 euros.
By the way, if you make it to the final and get eighth or last, you will receive 4,300 euros.
Who succeeds in one World record to break is with 86,200 euros rewarded.
The medals of the 2023 Athletics World Cup in Budapest
Athletics World Cup 2025: The schedule for all gold decisions
A total of 49 gold medals are awarded, in 24 disciplines – each for men and women (except for the heptathlon for women and the decathlon for men). There is also a 4 x 400 m mixed relay.
These final or medal decisions take place on these days at the German period (for the complete schedule):
Saturday, September 13th
1:00 a.m.: 35 kilometers (men and women)
2:10 p.m. | Shot put (men)
2:30 p.m. | 10,000 m (women)
3:20 p.m. | 4 x 400 meters mixed
Sunday, September 14th
1:00 am | Marathon (women)
12:10 p.m. | Discus (men)
1:40 p.m. | Long jump (women)
2:30 p.m. | 10,000 m (men)
3:13 p.m. | 100 m (women)
3:20 p.m. | 100 m (men)
Monday, September 15th
1:00 am | Marathon (men)
1:10 p.m. | Shap of pole jumping (men)
2:00 p.m. | Hammer throw (women)
2:55 p.m. | 3000 meters obstacle (men)
3:20 p.m. | 100 m hurdles (women)
Tuesday, September 16
1:35 p.m. | High jump (men)
2:00 p.m. | Hammer throw (men)
3:05 p.m. | 1500 m (women)
3:20 p.m. | 110 m hurdles (men)
Wednesday, September 17th
1:10 p.m. | Pole vault (women)
1:50 p.m. | Long jump (men)
2:57 p.m. | 3000 m obstacle (women)
3:20 p.m. | 1500 m (men)
Thursday, September 18th
12:23 pm | Spear throw (men)
1:55 p.m. | Triple jump (women)
3:10 p.m. | 400 m (men)
3:24 p.m. | 400 m (women)
Friday, September 19th
1:50 p.m. | Triple jump (men)
2:15 p.m. | 400 m hurdles (men)
2:27 p.m. | 400 m hurdles (women)
3:06 p.m. | 200 m (men)
3:22 p.m. | 200 m (women)
Saturday, September 20th
0:30 a.m. | Go 20 km (women)
2:50 a.m. | Go 20 km (men)
12:54 p.m. | Shot put (women)
2:05 p.m. | Spear throwing (women)
2:11 p.m. | H llerty, 800m (women)
2:29 p.m. | 5000 m (women)
3:22 p.m. | 800 m (men)
Sunday, September 21st
12:30 p.m. | High jump (women)
12:35 p.m. | 800 m (women)
12:50 pm | 5000 m (men)
1:00 p.m. | Discus throw (men)
1:25 p.m. | 4 x 400 m relay (men)
1:40 p.m. | 4 x 400 m relay (women)
1:55 p.m. | Decathlon, 1500 m (men)
2:10 p.m. | 4 x 100 m relay (women)
2:20 p.m. | 4 x 100 m relay (men)