World Athletics Championships Tokyo25: Faith Kipyegon, Ferdinand Omanyala and Other Kenyans in Action on Day 1

Day 1 of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo25 kicks off with Faith Kipyegon, Ferdinand Omanyala, Beatrice Chebet, and global sprint and distance stars in action on the track and field.

The World Athletics Championships Tokyo25 are here!

Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet, Noah Lyles, Kishane Thompson, Sha’Carri Richardson, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are among the stars who will descend on the track on Day One, September 13, of the event.

The first event of the day will be the men’s 35km walk race, scheduled for 1:30 am East African Time, preceding the women’s event.

The women’s Discuss Throw qualification rounds, A and B, will follow closely with the men’s Shot-Put qualification. At 5:10 am, the men’s 100m preliminary round will kick off before the mixed 4x400m relay heats round up the morning session.

The mixed 4x400m relay team has two heats, with the first one featuring Canada, Jamaica, Italy, Great Britain, the United States, South Africa, Ireland, Germany, and home talent Japan.

The second heat is headlined by the Netherlands. China, Kenya, France, Australia, Poland, Belgium and Spain will also be in action.

The first event of the evening session will be the men’s 3000m steeplechase heats, scheduled for 2:50pm, where the trio of Edmund Serem, Abraham Kibiwott and Simon Kiprop Koech will be looking to fly the Kenyan flag high.

Serem is in heat one, which features strong opposition from home talent Ryuji Miura and Ethiopia’s Getnet Wale, among other stars. Abraham Kibiwott, in the second heat, will be up against Kenneth Rooks and Samuel Firewu, among other opponents.

Simon Koech, in heat three, will face off against world record holder Lamecha Girma and defending champion Soufiane El Bakkali.

Faith Kipyegon will be lining up for the 1500m in heat five. The defending champion will be joined by Dorcus Ewoi (heat one), Nelly Chepchirchir (heat two) and Susan Ejore (heat three). The race is scheduled to begin at 1:50 pm.

The men’s 100m heats will be next, scheduled for 2:35 pm and will feature Africa’s fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala.

The startlists are yet to be unveiled by World Athletics; however, other notable stars set to line up include Noah Lyles, Kishane Thompson, Akani Simbine and Letsile Tebogo.

Beatrice Chebet and Agnes Ngetich headline the women’s 10,000m final scheduled for 3:30 pm. The duo will be joined by Janeth Chepngetich.

Kenya’s hunt for glory in the 25-lap race will be challenged by Gudaf Tsegay, Nadia Battocletti, and Joy Cheptoyek, among other formidable distance runners.

Competing in the women’s 100m heats, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce lines up in heat seven and hopes to secure a ticket to the semifinal.

The women’s 100m will also see Olympic champion Julien Alfred, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Shericka Jackson, defending champion Sha’Carri Richardson, Dina Asher-Smith and Tina Clayton fight for spots in the semifinal.

The evening session also included the women’s long jump qualifiers, men’s pole vault qualifiers, men’s shot put and the mixed 4x400m relay final.