World Athletics released the full timetable for the 2027 world championships in Beijing, with ten days of competition set for National Stadium in the Chinese capital.
All track and field finals will be staged during the evening sessions, and the six road events are spread out across four separate weekend mornings, with the women’s marathon on September 12 and the men’s marathon on the last day of the championships on September 19.
The first titles contested will be the women’s and men’s half marathon race walk on the morning of day two of action on September 11. Later that day in the evening session, the men’s 100m final brings some of the fastest sprinters to the line in an early preview of what some of the most highly anticipated events in the competition will feature. The women’s 100m final will close out the third day on the track on September 13.
“There are many complexities when creating a timetable for an event of this scale and we thank all our stakeholders, including the local organizing committee and our rights-holding broadcasters, for their contributions to this process,” World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said. “The first joint consultation between our Athletes’ Commission, Coaches’ Commission and Chair of the Competition Commission last month further demonstrated this spirit of collaboration.”
Ticket sales begin in early 2027, according to World Athletics, and the championships should draw significant fan interest like the 2025 edition, which pulled in 619,288 total spectators across nine days in Tokyo. Over 500,000 tickets were sold before opening day, with the final day having the biggest single-session attendance at 58,723.
