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Olympic Lifting and Track & Field
Vancouver, Canada
For distance runners and sprints over 400m, it is going to be harder to qualify by time unless an athlete can collect IAAF points to enter into World Athletics Championship Tokyo 2025 (13 September 2025 to 21 September 2025) via world rankings.
Men’s qualifying standards
Event | 2024 Paris Olympic Standards | 2025 World Championship Standards |
100m | 10.00 | 10.00 |
200m | 20.16 | 20.16 |
400m | 45.00 | 44.85 |
800m | 1:44.70 | 1:44.50 |
1,500m/ 1 Mile | 3:33.50/3:50.40 | 3:33.00/3:50.00 |
5,000m | 13:05.00 | 13:01.00 |
10,0000m | 27:00.00 | 27:00.00 |
110m hurdles | 13.27 | 13.27 |
400m hurdles | 48.70 | 48.50 |
3000m steeplechase | 8:15.00 | 8:15.00 |
Marathon | 2:08:10 | 2:06:30 |
Women’s qualifying standards
Event | 2024 Paris Olympic Standards | 2025 World Championship Standards |
100m | 11.07 | 11.07 |
200m | 22.57 | 22.57 |
400m | 50.95 | 50.75 |
800m | 1:59.30 | 1:59:00 |
1,500m/ 1 Mile | 4:02.50/4:20.90 | 4:01.50/4:19.90 |
5,000m | 14:52.00 | 14:50.00 |
10,0000m | 30:40.00 | 30:20.00 |
100m hurdles | 12.77 | 12.73 |
400m hurdles | 54.85 | 54.65 |
3000m steeplechase | 9:23.00 | 9:18.00 |
Marathon | 2:26:50 | 2:23:30 |