World Athletics Championships 2025 Tokyo Qualification Standards

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