World Athletics Championships 2023 LIVE – Dina Asher Smith and Zharnel Hughes in 200m semi-final action

The fastest 5k man in the world this year, Berihu Aewgawi, goes in this. The first eight go through.

Nordas easing down only just qualified in eighth ahead of Almgren of Sweden.

Ingebrigtsen staying at the back of the pack.

No Britons in this, but we wil see Jakob Ingebrigtsen looking for a form of redemption in the first heat.

Hewas the quickest qualifier and this time round will go in Heat 3 in Lane 7, just outside American number two Erriyon Knighton.

I’m Ciaran Baynes and I’ll be following the action with you this evening. Everyday we’ve been wondering whether the previous day’s drama can be repeated. Let’s just revel in this great championships. Tonight we have Zharnel Hughes in the 200m heats, we’ll be on world record watch in the women’s 100m hurdles final, the Femke Bol show in the 400m hurdles and we are keeping everything crossed that Matthew Hudson-Smith can round things off with another gold. That seems enough!

An enthralling fifth day at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest saw Great Britain’s Josh Kerr claim a spectacular gold in the 1500m final as well as finals in the women’s 400m and men’s 400m hurdles.

Josh Kerr made his move with 150m remaining to overtake Jakob Ingebrigtsen and beat the world record holder on the final straight. A strong finish time of 3:65.65 saw Kerr win his first World Championships medal, handed directly to him by Seb Coe.

Dominican Maurileidy Paulino won gold in the women’s 400m, setting a new personal best of 48.76s. Natalie Kaczmarek and Sada Williams finished in second and third respectively, while Ireland’s Adeleke came in at a creditable fourth.

The women’s pole vault saw gold medals shared between Australia’s Nina Kennedy and America’s Katie Moon as they both failed to clear 4.95m. It was the second consecutive world title for Moon, who also won Olympic gold in Tokyo.

Day five concluded with the men’s 400m hurdles final, seeing Norway’s Karsten Warholm win his third global gold in the event with a winning time of 46.89s. Kyron McMaster and Rai Benjamin won silver and bronze medals after dominating their respective qualifying heats.

Day six will be sure to provide more action with semi- finals in the men’s and women’s 200m and men’s 800m. There are well poised finals for the men’s long jump and 400m, featuring GB’s Matthew Hudson-Smith. The women’s hurdles finals, the 100m at 21:25 and the 400m at 21:50, are also taking place.

Eurosport 1 will broadcast 68 hours of live coverage while viewers watching on discovery+ and the Eurosport app won’t miss a minute of the live action throughout the nine days of competition.

Radzi Chinyanganya, a key face of Eurosport’s coverage of Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022, will present coverage from the National Athletics Centre with former British athlete Iwan Thomas – a 4x400m world champion from 1997 – and Robert Korzeniowski, the Polish four-time Olympic gold medallist in walking, providing analysis and expertise.

Caroline de Moraes and Elisa Lukawski will also be on-the-ground reporting on the action in Budapest and interviewing all of the key athletes involved in the World Championships whilst Ben Snowball will also be on the ground in Budapest creating bespoke premium digital content.

As well as live coverage, a 30-minute show will wrap up the best of the action following each day while on-demand clips will be available via discovery+ and the Eurosport app.

The championships will represent the first time the new timeline marker’s function – allowing users to navigate to the points in the action that they wish to go to as they wish – will be utilised on discovery+.