How to follow the championship TV4 and TV4 Play will broadcast the entire championship. On site are experts Michel Tornéus and Carolina Klüft, who will frame the competitions together with Frida Nordstrand. The competitions will be held in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, between Saturday 18 August and Sunday 27 August. The venue is the newly built Atlétaki Központ-Stadion, with a capacity of 36,000 spectators. The Swedish medal jump During last year’s WC in Eugene, USA, there were three Swedish medals. Then Armand Duplantis stood out with his gold in the pole vault, and even ahead of this year’s championships, the 23-year-old is considered one of Sweden’s top medal candidates. Among the other medal candidates is the discus thrower Daniel Ståhl, who has had a failing form curve during the season. But in the Diamond League competition in London a couple of weeks ago, Ståhl impressed when he won and the Olympic gold medalist is considered a medal candidate. Other Swedes to keep an eye on are the walker Perseus Karlström, who became a double bronze medalist in Eugene last summer, and the long jumpers Thobias Montler and Khaddi Sagnia. Biggest profiles As usual, it is a high-profile starting field that settles for the medals in Budapest. Among the stars that stand out are the Norwegians Karsten Warholm (400 meters hurdles) and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (1,500 meters and 5,000 meters). Warholm goes to the championship as the world record holder in the 400 meter hurdles. But there are more world record holders who are on the hunt for new medals. One of these is Yulimar Rojas, who took the grand slam when the three-step competitions were decided during the Olympics in Tokyo. Rojas jumped 15.74, a result that was enough for an Olympic gold and a new world record. In addition, the Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (100 meters) is chasing her eleventh World Cup gold at the age of 36. Another sprinter who goes to the WC with high expectations is the 19-year-old American, Erriyon Knighton, who has been compared to a certain Usain Bolt. Despite his young age, Knighton, at the age of 18, managed to record the fourth fastest time of all time in the 200 meters at a competition in Louisiana last year.
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