Semifinals: Saturday 12 Sep, 18:46
Remaining: Sunday 13 Sep, 18:08
Contenders:
Anna Cockrell (USA) 💎
Emma Zapletalová (SVK)
Jasmine Jones (USA)
Rushell Clayton (JAM)
Gianna Woodruff (PAN)
Dalilah Muhammad (USA)
Kemi Adekoya (BRN)
Amalie Iuel (NOR)
Fatoumata Binta Diallo (POR)
Paulien Couckuyt (BEL)
Ayomide Folorunso (ITA)
Sanique Walker (JAM)
Ashley Miller (ZIM)
Shiann Salmon (JAM)
Lina Nielsen (GBR)
Shamier Little (USA)
Sára Mátó (HUN)
World lead: 52.13 Anna Cockrell (USA) Zurich, 27 Aug
2026 world listing | world rankings
World file: 50.37 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) Paris, 8 Aug 2024
world all-time listing | world file development
- After seasons of accidents, a match Emma Zapletalová has been the shape athlete for a lot of the season with 5 Diamond League wins
- However her world lead was eclipsed by Anna Cockrell because the US athlete gained in Zurich
- Dalilah Muhammad continues to be within the combine, a decade on from her Olympic gold
Emma Zapletalová has very a lot needed to play the lengthy recreation however lastly her endurance is paying off.
The Slovakian athlete needed to endure three years of injury-ravaged seasons, lacking the 2023 season altogether and working simply 3 times the next yr.
There have been indicators of promise final season when she carried out properly all through the Diamond League after which completed on the rostrum on the World Championships however 2026 has proved to be her revelation.
She talked lately about lastly working damage free and the outcomes have been stand-out with 5 Diamond League 400m hurdles victories to her identify in addition to changing into the primary Slovakian girl to win a European title which she achieved in Birmingham.
The one blemish was a sixth place in Zurich the place Anna Cockrell clocked the quickest time of the yr when she gained in a gathering file of 52.13, and Cockrell once more simply edged Zapletalová on the Diamond League Remaining in Brussels.
Cockrell’s Zurich time was her quickest since working 51.87 to complete second on the Paris Olympic Video games, a time that had put her fourth on the world all-time listing.
However the Final Championship seems to be unlikely to be a straight face to face between this pairing.
Dalilah Muhammad was meant to have packed up her working spikes with Tokyo pencilled in as her last ever aggressive outing final yr however, at 36, she continues to be working quickly.
She was second behind Cockrell in Zurich, a decade on from profitable Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro, however she struggled in Brussels. Absolutely Budapest would be the swan track to an illustrious profession.
Others prone to be within the combine embrace Muhammad and Cockrell’s US compatriot Jasmine Jones, the Tokyo world silver medallist ranked third on the earth this season, and Jamaica’s Rushell Clayton.
And residential followers can be hoping that Sára Mátó will be capable to give them one thing to cheer about having earned one of many host member federation spots for the occasion.
Matt Majendie for World Athletics
Title key: 🏅 Olympic champion, 🌍 world champion, 💎 Diamond League champion
