The USATF Indoor Championships return this weekend from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The World Athletics Indoor Championships, originally scheduled to be in Nanjing, China later this winter, have been postponed until 2025, but there should still be some good action with national titles on the line.
Who will have a breakout performance? What stars will fall short? And most importantly, how do you catch all the action? Here’s all you need to know.
How to Watch the 2023 USATF Indoor Championships
Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico
When: Thursday, February 16 to Saturday, February 18
How to watch: The meet streams on Peacock, NBC Sports, and USATF.tv. The meet broadcasts on NBC.
Streaming and broadcast schedule
All times below in EST.
Thursday, February 16
The events from 11:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. stream on USATF.tv.
- 11:00 a.m. — Women’s pentathlon 60-meter hurdles pentathlon
- 11:30 a.m. — Men’s heptathlon 60 meters
- 12:00 p.m. — Women’s pentathlon high jump
- 12:15 p.m. — Men’s heptathlon long jump
- 1:30 p.m. — Men’s 3,000-meter race walk
- 1:30 p.m. — Men’s heptathlon shot put
- 2:00 p.m. — Women’s 3,000-meter race walk
- 2:30 p.m. — Women’s pentathlon shot put
- 3:00 p.m. — Men’s heptathlon high jump
- 3:45 p.m. — Women’s pentathlon long jump
- 5:00 p.m. — Women’s pentathlon 800 meters
Friday, February 17
The entire Friday program streams on USATF.tv.
- 1:40 p.m. — Men’s triple jump
- 1:45 p.m. — Women’s long jump
- 2:00 p.m. — Women’s 3,000 meters
- 2:16 p.m. — Men’s heptathlon 1,000 meters
- 2:25 p.m. — Women’s high jump
- 2:28 p.m. — Women’s 800-meter preliminaries
- 2:40 p.m. — Men’s weight throw
- 2:51 p.m. — Men’s 800-meter preliminaries
- 3:21 p.m. — Women’s 400-meter preliminaries
- 3:37 p.m. — Men’s 400-meter preliminaries
- 4:00 p.m. — Men’s 3,000 meters
Saturday, February 18
DAA Industry Opt Out USATF.tv. The events from 2:04 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. broadcast on NBC The events from 2:04 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. broadcast on semi-finals NBC Sports and Peacock.
- 11:00 a.m. — Men’s pole vault
- 11:00 a.m. — Men’s high jump
- 1:12 p.m. — Women’s 60 -meter hurdles semi-finals
- 1:28 p.m. — Men’s 60-meter hurdles semi-finals
- 1:35 p.m. — Women’s shot put
- 1:44 p.m. — Women’s 60-meter semi-finals
- 2:03 p.m. — Men’s 60-meter semi-finals
- 2:05 p.m. — Women’s triple jump
- 2:10 p.m. — Men’s long jump
- 2:19 p.m. — Women’s 400 meters
- 2:28 p.m. — Men’s 800 meters
- 2:38 p.m. — Women’s 800 meters
- 2:49 p.m. — Men’s 400 meters
- 2:55 p.m. — Men’s shot put
- 2:58 p.m. — Women’s 1,500 meters
- 3:10 p.m. — Men’s 1,500 meters
- 3:22 p.m. — Women’s 60-meter hurdles
- 3:32 p.m. — Men’s 60-meter hurdles
- 3:42 p.m. — Women’s 60 meters
- 3:52 p.m. — Men’s 60 meters
Everything you should watch at the USATF Indoor Championships
With Christian Coleman absent from the start list, will Noah Lyles shine?
In dramatic fashion, Noah Lyles lost to Christian Coleman at the Millrose Games last week. While the USATF Indoor Championships looked like a rematch, only Lyles in on the start list. Can anyone challenge him?
Most big stars skip the distance races—who will step up?
Poke through the men’s and women’s 3,000-, 1,500-, and 800-meter races, and you might not find the typical a-list runners. Many big names skip indoor worlds to prepare for the more lucrative and prestigious outdoor season (some are even running the world cross-country championships). However, that just opens the doors up for secondary stars and fresh faces to make a statement.
Expect Elle Henes, Whittni Morgan, and Courtney Wayment to shine in the women’s 3,000 meters. Besides Olympian Cole Hocker in the men’s 3,000 meters, keep an eye on veterans Sam Prakel and Isaac Updike.
Sage Hurta-Klecker and Nikki Hiltz are set for a battle in the women’s 1,500 meters, while Hocker and Prakel return to race previous world championships-qualifier Josh Thompson and multiple time U.S. champion Drew Hunter.
In the women’s 800 meters, Kaela Edwards, Nia Akins, and Allie Wilson all have the chops to make a world team. For the men, it looks like veterans Bryce Hoppel and Isaiah Harris are pretty set in stone for Team USA.
Chris Hatler is a writer and editor based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but before joining Runner’s World and Bicycling, he was a pro runner for Diadora, qualifying for multiple U.S. Championships in the 1500 meters. At his alma mater the University of Pennsylvania, Chris was a multiple-time Ivy League conference champion and sub-4 minute miler.
