The build-up to the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha has been dominated by issues over the heat and humidity, the low ticket sales and the controversies surrounding sprinter Christian Coleman and the Kenya team.
Great Britain take a 73 strong team to the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, with the team training in Dubai in order to acclimatise to the heat and humidity.
Medla hopes will be on sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, 1500m runnner Laura Muir, heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and the relay teams.
Team captain and sprinter Richard Kilty said that their preparation has been ideal before arriving in Qatar.
"I'm from the North East so I haven't coped with the weather as well as the others," joked the 30-year-old Teesider.
"It's humid and hot in this part of the world, so we have had to train in the evening."
"The first few days were tough but we're getting used to it now."
"They'll have air conditioning when we're competing, so that's a blessing."
The cooling technology in the refurbished Khalifa Stadium consists of cylindrical vents around the interior perimeter blasting out cool air.
IAAF president Sebastian Coe said "It's jaw-dropping, I've sat in the stadium, it's been 38-40C outside and it's 23 in here."
"The technology for the athletes is going to be first class."
"The indoor warm-up facilities are air-conditioned, the call areas also."
"Under our auspices in Doha, we have the technology in the stadium where the athletes are probably going to be competing in perfect conditions."
The marathon runners and race-walkers will be competing away from the stadium, and as such will not benefit from the innovative climate control.
Those events will take place late in the evening - marathons are due to start a minute before midnight - to take the edge off the heat, though it is still expected to be in the low 30°Cs.
British runner Charlotte Purdue has been training in a physiology laboratory that recreated the heat and humidity at St Mary's University.
She said "after the first session I thought I wouldn't be able to cope, but I ended up quite liking it."
The women's marathon will see the first medals won of the championship.
"The course is flat, so it could be quite fast, although if it wasn't so hot then it'd be a rapid course," Purdue added.
British Athletics' performance director Neil Black has not specified a target of medals for the team, but most likely to succeed are Asher-Smith, Muir and Johnson-Thompson.
Johnson-Thompson will face her great rival Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium as the Liverpudlian vies to win her first outdoor global medal.
European 1500m champion Muir, looking for the same achievement as Johnson-Thompson, has not raced since July due to a calf problem, and prepared for the championships in South Africa instead of with the team in Dubai.
Fellow Scottish athlete Guy Learmonth said: "I don't believe Laura would be there if she wasn't fit and if she didn't think she could take a medal."
Following Usain Bolt's retirement, American 2017 100m silver medallist Christian Coleman is looking to become the new king of sprinting, though the 23-year-old faces stiff competition from compatriot Noah Lyles.
Coleman - who has ran the fastest 100m time this year - arrives in Doha having avoided punishment for three missed doping tests.
He'll be looking for a sprint double, but Lyles is the hot favourite to take the 200m title after running a 19.50s in July - less than half a second slower than Bolt's world record.
Kenya's team are competing after allegations from a German broadcaster that their athletes were guilty of doping.
The Athletics Integrity Unit will investige the documentary in which the claims were made, while Athletics Kenya said it "cannot deny or confirm the credibility or otherwise of the allegations made and circulated in the media" because of an "absence of any evidence or further information".
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Medla hopes will be on sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, 1500m runnner Laura Muir, heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and the relay teams.
Team captain and sprinter Richard Kilty said that their preparation has been ideal before arriving in Qatar.
"I'm from the North East so I haven't coped with the weather as well as the others," joked the 30-year-old Teesider.
"It's humid and hot in this part of the world, so we have had to train in the evening."
"The first few days were tough but we're getting used to it now."
"They'll have air conditioning when we're competing, so that's a blessing."
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| Photo from BBC Sport |
IAAF president Sebastian Coe said "It's jaw-dropping, I've sat in the stadium, it's been 38-40C outside and it's 23 in here."
"The technology for the athletes is going to be first class."
"The indoor warm-up facilities are air-conditioned, the call areas also."
"Under our auspices in Doha, we have the technology in the stadium where the athletes are probably going to be competing in perfect conditions."
The marathon runners and race-walkers will be competing away from the stadium, and as such will not benefit from the innovative climate control.
Those events will take place late in the evening - marathons are due to start a minute before midnight - to take the edge off the heat, though it is still expected to be in the low 30°Cs.
British runner Charlotte Purdue has been training in a physiology laboratory that recreated the heat and humidity at St Mary's University.
She said "after the first session I thought I wouldn't be able to cope, but I ended up quite liking it."
The women's marathon will see the first medals won of the championship.
"The course is flat, so it could be quite fast, although if it wasn't so hot then it'd be a rapid course," Purdue added.
British Athletics' performance director Neil Black has not specified a target of medals for the team, but most likely to succeed are Asher-Smith, Muir and Johnson-Thompson.
Johnson-Thompson will face her great rival Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium as the Liverpudlian vies to win her first outdoor global medal.
European 1500m champion Muir, looking for the same achievement as Johnson-Thompson, has not raced since July due to a calf problem, and prepared for the championships in South Africa instead of with the team in Dubai.
Fellow Scottish athlete Guy Learmonth said: "I don't believe Laura would be there if she wasn't fit and if she didn't think she could take a medal."
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Coleman - who has ran the fastest 100m time this year - arrives in Doha having avoided punishment for three missed doping tests.
He'll be looking for a sprint double, but Lyles is the hot favourite to take the 200m title after running a 19.50s in July - less than half a second slower than Bolt's world record.
Kenya's team are competing after allegations from a German broadcaster that their athletes were guilty of doping.
The Athletics Integrity Unit will investige the documentary in which the claims were made, while Athletics Kenya said it "cannot deny or confirm the credibility or otherwise of the allegations made and circulated in the media" because of an "absence of any evidence or further information".
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Day-by-day Guide
Day One
Number of golds: One to be won in women's marathon
21:59 - women's marathon: Starting just before midnight to avoid the worst of the heat, it promises to be an enthralling race with Kenya's Edna Kiplagat looking to win her third world title after victories in 2011 and 2013.
Her former team-mate Rose Chelimo now represent Bahrain and will be looking to defend her title.
Leading Britons: Charlotte Purdue finished 10th in the London Marathon and ran the third fastest time for a British woman.
Day Two
Number of golds: Six to be won in women's hammer, men's long jump, women's 10,000m, men's 100m, men's 50km walk, women's 50km walk
17:25 - women's hammer final: Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk is hard to discount for gold here.
The defending Olympic and world champion is also the world record holder with 82.98m.
18:40 - men's long jump final: Reformed crystal meth addict Luvo Manyonga winning the title two years ago was won of the stories of the championships in London, after the South African winning silver at Rio 2016.
He could have his work cut out to defend his title, with Cuba's Juan Miguel Echevarria jumping 8.68m last summer, so we could see Mike Powell's 8.95m world record be broken in Doha.
19:10 - women's 10,000m final: Ethiopia have world and Olympic champion Almaz Ayana and the fastest this year Letesenbet Gidey.
Eilish McColgand and Steph Twell will run for Great Britain.
20:15 - men's 100m final: Justin Gatlin spoiled the party for Usain Bolt's World Championship farewell two years ago to win gold, and while he is still in the medal conversation at 37, his American team-mate Christian Coleman is firm favourite.
21:30 - men's 50km race walk: Cameron Corbishley and Dominic King will compete for Great Britian, while Frances; Yohann Diniz will be favourite to defend his title.
Day Three
Number of golds: Five to be won in women's pole vault, men's triple jump, 4x400m mixed relay, women's 100m, women's 20km walk
18:40 - women's pole vault final: Talk of Holly Bradshaw as a global medal contender began on her breakthrough in 2012, but has since been blighted by a nightmare series of injuries, and only won her first outdoor major medal - European Championship bronze - last year.
She'll need to be on top form to claim a medal, as this events contains one of the toughest field in the event, with no greater opposition to Bradshaw than defending world, Olympic and European champion Katerina Stefanidi competing.
19:45 - men's triple jump final: Two-time Olympic champion and world champion Christian Taylor has long been talked about to break Jonathan Edward's world record of 18.29m in this event.
The American came within eight centimetres of the Brit at the Beijing World Championships in Beijing in 2015, but his compatriot Will Claye has this year moved third an the all-time list with a jump of 18.14m.
27-year-old Ben Williams set a PB in august of 17.14, so many be within a chance of a medal, but the Stokie's career has been hampered by knee injuries, which he'll need to overcome.
20:35 - mixed 4x400m relay final: This will be a debut at a global event before featuring at the Olympics next summer.
Introduced at senior level at the 2017 World Relays, it involves teams of two men and two women running a leg in any order.
21:20 - women's 100m: Triple European champion Dina Asher-Smith is targeting her first individual global outdoors.
She claimed bronze six years ago in a relay when she was just 17, and will need to live with sprinting greats like Jamaica's Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce if she is to make the podium in Doha.
Fraser-Pryce took 2017 off to have her first child, but has seen an impressive return to form with a run of 10.73 seconds this summer - the same time which won her World Championship goal in Berlin 10 years ago.
Thompson is equal-fastest with Fraser-Pryce this season, and will be looking to make it a world-Olympic double after her triumph in Rio.
Tori Bowie, the American defending champion, has yet to hit top form this season but is definitely one to watch.
Day Four
Number of golds: Six to be won in women's high jump, men's 5,000m, men's discus, women's 3,000m steeplechase, women's 800m, men's 400m hurdles
18:30 - women's high jump: Maria Lasitskene will be favourite to retain her title and win her third world gold on the bounce, with a world leading jump this year of 2.06m beating anyone else by 4cm.
Ukraine's Yuliya Levchenko will be the Russian's main challenger, taking silver at London 2017 and has jumped 2.02m this year.
Morgan Lake retained the British title this year with a jump of 1.94m this year, the Loughborough student will be targeting making the final round.
19:20 - men's 5,000m: Britain's Mo Farah's track retirement leaves the door open for an Ethiopian clean sweep in this event.
Telahun Haile Bekele is the world leader this year with a time of 12:52.98 in Rome in an epic race when he pipped former world junior and youth champion and compatriot Selemon Barega to the win.
Muktar Edris beat Farah to the title two years, will also be representing Ethipia in Doha and vying to defend his title, but has only raced at two Diamond League meetings this year, finishing 11th and 18th.
Andrew Butchart, Ben Connor and Marc Scott of Britain will hope to get out of the heats.
19:50 - women's 3,000m steeplechase: Beatrice Chepkeoch of Kenya has been the standout performer this season, winning all four of her Diamond League races, with a world leading time of 8:55.58 in Palo Alto, faster by eight seconds than the next fastest.
Defending champion Emma Coburn of the USA is expected to be in medal contention.
Rosie Clarke, fourth at the Commonwealth Games last year, Elizabeth Bird and Aimee Pratt will hope to make the final
20:10 - women's 800m: Caster Semenya will not defend her title after losing an appeal to the restriction of testosterone levels in female athletes in 400m up to the mile.
Defending bronze medallist Ajee Wilson comes in as favourite, the American has won in the Diamond League four times this season.
Lynsey Sharp will be a British hopeful for a medal, with Alexandra Bell and Shelayna Oskan-Clarke also racing.
20:40 - men's 400m hurdles: It may finally be the time that the 27-year-old world record of 46.78 seconds is broken, with defending champion Karsten Warholm favourite to defend his title, running a PB of 46.92 seconds this year.
USA's Rai Benjamin came close when Warholm made his PB in Zurich, while home favourite Abderrahman Samba ran 46.98 seconds.
GB only has one representative in Chris McAlister.
Day Five
Number of golds: Four to be won in men's pole vault, women's javelin, men's 800m, men's 200m
18:05 - men's pole vault: Three men have cleared six metres this season, and we are likely to have a three way fight for gold between defending champion Sam Kendricks, Piotr Lisek of Poland and Armand Duplantis of Sweden.
2012 Olympic champion, Renaud Lavillenie of France holds the world indoor record at 6.16m, but hasn't cleared six metres since 2015.
20:10 - men's 800m: David Rudisha's world record of 1:40.91 set at London 2012 could be broken in Doha, with Botswana's Nijel Amos - second to Rudisha's world record time at just 18 years old - is the favourite to win his first major global title.
American Donavan Brazier clocked a PB of 1:42.70 this season in beating Amos in Zurich.
Kyle Langford just missed out on a medal two years ago, and amid controversy this year he remains in the squad.
Elliot Giles and Jamie Webb, the latter the quickest of the three this season, complete the British line-up.
20:40 - men's 200m: 22-year-old Noah Lyles has all the makings of filling the void left by Usain Bolt in this event, particularly after running 19.50s in Lausanne this year, making the favourite for this title.
Ramil Guliyev of Turkey took the title two years ago, but finished second to Lyles in Brussels with 19.86.
Lyles will also be competing with compatriot Coleman, but do not be surprised if Zharnel Hughes, Adam Gemili and Miguel Francis feature in the final, with 24-year-old Francis running 19.97 in July.
Day Six
Number of golds: Three to be won in men's hammer, women's 200m, men's 110m hurdles
19:40 - men's hammer:
26-year-old Nick Miller could be Britain's best hope for a male medal, but aside from javelin, GB's men had rarely excelled in the the throwing events before Miller came along.
The Carlisle-born thrower sealed the 2018 Commonwealth title with a throw of 80.26m, and he sits seventh in the world rankings.
Defending champion Pawel Fajdek and Wojciech Nowicki - both Polish - are likely to both be in contention for gold.
20:35 - women's 200m: Dina Asher-Smith has the fourth fastest time across this distance this year, beating many of her ruvals including Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price and Dutch defending champion Dafne Schippers.
A British woman last won a medal in this event on its debut in the world championship, when Kathy Smallwood-Cook took bronze in 1983.
Fraser-Pryce and compatriot Elaine Thompson - Olympic champion - are the ones to beat for sure.
20:55 - men's 100m hurdles: The two world leaders in this event are 21 years old and American - Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts.
They finished first and second at the American college championships in June, with Holloway becoming the first man to win three MCAA indoor and outdoor sprint hurdle titles in a row.
World indoor 60m hurdles champion Andrew Pozzi will be running for GB, but he has yet to make an impression at a major outdoor championships.
Day Seven
Number of golds: Four to be won in women's shot put, women's 400m, heptathlon and decathlon
20:35 - women's shot put: Defending champion Lijiao Gong is still the one to beat, throwing 20.31m in Zurich becoming the only athlete to throw more than 20m this year.
Sophie McKinna of Great Yarmouth win the British title to earn her place in the GB squad for Doha.
21:50 - women's 400m: Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo would have hoped prior to the championships for a 200m-400m double, but the schedule meant she couldn't.
Much to Dina Asher-Smith's relief the Bahamian chose the longer distance.
She set the fastest time this year of 49.05 seconds, but she will have strong competition for the title from Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser who has won five times in the Diamond League this year.
Emily Diamond and Laviai Mielsen will race for Britain.
22:05 - heptathlon 800m: This is Katarina Johnson-Thompson's best chance to win world gold, and if the 2018 Commonwealth is to challenge Olympic and world champion Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium, it is sure to be a thrilling finale to this two day event.
Day Eight
Number of golds: Six to be won in men's high jump, women's discus, women's 400m hurdles, men's 3,000m steeplechase, men's 400m, men's 20km walk
19:30 - women's 400m hurdles: 29-year-old Dalilah Muhammad had he Des Moines crowd on their feet in July when she broke the world record with a 52.20 seconds to win the American title.
She became the first female 400m hurdler since Sally Gunnell to win the Olympic title before breaking the world record.
Team-mate Sydney McLaughlin will likely be her main competition, after she win the Diamond League final.
20:20 - men's 400m: World and Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk will miss out on Doha due to injury, but you can still expect a sub-44 second winning time.
American Michael Norman recorded 43.45 seconds to open his season, while compatriot Fred Kerley ran 43.64 to beat Normal in the national trials.
London 2012 champion Kirani James is back in form having run 44.47 in Andalucia in the summer - the third fastest time by a non-American this year.
Britons Matthew Hudson-Smith and Rabah Yousif will be eyeing places in the final.
21:30 - men's 20km walk: Tom Bosworth was disqualified while leading this event in London two years ago, so will be heading to Doha with a point to prove.
Reigning world champion Eider Arevalo on Colmbia will be fancied for gold, alongside Toshikazu Yamanishi of Japan.
Day Nine
Number of golds: Seven to be won in men's shot put, women's triple jump, women's 1500m, women's 5,000m, women's 4x100m relay, men 4x100m relay, men's marathon
18:55 - women's 1500m: European champion Laura Muir should be in with a shout of gold, but standing in her way is Kenya's world and Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon and Dutch world number one Sifan Hassan.
33-year-old Jenny Simpson won the title in 2011, and the American is not to be underestimated this time round.
19:25 - women's 5,000m: Hassan could be in for two medals in one day, being the Diamond League champion across both distances, but Kenya's Olympic silver medallist in Rio Hellen Obiri might be favourite for gold.
Eilish McColgan, Laura Weightman and Jessica Judd will be running for Britain.
20:05 - women's 4x100m relay: After silver two years ago, GB's women will be looking for a medal again, and the form of Dina Asher-Smith is surely key to their success.
20:15 - men 4x100m relay: Great Britain got the better of United States at London 2017 to win gold, when Usain Bolt pulled up injured in the anchor leg in his final professional race.
GB will be hoping for a medal once more, with Zharnel Hughes and Adam Gemili starring in this team.
21:59 - men's marathon: Briton Callum Hawkins is in good form and will be hoping for a medal after running a PB of 2:08.14 at this year's London Marathon, following a world championship fourth place two years ago.
Day 10
Number of golds: Seven to be won in the men's 1500m, men's javelin, women's 100m hurdles, women's long jump, men's 10,000m and men's and women's 4x400m relay
17:15 - women's long jump: Brittney Reese has won four of the last five World Championships, but the American will be competing against Germany's Malaika Mihambo and Nigeria's Ese Brume.
17:40 - men's 1500m: Brothers Jacob and Filip Ingebrigtsen of Norway are vying to become the first European world champion in this event since Steve Cram in 1983.
Kenya could win a fifth successive world title, with 2017 silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot winning 11 of 12 Diamond League races over the last two seasons.
17:55 - men's javelin: Estonia's Magnus Kirt could end Germany's domination in this event, they have occupied three of the top four spots on the world list at the end of each of the past three seasons
18:00 - men's 10,000m: Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya will be fighting for the medals in the absence of Mo Farah.
18:50 - women's 100m hurdles: Australian defending champion Sally Pearson announced her retirement in August, so the fight for gold is likely to be between world record holder Kendra Harrison of the USA, and 2019's world number one Danielle Williams of Jamaica.
19:15 - women's 4 x 400m relay: American Allyson Felix is returning from the birth of her first child last November, and coukd win a record-extending 17th World Championships medal - and a 12th gold - while the GB quartet will hope to extend an impressive run in this event, winning a medal in the past seven World Championships.
19:30 - men's 4 x 400m relay: The British team have won a bronze medal at the past three World Championships and should threaten again.
All times listed are BST
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Time - Event - RoundNumber of golds: One to be won in women's marathon
21:59 - women's marathon: Starting just before midnight to avoid the worst of the heat, it promises to be an enthralling race with Kenya's Edna Kiplagat looking to win her third world title after victories in 2011 and 2013.
Her former team-mate Rose Chelimo now represent Bahrain and will be looking to defend her title.
Leading Britons: Charlotte Purdue finished 10th in the London Marathon and ran the third fastest time for a British woman.
Day Two
Number of golds: Six to be won in women's hammer, men's long jump, women's 10,000m, men's 100m, men's 50km walk, women's 50km walk
17:25 - women's hammer final: Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk is hard to discount for gold here.
The defending Olympic and world champion is also the world record holder with 82.98m.
18:40 - men's long jump final: Reformed crystal meth addict Luvo Manyonga winning the title two years ago was won of the stories of the championships in London, after the South African winning silver at Rio 2016.
He could have his work cut out to defend his title, with Cuba's Juan Miguel Echevarria jumping 8.68m last summer, so we could see Mike Powell's 8.95m world record be broken in Doha.
19:10 - women's 10,000m final: Ethiopia have world and Olympic champion Almaz Ayana and the fastest this year Letesenbet Gidey.
Eilish McColgand and Steph Twell will run for Great Britain.
20:15 - men's 100m final: Justin Gatlin spoiled the party for Usain Bolt's World Championship farewell two years ago to win gold, and while he is still in the medal conversation at 37, his American team-mate Christian Coleman is firm favourite.
21:30 - men's 50km race walk: Cameron Corbishley and Dominic King will compete for Great Britian, while Frances; Yohann Diniz will be favourite to defend his title.
Day Three
Number of golds: Five to be won in women's pole vault, men's triple jump, 4x400m mixed relay, women's 100m, women's 20km walk
18:40 - women's pole vault final: Talk of Holly Bradshaw as a global medal contender began on her breakthrough in 2012, but has since been blighted by a nightmare series of injuries, and only won her first outdoor major medal - European Championship bronze - last year.
She'll need to be on top form to claim a medal, as this events contains one of the toughest field in the event, with no greater opposition to Bradshaw than defending world, Olympic and European champion Katerina Stefanidi competing.
19:45 - men's triple jump final: Two-time Olympic champion and world champion Christian Taylor has long been talked about to break Jonathan Edward's world record of 18.29m in this event.
The American came within eight centimetres of the Brit at the Beijing World Championships in Beijing in 2015, but his compatriot Will Claye has this year moved third an the all-time list with a jump of 18.14m.
27-year-old Ben Williams set a PB in august of 17.14, so many be within a chance of a medal, but the Stokie's career has been hampered by knee injuries, which he'll need to overcome.
20:35 - mixed 4x400m relay final: This will be a debut at a global event before featuring at the Olympics next summer.
Introduced at senior level at the 2017 World Relays, it involves teams of two men and two women running a leg in any order.
21:20 - women's 100m: Triple European champion Dina Asher-Smith is targeting her first individual global outdoors.
She claimed bronze six years ago in a relay when she was just 17, and will need to live with sprinting greats like Jamaica's Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce if she is to make the podium in Doha.
Fraser-Pryce took 2017 off to have her first child, but has seen an impressive return to form with a run of 10.73 seconds this summer - the same time which won her World Championship goal in Berlin 10 years ago.
Thompson is equal-fastest with Fraser-Pryce this season, and will be looking to make it a world-Olympic double after her triumph in Rio.
Tori Bowie, the American defending champion, has yet to hit top form this season but is definitely one to watch.
Day Four
Number of golds: Six to be won in women's high jump, men's 5,000m, men's discus, women's 3,000m steeplechase, women's 800m, men's 400m hurdles
18:30 - women's high jump: Maria Lasitskene will be favourite to retain her title and win her third world gold on the bounce, with a world leading jump this year of 2.06m beating anyone else by 4cm.
Ukraine's Yuliya Levchenko will be the Russian's main challenger, taking silver at London 2017 and has jumped 2.02m this year.
Morgan Lake retained the British title this year with a jump of 1.94m this year, the Loughborough student will be targeting making the final round.
19:20 - men's 5,000m: Britain's Mo Farah's track retirement leaves the door open for an Ethiopian clean sweep in this event.
Telahun Haile Bekele is the world leader this year with a time of 12:52.98 in Rome in an epic race when he pipped former world junior and youth champion and compatriot Selemon Barega to the win.
Muktar Edris beat Farah to the title two years, will also be representing Ethipia in Doha and vying to defend his title, but has only raced at two Diamond League meetings this year, finishing 11th and 18th.
Andrew Butchart, Ben Connor and Marc Scott of Britain will hope to get out of the heats.
19:50 - women's 3,000m steeplechase: Beatrice Chepkeoch of Kenya has been the standout performer this season, winning all four of her Diamond League races, with a world leading time of 8:55.58 in Palo Alto, faster by eight seconds than the next fastest.
Defending champion Emma Coburn of the USA is expected to be in medal contention.
Rosie Clarke, fourth at the Commonwealth Games last year, Elizabeth Bird and Aimee Pratt will hope to make the final
20:10 - women's 800m: Caster Semenya will not defend her title after losing an appeal to the restriction of testosterone levels in female athletes in 400m up to the mile.
Defending bronze medallist Ajee Wilson comes in as favourite, the American has won in the Diamond League four times this season.
Lynsey Sharp will be a British hopeful for a medal, with Alexandra Bell and Shelayna Oskan-Clarke also racing.
20:40 - men's 400m hurdles: It may finally be the time that the 27-year-old world record of 46.78 seconds is broken, with defending champion Karsten Warholm favourite to defend his title, running a PB of 46.92 seconds this year.
USA's Rai Benjamin came close when Warholm made his PB in Zurich, while home favourite Abderrahman Samba ran 46.98 seconds.
GB only has one representative in Chris McAlister.
Day Five
Number of golds: Four to be won in men's pole vault, women's javelin, men's 800m, men's 200m
18:05 - men's pole vault: Three men have cleared six metres this season, and we are likely to have a three way fight for gold between defending champion Sam Kendricks, Piotr Lisek of Poland and Armand Duplantis of Sweden.
2012 Olympic champion, Renaud Lavillenie of France holds the world indoor record at 6.16m, but hasn't cleared six metres since 2015.
20:10 - men's 800m: David Rudisha's world record of 1:40.91 set at London 2012 could be broken in Doha, with Botswana's Nijel Amos - second to Rudisha's world record time at just 18 years old - is the favourite to win his first major global title.
American Donavan Brazier clocked a PB of 1:42.70 this season in beating Amos in Zurich.
Kyle Langford just missed out on a medal two years ago, and amid controversy this year he remains in the squad.
Elliot Giles and Jamie Webb, the latter the quickest of the three this season, complete the British line-up.
20:40 - men's 200m: 22-year-old Noah Lyles has all the makings of filling the void left by Usain Bolt in this event, particularly after running 19.50s in Lausanne this year, making the favourite for this title.
Ramil Guliyev of Turkey took the title two years ago, but finished second to Lyles in Brussels with 19.86.
Lyles will also be competing with compatriot Coleman, but do not be surprised if Zharnel Hughes, Adam Gemili and Miguel Francis feature in the final, with 24-year-old Francis running 19.97 in July.
Day Six
Number of golds: Three to be won in men's hammer, women's 200m, men's 110m hurdles
19:40 - men's hammer:
26-year-old Nick Miller could be Britain's best hope for a male medal, but aside from javelin, GB's men had rarely excelled in the the throwing events before Miller came along.
The Carlisle-born thrower sealed the 2018 Commonwealth title with a throw of 80.26m, and he sits seventh in the world rankings.
Defending champion Pawel Fajdek and Wojciech Nowicki - both Polish - are likely to both be in contention for gold.
20:35 - women's 200m: Dina Asher-Smith has the fourth fastest time across this distance this year, beating many of her ruvals including Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price and Dutch defending champion Dafne Schippers.
A British woman last won a medal in this event on its debut in the world championship, when Kathy Smallwood-Cook took bronze in 1983.
Fraser-Pryce and compatriot Elaine Thompson - Olympic champion - are the ones to beat for sure.
20:55 - men's 100m hurdles: The two world leaders in this event are 21 years old and American - Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts.
They finished first and second at the American college championships in June, with Holloway becoming the first man to win three MCAA indoor and outdoor sprint hurdle titles in a row.
World indoor 60m hurdles champion Andrew Pozzi will be running for GB, but he has yet to make an impression at a major outdoor championships.
Day Seven
Number of golds: Four to be won in women's shot put, women's 400m, heptathlon and decathlon
20:35 - women's shot put: Defending champion Lijiao Gong is still the one to beat, throwing 20.31m in Zurich becoming the only athlete to throw more than 20m this year.
Sophie McKinna of Great Yarmouth win the British title to earn her place in the GB squad for Doha.
21:50 - women's 400m: Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo would have hoped prior to the championships for a 200m-400m double, but the schedule meant she couldn't.
Much to Dina Asher-Smith's relief the Bahamian chose the longer distance.
She set the fastest time this year of 49.05 seconds, but she will have strong competition for the title from Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser who has won five times in the Diamond League this year.
Emily Diamond and Laviai Mielsen will race for Britain.
22:05 - heptathlon 800m: This is Katarina Johnson-Thompson's best chance to win world gold, and if the 2018 Commonwealth is to challenge Olympic and world champion Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium, it is sure to be a thrilling finale to this two day event.
Day Eight
Number of golds: Six to be won in men's high jump, women's discus, women's 400m hurdles, men's 3,000m steeplechase, men's 400m, men's 20km walk
19:30 - women's 400m hurdles: 29-year-old Dalilah Muhammad had he Des Moines crowd on their feet in July when she broke the world record with a 52.20 seconds to win the American title.
She became the first female 400m hurdler since Sally Gunnell to win the Olympic title before breaking the world record.
Team-mate Sydney McLaughlin will likely be her main competition, after she win the Diamond League final.
20:20 - men's 400m: World and Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk will miss out on Doha due to injury, but you can still expect a sub-44 second winning time.
American Michael Norman recorded 43.45 seconds to open his season, while compatriot Fred Kerley ran 43.64 to beat Normal in the national trials.
London 2012 champion Kirani James is back in form having run 44.47 in Andalucia in the summer - the third fastest time by a non-American this year.
Britons Matthew Hudson-Smith and Rabah Yousif will be eyeing places in the final.
21:30 - men's 20km walk: Tom Bosworth was disqualified while leading this event in London two years ago, so will be heading to Doha with a point to prove.
Reigning world champion Eider Arevalo on Colmbia will be fancied for gold, alongside Toshikazu Yamanishi of Japan.
Day Nine
Number of golds: Seven to be won in men's shot put, women's triple jump, women's 1500m, women's 5,000m, women's 4x100m relay, men 4x100m relay, men's marathon
18:55 - women's 1500m: European champion Laura Muir should be in with a shout of gold, but standing in her way is Kenya's world and Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon and Dutch world number one Sifan Hassan.
33-year-old Jenny Simpson won the title in 2011, and the American is not to be underestimated this time round.
19:25 - women's 5,000m: Hassan could be in for two medals in one day, being the Diamond League champion across both distances, but Kenya's Olympic silver medallist in Rio Hellen Obiri might be favourite for gold.
Eilish McColgan, Laura Weightman and Jessica Judd will be running for Britain.
20:05 - women's 4x100m relay: After silver two years ago, GB's women will be looking for a medal again, and the form of Dina Asher-Smith is surely key to their success.
20:15 - men 4x100m relay: Great Britain got the better of United States at London 2017 to win gold, when Usain Bolt pulled up injured in the anchor leg in his final professional race.
GB will be hoping for a medal once more, with Zharnel Hughes and Adam Gemili starring in this team.
21:59 - men's marathon: Briton Callum Hawkins is in good form and will be hoping for a medal after running a PB of 2:08.14 at this year's London Marathon, following a world championship fourth place two years ago.
Day 10
Number of golds: Seven to be won in the men's 1500m, men's javelin, women's 100m hurdles, women's long jump, men's 10,000m and men's and women's 4x400m relay
17:15 - women's long jump: Brittney Reese has won four of the last five World Championships, but the American will be competing against Germany's Malaika Mihambo and Nigeria's Ese Brume.
17:40 - men's 1500m: Brothers Jacob and Filip Ingebrigtsen of Norway are vying to become the first European world champion in this event since Steve Cram in 1983.
Kenya could win a fifth successive world title, with 2017 silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot winning 11 of 12 Diamond League races over the last two seasons.
17:55 - men's javelin: Estonia's Magnus Kirt could end Germany's domination in this event, they have occupied three of the top four spots on the world list at the end of each of the past three seasons
18:00 - men's 10,000m: Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya will be fighting for the medals in the absence of Mo Farah.
18:50 - women's 100m hurdles: Australian defending champion Sally Pearson announced her retirement in August, so the fight for gold is likely to be between world record holder Kendra Harrison of the USA, and 2019's world number one Danielle Williams of Jamaica.
19:15 - women's 4 x 400m relay: American Allyson Felix is returning from the birth of her first child last November, and coukd win a record-extending 17th World Championships medal - and a 12th gold - while the GB quartet will hope to extend an impressive run in this event, winning a medal in the past seven World Championships.
19:30 - men's 4 x 400m relay: The British team have won a bronze medal at the past three World Championships and should threaten again.
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SCHEDULE
Day One - 27 September
14:30 - Men's Long Jump - Qualification
14:35 - Men's 100m - Preliminary Round
14:40 - Women's Hammer Throw - Qualification Group A
15:10 - Women's 800m - Heats
15:30 - Women's Pole Vault - Qualification
16:05 - Men's 100m - Heats
16:10 - Women's Hammer Throw - Qualification Group B
16:40 -Women's High Jump - Qualification
17:00 - Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Heats
17:25 - Men's Triple Jump - Qualification
17:55 - Men's 5000m - Heats
18:30 - Men's 400m Hurdles - Heats
21:59 - Women's Marathon - Final
Day Two - 28 September
14:15 - Men's Discus Throw - Qualification Group A
14:30 - Women's 100m - Heats
15:05 - Men's 800m - Heats
15:30 - Men's Pole Vault - Qualification
15:45 - Men's Discus Throw - Qualification Group B
16:05 - Men's 400m Hurdles - Semi-Final
16:45 - Men's 100m - Semi-Final
17:15 - Women's 800m - Semi-Final
17:25 - Women's Hammer Throw - Final
18:00 - Mixed 4x400m Relay - Heats
18:40 - Men's Long Jump - Final
19:10 - Women's 10,000m - Final
20:15 - Men's 100m - Final
21:30 - Men's 50km Race Walk - Final
21:30 - Women's 50km Race Walk - Final
Day Three - 29 September
18:05 - Men's 200m - Heats
18:40 - Women's Pole Vault - Final
19:20 - Women's 100m - Semi-Final
19:45 - Men's Triple Jump - Final
19:55 - Men's 800m - Semi-Final
20:35 - Mixed 4x400m Relay - Final
21:20 - Women's 100m - Final
21:30 - Women's 20km Race Walk - Final
Day Four - 30 September
14:30 - Women's Javelin Throw - Qualification Group A
15:05 -Women's 200m - Heats
16:00 - Women's Javelin Throw - Qualification Group B
16:20 - Women's 400m - Heats
18:05 - Men's 110m Hurdles - Heats
18:30 - Women's High Jump - Final
18:50 - Men's 200m - Semi-Final
19:20 - Men's 5000m - Final
19:25 - Men's Discus Throw - Final
19:50 - Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Final
20:10 - Women's 800m - Final
20:40 - Men's 400m Hurdles - Final
Day Five - 1 October
14:30 - Men's Hammer Throw - Qualification Group A
14:35 - Men's 400m Heats
14:50 - Men's High Jump - Qualification
15:30 - Women's 400m Hurdles - Heats
16:00 - Men's Hammer Throw - Qualification Group B
16:15 - Men's 3000m Steeplechase - Heats
18:05 - Men's Pole Vault - Final
18:50 - Women's 400m - Semi-Final
19:20 - Women's Javelin Throw - Final
19:35 - Women's 200m - Semi-Final
20:10 - Men's 800m - Final
20:40 - Men's 200m - Final
Day Six - 2 October
14:35 - Men's 100m Decathlon
14:45 - Women's Shot Put - Qualification
15:05 - Women's 100m Hurdles Heptathlon
15:30 - Men's Long Jump Decathlon
15:35 - Women's 1500m - Heats
16:00 - Women's Discus Throw - Qualification Group A
16:15 - Women's High Jump Heptathlon
16:25 - Women's 5000m - Heats
16:50 - Men's Shot Put Decathlon
17:25 - Women's Discus Throw - Qualification Group B
18:05 - Men's 110m Hurdles - Semi-Final
18:30 - Women's Shot Put Heptathlon
18:35 - Men's 400m - Semi-Final
18:40 - Men's High Jump Decathlon
19:05 - Women's 400m Hurdles - Semi-Final
19:40 - Men's Hammer Throw - Final
19:50 - Women's 200m Heptathlon
20:35 - Women's 200m - Final
20:55 - Men's 110m Hurdles - Final
21:15 - Men's 400m Decathlon
Day Seven - 3 October
14:35 - Men's 110m Hurdles Decathlon
14:40 - Women's Triple Jump - Qualification
15:30 - Men's Discus Throw Decathlon - Group A
16:15 - Women's Long Jump Heptathlon
16:35 - Men's Discus Throw Decathlon - Group B
17:05 - Men's Pole Vault Decathlon - Group A
17:20 - Men's Shot Put Qualification - Group A
18:05 - Men's Pole Vault Decathlon - Group B
18:10 - Women's Javelin Throw Heptathlon
18:40 - Men's Shot Put - Qualification Group B
20:00 - Men's 1500m - Heats
20:05 - Men's Javelin Throw Decathlon - Group A
20:35 - Women's Shot Put - Final
21:00 - Women's 1500m - Semi-Final
21:10 - Men's Javelin Throw Decathlon - Group B
21:50 - Women's 400m - Final
22:05 - Women's 800m Heptathlon - Final Event
22:25 - Men's 1500m Decathlon - Final Event
Day Eight - 4 October
18:10 - Men's 1500m - Semi-Final
18:15 - Men's High Jump - Final
18:40 - Women's 4x100m Relay - Heats
19:00 - Women's Discus Throw - Final
19:05 - Men's 4x100m Relay - Heats
19:30 - Women's 400m Hurdles - Final
19:45 - Men's 3000m Steeplechase - Final
20:20 - Men's 400m - Final
21:30 - Men's 20km Race Walk - Final
Day Nine - 5 October
14:30 - Men's Javelin Throw - Qualification Group A
15:15 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Heats
15:50 - Women's Long Jump - Qualification
16:00 - Men's Javelin Throw - Qualification Group B
17:55 - Women's 4x400m Relay - Heats
18:05 - Men's Shot Put - Final
18:25 - Men's 4x400m Relay - Heats
18:35 - Women's Triple Jump - Final
18:55 - Women's 1500m - Final
19:25 - Women's 5000m - Final
20:05 - Women's 4x100m Relay - Final
20:15 - Men's 4x100m Relay - Final
21:59 - Men's Marathon - Final
Day 10 - 6 October
17:05 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Semi-Final
17:15 - Women's Long Jump - Final
17:40 - Men's 1500m - Final
17:55 - Men's Javelin Throw - Final
18:00 - Men's 10,000m - Final
18:50 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Final
19:15 - Women's 4x400m Relay - Final
19:30 - Men's 4x400m Relay - Final
18:35 - Women's Triple Jump - Final
18:55 - Women's 1500m - Final
19:25 - Women's 5000m - Final
20:05 - Women's 4x100m Relay - Final
20:15 - Men's 4x100m Relay - Final
21:59 - Men's Marathon - Final
Day 10 - 6 October
17:05 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Semi-Final
17:15 - Women's Long Jump - Final
17:40 - Men's 1500m - Final
17:55 - Men's Javelin Throw - Final
18:00 - Men's 10,000m - Final
18:50 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Final
19:15 - Women's 4x400m Relay - Final
19:30 - Men's 4x400m Relay - Final
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