How to watch World Athletics Indoor Championships 2026: FREE live streams, TV Channels, Schedule

• March 20, 2026

Watch World Athletics Indoor Championships 2026 live streams to see the planet’s superstars of track and field gather in Torun, Poland, for three days’ elite action from 674 athletes contesting 26 events at the Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena. Men’s pole vaulter world record holder Mondo Duplantis, women’s Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson and Julien Alfred, who won gold and silver in the 100 and 200m respectively at Paris 2024.

Duplantis is arguably the biggest athlete on the planet right now. The 15-time world record holder first broke new ground in Torun six years as a 20-year-old and will have another new height in his sights after soaring over 6.31m a week ago in his native Sweden.

Hodgkinson broke the indoor 800m women’s world record recently and has high hopes for gold, while British compatriot Georgia Hunter Bell goes in the 1500m. Another Brit, Jeremiah Azu defends his world indoor 60m crown.

Alfred is favorite in the women’s 60m, but won’t have it all her own way, with Italy’s Zaynab Dosso and Luxembourg’s Patrizia van der Weken her main challengers.

Arguably the most stacked field comes in the women’s high jump. Okraine’s Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh, world champion Nicola Olyslagers of Australia and Serbia’s Angelina Topic are all capable of jumping two meters plus. Don’t miss it.

Keep reading to discover how to watch World Athletics Indoor Championship 2026 online from anywhere – starting with those FREE options. And there’s a full schedule of every single event at the bottom of this page.

Depending on your country, you may also be able to watch if you sign up with a FREE World Athletics+ account. This is only if no broadcasting deal exists in your country. Follow this handy link and click on the drop down menu listing countries – if yours lists no broadcaster, then you can watch the action on World Athletics+.

Away from home at the moment and blocked from watching the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships on your usual subscription?

You can still watch the track and field action live thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are. So ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN. It’s the best on the market:

2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance, if you’re visiting the US and want to view your usual UK service, you’d select a UK-based server from the list.

3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to your usual local streaming service and watch the games.

Live streams from World Athletics Championships 2025 are on NBC channels and Peacock in the US.

The Peacock streaming service has the most comprehensive coverage of live action and highlights. You’ll need at least a Peacock Premium subscription for access, with the Peacock price starting at $10.99 per month or $109.99 per year.

Outside the US during the world indoor athletics? Use NordVPN to access your Peacock streams.

CBC has the rights to broadcast the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2026 for FREE.

You can watch some events on TV via the free-to-air CBC Sports or, for much more comprehensive live and on-demand coverage of the athletics, head to its online CBC Gem streaming platform.

As we’ve mentioned above, BBC iPlayer in the UK and RTÉ Player in Ireland are showing hours of World Athletics Indoor Championships 2026 live streams – and all for FREE!

With daily live action and highlights shows going out on BBC and RTÉ channels, you can use the UK’s BBC iPlayer and Ireland’s RTÉ Player to watch all the big events and medal moments online for free.

Australians can watch plenty of live World Athletics Indoor Championships 2026 action thanks to the free-to-air Nine network.

If you’re currently out of Australia but want to watch free indoor athletics live streams, you’ll need to get yourself a VPN as per the instructions above.

Below is the daily schedule of events taking place at the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2026.

We have used the official schedule listed, which is in GMT. Clocks go forward in the UK on Sunday, so the schedule will be an hour different in Blighty.

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Watch World Athletics Indoor Championships 2026 live streams to see the planet’s superstars of track and field gather in Torun, Poland, for three days’ elite action from 674 athletes contesting 26 events at the Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena. Men’s pole vaulter world record holder Mondo Duplantis, women’s Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson…