Paavo Nurmi Games 2025: Schedule, how to watch, athletes to watch ft Anna Hall, Marcell Jacobs

The 2025 Paavo Nurmi Games are scheduled to be held on Tuesday, June 17, in Turku, Finland. Categorized as one of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meetings, the event will take center stage at Paavo Nurmi Stadium.

The event will be headlined by Anna Hall, who a couple of weeks earlier posted a tied-second heptathlon score, collecting 7,032 points at Hypo Meeting in Götzis, Austria. She will compete in the women’s high jump at the Paavo Nurmi Games.

The men’s 100m race features a competitive lineup, with top sprinters like Marcell Jacobs, Andre De Grasse and Rohan Browning vying for the title. Another star-studded field appears in the women’s 100m hurdles, where Pia Skrzyszowska and Ditaji Kambundji will go head-to-head.

Meanwhile, in the field events, the presence of Camryn Rogers, Anita Wlodarczyk, Roje Stona, Kristjan Ceh, and Tajay Gayle makes the Paavo Nurmi Games an event not to be missed.

With that, let’s take a look at the schedule, live streaming and ticket details for the meeting -

Schedule and order of events for 2025 Paavo Nurmi Games

All timings below are in Finnish local time. Finnish time is 1 hour ahead of Central European Summer Time (CEST) and 7 hours ahead of Eastern Time (ET).

5:30 PM - Women's High jump

5:36 PM - Women's 1500m

5:54 PM - Men's 5000m

6:10 PM - Men's Discus Throw

6:15 PM - Women's 3000m steeplechase

6:38 PM - Women's 100m Preliminary 1

6:45 PM - Women's 100m Preliminary 2

6:50 PM - Women's Pole vault

6:51 PM - Men's 100m Preliminary 1

6:57 PM - Men's 100m Preliminary 2

7:06 PM - Men's 3000m steeplechase

7:20 PM - Men's Long jump

7:25 PM - Men's 110m Hurdles Preliminary 1

7:31 PM - Men's 110m Hurdles Preliminary 2

7:39 PM - Women's 100m Hurdles Preliminary 1

7:45 PM - Men's Javelin throw

7:45 PM - Women's 100m Hurdles Preliminary 2

7:54 PM - Women's 100m Final

8:06 PM - Men's 100m Final

8:18 PM - Men's 1500m

8:32 PM - Men's 110m Hurdles Final

8:42 PM - Women's 100m Hurdles Final

8:54 PM - Women's 800m

How to watch the event and live streaming details

In the United States, FloTrack will provide live TV streaming of the event. Fans in the United Kingdom can tune in to World Athletics Inside Track. L'Équipe Live will broadcast the event in France, while Rush Sports will provide coverage in Jamaica.

Meanwhile, Sportdeutschland.TV will provide live coverage in Germany. Many African nations can watch the Paavo Nurmi Games via SuperSport, while World Athletics Inside Track is also expected to broadcast the event across multiple countries.

Tickets for Paavo Nurmi Games

Track and field fans can buy tickets for the event on ticketmaster.fi. One can buy a maximum of 20 tickets, allowed per customer account.

About the author

Abhiruchi is a US Olympics journalist at Sportskeeda, specializing in Athletics, Swimming, Gymnastics, and Wrestling among other sports. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and has over 2 years of prior experience in the sports journalism sector.

Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy are Abhiruchi’s favorite Olympians. She began following them in 2018, and seeing their transformation from initially not wanting to play together to becoming the world's top-ranked men's doubles pair inspires her.

Track & Field excites Abhiruchi the most because of the diverse range of events involved in it. Neeraj Chopra's historic performance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics stands as her favorite Olympic moment as it was India’s first gold in track and field events. She feels that focus should be placed on up-and-coming athletes to increase the coverage of Olympic sports during the off-season.

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Edited by Abhiruchi Rout