Birke Haylom, the Ethiopian who was in front of Hannah Nuttall, is visibly tiring.

Nuttall into the top eight as we enter the final lap!

400m to go.

Hannah Nuttall is up to ninth, one more place and she moves into the qualification spots.

There's a group of 12 which have pushed ahead, the qualifiers will come from these athletes.

Hannah Nuttall is among them, but Melissa Courtney-Bryant is not.

The leaders have kicked, the pace has been upped significantly as this race enters the final five laps.

Nozomi Tanaka leads Beatrice Chebet, Hannah Nuttall is still 11th.

Hannah Nuttall has moved up into 11th place with six laps to go.

A good push in the final laps, and the Brit could earn a place in the final.

Round and round they go.

Beatrice Chebet is sat comfortably in fourth place at present, the two Brits are near the back of the field.

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BBC Sport in Tokyo

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From one global champion to another.

It may not have been a second world title for Jake Wightman last night. But, boy, did it feel like one.

The 2022 champion has been through injury hell over the past few years since his crowning moment in Eugene.

But through the "bleak" times he still maintained his belief that one day he could get back to his former heights.

Before tonight's session I nipped - not advisable in this heat - over to the medal plaza, set up outside the stadium to make it more accessible to the fans, to see World Athletics president Sebastian Coe present Wightman with his silver medal.

What a moment for Wightman, and a big one too for GB who are now up and running on the medal table.

This race is 12 and a half laps of the track, so a long way to go. But early doors the Japanese duo of Nozomi Tanaka and Yuma Yamamoto have hit the front.

The home crowd in Tokyo like that.

They have just set off in the first of two women's 5,000m heats. There are 20 athletes in each heat, the top eight reach the final.

Beatrice Chebet, the Olympic champion and world record holder, is the star name in this race.

British champion Hannah Nuttall and compatriot Melissa Courtney-Bryant also compete here.

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The women's 5,000 metres event begins with the heats, and it feels like it will be a distinctly Kenyan affair.

Beartrice Chebet is already the Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion, and now she's looking to complete a world double after winning the 10,000m final on Saturday.

In July, the 25-year-old Kenyan became the first woman in history to cover 5,000m inside 14 minutes when she set a new world record of 13:58:06 at the Prefontaine Classic.

Standing in her way is her compatriot Faith Kipyegon, the legendary middle distance runner who on Tuesday won the world 1500m title for a fourth time.

She's looking to defend her world 5,000 crown, a year on from losing out on Olympic gold to debutant Chebet.

Gudaf Tsegay returns to the scene of her Olympic 5,000m bronze four years ago, though the 2022 world champion left the Paris Games with no medals from three events.

She was back among the medals on Saturday as she took bronze in the 10,000m final.

Agnes Ng'etich is in with a shout too, after moving up to third on the all-time list with a time of 14:01:29 in July and also winning her first Diamond League race in Brussels.

Might we have a British one-two in the women's 800m?

And could it be Georgia Hunter Bell on top of the podium?

Last year’s surprise Olympic 1500m bronze medallist has opted to compete against her training partner Keely Hodgkinson in the 800m after showing strong form in the shorter event.

She won Diamond League races in Stockholm and London, became national champion and set a personal best of 1:55.96 in the Diamond League Final as runner-up to Switzerland’s Audrey Werro.

She rebounded from missing out on a medal at this year’s European Indoor Championships, having started as the 1500m favourite, by earning world indoor 1500m bronze 16 days later.

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Sports Personality of the Year, Britain's best gold medal hope - that's Keely Hodgkinson, who's made a remarkable return to the track in the last month.

In her first outing since being crowned Olympic champion 376 days earlier, Hodgkinson blew away the cobwebs and the opposition with a world-leading time of 1:54.74 in Poland. It was only 0.13 sec outside her British record and immediately dispelled concerns she wouldn’t be fit for these World Championships after repeated hamstring injuries.

Hodgkinson felt for the next two days “like she’d been run over by a bus” but within four days she raced again – and set the second fastest time in the world this year in the Lausanne rain.

She returns to Tokyo’s National Stadium as a different athlete to the 19-year-old who won Olympic silver there in 2021. The Brit has since won two European titles both indoors and out and been runner-up at the Commonwealth Games and successive World Championships.

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The live action gets under way on the track from 11.05 BST with the women's 5000m heats.

Then from 11.55 BST, we have the women's 800m heats - featuring one Keely Hodgkinson...

Jake Wightman speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live about moving away from his father as coach: ​"My dad had coached me since I was 15, and I decided I needed to move away from that so I changed away from him in February. They had a big impact, the changes all happened at once and I got to the race season and doubted if the changes were worthwhile. That's what's really satisfying.

"Even though he isn't my coach anymore, he doesn't lose his role as my father. That stays, and it always will. He was proud of me last night and he sent me a message before saying some advice on how he thought the race would go. It's funny how he goes from the figurehead in all my career and all of a sudden he isn't involved which is a big change. He's announcing the medal ceremony which is another special moment that we share together."

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Jake Wightman speaking to BBC Breakfast about Josh Kerr's injury during the men's 1500m final: "I haven't asked him anything more about it apart from asking how he is. Yesterday was really hot, the hottest we've had to warm up in. Even warming up I could feel my hamstrings twitching, which is a sign you are losing too much salt and sweating a lot.

"There's always risk of cramps and muscle injuries, whether that is what it was I'm not sure but it was sad to see. I think commend him for finishing, that was pretty brave when you're that badly hurt.

"I could hear during the race my dad on the stadium announcement system saying about it, but it's only in clips back I see how badly he was limping. Sad to see, you want to see competitors and teammates performing to the best of their ability.

"I would have loved to have seen him at the front having a real battle to try and win it. You know with someone like him who's such a class act, these next couple years he will be right back up there again. I hope he recovers quickly."

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Jake Wightman speaking to BBC Breakfast about the journey to the stadium from the warm up track for his 1500m final: "We had a pretty unique situation here where the warm up track was a 20 minute bus ride from the actual stadium, so before the race they put us all on a tiny mini bus sat next to each other, and it is deadly silent! I don't really like silence.

"Through the rounds, I was trying to make conversation, and you realise not too many people want to hear you chatting, and before the final there's a lot of nerves. So, there wasn't much conversation.

"My roommate Neil Gourley is on that bus and we've been chatting away, and we just sat in silence on our way to this big occasion. After it's nice as everyone is relaxed and the pressure is released, so you can congratulate people on big improvements and performances."

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Jake Wightman on just missing out on gold in the men's 1500m final: "I wish I could have been on the other side of those 2/100ths, but I gave everything I could. I'm a bit banged up today because I hit the deck diving for the line, so I left everything on the track. I'm content with that.

"There was definitely a point I thought I would become world champion again, which for me would have been a fairy tale as I've had some pretty horrible years with injuries."

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Great Britain's Jake Wightman speaking to BBC Breakfast TV about his celebrations after winning silver in the men's 1500m final: "One of the biggest buzzkills you have is that we get taken straight to anti-doping, and you're sitting and waiting to go to the toilet for about an hour.

"We went to a karaoke bar, and I've never seen anything like it. It wasn't just microphones, it was a full band set! There was 12 of us butchering songs in there. The first song was Gold by Spandau Ballet which I thought wasn't appropriate, but it was a nice gesture! It felt like a gold though!"

Before we get into today's events, let's take a look back on yesterday as the British team, finally, got their hands on a medal...

We're heading into another exciting day of athletics, and as always, we want to hear your opinions, hot takes and predictions.

How many of Great Britain's sprinters will make it through the women's 200m semi-finals and does Amber Anning stand a chance of a medal in the women's 400m?

What have you made of GB's championships so far?

What has been your Tokyo highlight and what are you looking forward to?

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