Farah is 5,000m action in the heats at 8.05pm where his biggest challenge is likely to come from Muktar Edris of Ethiopia who has the fastest 5k time in the world this year.
Makwala, however, is set to run a time trial in a bid to see him qualify for the 200m semi-finals, also later tonight.
The IAAF have said that Makwala will run on his own before the evening session and would be allowed to compete in the semi-final later provided he made the qualification time of 20.53 seconds.
He is due to race his time trial at 6.40pm this evening.
World Athletics Championships 2017 Day 6 results
7.05pm Women’s 3,000m steeplechase first round
Just as the men’s race is, the women’s steeplechase has plenty of strong Kenyans but they are not quite as dominant and the favourite this time around is likely to be Bahrain’s Ruth Jebet, the current Olympic champion.
But defending champion Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi and Kenyan team-mates Celliphine Chepteek Chespol and Beatrice Chepkoech are all likely to threaten – assuming they can avoid any mishaps in the heats head of Friday’s final.
7.10pm Women’s long jump qualifying
Shara Proctor was a late addition to the Team GB squad after missing British trials due to a concussion suffered in a car accident before also having to withdraw from the Anniversary Games.
But she proved her fitness at the Lausanne Diamond League and will hope to find the form that saw her take silver in Beijing two years ago.
Tianna Bartoletta beat her on that day, a second world title 10 years after her first, and will be among the favourites along with world No1 in 2017 Brittney Reese – the only other woman over seven metres this year – and Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic.
7.20pm & 8.50pm Men’s hammer throw qualifying (Group A)
After claiming gold and bronze in the women’s event through Anita Wlodarczyk and Malwina Kopron, Poland will be optimistic of doing the double.
Pawel Fajdek is the defending champion with revenge on his mind after failing to qualify for the Olympic final last summer.
He is the longest thrower in the year with 83.44m, just short of his personal best, with the closest man to him countryman Wojciech Nowicki.
8.05pm Men’s 5,000m first round
Part 1 of Mo Farah’s wild week is complete after he won a thrilling 10,000m race on Friday night.
The Brit will want to conserve as much energy as possible in this heat ahead of Saturday’s final, where his biggest challenge is likely to come from Muktar Edris of Ethiopia who has the fastest 5k time in the world this year.
8.25pm Women’s shot put final
Lijiao Gong is a perennial bridesmaid who has an Olympic silver medal by virtue of two retrospective qualifications from the London 2012 competition.
However, the Chinese athlete now looks ready to become one of the world’s best and go one better than she did in her home worlds two years ago and qualified with the longest put of the qualifying session on Tuesday.
8.55pm Men’s 200m semi-finals
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Zharnel Hughes and Daniel Talbot all made it through to the semi-final but only the first will be confident of advancing further.
That said, Talbot ran on the shoulder of 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk, now favourite in the absence of ill Isaac Makwala, in the heats and cruised through.
9.30pm Men’s 400m hurdles final
There is a potential changing of the guard going on in this event and the two fastest qualifiers are at the centre of it.
The US’s Kerron Clement won his third global title at the Olympics last year and had to work hard to win his semi-final.
The man who pushed him all the way was Karsten Warholm, who ran a 48.25s PB earlier this year, and is one of the sport’s most exciting talents. The 21-year-old Norwegian will run one lane outside Clement.
Turkey’s Yasmani Copello is the only man apart from Clement in the race to have broken 48 seconds and could challenge for a medal, perhaps even a major one if the top two do not run the fast race they promised in the heat.
9.50pm Women’s 400m final
Allyson Felix is a phenomenon of athletics: nine-time world champion, six-time Olympic, all spread over four different events.
She will no doubt go down as one of the greatest of all-time but she has not achieved everything there is quite yet.
Should she win, it will be the first time Felix has defended a 400m title with the majority of her individual titles coming over 200m.
She has both the fastest season’s and personal best in the race but Shaunae Miller-Uibo will likely start as favourite: the Bajan has been under 50 seconds as well this year and ran a 49.44s PB to beat Felix to Olympic glory last summer.
