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It was a mixed result for Team USA, which ranked third in the overall medal standings with 28 total medals, finishing ninth in the gold medal standings with six.
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Lilian Ordira won the women’s 800m final in 1:54.62, good for a championship record in Tokyo. Georgia Hunter-Bell and Keely Hodgkinson finished second and third to bring home silver and bronze for Great Britain.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet edged her compatriot Faith Kipyegon in the women’s 5000m final at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships despite a season best from Kipyegon. Italy’s Nadia Battocletti claimed bronze.
Totaling 6,888 points, Anna Hall became the second U.S. athlete in nearly 32 years to win the heptathlon after Jackie Joyner-Kersee accomplished the same feat in 1993.
Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi won the men’s 800m final in a championship-record time of 1:41.86, edging Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati and Marco Arop of Canada at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo.
While Chase Jackson was denied gold and a three-peat in women’s shot put after a wild final round and throw of 20.29m by the Netherlands’ Jessica Schilder, Jackson (20.21m) rallied for silver at the world championships.
With a world-lead time of 21.68 seconds, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden became the second woman in 30 years, and first U.S. woman ever, to sweep the 100m and 200m events at a single world championships.
Noah Lyles joined Usain Bolt with his fourth world title in the 200m, running to gold in 19.52 seconds, edging compatriot Kenny Bednarek’s season best (19.58) and Jamaica’s Bryan Levell (19.64), who had a personal best.
Despite being briefly listed as disqualified, Rai Benjamin added a 400m hurdles world title to his Olympic gold, running a season-best time of 46.52 second to edge Alison Dos Santos and Abderrahman Samba in Tokyo.
Femke Bol ran a world lead 51.54 seconds to win gold in the women’s 400m hurdles final at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships, while Jasmine Jones (52.08) of the U.S. was runner up with a personal best.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone came close to breaking the world record in the women’s 400m, finishing in 47.78 seconds for a championship record and gold medal at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
With a world-lead time of 45.53 seconds, Busang Collen Kebinatshipi won gold in the men’s 400m for Botswana’s first world title. Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards secured silver and Botswana’s Bayapo Ndori bronze.
Portugal’s Isaac Nader snatched victory away from Great Britain’s Jake Wightman by two-hundredths of a second in the men’s 1500m final at the Track and 2025 Field World Championships. Kenya’s Reynold Cheruiyot was third.
Kenya’s Faith Cherotich finished the women’s 3000m steeplechase final in 8:51.59 for a championship record and gold medal. Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi secured silver, while Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew claimed bronze.
U.S. pole vaulter, Katie Moon, became the first woman to win three straight world championships in the pole vault, clearing 4.90m for gold, while teammate and training partner Sandi Morris finished in second for silver.
Following their best finish (5th) at a global championships in the 1500m, Nikki Hiltz share their pride of the effort and what they need to do to reach the podium, while Faith Kipyegon breaks down her title defense.
Having missed the team for Paris by one spot, Cordell Tinch of the U.S. struck gold in the 110m hurdles at the 2025 Track and Field World Championships ahead of a 2-3 finish for Jamaica’s Orlando Bennett and Tyler Mason.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon pulled away from eventual silver and bronze medalists Dorcus Ewoi of Kenya and Australia’s Jessica Hull, winning the women’s 1500m in 3:52.15 at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships.
In a thrilling 3000m steeplechase for the ages at the World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo, New Zealand’s Geordie Beamish edged Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco at the finish. Kenya’s Edmund Serem secured bronze.
At the 2025 World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record for a 14th time to win a third straight world title and extend a more-than-two-year win streak.
Ditaji Kambundji surprised the field in the women’s 100m hurdles with a national record of 12.24 seconds to give Switzerland its first ever medal in the event and upset world-record holder Tobi Amusan and Grace Stark.
Finishing with a world lead of 7.13m, Tara Davis-Woodhall secured her first career world title in the women’s long jump at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
Running a season’s-best time of 28:55.77, France’s Jimmy Gressier edged Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia and Sweden’s Andreas Almbren to win the men’s 10,000m in Tokyo.
Oblique Seville (9.77 seconds) and Kishane Thompson (9.82) gave Jamaica a 1-2 finish in the 100m final at the World Track and Field Championships, with U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles (9.89) rounding out the podium in Tokyo.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden collected her first career world title in the 100m thanks to a championship-record time of 10.61 seconds, making her the fourth-fastest woman in history. Sha’Carri Richardson finished in fifth.
Having won two Olympic golds to go along with worlds bronze and silver, U.S. discus thrower Valarie Allman captured her first career world title with a toss of 69.48 meters.
Tanzania’s Alphonce Simbu got the best of Amanal Petros of Germany to win the men’s marathon at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships in a photo finish from Tokyo, Japan.
Peres Jepchirchir and Tigst Assefa locked horns in the women’s marathon that saw the two race neck-and-neck in a sprint to the finish at the 2025 World Athletic Championships.
Beatrice Chebet (30:37.61) of Kenya outlasted Italy’s Nadia Battocletti and Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia to claim gold in the women’s 10,000m at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
The U.S. team comprised of Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah McKiver, and Alexis Holmes ran a championship-record time of 3:08.80 to win the mixed 4x400m world title in Tokyo ahead of the Netherlands and Belgium.
Ryan Crouser won his third straight world outdoor title in the shot put at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships to become the fourth U.S. athlete to win six global outdoor titles in a single individual event.
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