Athletes in action in Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena Toruń
Evening session
Men's pole vault
Armand Duplantis (SWE) equals Sergey Bubka (UKR/URS) by winning his fourth world indoor pole vault title. He remains unbeaten across nine global championships this decade (two Olympic titles, three world outdoor titles, four world indoor titles)
Duplantis improved his championship record to 6.25m to win his fourth title. He owns the four highest winning vaults in World Indoor Championships history
With 6.00m, 6.10m, 6.15m and 6.25m clearances, Duplantis achieved his 126th, 127th, 128th and 129th clearances at 6.00m or higher
For just the second time in pole vault history, three vaulters cleared 6.00m or higher in the same competition: Duplantis 6.25m, Emmanouil Karalis (GRE) 6.05m, Kurtis Marschall (AUS) 6.00m
Heptathlon
Simon Ehammer (SUI) set the first world indoor record of the championships with 6670 points, breaking Ashton Eaton's record of 6645 points set at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul. "For the moment, I am speechless because my dream came true. I badly wanted to improve my European record here but it was difficult to imagine that the world record would be possible as well," he said
Ehammer becomes just the fourth athlete to win multiple world indoor heptathlon titles after Roman Sebrle (2001/2004), Bryan Clay (2008/2010) and Ashton Eaton (2012/2014/2016), all Olympic champions
The world indoor heptathlon record has been broken in three editions of the World Indoor Championships: 6476 points - Dan O'Brien (USA) in 1993, 6645 points - Ashton Eaton (USA) in 2012 and 6670 points - Simon Ehammer (SUI) in 2026
Ehammer becomes the first European to hold the world indoor heptathlon record since Christian Plaziat (FRA) who held the world indoor record between 1992-1993 with 6418 points
Women's triple jump
Leyanis Perez Hernandez (CUB) becomes the fifth triple jumper to win multiple world indoor triple jump titles
Yulimar Rojas (VEN) becomes the most bemedalled women's triple jumper in World Indoor Championships history. With silver, she takes her tally of medals to four (3-1-0)
Saly Sarr (SEN) wins Senegal's second medal in World Indoor Championships history. Their only other medal prior to tonight also came in the women's triple jump in 2003 when Kene Ndoye also won bronze
Women's 60m final
After winning bronze and silver in the last two 60m finals, Zaynab Dosso (ITA) wins gold in 7.00 and becomes the first Italian woman to win a global sprint title
Prior to 2026, the last Italian woman to win a world indoor title was Fiona May in the long jump in 1997. Italy won two gold medals in two hours tonight with Nadia Battocletti also winning the women's 3000m. This was just the second time in history that Italy has won two world titles on the same day after Michele Didoni (20km race walk) and Fiona May (long jump) at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg
Jacious Sears (USA) won silver ahead of Julien Alfred (LCA) by 0.003 - 7.022 to 7.025
For the first time in history, seven athletes broke the 7.10-barrier in the same women's 60m. Best marks for places were also set at the World Indoor Championships for 3rd (7.03), 7th (7.07) and 8th (7.10)
Men's 60m hurdles final
Jakub Szymański (POL) won Poland's first gold medal at the World Indoor Championships since Poland won the men's 4x400m title in 2018. "Last year, I was heartbroken to miss out on the final in Nanjing when medals ended up being won in very slow times. Now, the weight has fallen off my shoulders. I thought of avenging that loss every day and night, now I have done it," he said
Szymanski won the title in 7.40 ahead of Enrique Llopis (ESP) in 7.42. 12 of the 22 60m hurdles finals at the World Indoor Championships have been won in 0.02 or less
Llopis won his first global medal having previously finished fourth at the Olympic Games, World Championships and World Indoor Championships
Trey Cunningham (USA) won bronze by 0.009 from Demario Prince (JAM) - 7.421 to 7.430
In the deepest final en masse in World Indoor Championships history, best times for places were set from fourth to eighth
Women's 400m final
Lurdes Gloria Manuel (CZE) becomes the first Czech woman to win a world indoor title since 2001. At 20y/252d she also becomes the youngest winner of the women's 400m final in World Indoor Championships history
Natalia Bukowiecka (POL) equalled her Polish indoor record of 50.83 to win silver, Poland's first medal in this event in World Indoor Championships history
Blanca Hervas (ESP) set a lifetime best of 51.43 to finish sixth overall in her fourth race of the championships having anchored Spain to silver in the mixed 4x400m this morning
Men's 3000m final
Josh Kerr's (GBR) winning time of 7:35.56 was the second fastest winning time in World Indoor Championships behind Haile Gebrselassie's championship record of 7:34.71 from 1997. "I wanted this gold medal so badly. I had all kind of scenarios in my head and I am just pleased it all went in my favour today," he said
Kerr's winning margin of 0.14 ahead of Cole Hocker (USA) was the second smallest in a men's 3000m final in World Indoor Championships history
Kerr's 1500m splits were 3:56.26/3:39.30. He closed with a last 400m of 55.05 and a last 200m of 26.34
Kerr becomes just the second Brit after triple jumper Ashia Hansen (1999/2003) to win two world indoor titles
Women's 3000m final
Nadia Battocletti (ITA) becomes the first Italian winner of this title (Agnese Possamai won Italy's only medal with silver in 1985) and the first European winner since Olga Yegorova (RUS) in 2001. "I usually don't do a lot of indoor training but I wanted to see what I could do indoors and I really surprised myself," she said
Ethiopia had won 10 of the last 12 3000m finals but left empty-handed from a world indoor 3000m final for the first time since 2001. Aleshign Baweke was fourth and reigning champion Frewenyi Hailu (who fell) was sixth
Battocletti won gold in 8:57.64. Her 1500m splits were: 4:48.21/4:09.43. She covered the last 600m in 1:31.54, the last 400m in 58.43 and the last 200m in 28.54
Battocletti becomes just the second Italian woman to win a world indoor title after Fiona May won the long jump in 1997 (Zaynab Dosso became the third later in the evening)
Men's 400m final
Christopher Morales-Williams' (CAN) winning time of 44.76 was not just a championship record but also the first ever sub-45 second 400m set outside of the United States. All 35 sub-45 second indoor 400m performances had been set on US prior to these championships
Morales-Williams ran the fastest ever heat (45.51) and semifinal (45.35) in World Indoor Championships history en route to the fastest ever final (44.76) to become the second Canadian winner of the world indoor 400m title
Men's 60m hurdles semifinals
Trey Cunningham's (USA) 7.35 in the semifinals was the fifth fastest time in World Indoor Championships history...but only the third fastest semifinal! Grant Holloway clocked 7.29 and 7.32 in the semifinals in 2022 and 2024 respectively
Franco Le Roux's (RSA) 7.55 equals the fastest ever non-qualifying time for a 60m hurdles final
Women's 60m semifinals
Amy Hunt's (GBR) time of 7.10 equals the fastest non-qualifying time for a 60m final
Morning session
Mixed 4x400m final
Belgium's (BEL) winning time of 3:15.60 was the fastest time ever recorded in an indoor mixed 4x400m, replacing the Netherlands' winning time of 3:15.63 from the 2025 European Indoor Championships. However, the time was some way short of the world record target time (3:12.44) and just outside the European record target time of 3:15.50
Blanca Hervas (ESP) anchored Spain to a silver medal. She was the only athlete who has qualified for tonight's 400m finals to run in the mixed 4x400m final
Men's high jump final
Oleh Doroshchuk (UKR) becomes the first Ukrainian to win the men's high jump title at the World Indoor Championships. Ukraine had previously won silver in 2014 (Andriy Protsenko) and in 2001 (Andriy Sokolovskiy)
With silver, Erick Portillo (MEX) becomes just the third Mexican to win a medal in World Indoor Championships history, and the first this century. Mexico had previously won bronze in the now-discontinued men's 5000m race walk in 1987 (Ernesto Canto) and the men's 400m in 1999 (Alejandro Cardenas). "This is a baby step towards my goal of becoming world and Olympic champion," he said
2.30m is the lowest height to win gold in the history of the World Indoor Championships
Heptathlon
Simon Ehammer (SUI) smashed the world heptathlon best (Ashton Eaton - 7.60) and championship heptathlon best (Damian Warner - 7.61) with a 7.52 clocking in the 60m hurdles for 1106 points
Ehammer went on to clear 5.30m in the pole vault, his second highest clearance ever and his highest clearance in a combined events competition. He will need to run 2:43.26 to break Ashton Eaton's world record of 6645 points in the 1000m (his PB is 2:41.76 from the 2025 European Indoors)
Men's 800m semifinals
Cooper Lutkenhaus' (USA) 1:44.29 in the second semifinal was the third fastest 800m time in World Indoor Championships history behind Wilson Kipketer's (DEN) world indoor records of 1:43.96 and 1:42.97 from the heat and final in 1997
Maciej Wyderka's (POL) 1:44.59 was by far the fastest time not to qualify for a 800m final in World Indoor Championships history (previously 1:45.45)
Allan Tatsunami Clay (JPN) becomes the first Japanese athlete - male or female - to qualify for a world indoor or outdoor 800m final
Women's 800m semifinals
Eloisa Coiro's (ITA) 1:59.33 was the fastest time not to qualify for a 800m final in World Indoor Championships history (previously 2:00.06)
Women's 60m heats
A record six women ran under 7.10 in the heats: Brianna Lyston (JAM) 7.06, Julien Alfred (LCA) 7.06, Zaynab Dosso (ITA) 7.07, Jacious Sears (USA) 7.07, Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) 7.07, Ewa Swoboda (POL) 7.08
Men's 60m hurdles heats
Five athletes ran 7.50 or faster across the six heats including Franco Le Roux (RSA) who set an African record of 7.50 (his previous PB was 7.60), beating the record set by his coach Shaun Bownes of 7.52 in 2001. "To improve his achievements, it shows how well it is working between us," he said
Saguirou Badamassi (NIG) ran a national record of 7.63 to qualify from the heats, becoming the first ever athlete from Niger to make a semifinal in any event in World Indoor Championships history
Records set
World records (1)
Men's heptathlon - Simon Ehammer (SUI) — 6670 points
Championship records (3)
Men's heptathlon - Simon Ehammer (SUI) — 6670 points
Men's pole vault - Armand Duplantis (SWE) - 6.25m
Men's 400m - Christopher Morales-Williams (CAN) - 44.76
World leads (2)
Men's heptathlon - Simon Ehammer (SUI) — 6670 points
Women's triple jump - Leyanis Perez Hernandez (CUB) - 14.95m (=WL)
Area records (2)
Men's heptathlon - Simon Ehammer (SUI) — 6670 points
Men's 60m hurdles (heats) - Franco Le Roux (RSA) - 7.50
National records (13)
Men's 60m hurdles heats
Saguirou Badamassi (NIG) — 7.63
Franco Le Roux (RSA) — 7.50
Men’s 60m hurdles semifinals
Shusei Nomoto (JPN) — 7.49
Men's 60m hurdles final
Enrique Llopis (ESP) — 7.42
Shusei Nomoto (JPN) — 7.49 (=NR)
Women’s 60m heats
Tatjana Pinto (POR) — 7.17 (=NR)
Lotta Kemppinen (FIN) — 7.16 (=NR)
Women's 60m semifinals
Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) — 7.03 (=NR)
Women’s 400m final
Natalia Bukowiecka (POL) — 50.83 (=NR)
Wadeline Venelogh (HAI) — 51.07
Mercy Oketch (KEN) — 51.25
Men’s 800m semifinals
Mohamed Attaoui (ESP) — 1:44.48
Men’s heptathlon
Simon Ehammer (SUI) — 6670 points
