Back at the scene of his first global title, Britain&rsquo;s Josh Kerr again delivered a masterclass in middle-distance running &ndash; the 28-year-old producing a foot-perfect performance to win the men&rsquo;s 1500m title at the World Ultimate Championship in Budapest on Sunday (13).
Kerr bided his time until the final lap and then unleashed the same kind of burst that had carried him past Jakob Inbgebrigtsen to claim the 2023 world 1500m title in the Hungarian capital.
This time, his greatest rival was Australia&rsquo;s Cam Myers, who chased hard to the line but couldn&rsquo;t quite match Kerr&rsquo;s pace &ndash; the Briton clocking 3:29.35 ahead of Myers (3:29.68) with USA&rsquo;s Hobbs Kessler third in 3:30.73. Olympic champion Cole Hocker was next home in 3:30.74.
The early pace was relatively swift, Germany&rsquo;s Robert Farken taking them through 400m in 57.09 and 800m in 1:55.29. He was soon overtaken by USA&rsquo;s Yared Nuguse, who injected a big surge with 500m to run. Nuguse led through 1200m in 2:49.91 but by then Kerr &ndash; who&rsquo;d run most of the race buried in the pack &ndash; had navigated his way to exactly where he likes to be: on the shoulder of the leader with 300m to run.
Myers was tracking him and when the gears began to turn, he made a much better fight of it than he had in the Commonwealth Games final, but Kerr was just too strong, a 26.02-second last 200m handing him another global title to go with his 2023 outdoor 1500m crown and his two world indoor wins over 3000m.
&ldquo;I didn't race a lot this season so I kind of came here fresh and ready to go,&rdquo; said Kerr, who took 0.03 off his own Hungarian all-comers' record. &ldquo;Cameron is an awesome athlete, he was pushing a lot but I managed to look at the screen and see what the gap was.&rdquo;
Kerr gave the inaugural Ultimate Championship a stamp of approval. &ldquo;This sport has moved on in the past couple of years and I'm impressed where it is now,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Anything that can move the sport in the right direction and do good for athletes, I support.&rdquo;
Myers had no regrets about his run. &ldquo;I ran the perfect race,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I thought with 200m to go that I was going to win and that is an exciting feeling. Josh was just too strong today and that shows why he is a world record-holder.&rdquo;
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

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Coverage of the men's 1500m at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 26

Kerr kicks to Ultimate 1500m crown in Budapest

It seemed fitting that USA, the world champions and world record-holders, won the mixed 4x400m at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 26.
Although they had been beaten to the Olympic title in 2024, the USA have generally dominated the event in recent years. The sprints powerhouse had won the world titles in 2023 and 2025, they were victorious at this year&rsquo;s World Relays, and have set four world records in the discipline.
Returning to the scene of their 2023 world title, the US quartet won in 3:08.32, taking almost half a second off the Hungarian all-comers&rsquo; record they had set three years ago.
Chris Bailey got the team off to a strong start with a 44.73 lead leg before handing over to Alexis Holmes. She maintained their lead, but Lieke Klaver&rsquo;s 49.37 ensured the Netherlands were hot on their heels.
Jacory Patterson extended the USA&rsquo;s leading margin on the third leg before handing over to Aaliyah Butler.
Great Britain &amp; NI started to move into contention heading in the last leg. Charlotte Henrich closed in on the Netherlands and eventually caught Myrte van der Schoot with about 200 metres to go.
Butler, however, could not be caught, her 49.47 leg securing USA victory in 3:08.32. Great Britain took second place in 3:09.40, 0.17 ahead of the Dutch team.
Jamaica&rsquo;s Stacey Ann Williams (48.72) and Hungary&rsquo;s Attila Molnar (43.90) produced the fastest splits of the race, their teams finishing sixth and eighth respectively.
&ldquo;The atmosphere with this team was so good,&rdquo; said Holmes, who had anchored USA to victory at the 2023 World Championships in this same stadium. &ldquo;Whenever the USA puts a team together, they put together a group they trust, people with the character to go out there and make it happen, and that is what we had today.&rdquo;
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Coverage of the mixed 4x400m at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 26

USA asserts relay dominance with Ultimate mixed 4x400m victory in Budapest

A well-timed finished gave Djamel Sedjati the advantage in the men&rsquo;s 800m final at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 26 as the Algerian won in 1:41.91.
The 27-year-old had finished in the top two in all of his 800m races before heading to the Hungarian capital; in two of those outings, he&rsquo;d got to the line first. In the other three, he had just run out of track and had to settle for the runner-up spot.
Tonight in Budapest, though, he executed his plan to perfection.
Canada&rsquo;s Marco Arop &ndash; who had won the world title in this stadium in 2023 &ndash; led from the early stages, passing through the first lap in 49.67 with world and Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi a stride or two behind.
Arop continued to hold the lead with 200 metres to go, but his momentum showed signs of stalling as the field entered the home straight.
Sedjati moved into the lead with about 25 metres to go and crossed the line in a Hungarian all-comers&rsquo; record of 1:41.91, winning his first global title after taking world silvers in 2022 and 2025, as well as Olympic bronze in 2024.
Arop held on for second in 1:42.28 and Wanyonyi took third in 1:42.44. In a high-quality race where the first seven athletes finished inside 1:43, USA&rsquo;s Brandon Miller placed fourth (1:42.54) and Francesco Pernici set an Italian record of 1:42.67 in fifth.
&ldquo;That was very tactical but also very fast, and I am really happy to have won this race today,&rdquo; said Sedjati. &ldquo;This is the first title for me so I'm incredibly happy and grateful to everyone who supported me.&rdquo;
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Coverage of the men's 800m at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 26

Sedjati scoops Ultimate title with 800m victory in Budapest

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<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/melissa-jefferson-wooden-14756997" target="_blank" rel="noopener">200m &bull; 21.47</a>

MELISSA JEFFERSON-WOODEN

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/kenneth-bednarek-14715244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">200m &bull; 19.52</a>

KENNY BEDNAREK

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/josh-kerr-14533464" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1500m&bull; 3:29.35</a>

JOSH KERR

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/algeria/djamel-sedjati-14976579" target="_blank" rel="noopener">800m &bull; 1:41.91</a>

DJAMEL SEDIATI

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/senegal/saly-sarr-14894836">TRIPLE JUMP &bull; 15.06m</a>

SALY SARR

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ethiopia/likina-amebaw-14877871" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5000m&bull; 14:30.36</a>

LIKINA AMEBAW

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/italy/gianmarco-tamberi-14375750">HIGH JUMP &bull; 2.37m</a>

GIANMARCO TAMBERI

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/brazil/alison-dos-santos-14755064" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400m HURDLES &bull; 45.98</a>

ALISON DOS SANTOS

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/sri-lanka/rumesh-tharanga-pathirage-14886862" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAVELIN THROW &bull; 91.09m</a>

RUMESH PATHIRAGE

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/jasmine-jones-14715835" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400m HURDLES &bull; 52.45</a>

JASMINE JONES

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/kenneth-bednarek-14715244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100m &bull; 9.85</a>

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/melissa-jefferson-wooden-14756997" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100m &bull; 10.62</a>

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/switzerland/audrey-werro-14856078" target="_blank" rel="noopener">800m &bull; 1:55.88</a>

AUDREY WERRO

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/greece/miltiadis-tentoglou-14669734" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LONG JUMP &bull; 8.35m</a>

MILTIADIS TENTOGLOU

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/klaudia-kazimierska-14704467" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1500m &bull; 3:57.55</a>

KLAUDIA KAZIMIERSKA

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/sandi-morris-14373498">POLE VAULT &bull; 4.90m</a>

SANDI MORRIS

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/botswana/busang-collen-kebinatshipi-14935809" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400m&bull; 43.39</a>

COLLEN KEBINATSHIPI

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/japan/haruka-kitaguchi-14649131" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAVELIN THROW &bull; 68.92m</a>

HARUKA KITAGUCHI

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/dominican-republic/marileidy-paulino-14749613" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400m &bull; 49.07</a>

MARILEIDY PAULINO

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/jakobe-tharp-15129238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">110m HURDLES &bull; 12.94</a>

JA'KOBE THARP

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/masai-russell-14659011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100m HURDLES &bull; 12.22</a>

MASAI RUSSELL

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/italy/larissa-iapichino-14827877" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LONG JUMP &bull; 6.90m</a>

LARISSA IAPICHINO

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/norway/jakob-ingebrigtsen-14653717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5000m &bull; 12:59.24</a>

JAKOB INGEBRIGTSEN

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/sweden/armand-duplantis-14679502" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLE VAULT &bull; 6.20m</a>

MONDO DUPLANTIS

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/germany/merlin-hummel-14753981" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HAMMER THROW &bull; 81.46m</a>

MERLIN HUMMEL

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ukraine/yaroslava-mahuchikh-14739628" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HIGH JUMP &bull; 1.99m</a>

YAROSLAVA MAHUCHIKH

<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/sandi-morris-14373498">MIXED 4X400m &bull; 3:08.32</a>

MIXED 4x100m RELAY&bull; 39:64

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