Beatrice Chebet at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 (© Getty Images)
Heptathlon
Anna Hall (USA) becomes just the second American winner of the heptathlon title at the World Championships after Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) in 1987 and 1993. “This gold means so much. Jackie (Joyner-Kersee) and I have talked about the Worlds and I am so glad to finally get my gold…one thing Jackie told me is to enjoy the moment because you never know,” she said.
Kate O’Connor (IRL) won Ireland’s first medal at the World Championships since 2013 when Robert Heffernan won the 50km race walk. This was Ireland’s first ever World Championships medal in a non-track/walk event and their first major global outdoor medal in a combined events
For the first time in World Championships history, there was a shared medal in the combined events with Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) and Taliyah Brooks (USA). “Honestly, I thought it was a joke at first. I was like, 'Why are we both showing up as bronze on the screen?' I didn't really celebrate until they put the medal around my neck,” said Johnson-Thompson
However, there was a tie at the 1976 Olympic Games pentathlon in Montreal when Siegrun Siegl and Christine Laser finished with 4745 points but Siegl was awarded the title. Based on the rules of the day, the athlete who had the most ‘wins’ across the individual events was decided to determine the winner. If those rules were applied today, Brooks would have won an outright bronze!
Women’s 5000m final
Beatrice Chebet (KEN) becomes the first woman to simultaneously hold world and Olympic titles at 5000m and 10,000m. She also holds world records at both distances
Chebet closed with a last 400m of 57.60 and a last 200m of 27.86
Kenya matches Ethiopia with their sixth gold medals from the women’s 5000m at the World Championships
Nadia Battocletti (ITA) became just the second Italian medallist in the women’s 5000m after Roberta Brunet who won silver in Athens in 1997
Ethiopia came away empty-handed for the second successive women’s 5000m final at the World Championships. Ethiopia are still yet to win a gold medal at the championships
Men’s 800m final
Emmanuel Wanyonyi’s (KEN) winning time of 1:41.86 was the seventh championship record to be set in Tokyo and the first sub-1:42 winning time in World Championships history
This was by far the deepest race in World Championships history. The top six all broke Donavan Brazier’s championship record of 1:42.34 and there were best marks for places from 1st all the way down to eighth
This was also the first race in history where every athlete broke the 1:43-barrier
There were national records for both Cian McPhillips (IRL) and Navasky Anderson (JAM) who finished fourth and seventh in 1:42.15 and 1:42.76 respectively. They were 38th and 37th on the final entry-list for Tokyo!
Women’s javelin final
More history for Ecuador! Already the first athlete from Ecuador to reach a field event final at a World Championships, Juleisy Angulo wins a shock gold medal in the javelin. Angulo set national records in both qualifying (63.25m) and the final (65.12m). “My goal here was to reach the final so I am very emotional, in shock. I still can't believe it,” she said.
Prior to tonight, seven of eight of Ecuador’s medals at the World Championships had been won in race walking events. The other medal came in the 200m in Doha in 2019
Anete Sietina (LAT) wins only Latvia’s third medal in World Championships history after Ineta Radevica who silver in the long jump in 2011 and Laura Ikauniece won heptathlon bronze in 2013. All of their three medals have come in women's events
Women’s shot put
This was the first women’s shot put final at the World Championships since 2003 that all three medallists broke the 20 metre-line
Competing in an unprecedented 10th successive world final, Gong Lijiao (CHN) finished ninth with 18.96m. "It's incredible to think I have competed in 10 world championships. Reflecting on my first participation back in 2007, some of my teammates hadn't even been born yet," she said.
Women’s 20km race walk
After defending both her 20km and 35km race walk titles, Maria Perez (ESP) becomes the first woman to win back-to-back individual gold medals in World Championships history
With bronze, Nanako Fujii (JPN) wins Japan’s first ever medal in the 20km race walk in World Championships history
Men’s 20km race walk
Ciao Bonfim (BRA) won only Brazil’s third gold medal in World Championships history after Fabiana Murer (2011 - pole vault) and Alison dos Santos (2022 - 400m hurdles)
Men’s 4x400m heats
Japan’s time of 2:59.74 was the fastest non-qualifying time for a men’s 4x400m final in World Championships history
Daniel Segers (BEL) ran the fastest leg with 43.71 on leg three in heat two
Women’s 4x400m heat
Great Britain failed to make the 4x400m final for the first time since 1999. They have also won medals in nine of the last 10 editions of the World Championships
Natalia Bukowiecka (POL) ran the fastest leg across the two heats with 49.42 on the anchor leg in heat one
Isabelle Black (FRA), the daughter of Roger Black, ran the third leg for France in the 4x400m who qualified for the final. Black was famously part of Great Britain’s gold medal-winning team in the men’s 4x400m at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo
Men’s discus qualifying
Daniel Ståhl’s (SWE) qualifying mark of 69.90m was the longest throw recorded in the qualifying round at a World Championshios as well as a Japanese all-comers’ record, surpassing Georgiy Kolootchenko’s 68.98m which was set in 1985
