Lilian Odira wins the 800m at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 (© Getty Images)
Women’s high jump final
Nicola Olyslagers (AUS) makes it an Oceanian double in the high jump after Hamish Kerr won gold in the men’s high jump
Angelina Topic (SRB) won only Serbia’s fifth medal at the World Championships with joint bronze in the high jump some 34 years after her coach and father Dragutin made the men's high jump final in Tokyo
Women’s 800m final
Lilian Odira (KEN) broke the longest standing record on the books with 1:54.62. Jarmila Kratochvilova’s championship record of 1:54.68 dates back to 1983 and was one day older than her now-beaten 400m championship record of 47.99
For the first time in history, three women break the 1:55-barrier in the same race. Training partners Georgia Hunter-Bell and Keely Hodgkinson won silver and bronze in 1:54.90 and 1:54.91 respectively
Odira and Hunter-Bell move to seventh and ninth respectively on the world all-time 800m list
Odira’s winning time was also the fastest time set on Asian soil, replacing Pamela Jelimo’s 1:54.87 from the 2008 Olympic Games
Kenya completes a full sweep of women’s middle and long distance titles from 800m to the marathon, including the 3000m steeplechase
This is the first World Championships since Paris in 2003 that Great Britain have failed to win a gold medal
Men’s 5000m final
Cole Hocker (USA) becomes just the second American winner of the world 5000m title after Bernard Lagat won this title in 2007, also on Japanese soil in Osaka
Hocker’s winning time of 12:58.30 was the third fastest winning time in World Championships history and the fourth time the world 5000m final has been won with a sub-13 minute performance
With bronze, Jimmy Gressier (FRA) wins France’s first ever medal in the men’s 5000m at the World Championships. For Isaac Kimeli (BEL) he betters Mohammed Mourhit’s bronze from 1999 with silver
Ethiopians Biniam Mehary and Hagos Gebrhiwet fifth and 13th respectively. This is the first since Tokyo in 1991 that Ethiopia leave a World Championships without a gold medal
Men’s discus final
In a heavily delayed final due to the conditions, Daniel Ståhl's (SWE) winning throw of 70.47m was the third longest winning throw in World Championships history
This was the second World Championships in a row that Ståhl has won the world title with his final throw
Alex Rose (SAM) wins Samoa's first ever medal in World Championships history with bronze
With Mykolas Alekna (LTU) winning silver, Lithuania and Samoa become the 52nd and 53rd nations to win a medal at the 2025 World Championships
Men’s 4x400m final
Botswana (BOT) becomes the first African winners of the men’s 4x400m in World Championships history
Botswana’s winning margin of 0.07 was the second smallest in World Championships history. The smallest margin came back at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo when Great Britain defeated the United States by 0.04
0.07 is the smallest gap between gold and bronze in the men’s 4x100m in World Championships history
Women’s 4x400m final
The United States won their 11th women’s 4x400m title in 20 editions of the World Championships
Their winning time of 3:16.61 was a championship record, a Japanese all-comers’ record and the fifth fastest time in history
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran the fastest split of the final with 47.82 on anchor
Decathlon
Leo Neugebauer becomes the third German winner of the decathlon title at the World Championships after Torsten Voss (GDR) in 1987 and Niklas Kaul in 2019
Neugebauer’s winning margin of 20 points over Ayden Owens-Delerme (PUR) was the smallest in the decathlon in World Championships history
Women’s 4x100m final
The United States win their third women’s 4x100m title in a row and their 10th in 20 editions of the World Championships
The United States’ winning margin of 0.04 was the third smallest in the history of the World Championships
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden (USA) becomes just the second woman after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) in 2013 to complete the sprint treble at the World Championships
Fraser-Pryce wins her 17th World Championships medal (10-6-1) in her farewell race after running the third leg of Jamaica’s silver medal-winning team
Men’s 4x100m final
The United States win their 10th men’s 4x100m title in 20 editions of the World Championships but only their third since 2007
The United States’ time of 37.29 was the third fastest winning time in the men’s 4x100m in World Championships history. It was also a Japanese all-comers’ record and stadium record, surpassing the United States’ 37.50 from Tokyo in 1991, a world record at the time
Noah Lyles wins his 10th World Championships medal (8-1-1). Only LaShawn Merritt (11) and Usain Bolt (14) have won more medals on the men’s side
The Netherlands win only their second ever medal in the men’s 4x100m in World Championships history, emulating their bronze from Paris in 2003
