Noah Lyles wins the 200m at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 (© Getty Images)
Men’s 400m hurdles final
Rai Benjamin’s (USA) winning time of 46.52 was the second fastest winning time in World Championships history. “Once I started running really fast tonight, I knew I could win the race. It was just a matter of holding on. I think I did a good job. Unfortunately, I got really greedy in the end and that's why I hit the last hurdle,” he said
Benjamin won the United States’ eighth gold medal in the 400m hurdles in World Championships history but their first since 2009
Benjamin moved ahead of Warholm in his head-to-head to 6-5. Benjamin has won their last five races since the 2023 World Championships
Ezekiel Nathaniel (NGR) just missed out on a medal in fourth in 47.11, just missing Samuel Matete’s (ZAM) 34-year-old African record by 0.01
Women’s 400m hurdles final
Femke Bol (NED) becomes just the second athlete after Zuzana Hejnova (CZE) in 2013-15 to win back-to-back titles in the 400m hurdles at the World Championships
Bol’s winning time of 51.54 was the second fastest winning time behind Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s championship record of 50.68. Bol now holds four of the nine fastest times in World Championships history
Emma Zapletalova (SVK) became just the second Slovakian woman to win a medal in World Championships history after Martina Hrasnova who won bronze in the hammer in 2009
This was the fifth Slovakian medal in World Championships history and just their second in a track event. “It was my dream season from the beginning and my great comeback on the track after struggling with numerous injuries over two years,” she said
Men’s 200m final
Noah Lyles (USA) emulates Usain Bolt (2009-15) by winning four successive world titles in the men’s 200m. “I can't wait for 2027 to become the only man to win five 200 metres titles,” he said.
Lyles wins the United States’s 12th gold medal in the 200m in 20 editions of the World Championships
Lyles’ winning time of 19.52 was the fourth fastest winning time in the 200m. Between them, Lyles and Bolt now hold the seven fastest times in World Championships history
This was the greatest World Championships 200m final in terms of depth with best marks for places from 2nd to 8th
Women’s 200m final
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden (USA) becomes only the fourth woman to complete a 100/200m double at the World Championships after Silke Gladisch (1987), Katrin Krabbe (1991) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2015)
Jefferson-Wooden becomes the first American woman to complete the 100/200m double at the World Championships and just the third American winner of the world 200m title after Inger Miller and Allyson Felix
Jefferson-Wooden’s winning margin of 0.46 was the second biggest in World Championships history after Felix’s winning margin of 0.53 in 2007
With bronze, Shericka Jackson (JAM) takes her medal tally at the World Championships up to 12 (4-4-4). Only Felix (18), Fraser-Pryce (16), Usain Bolt (14) and Merlene Ottey (13) have won more medals
Men’s triple jump
Pedro Pichardo (POR) comes only the third male triple jumper to win two or more world titles after Jonathan Edwards and Christian Taylor
Pichardo’s sixth round winning jump of 17.91m was the second longest jump record in Japan behind his winning jump of 17.98m to win Olympic gold in the same stadium in 2021
Andrea Dallavalle (ITA) wins Italy’s first ever medal in the men’s triple jump in World Championships history
Women’s 800m semifinals
Tsige Duguma’s (ETH) time of 1:57.70 was by far the fastest non-qualifying time for the women’s 800m final in World Championships history
The previous fastest non-qualifying time was 1:58.50 set by Sifan Hassan (NED) in Beijing in 2015. In total, 14 athletes ran faster than this time across the three semifinals
Men’s 5000m heats
Andreas Almgren’s (SWE) 13:16.38 was the fastest non-qualifying time for a 5000m final in World Championships history
The United States and France were the only nations to get all three athletes through to the final
Women’s javelin
With a national record of 63.25m, Juleisy Angulo (ECU) became the first athlete from Ecuador to qualify for a field event final in the history of the World Championships. “Paula Milena Torres' bronze medal in the race walk for our country inspired me a lot. We are both the same age. Now I'm at my third championships, it's time for a medal,” she said.
