Kenya Takes Eleven Medals in Tokyo! (Seven Gold, two silver, two bronze)
The Tokyo World Championships had been held on the Japanese Nationwide Stadium from September 13 to 21, 2025, in heat and humid circumstances. The distinctive performances had been greeted by a formidable crowd, averaging 56-58,000 followers an evening and 17-20,000 followers throughout the day. This was the primary world sports activities occasion in Japan after the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, which didn’t permit followers into the Japan Olympic Stadium.
We’re analyzing the federations sponsored by Nike (USA, Kenya, Canada, Germany, China, United Kingdom, and Uganda) and offering readers of RunBlogRun with an outline of these 9 very good days and nights of observe and discipline in Tokyo. NIKE sponsored the protection of RunBlogRun in Tokyo 2025, USATF Outside 2025, and NIKE Pre Traditional 2025. We’re grateful for his or her help of the game and RunBlogRun.
Right here is the medal rely of Kenya:
Emmanuel Wanyonyi took the gold within the World Championships, holding off Marco Arop of Canada and Djamel Sedjati, with all three beneath the paranormal 1:42 mark for the 800 meters. Wanyoni, KEN ran 1:41.86, Sedjati (ALG) ran 1:41.90, and Marco Arop, CAN ran 1:41.95!
Lillian Odira, KEN, offered the followers with an unimaginable end, taking gold within the girls’s 800m from Keely Hodgkinson, Olympic champion at 800m, and Georgia Hunter-Bell, bronze medalist within the Olympic 1,500 m. Lillian ran 1:54.62 within the 800m, setting a championship file and breaking the 1983 file of Jarmila Kratovilova, CZE. Georgia Hunter-Bell took silver in 1:54.90, a brand new PB. Keely Hodgkinson, GBR, held on for bronze in her third closing, fifth race of the 12 months.
Beatrice Chebet, KEN, took the gold within the girls’s 10,000m, lastly pulling away with a furlong to go. Beatrice, WR holder at 10,000m and 5,000m, ran 30:37.61 within the scorching and humid circumstances, taking gold. In silver, Nadia Battocletti, ITA, who took silver within the Olympic 10,000m final 12 months, ran an NR in 30:38.93. Gudaf Tsegay, former WC at 10,000m, iconic racer, from Ethiopia, took the bronze in 30:39.65.
Beatrice Chebet, KEN, on the final day of the champs, added a second gold within the 5,000m, as she battled Religion Kipyegon, World Champion and Olympic champion extraordinaire at 1,500 meters, taking gold in 14:54.36. Religion Kipyegon, KEN, ran 14:55.07 for the silver, with Nadia Battocletti, ITA, taking bronze in 14:55.42!
Religion Kipyegon, KEN, took her fourth (2019, 2022, 2023, and 2025) 1,500-meter title in 3:52.15. Dorcus, Ewoi, KEN, took silver in 3:54.92 PB, and Jessica Hull, AUS, took the bronze in 3:55.16. Religion took off after a 63-second first lap, 2:06 on the 800m, after which the Kenyan star was gone!
Peres Chepchirchir, former WR holder, Ladies’s Marathon, and half marathon, outkicked Tigst Assefa, ETH on the observe, with 100 meters to go! Tigst was 5 minutes sooner than Peres’ PB, however Peres is aware of tips on how to race! Peres Jepchirchir, KEN, took gold in 2:24.43, with Tigist Assefa, ETH, profitable silver in 2:24.45. An enormous shock was Julia Paternain, Uruguay, who took bronze in 2:27.23!
Religion Cherotich gained gold in a contentious and thrilling girls’s steeplechase. Peruth Chemutai, a UGA gold medalist from Paris, fell within the race and didn’t recuperate. Winifred Yavi, Bahrain, defending champion, was outkicked by Religion Cherotich, 8:51.59 to eight:56.46. Sembo Almayew of ETH ran 8:58.86 for the bronze. That is Religion Cherotich’s first World Champs title!
Dorcus Ewoi took the silver within the 1,500 meters, following countrywoman Religion Kipyegon within the 1,500 meters. Dorcus ran a PB of three:54.92, simply holding off Australia’s Jess Hull!
Religion Kipyegon added silver to her gold from the 1,500m within the 5,000 meters, working 14:55.07. The end was slightly anti-climactic, however Beatrice has some critical pace!
Reynold Cheruiyot, KEN, took the bronze in a hotly contested Males’s 1,500 meters, in 3:34.25, with Timothy Cheruiyot, KEN, in fourth! Isaac Nader, POR, outkicked a revitalized Jake Wightman, GBR, 2022 World Champion, 3:34:10-3:34.12! Josh Kerr, injured round 800 meters, completed final and was unable to defend his title from Budapest. Jakob Ingebrigtsen, NOR, injured all spring, didn’t make the ultimate. This was one in every of Kenya’s three medals in males’s occasions.
Edmund Serem, KEN, saved his wits about him, taking the bronze from a number of others in 8:34.56. Soufianne El Bakkali, MAR, who had gained all the things and was a bit, effectively, complacent, was run down and defeated by .07 by Kiwi Geordie Beamish, NZ, who had fallen within the heats and been injured many of the 12 months. Going from twelfth to the gold place, Beamish continues to impress. Serem took bronze, protecting a tenuous maintain on the Males’s steeplechase, an occasion that had been owned by Kenya since 1972!
The massive information for Kenya is the power of their girls; the unhappy information is that the boys usually are not performing as effectively, with solely three of the eleven medals in Tokyo.
