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Tokyo 2025
World Athletics Championships
Day 3 Assessment,
September 15, 2025
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The Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships was held within the iconic Tokyo Olympic stadium, from September 13-21, 2025. Nice crowd on the marathon course, nice crowd within the Stadium (56-57,000), and a few spectacular performances on night time three. I loved the corporate of my pricey brother, Brian Eder, co-founder of RunBlogRun. We had all the time dreamed of going to Japan collectively and we did it. Our dad and mom, Stan & Marilu Eder, would have been so completely happy as they watch us from monitor heaven.
The finals on Day 3 have been stupdenous, and stuffed with surprises! Right here we go:
The lads’s marathon was nearer than many 100 meter finals! Alphone Felix Simbu, Tanzania, outleaned Amanal Petros, Germany, each timed in 2:09:48@ Iliass Aquani, Italy, took the bronze in 2:09:53! Clayton Younger, US was ninth in 2:10:43. Reed Fisher of US was twenty eighth in 2:15:17 SB and C.J. Albertson of the US, completed fortieth in 2:19:25! The circumstances have been scorching and humid, plus the course was difficult! The Japanese followers cherished the marathon.
Mondo Duplantis, it’s his world! Mondo set a WR of 6.30 meters (20 ft, 8.03 inches), with Emmanouil Karalis, of Greece in 6.00 meters, in silver and in bronze, Kurtis Marschall of Australia, equals his PB of 5.95 meters! In fourth place was Sam Kendricks of the U.S. simply lacking a medal with a clearance of 5.95 meters, his seasonal finest.
Oh Canada! Cam Rogers of Canada took gold within the girls’s hammer with a WL of 80.51 meters with Chinese language athletes taking silver and bronze! Jie Zhao of China took the silver in 77.60 meters, a PB, and Jiala Zhang of China, 77.10 meters. DeAnna Worth, US, a former World Champion, who positioned fifth in 75.10 meters, WR holder Anita Włodarczyk was sixth, with a throw of 74.64 meters. 2022 medalist Janee” Kassanavoid, US, was tenth in 70.10 meters.
The lads’s steeplechase was stuffed with surprises. Tempo was pedestrian, going by 1k in 3 minutes, solely barely quicker within the second kilometer. Soufianne El Bakkali and Lamecha Girma ought to have recognized higher. Geordie Beamish, New Zealand, additionally the World Indoor 1,500m champion from 2024 Glasgow, went from thirteenth to first, within the closing 150 meters, working El Bakaali down on the end! El Bakaali wept, realizing he had simply missed his gold with a gradual race ! Beamish gained in 8:33.88 to eight:33.95, the slowest successful time within the Males’s steeplechase because the begin of the World Champs in 1983! (The outdated slowest time was 8:25.13, by El Bakkali in Eugene 2022!). Geordie Beamish gave New Zealand its second gold of the video games, his footwear sponsor, On working, had their first gold of the Champs! WR holder Lamecha Girma was sixth and Edwin Serem of Kenya gave Kenya one in every of solely two males’s medals in Tokyo!
The ladies’s 100 meter hurdles is all the time exhausting to select! Masai Russell had an off day in Tokyo and took fourth! Ditaji Kambundji of Switerzland, European Indoor champ and World Indoor silver medalist, took gold in Tokyo, working 12.24 NR! WR holder Tobi Amusan, Nigeria, took the silver and Grace Stark of US took the bronze!
That is our assessment of all 9 days of the 2025 World Athletics Out of doors Championships, held September 13-21, 2025. This protection was sponsored by NIKE Operating! Please try the Vomero 18, Vomero PLUS, Vomero Premium and Air Construction 26 at your favourite native NIKE working retailer or go to www.nikerunning.com!
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