As the Tokyo World Athletics Championships continue, here’s the latest action including a new world record for Mondo Duplantis and two thrilling races in the 1500m.
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MONDO DUPLANTIS BREAKS HIS 14th WORLD RECORD!
Is Mondo Duplantis the most exciting track and field athlete in the world?
Every time he vaults, we want to watch – and we will him on to another world record.
At the Tokyo World Championships, with the victory sealed, the inevitable happened: he nodded to the officials and the bar was raised to the world record-breaking height of 6.30m.
After two failed attempts, and with a stadium of fans there just to watch him jump, he cleared the bar. It’s his fourth world record of 2025, and seventh in the past two years.
FAITH IS FOUR-TIMES WORLD CHAMP
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won her fourth world 1500m gold, and eighth global gold medal.
As the clear favourite to win, she controlled the race from start to finish, winding up the pace each lap, and grinding down her rivals as she put in a seriously fast final lap to win gold.
Australia’s Jess Hull looked to be in second place but was overtaken in the final metres by Kenya’s Dorcus Ewoi.
Kipyegon next races in the 5000m where she is the reigning world champion.
🥇 Faith Kipyegon 🇰🇪 3:52.15
🥈 Dorcus Ewoi 🇰🇪 3:54.92
🥉 Jess Hull 🇦🇺 3:55.16
ISAAC NADER IS 1500m WORLD CHAMPION!
Anyone could have won this race.
It perhaps wasn’t the start list we expected with no Jakob Ingebrigtsen, no Cole Hocker and no Yared Nuguse, three of the four Olympic medallists from Paris, but the men’s 1500m has been so exciting this year because of the competition.
Dutchman Nils Laros was arguably the pre-race favourite and he led in the first few laps. It was GB’s Jake Wightman who made the big move with 200m left and pulled into the lead, dragging others with him, but Wightman couldn’t quite hold onto the lead and it was Portugal’s Isaac Nader who won gold by just 0.02 seconds. Kenya’s Reynold Cheruiyot just beat Laros to bronze.
Josh Kerr pulled up with an injury and tried to continue, but was unable to keep up and hobbled over the finish line in a gutsy finish.
Wightman, the 2022 World Champion who has struggled with injury over the past few years, returns triumphantly and wins Team GB’s first medal of the 2025 World Championships.
🥇 Isaac Nader 🇵🇹 3:34.10
🥈 Jake Wightman 🇬🇧 3:34.10
🥉 Reynold Cheruiyot 🇰🇪 3:34.25
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