Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott delivered a golden second on Thursday on the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, launching his spear to a season-best 88.16 meters.
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It was sufficient to outduel Grenada’s Anderson Peters, who secured silver with 87.38 meters. The US’ Curtis Thompson rounded out the rostrum at 86.67 meters.
“It feels unbelievable to be again on high,” Walcott mentioned, his victory including one other chapter to his already storied profession.
Richards blazes to nationwide report silver
Moments later, Trinidad and Tobago doubled its medal haul when Jereem Richards stormed from lane two to take silver within the males’s 400 meters. Richards clocked a blistering nationwide report of 43.72 seconds, trailing solely Botswana’s Busang Kebinatshipi, who set a world-leading 43.53 seconds.
Bayapo Ndori, additionally of Botswana, surged late to grab bronze in a season-best 44.20 seconds—edging Jamaica’s Rusheen McDonald, who misplaced kind within the ultimate meters and slipped to fourth in 44.28 seconds.
McLaughlin-Levrone makes historical past
The ladies’s 400 meters unfolded as a showcase of dominance from American star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. Trying the flat 400m at a serious world meet for the primary time, the 400m hurdles world report holder stormed to gold in a Championship Report 47.78 seconds.
The Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino chased onerous for silver in a nationwide report 47.98 seconds, whereas Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Nasser seized bronze in 48.19 seconds. Jamaica’s Nickisha Pryce, operating from the troublesome inside lane, pale to eighth in 49.97 seconds.
Hernandez leads Caribbean triple leap sweep
The Caribbean’s energy prolonged to the sphere, the place Cuba’s Leyanis Hernández soared to a world-leading 14.94 meters to seize the ladies’s triple leap crown.
Olympic champion Thea LaFond of Dominica produced a season-best 14.89 meters for silver, whereas Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas—again from surgical procedure—secured bronze with 14.76 meters.
Cuba almost added one other medal as Liadagmis Povea completed fourth (14.72m). Jamaica’s Shanieka Ricketts positioned fifth (14.56m), whereas teammate Ackelia Smith managed eighth (14.37m).
Jamaican momentum builds within the sprints
Although lacking the rostrum on Thursday, Jamaica positioned itself for fireworks forward. Bryan Levell continued his rise with a surprising 19.78-second win in his 200-meter semi-final, defeating Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana (19.95).
Quickly after, defending world champion Noah Lyles (USA) issued his personal warning, scorching his semi-final in 19.51 seconds. The Dominican Republic’s Alexander Ogando additionally superior with 19.98 seconds.
Adrian Kerr (20.08, PB) and Chris Taylor (20.21, PB) bowed out regardless of lifetime-best efforts.
Within the girls’s 200m, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson breezed into the ultimate with a season-best 21.99 seconds. Ashanti Moore (22.51) narrowly missed qualification, whereas Bahamian star Anthonique Strachan limped via with what gave the impression to be cramps in 22.48 seconds. She might be a doubt for the ultimate.
Anderson makes Jamaican historical past within the 800m
Historical past got here within the males’s 800 meters, the place Navasky Anderson stormed to 1:43.72 minutes—breaking the Jamaican nationwide report and advancing to the ultimate. He turns into the primary Jamaican man ever to succeed in that stage on the World Championships.
“I’ve dreamed of this second for years,” Anderson mentioned. “To lastly break via on this stage means the whole lot.”
Teammate Tyrice Taylor pale to seventh in his warmth (1:46.56) and didn’t progress.
On the ladies’s facet, Natoya Goule-Toppin gained her warmth in 1:59.66 minutes, advancing with ease, whereas Adelle Tracey (2:01.70) fell quick. Cuba’s Day by day Gaspar posted a lifetime finest 1:58.16 minutes to advance, however St. Vincent’s Shafiqua Maloney (2:03.12) and Jamaica’s Kelly-Ann Beckford (2:02.63) had been eradicated.
Friday’s medal hunt
Whereas Lamara Distin suffered disappointment with no mark within the excessive leap qualifiers, Jamaica stays primed for redemption on Friday. Finals within the males’s and girls’s 200m, the boys’s triple leap, and the ladies’s 400-meter hurdles all promise medal alternatives, alongside the ladies’s 800-meter semi-finals.
The stage is about for one more day of drama, and the Caribbean athletes are decided to maintain their nations’ flags flying excessive.
