by Larry Eder
Team GBR finishes Tokyo 2025 with Five Medals!
The Tokyo World Championships were held at the Japanese National Stadium from September 13 to 21, 2025, in warm and humid conditions. The exceptional performances were greeted by an impressive crowd, averaging 56-58,000 fans a night and 17-20,000 fans during the day. This was the first global sports event in Japan after the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, which did not allow fans into the Japan Olympic Stadium.
We are examining the federations sponsored by Nike (USA, Kenya, Canada, Germany, China, United Kingdom, and Uganda) and providing readers of RunBlogRun with an overview of those nine superb days and nights of track and field in Tokyo. NIKE sponsored the coverage of RunBlogRun in Tokyo 2025, USATF Outdoor 2025, and NIKE Pre Classic 2025. We are grateful for their support of the sport and RunBlogRun.
Team GBR finishes Tokyo with Five Medals (Three Silvers, Two Bronzes)
Jake Wightman, 2022 Eugene World Champion at 1,500 meters, took silver in the Men’s 1,500 meter final in Tokyo, leading until the very last meters, when Isaac Nader, POR, took the gold, 3:34.10-3;34.12! Reynald Cheriuyot, KEN was the bronze medalist in 3:34.25.
Amy Hunt took the silver medal in the 200 meters, running a superb 22.18, and taking out some of the finest sprinters in the world. Amy Hunt took a huge gamble this past year, moving to Padua, Italy and changing her coach and training program!
Georgia Hunter-Bell, Olympic bronze medalist at the 1,500 meters in Paris, edged ahead of Keely Hodgkinson, to take the silver medal in the 800 meters in a new PB with her 1:54.90!
Katerina Johnson-Thompson, Olympic silver medalist, two-time World Champion in the heptathlon, took the bronze in the heptathlon with 6,581 points, tying Taliyah Brooks, US, for the heptathlon. Anna Hall, US, took the gold, and Kate O’Connor, IRE, took the silver.
Keely Hodgkinson, Olympic champion, European Champion, silver medalist, World Champs, took the bronze medal in an oh so close racee in Tokyo, where Keely ran 1:54.91. Keely was injured post Paris 2025, and did not race for 376 days, racing in Silesia and Lausanne, her only two races prior to Tokyo.
What was quite surprising for Team GB was that there was absolutely no medals in the sprint relays, mixed relay nor 4x400m relay, men or women. This is, well, shocking for Team GB.
