TORUN 2026 DAY 3
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“When I saw Molly walk out and do her lap of honour, I thought I’ve got to get the third Gold. I’m so proud of the girls. I think women in sport in the UK right now is amazing, and I’m happy to be a part of it. I felt really good with the shape I am in, I had a clean winter with no interruptions and if someone wants to beat me you have to work hard I never go down without a fight. Happy to have finished it, finally come to a Championship as favourite and finish on top as I haven’t done that since Paris and my first world title as well,” Keely Hodgkinson.
“I didn’t have the best start. I stumbled a bit, but I tried to fix it as fast as I could. I knew I had run the world record. I knew I had it when I crossed the finish line. I know I could have run a bit faster, too, but not having the best start, I will take it. Since Glasgow, I have been improving a lot, and today I am really proud to win my third world indoor title in a row,” Devynne Charlton.
Megan SIMMONDS, 60 Metres Hurdles Women, JAM
Devynne CHARLTON, 60 Metres Hurdles Women, BAH
Pia SKRZYSZOWSKA, 60 Metres Hurdles Women, POL, photo by World Athletics
RESULT OF THE DAY
Devynne Charlton equalled her world indoor record of 7.65, set at the 2024 World Indoor Championships. Also, Keely Hodkginson won 1:55.30 in the 800 m, and less than one hour after the fastest relay split, 50.10.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
Gerson Baldé improved his lifetime best by 14cm in the last series to 846, outperformed strong competitors and won his first-ever international title (and medal).
Gold: Gerson Baldé (POR) – 8.46m
Silver: Mattia Furlani (ITA) – 8.39m
Bronze: Bozhidar Sarâboyukov (BUL) – 8.31m, photo by World Athletics
Leonardo Fabbri, posting 22.50 this season (outdoors), achieved 20.92 only and finished seventh.
Surprising defeats of world champions Anna Hall to Sofie Dokter and Isaac Nader to Mariano García.
MEDALS (32 countries)
USA 5-7-6; GBR 4-0-0; ITA 3-2-0; POR, UKR 2-1-0; ESP 1-2-2; NED 1-2-1; BEL 1-2-0; POL 1-1-2.
POINTS (50 countries)
USA 164; NED 54; POL 53; JAM 52; GBR 49; ITA 47; AUS 43; ESP 39; SWE 36; FRA 31.
TITLE RETAINERS
Yes (6): A.Díaz, Duplantis, Pérez-Hernández, Walsh, Charlton, USA (2).
No (7): Olyslagers, Mitton, Azu, Woo, Hailu, Bonnin, Furlani.
Not competing (11): Bailey, Skotheim, Ingebrigtsen (2), Anning, Holloway, M. Kambundji, Bryant, Tsegay, Hoey, Sekgodiso.
TOP MARKS
WR (1+1): Hep 6670 Ehammer; 60mH 7.65 Charlton (equalled).
WB (2): Hep60mH 7.52 Ehammer, mix4x400m 3:15.60 Belgium, Pen800m 2:06.32 Hall.
CR (6+1): 400m 44.76 Morales Williams, Hep 6670 Ehammer, PV 625 Duplantis, 800m 1:55.30 Hodgkinson; mix4x400m 3:15.60 Belgium (inaugural), M4x400m 3:01.52 USA; 60mH 7.65 Charlton (equalled).
WL (10+2): 60m 6.42 Bromell, 6.41 Anthony, TJ 17.47 A.Díaz, mix4x400m 3:15.60 Belgium, Hep 6670 Ehammer, 1500m 3:58.53 Hunter Bell, LJ 846 Baldé, Pen 4888 Dokter, 60mH 7.76 Skrzyszowska, 7.74 Charlton and 7.65 Charlton; TJ 14.95 Pérez-Hernández (equalled), 60mH 7.76 Kambundji (equalled).
AR: Africa (1) – 60mH 7.50 Le Roux; Europe (1) – Hep 6670 Ehammer; NACAC (1) – 60mH 7.65 Charlton (equalled); Oceania (2) – 1500m 3:59.45 Hull, 800m 1:45.14 Bol; South America (1) – 400m 45.71 Lima.
NR: in total 46
AGENTS (individual gold medals)
2 – Aivar Karotamm, Marcello Magnani, Bradl Yewer; 1 – Jorge Luis Aguilera, Luke Allen, Paul Doyle, Caroline Feith, Alfons Juck, Fabien Kaiser, Merhawi Keflezighi, Eric Lilot, Miguel Mostaza, Juan Pineda, John Regis, Henry Rolle, Marcin Rosengarten, Robert Wagner, Daniel Wessfeldt, Mark Wetmore; no official AR for Dokter and Ehammer.
TORUN NEWS
TORUN (POL): World Athletics President Sebastian Coe accepted historic donations on behalf of the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) from six world champions during a special ceremony at the Toruń Plaza shopping centre. Six iconic athletes, Nelli Cooman, Noureddine Morceli, Daniel Komen, Adam Kszczot, Paweł Wojciechowski and Sebastian Chmara, took to the stage to personally hand over competition items from their careers to Coe. The ceremony took a poignant turn with the posthumous awarding of the World Athletics Heritage Plaque in the ‘Legend’ category to Janusz Kusociński.
TORUN (POL): Fastest splits from the men’s 4x400m, 44.65 by Khaleb McRae, 45.16 by Chris Robinson and 45.38 by Julien Watrin.
TORUN (POL): Fastest splits from the women’s 4x400m, 50.10 by Keely Hodgkinson, 50.46 Emma Zapletalová (in heats) and 50.83 Rosey Effiong.
TORUN STATS (by Ken Nakamura and WA)
W-800: Hodgkinson runs the second fastest indoor 800m in history with 1:55.30, just behind her own WR and becomes the first British winner of the women’s 800m at WI; both Hodgkinson and Werro were under the previous championship record of 1:56.90 set by Ludmila Formanova in 1999; 3.06 is the largest 1-3 margin; first medal for SUI.
W-1500: Hunter Bell’s winning time of 3:58.53 is the third fastest in World Indoor Championships history behind 2 times of Gudaf Tsegay and becomes the first Brit – male or female – to win a world indoor 1500m title; Hull is the only athlete to win two individual medals in Torun; Guillemot becomes the first athlete to break the 4:00-barrier at the World Indoor Championships but not come away with a medal; best marks for places 2-8; first medal for AUS.
W-60H: Charlton equals her world indoor record of 7.65 to become the first three-time winner of the women’s 60m hurdles at the World Indoor Championships; best marks for places 2 (equalled) – 3 (equalled best overall); BAH (3-0-1) moved to second behind USA (7-5-3); 7.91 by Taylor is the fastest non-qualifier for the final replacing 7.92 by Sally Pearson from 2018.
W-PV: Caudery becomes just the third woman to win multiple world indoor pole vault titles after Yelena Isinbayeva and Sandi Morris; Sutej (SLO), who is the oldest athlete registered for an individual event in Torun, won her third world indoor medal with silver at 37y/135d; best marks for places 6 (equalled) – 9; GBR (2-0-1) moved to third behind RUS and USA.
W-LJ: Second World Indoor title for POR after Naide Gomes, who won the world indoor long jump title in 2008; first ever medal at WI for COL.
W-4×400: The United States won the women’s 4x400m title at the World Indoor Championships for the sixth time and is now (6-5-5) behind RUS; Spain won their first ever medal in the women’s 4x400m; best mark for places 3-5; 0.23 is the second lowest 1-3 margin.
W-PEN: Dokter becomes the second Dutch winner of this title after Nadine Broersen in 2014, her 4888 points was the fifth highest score in WI history, her winning margin of 28 points was the third smallest and 1-3 margin of 49 points the second smallest, while the 3-4 margin of 270 points is the largest; Hall closed with a championship best of 2:06.32 in the 800m, taking almost two seconds off Jessica Ennis-Hill’s previous best of 2:08.09 from Istanbul in 2012.
M-800: At 17y/93d, Lutkenhaus becomes the youngest ever gold medallist – and medallist of any colour – at World Indoor Championships history, replacing Mohamed Aman who won in 2012 at 18y/61d; his winning time of 1:44.24 is the second fastest winning time in WI history behind Wilson Kipketer who won gold in 1997 in 1:42.67; best marks for places 2-6; with a third successive medal (0-2-1), Crestan becomes just the third three-time medallist after Wilson Kipketer and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi; the third successive US title confirmed their top position (5-1-3).
M-1500: Garcia becomes the first athlete in World Indoor Championships history to win titles at both 800m and 1500m and the first Spaniard to win the 1500m.
M-LJ: Balde becomes the first Portuguese winner of the men’s long jump title at the World Indoor Championships and completes a Portuguese double with de Sousa winning the women’s event, his winning jump of 8.46m was the equal fifth longest winning jump in WI history and the longest jump ever recorded on Polish soil; best mark for place 6; first medal for BUL.
M-SP: Walsh becomes the most bemedalled male athlete in World Indoor Championships history with a fourth gold and a seventh medal (4-1-2) in total, overtaking Javier Sotomayor (4-1-1) and Chris Brown (1-2-3); USA has now 9-11-4.
M-4×400: The United States won gold in a championship record of 3:01.52, just 0.01 shy of the world indoor record of 3:01.51 which was set in 2019 (the fastest ever time set indoor is 3:00.77 from 2018 but was not ratified); this was the United States’ 12th gold medal from 19 championships; 0.06 is the second smallest 3-4 margin; JAM confirmed its second position (2-3-3), while BEL moved to third (2-2-1) tied with POL.
