QUOTES OF THE DAY
“This winter, I have been preparing in Ukraine – I was a bit tired moving from one country to another. I wanted to stay at home. We trained without electricity in really cold halls, but the sweet feeling that I can finally be at home is much more important.” Yaroslava Mahuchikh after winning the high jump title.
“I mixed up the start line – I put my blocks for the 200m instead of the 400m. My mother screamed it to me, but I couldn’t hear her – I thought she was talking about the lane number, not the start line. At the end of the race I felt really relaxed. It was close, but I am satisfied to get the next round.” Henriette Jaeger after her 400m heat.
“I wanted to come here and finish the collection of having the full set of world indoor medals…I still think I could have thrown further. I am not a big fan of indoors, everybody knows that. This is my indoor retirement. I probably won’t throw indoors anymore.” Chase Jackson after winning the world indoor shot put title.
RESULT OF THE DAY
Men’s 60m final featured a world lead of 6.41 by Jordan Anthony in his first-ever global championships appearance. Clash for other medals delivered a narrow decision between Thompson (6.447), Bromell (6.448), and Azu (6.45).
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
18-year-old Tomáš Horák advanced to the 400m final races as the youngest in World Indoors history. His 45.89 in the heats is the second-fastest European U20 time ever indoors. Out in the 800 m heats, Gouaned from Algeria, in the 1500 m, Farken, Sisk, Houser, and Berg. In women’s 1500 m, Jemma Reekie and Salome Afonso.
USA 2-0-1; UKR 1-1-0; ITA 1-0-0; JAM 0-2-0
TITLE RETAINERS
Yes (1): A.Díaz
No (3): Olyslagers, Mitton, Azu
TOP MARKS
WL (3): 60m 6.42 Bromell, 6.41 Anthony, TJ 17.47 A.Díaz
AR: South America (1) – 400m 45.71 Lima
AGENTS (individual gold medals)
1- Aivar Karotamm, Eric Lilot, Robert Wagner, Mark Wetmore
TORUN NEWS
TORUN (POL): Simon Ehammer leads the heptathlon after the first day with 3698 points, 38 points ahead of Kyle Garland, and 188 points ahead of Heath Baldwin.
TORUN (POL): Fastest times in heats were set by Eloisa Coiro (1:59.87) and Eliott Crestan (1:45.51) in the 800m, Birke Haylom (4:10.66) and Mariano García (3:38.19) in the 1500m, Henriette Jaeger (50.95) and Christopher Morales Williams (45.35) in the 400m.
TORUN (POL): It was not for the first time that there have been 3 silvers awarded in women’s high jump. The same happened in 2012, as behind Chaunte Lowe winning 198 were Antonietta Di Martino, Anna Chicherova, and Ebba Jungmark, all with 195.
TORUN (POL): Slovak 400mHurdles world medalist Emma Zapletalova did not run the 400 m semifinals due to a health issue.
TORUN STATS (by Ken Nakamura and WA)
W-HJ: Mahuchikh becomes the seventh woman to win multiple high jump titles at the World Indoors and is now tied second with Blanka Vlasic (2-1-1) behind Stefka Kostadinova (5-0-0); Olyslagers (2-1-0) tied Yelena Slesarenko at 4th; 6cm margin between medal vs non-medal equalled the highest margin at World Indoors.
W-SP: Jackson becomes just the second American winner of this title after Michelle Carter; she has 1-1-2 in the last four world indoor finals. Mitton, with a 2-1-0 balance, moved to third behind Valerie Adams (3-1-1) and Svetlana Krivelyova (3-0-1); USA (2-3-4) moved to third behind RUS and NZL. SWE won the first medal.
M-60: Anthony wins the US 11th title at World Indoors; his winning time of 6.41 was the joint second fastest time behind Christian Coleman’s championship record of 6.37. He moved to equal fourth on the world all-time list alongside Andre Cason and Lamont Marcell Jacobs; just 0.001 separated silver and bronze medallists Thompson and Bromell. Azu ran 0.03 seconds faster than his gold-medal-winning time in 2025 but still finished fourth. This was by far the fastest non-medal-winning time (previously 6.52); Bromell’s 6.42 is the fastest semi-final time.
M-400: 45.51 in heats and 45.35 in semi-finals by Morales Williams are the fastest times in respective qualifying rounds at World Indoors.
M-1500: 3:39.05 by Malleck is the fastest non-qualifier for the final.
M-TJ: A.Díaz becomes just the third athlete to defend his world indoor title after Mike Conley and Christian Olsson, and fourth with two titles (plus Will Claye); ITA with 3-0-0 moved to second behind USA, first medal for JAM.
M-HEP: 815 by Ehammer is the second-longest heptathlon long jump at World Indoors behind Ashton Easton (816).
