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Day 9 Review
September 21, 2025
Team USA sweeps 4x100m relays, Stahl wins Crazy Discus, on day 9
Our highlights:
- Team USA wins both Sprint Relays! The USA women’s team (Terry, White, Jefferson-Wooden, Richardson) wins the 4x100m relay in 41.75. Men’s USA team (Lyles, Bednarek, Lindsey, Coleman) set WL in 37.29. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden had already won the 100m and 200m, adding the 4x100m relay to the two earlier relays.
Men’s 4x100m, USA in gold, Canada in silver, and the Netherlands in bronze! photo by World Athletics, Tokyo WCH 2025 - USA women win 4x400m in CR of 3:16.61. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, running a split of 47.82! The Championship record was 32 years old as it was broken.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone anchors USA to gold in 4×4, Tokyo WCH 2025, photo by World Athletics - Men’s 4x400m: Botswana upsets the USA in a thrilling race. In the first gold medal for an African nation in the 4x400m, Collen Kebinatshipi, Botswana’s gold medalist at 400m, anchored the 4×4 and defeated Rai Benjamin, USA’s 4×4 anchor and gold at 400m hurdles in 2:57.76 in tough rain.
The absolute closeness of the Men’s 4x400m, Tokyo WCH 2025, photo by World Athletics - Cole Hocker ran 52.6 for the last 400m of the 5,000m, going from 13th to first, running 12:58.30 and taking gold in the 5,000 meters. Cole Hocker’s race was called a “tactical masterpiece”.
Cole Hocker wins the 5,000 meters, photo by World Athletics /Tokyo 2025 - Lilian Odira, KEN, took the Women’s 800 meters, in CR of 1:54.62, breaking the nearly 42-year-old record of Jarmila Kratochvilova! Georgia Hunter-Bell took silver over Olympic champ Keely Hodgkinson!
Lillian Odira takes gold at 800m in Tokyo WCH 2025, photo by World Athletics - Daniel Stahl, Sweden, won the discus, in terrible conditions, over Mykolas Alekna, EST, on the last throw. Alex Rose, from Samoa, took the bronze, his country’s first-ever medal!
Daniel Stahl, Tokyo 2025, Screenshot from World Athletics coverage - Germany wins Decathlon! Leo the German wins the Decathlon! Leo Neugebauer, GER, (his social media nom de plum is Leo the German) won by 20 points, 8,804 to 8784 for Ayden Owens Delerme, Puerto Rico, the closest margin in WC history!
Leo Neugebauer, GER, decathlon champion, photo by World Athletics/ Tokyo WCH 2025 - Medal final standing! The USA wins 16 gold medals and 26 total medals
This is our review of the ninth Day of the 2025 World Athletics Outdoor Championships, held September 13-21, 2025.
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