Tag - world-athletics-championships

 
Menu
Search
 
October 31, 2025
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Yuki Joseph Nakajima after placing sixth in the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 22, 2025
World championships bring few medals but win big with the crowds
Japan is now looking ahead to the Asian Games in Nagoya in 2026, the next world championships in Beijing in 2027 and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Japan's Mebuki Suzuki in action with Uganda's Oscar Chelimo in the men's 10,000 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sept. 14
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 22, 2025
The Japanese face and body patches that have had the world wondering
Some athletes at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo swear by the products.
Noah Lyles celebrates as he crosses the finish line to give the United States the victory in the men's 4x100-meter relay at the world championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 21, 2025
U.S. men grab gold in 4x100-meter relay on final day of worlds; Japan sixth
The U.S. beat Canada to the gold medal to win the men's relay.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden celebrates with fans after winning the women's 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 21, 2025
How the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo delivered on the fan experience
After the Olympics, the fan experience at World Athletics Championships was arguably more important than any other event. So how did National Stadium fare with its big do-over?
Gold medalist Beatrice Chebet (left) celebrates with Kenyan compatriot Faith Kipyegon after the women's 5000-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 21, 2025
Chebet beats Kipyegon in stunning sprint finish to win 5,000-meter showdown
The world record-holder's victory completed her set of global distance titles and denied 1,500-meter champion Kipyegon a double of her own in Tokyo.
Japan's 4x100-meter relay team (from left, Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa celebrate after qualifying for the final at the world championships at National Stadium on Saturday night.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025
Japan qualifies for men's 4x100 relay final at world championships
Japan finished in a time of 38.07 seconds.
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles celebrates with a gesture from the "Dragon Ball" anime series after winning gold in the men's 200-meter final on Friday in Tokyo.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025
Noah Lyles wants athletics to stop being an ‘amateur sport’
The American sprinter has consistently voiced his frustration with the sport’s dwindling public interest in non-Olympic years.
Nanako Fujii celebrates as she crosses the line to take bronze in the women's 35-kilometer race walk on Saturday at National Stadium in Tokyo.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025
Nanako Fujii takes bronze in 20 km race walk for Japan's second medal at worlds
The 26-year-old became the first Japanese woman to capture a medal in a race walk event at the World Athletics Championships or the Olympics.
Haruka Kitaguchi could not make it out of the qualifying round of the women's javelin throw at the world championships on Friday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 20, 2025
Japan’s hopes too much for Haruka Kitaguchi’s elbow to bear at worlds
"I don’t think life is over just because I did not make it to the finals here," she said. "I might need a long break, but I want to come back stronger.”
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles holds up four fingers after winning his fourth straight men's 200-meter title at the world championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025
Noah Lyles and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden win 200-meter titles on golden night for U.S.
Lyles finished with a time of 19.52 seconds and joined Jamaican great Usain Bolt as the only men to win four straight world titles at the distance.
Haruka Kitaguchi competes in the women's javelin throw during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025
Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi fails to qualify for women's javelin final
Momone Ueda finished one spot ahead of Kitaguchi and narrowly missed out on a spot in the final.
Yuki Joseph Nakajima after finishing sixth in the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025
How Yuki Joseph Nakajima turned failures into breakout success at Tokyo worlds
Nakajima was the first Japanese runner to make the 400 final since Susumu Takano in 1991 and he even managed to finish one place higher than his senior compatriot.
Runners compete in the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025
Anti-doping work helping more countries medal in World Athletics, AIU chief says
The AIU is seen by many as the benchmark across all sport for fighting the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Australian sprinter Gout Gout during the men's 200-meter semifinals at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday in Tokyo
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025
Australian teen sensation Gout Gout hails learning experience at debut worlds
Following his exit, Gout reflected on what it was like to rub shoulders with some of sprinting's biggest names.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone celebrates after winning the women's 400-meter world title at Tokyo's National Stadium on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone runs second-fastest time ever to win 400-meter world title
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone claimed gold after beating Marileidy Paulino to the finish line.
Botswana's Busang Collen Kebinatshipi (left) crosses the finish line ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's Jereem Richards in the men's 400-meter final at the world championships at National Stadium on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 18, 2025
Busang Collen Kebinatshipi wins men's 400 final; Yuki Joseph Nakajima finishes sixth
Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago finished in second place with a national record of 43.72, while Kebinatshipi’s compatriot Bayapo Ndori was third with a season best of 44.20.
American Noah Lyles competes in the men's 200-meter semifinals at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 18, 2025
Noah Lyles makes statement ahead of 200-meter final at world championships
Lyles ran a 19.51 in the semifinals.
Organizers of the World Athletics Championships said over 500,000 tickets had been sold and that they are expecting to end the event in front of large crowds this weekend.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 18, 2025
World Athletics stars relish Tokyo atmosphere after COVID-hit Olympics
For many athletes competing at the world championships in Tokyo this week who also competed at the COVID-hit Summer Games, the experience has been like night and day.
Katie Moon competes in the women's pole vault final during the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Wednesday. The American won the gold medal.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025
Katie Moon beats fellow American Sandi Morris for gold in pole vault final in Tokyo
Moon cleared 4.90 meters to claim gold.
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025
Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds
Race walker Hayato Katsuki has Japan's only medal so far, but team officials are optimistic that there's more to come.
Takaichi buys time and builds trust with ‘near-perfect’ Trump summit
U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during a visit to the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Trump trims fentanyl-linked China tariffs after 'amazing' Xi meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping greet each other as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Takaichi pushed back on U.S. request to ban Russian gas imports, sources say
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reportedly turned down a request from the U.S. to cease imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Tokyo Film Festival opens with global stars and a spotlight on Asian storytelling
Director Junji Sakamoto (left) walked the Tokyo International Film Festival red carpet with Sayuri Yoshinaga (center) and Non (right), who both play mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, in the biopic "Climbing for Life."
Spanish artist and Japanese writer duos diversify the manga talent pool in Japan
"Menheim” is a dark fantasy manga with a story that centers on a girl’s quest to find a cure for her ill brother.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Foreign wrestlers have a long history in sumo
Foreign wrestlers have a long history in sumo

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER