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WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone celebrates after winning the women's 400-meter world title at Tokyo's National Stadium on Thursday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Gold medalist Faith Kipyegon celebrates after winning the women's 1,500 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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Sep 17, 2025
Faith Kipyegon cements place as supreme champion and role model for mothers
Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic champion, took her fourth world title at 1,500 meters on Tuesday in dominating fashion.
U.S. sprinter Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone crosses the finish line to win her women's 400-meter semifinal heat at the World Athletics Championships on Tuesday.
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Sep 16, 2025
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breaks U.S. record on way to 400 final at worlds
McLaughlin-Levrone ran a 48.29 in her semifinal heat at Tokyo’s National Stadium.
Cordell Tinch of the U.S. (left), Jamaica's Orlando Bennett (center) and Japan's Rachid Muratake in action during the 110-meter hurdles final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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Sep 16, 2025
Muratake misses out on medal as Tinch takes 110-meter hurdle gold
After finishing fifth at last year’s Paris Olympics, Muratake was aiming to claim Japan’s first world hurdles medal in 20 years.
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
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Sep 16, 2025
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
The atmosphere at National Stadium has been raucous in the opening days of the championships, particularly when hometown heroes are on the track or field.
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
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Sep 16, 2025
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
With fans and his fellow competitors looking on, ​Duplantis once again proved he has no equal — past or present — on Monday at Tokyo's National Stadium.
Sweden's Armand Duplantis breaks the world record with a 6.30-meter jump at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Monday.
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Sep 15, 2025
Pole-vault superstar Duplantis sets yet another world record in Tokyo
The Swede's height of 6.30 meters marked the 14th time he has raised the bar on his own record.
Noah Lyles does a Kamehameha pose from the the anime "Dragon Ball" after the men's 100-meter final at the World Athletics Championships.
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Sep 15, 2025
World's fastest anime fans Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson display fandom in Tokyo
American superstar Lyles is track and field's most popular anime fan.
Australia's Gout Gout celebrates winning the men's 200 meters in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on June 24.
SPORTS
Sep 15, 2025
Schoolboy sensation Gout targets personal best at first worlds
The big-striding 17-year-old has earned comparisons with sprinting great Usain Bolt after breaking the long-standing Australian record for 200 meters.
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
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Sep 15, 2025
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
The U.S. long jumper won her first world title in the long jump back in Tokyo, the city that reduced her to tears just four years ago.
Germany's Amanal Petros (R) falls as he crosses the finish line behind Tanzania's athlete Alphonce Felix Simbu (L) in the men's marathon final during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Monday.
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Sep 15, 2025
Simbu dips past Petros for world marathon gold
The Tanzanian and German runners were both clocked at 2hr 09min 48sec in the most dramatic of endings for the longest event of the world championships in Tokyo.
Jamaica's Oblique Seville celebrates winning the men's 100-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
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Sep 14, 2025
Seville and Thompson seal Jamaican 1-2 over Lyles in 100-meter final
Seville won the men’s 100-meter crown in a personal-best time of 9.77 seconds in front of a roaring Tokyo crowd of over 60,000, including Jamaican legend Usain Bolt.
Gold medalist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden of the U.S. celebrates after winning the women's 100-meter final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday.
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Sep 14, 2025
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden takes 100-meter title and sets championships record in Tokyo
Jamaica’s Tia Clayton was second with a new personal best of 10.76, while Paris Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred took third place in 10.84.
Yuki Joseph Nakajima (right) runs alongside Botswana's Bayapo Ndori during the men's 400-meter heats at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday.
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Sep 14, 2025
Yuki Joseph Nakajima sets national record en route to 400-meter semifinals at worlds
Nakajima’s time was sixth fastest among participants in the first round, tied with Botswana’s Lee Bhekempilo Eppie.
Sorato Shimizu competes at a meet in Hiroshima in July. Over the past few years, Shimizu has been like a superhero among teenage track and field athletes in Japan.
SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 11, 2025
The sky is the limit for Sorato Shimizu, Japan's great sprinting hope
The 16-year-old has already run the 100 in 10 seconds flat and could be an X-factor for Japan’s World Athletics Championships relay hopes.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japan dispatches five language education 'partners' to India
Five members of the Japan Foundation's Nihongo Partners program (front) gather at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Monday.
End of U.S. de minimis exemption causes headaches for some businesses in Japan
Proxy-shopping services — companies that ship Japanese products ranging from cosmetics and snacks to limited-edition stationery on behalf of customers abroad — are already feeling the impact of the U.S. suspending de minimis exemptions.
Over 90% of low-income families in Japan struggling to feed children
Save the Children Japan domestic program chief Sonoko Kawakami speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in July. A survey conducted by the group in June has found that over 90% of low-income households with children face food insecurity.
Struggling train firm in Chiba Prefecture turns to self-deprecating humor
"Laughter is important when you're in a difficult situation," said Katsunori Takemoto, president of Choshi Electric Railway, on Aug. 5 in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture.
Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment
A scientist looks at scans of grains at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.
Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.

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