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WORLD ATHLETICS

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 Dragonball 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.
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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.
Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir crosses the finish line to win the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
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Sep 14, 2025
Kenya's Jepchirchir wins women's marathon gold at worlds in Tokyo
Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa finished just behind for silver, with Julia Paternain of Uruguay taking bronze.
Yoshihide Kiryu competes in the men's 100-meter heats on Day 1 of the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday.
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Sep 13, 2025
Japan's top sprinters fail to keep up in 100 meters at world championships
No Japanese runner will compete in the 100-meter final on Sunday night.
Germany's Jonathan Hilbert (right) competes during the men's 35K race walk at the world championships on Saturday.
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Sep 13, 2025
Olympic medal-winning German race walker blazes on after battle with depression
German Jonathan Hilbert earned a silver medal in the 50K race walk at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, but battled depression following his triumph.
Satoshi Maruo cools down during the men's 35K race walk during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday.
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Sep 13, 2025
Race walkers brave gripping humidity in opening event of world championships in Tokyo
Organizers at the World Athletics Championships pushed up the start time for the race walk and marathon events on Saturday in Tokyo amid the heat.
Canada's Evan Dunfee celebrates after winning the the gold in the men's 35k race walk at the 2025 World Athletics Championships on Saturday morning at Tokyo’s National Stadium.
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Sep 13, 2025
Evan Dunfee captures first gold of world championships as Japan earns first medal
Japan's Hayato Katsuki took bronze in the men’s 35-kilometer race walk at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
Julien Alfred celebrates after winning the women's 100-meter final at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on Aug. 28.
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Sep 12, 2025
Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred looking to add world title to Olympic gold in 100
Alfred convincingly beat reigning world champion Sha'Carri Richardson in the women's 100-meter sprint at the Paris Olympics last year.
Defending champion javelin thrower Haruka Kitaguchi is likely to be the center of attention for Japanese fans during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 12, 2025
10 stars to look out for at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
The world championships are back in Tokyo for the first time since 1991.
Tokyo's National Stadium will host the World Athletics Championships from Sept. 13 to 21.
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Sep 11, 2025
National Stadium to finally fulfill destiny years after hosting Olympics without fans
Originally built in 2019 ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, National Stadium was robbed of its original purpose when the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down.
Evan Dunfee competes during the 35-kilometer race walk during the world championships in Budapest on Aug. 24, 2023.
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Sep 11, 2025
Canada's Evan Dunfee hopes to create race walk to remember at world championships
Having won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Dunfee will be vying for gold when the 2025 World Athletics Championships begin on Sunday.
Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the 100-meter final at the world championships in Budapest on Aug. 20, 2023.
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Sep 11, 2025
Usain Bolt backs Jamaicans to knock Noah Lyles off 100-meter throne
Bolt is also confident that his 100-meter world record of 9.58 seconds, set at the 2009 Berlin worlds, is not going to be challenged any time soon.
Actor and World Athletics special ambassador for the local organizing committee Yuji Oda (front, fifth from right) poses with athletes at Tokyo's National Stadium during an open practice on Sept. 4.
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Sep 11, 2025
Broadcaster TBS taps Hello Kitty and Yuji Oda in bid to sell World Athletics
TBS has provided televised coverage of the World Athletics Championships since the 1997 event in Athens.
Toshikazu Yamanishi competes in the men's 20K race walk final during the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, on July 15, 2022.
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Sep 11, 2025
World Athletics Championships road events to start earlier due to heat in Tokyo
Last month, more than 3,300 people were taken to hospital for heat stroke in the Japanese capital, according to the metropolitan fire department.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Final weeks of World Expo in Osaka likely to see large crowds
With one month left to go, crowds are expected to swell at the World Expo in Osaka during its final weeks.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
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.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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