Key events
World Athletics says between 50 and 60 athletes who went through male puberty have been finalists in the female category in global and continental track and field championships since 2000.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has rewritten the hurdles record book and now posted the fastest 400m flat in four decades. At 26, her ceiling seems limitless.
Jefferson-Wooden takes gold and Hunt wins silver for GB
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden was out there and she wins with 21.68sec, the best time this year. A deserved double gold after being the best sprinter in the world this year.
And Amy Hunt, take a bow! She was a bit slower out the block but she never gave up and surged beyond the bronze winner Shericka Jackson across the finish line to finish in 22.14sec. The realisation on her face as the scores went up was priceless – a world silver medallist! Dina Asher-Smith finishes fifth with 22.43sec.
Women’s 200m: A false start from Anthonique Strachan of the Bahamas, whose leg is heavily strapped after an injury in the semi-finals. She steps aside and we start again.
Women’s 200m final: Our last event of the night and what a treat. A mere hundredth of a second separated the top two going into this final, with the defending champion Shericka Jackson just a whisker ahead of Melissa Jefferson-Wooden.
Jamaican Jackson is bidding to match Allyson Felix’s record of a third straight world title over the distance, while the US’s Jefferson-Wooden is targeting the sprint double after her 100m success.
Others impressing in the semi-finals included Amy Hunt of Great Britain and Anavia Battle of the US, who both clocked the same time: 22.09. Also racing is GB’s Dina Asher-Smith.
Pichardo leaps to men’s triple jump gold in final jump
Portugal’s Pedro Pichardo defies gravity for as long as he can in his final jump … 17.91m. That is well enough to pip Italy’s Andrea Dallavalle, who earlier reached 17.64m.
2022 was the last time Pichardo took this title and he is back on top, and at 32 years old. “Who is the best, baby?” he says to the camera after. You are, Pedro!
Men’s triple jump final: Martínez cannot finish his final jump, it seems he pulled something. But he got a good jump earlier on and has secured bronze.
Men’s triple jump final: Italy’s Andrea Dallavalle, sitting in fourth, with a 17.64m jump that puts him in the top spot. He’s off, running away in celebration! Let’s see if anyone can top that.
Men’s triple jump final: Hernández of Italy does not have enough and he surprisingly finishes outside medal contention. 17.55m is still the jump to beat.
Lyles takes the gold ahead of Bednarek and Levell
19.52sec and Noah Lyles does it again! What a run from him. He raises four fingers as he crosses the finish line and wins his fourth world championship gold in this event, matching Usain Bolt’s record. A superstar!
His teammate Kenny Bednarek takes silver and the young Jamaican Bryan Levell wins bronze with a personal best.
It is also a great run from GB’s Zharnel Hughes with a season best of 19.78sec who finishes fifth.
Men’s 200m finals: Big scream from Lyles as the stadium announcer introduces him. He looks like a man on a mission and there was clearly no love lost between him and his US teammate Bednarek as the took their spots.
Men’s 200m finals: Lyles is in lane six, Levell lane seven, Bednarek lane eight and Hughes on the outside in lane nine.
Men’s 200m final: On the evidence of yesterday’s semi-finals, Noah Lyles looks the man to beat after a blistering run of 19.51sec to eclipse his world lead from the US Trials. It was the fastest ever semi-final performances in the history of any championships. Lyles is bidding to emulate Usain Bolt with a fourth straight world title in that particular event.
Jamaica’s Bryan Levell will have something to say about that as he impressed with a 19.78sec semi-final win, while Kenny Bednarek, who had an under par 100m final, was third quickest of the semi-finalists in 19.88sec.
The Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo disqualified in the 100m for a false start, and GB’s Zharnel Hughes were next best.
Women’s heptathlon – 200m: Spain’s Vicente wins the second heat with a season best of 23.96sec. Johnson-Thompson, who has not had the best starts to this title defence finishes third in the final heat with a season best behind GB’s Pawlett and the United States’s Hall.
Hall has had a great day and she leads the standings with O’Connor in second and KJT in third. More events for the heptathlon tomorrow.
Women’s heptathlon – 200m: Ireland’s O’Connor has got her third personal best of the day, finishing 24.07sec in the first 200m heat behind Emma Oosterwegel of the Netherlands.
Benjamin reinstated as men’s 400m hurdles winner
Rai Benjamin has the crown back on his head and is now back to taking photos. It seems to have been a quick appeal from the US. Deserved win for the American.
Men’s 400m hurdles: Heartbreaking for Benjamin, who has now been told. The replays show that Nathaniel still managed to clear his hurdle and, of course, Benjamin did not clip his hurdle on purpose.
Benjamin disqualified from men’s 400m hurdles after winning gold
Rai Benjamin has a crown on his head and he is still celebrating his gold but he may not be for long. He clipped his final hurdle, which dislodged Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel’s barrier, impeding his movement.
The US team will likely appeal.
Bol snatches women’s 400m hurdles
Femke Bol with a world leading time of 51.54sec to win the gold. She was imperious from the beginning with a balanced race. The Americans came out the blocks to try to throw her off but the Dutchwoman found the form she often does down the straight.
Jasmine Jones from the US wins silver with a personal best and Slovakia’s Emma Zapetalova takes bronze.
Women’s 400m hurdles final: Femke Bol has looked imperious all season long, extending that dominance to the women’s 400m hurdles rounds in Tokyo. Is it her title for the taking today?
The 25-year-old had won eight straight races this season before coming to Tokyo and, with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone focusing on the 400m flat at this championships, it’s hard to see who might push Bol.
The Olympic and world gold medallist Dalilah Muhammad is among those hoping to pull off a big shock at the age of 35, while her fellow American athlete Anna Cockrell is ranked No 2 in the world this year behind Bol.
Men’s triple jump: Pichardo is back on top with two back-to-back jumps of 17.55m. Earlier Algeria’s Yasser Mohammed Triki was in the lead with 17.25m.
Benjamin eases to gold in men’s 400m hurdles
The Olympic champion is the world champion! He led from the jump and had he not clipped that final hurdle he may have beat the world record. He will have to settle for a season best of 46.52sec. It is another gold for the United States.
Warholm was in second but in the final stretch he was overtaken by Brazil’s Alison dos Santos who takes silver and Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba who wins bronze with a season best.
Men’s 400m hurdles final: The big three of the men’s 400m hurdles are back for another final. They are on the track where all three of them dipped under Kevin Young’s previous world record mark in a blistering Olympic final four years ago.
Brazil’s Alison dos Santos did not look at his best in his semi-final but Karsten Warholm and Rai Benjamin will know not to count him out.
Norway’s Warholm is the quickest man in the world this year, his 46.28sec ran so recently in Silesia, and he backed that up with victory in Zurich. Benjamin’s season’s best is 46.54sec.
Women’s 8000m: Hodgkinson takes top spot! No surprise there. Sarah Moraa (no relation to Mary), left it late, but she had a lot left in the tank and the 19-year-old finished second with a personal best.
But oh, no! Moraa is now being helped off the track, with a wheelchair there in case. Unusual to see someone run so smoothly across the line and then seem to struggle with an issue after.
Women’s 8000m: Hodgkinson goes across the curb slowly, as she usually does and she leads the pack as the bell rings.
Women’s 8000m: The Olympic champion Hodgkinson is in lane six of this third and last semi-final. Here we go!
Men’s triple jump final: Lázaro Martínez slots into the top spot with a jump of 17.16m. He won silver at the last worlds in Budapest.
Women’s 800m: In the second semi-final Kenya’s Lilian Odira takes the top spot right ahead of the Swiss record holder Audrey Werro.
Australia’s Jess Hull sets a new Continental record in third and she may qualify as one of the quickest non-top two finishers.
Men’s triple jump final: Pichardo lays down the mark with a jump of 17.07m. Scott follows it up with a foul, a nervy start.
Women’s heptathlon – shot put: Johnson-Thompson’s first throw is to 13.37m.
Men’s triple jump final: Our first final of the day is about to start. Italy’s Andy Diaz Hernandez is in the form of his life, winning the world indoor title with a leap of 17.80m, a career best and the world best this year. The 29-year-old also clinched his third Diamond League final win this season.
Portugal’s 2022 world champion Pedro Pichardo won Olympic gold at this same venue, while Jamaican Jordan Scott has got into the winning habit with a quartet of victories in the Diamond League in 2025.
Women’s 800m: Moraa gets first, a big race from her after an underwhelming season by her standards. Hunter Bell was in third at one point but pushed on to get the automatic qualifying spot.
Women’s 800m: Our first semi-final is underway. GB’s Georgie Hunter Bell is facing off against the defending champion Mary Moraa of Kenya. The first two of each of the three semi-finals will qualify plus the two fastest times qualify to the final.
Men’s 5000m: Ingebrigtsen makes it by the skin of his teeth in eighth! He had to give everything to qualify and with a season’s best too, but he is clearly not up to race fitness.
GB’s Mills qualifies in fourth – he looked calm and used his experience to get over the line.
Men’s 5000m: At the bell Binaim Mehary of Ethiopia leads and Ingebrigtsen is in a bit of trouble at ninth.
Men’s 5000m: Niels Laros has stopped! He was clear and he looked comfortable in second but something happened and now he is on the sidelines with his head in his hands.
Men’s 5000m: Someone gives Mexico’s Eduardo Herrera a bit of a shove to the outside. Another disqualification incoming? At least we know it isn’t Cole Hocker this time.
Men’s 5000m: Ingebrigtsen and Mills are having a chat. Very telling of the pace that this race is going at as we approach the halfway mark.
Men’s 5000m: Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who turns 25 today, in this second heat has something to prove after failing to go past the heats in the 1500m. George Mills of GB is also a medal hope having recovered in time from a fractured wrist suffered in June.