1h agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 9:39am
Live updates: World Athletics Championships, day three
Aussies in action on day three:
Men’s long jump qualification (8:20pm AEST): Liam Adcock, Chris MitrevskiMen’s pole vault final (9:10pm AEST): Kurtis Marschall
Day three results:
Sarah Carli qualified for the 400m hurdles semifinalsCara Feain-Ryan and Amy Cashin missed out on reaching the semis of the 3,000m steeplechase, with Feain-Ryan bravely finishing her race despite fallingThe men’s marathon needed a photo finish to separate first and second in the tightest finish at a major championships in the event. Aussies Tim Vincent (44th in 2:20.12) and Liam Boudin (57th in 2:24.39) were Australia’s finishers.
9m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:50am
POLE VAULT: Is gold a foregone conclusion?
As the pole vaulters get ready to start their event, let’s have a quick look at the main favourites, shall we?
In Paris, there was only ever going to be one winner of the men’s pole vault.
In fact, in most men’s pole vault competitions there’s only going to be one winner.
Dean Bilton asked how do you compete at the Olympics when you know gold is an impossibility?
That’s what faced Kurtis Marschall in the men’s pole vault final at the Stade de France against Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, and the Swedish man duly delivered.
But is he as dominant this year?
Actually, no. Duplantis was way off his best at the Diamond League final, only clearing 6m and needing a countback to win against Emmanouil Karalis of Greece.
Anyway, here’s a look back to when Mondo dominated everyone and everything in Paris last year as the finalists are introduced and the bar is set at 5.55m.
13m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:46am
MEN’S LONG JUMP: One and done for the favourite Tentoglou
That’s how you do it.
The favourite for gold, Greek leaper Militiadis Tentoglou has only taken one jump to get through automatically, leaping out to 8.17m.
He can go and chill out now.
Liam Adcock wasn’t quite so far off his first jump, getting a solid 7.90m on the board in the first of his three attempts.
Chris Mitrevski managed 7.40m with his first jump.
19m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:40am
LONG JUMP: Liam Adcock looks to qualify for final
The field events get underway imminently, with Australian eyes on Liam Adcock in action.
Adcock has had a really, really good season.
He set a new personal best of 8.34m at the Stadio Olimpico in June, earning him his first Diamond League victory.
The 29-year-old Queenslander also finished third at the Diamond League final in Zurich and claimed a superb bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in China earlier this year.
He leaps in Group A.
Chris Mitrevski is also jumping for Australia, in Group B.
The automatic qualifying mark is 8.15, which should be very achievable for Adcock, but will require a season’s best from Mitrevski.
If 12 athletes don’t make the 8.15 mark, it will be the 12 who leap longest who make it through to the final.
29m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:31am
MEN’S 400M HURDLES: First up on the track
No Aussies in action in this first series of events on the track, but we’re kicking off with the men’s 400m hurdles today.
Five heats, first four from each go through to the semis, plus the first four next fastest across the meet.
We’ll let you know if anything crazy happens.
35m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:25am
WOMEN’S 400M HURDLES: Carli flies into semifinal
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Also this morning, huge congratulations need to be sent to Sarah Carli, who qualified for the 400m hurdles semifinals as one of the fastest losers.
The first four from each of the five heats progressed and, although she finished in fifth place in heat four, her time of 55.24 was enough to get her through as one of the four fastest who missed automatic qualification.
Alanah Yukich had the imposing sight of Femke Bol in her heat, and she was unable to rise to the occasion, finishing eighth with 56.68.
40m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:19am
WOMEN’S 3,000M STEEPLECHASE: Aussies fail to advance
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Let’s have a quick look back at this morning, where Australians Cara Feain-Ryan and Amy Cashin both came up short in their attempts to reach the final of the 3,000m steeplechase.
Feain-Ryan bravely managed to get back up after falling heavily in her heat, coming home in a hugely credible 10th place considering her fall.
Cashin finished 11th in her heat.
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There were a few fallers in the race. It’s that sort of event, I suppose.
The worst of the falls was probably Britain’s Sarah Tait, who fell at a water jump and had to be taken away in a wheelchair, in tears.
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47m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:12am
INJURY REPORT: Alfred out of women’s 200m
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A small update on the women’s sprint, where Olympic champion Julien Alfred has withdrawn from the women’s 200 metres at the world championships because of a hamstring strain, her agent has told Television Jamaica.
The Saint Lucian, who won 100m gold and a silver in the 200m in Paris last year, said she had suffered an injury after finishing third in the shorter sprint final in Tokyo on Sunday.
The 24-year-old had suffered a grade one hamstring strain, agent Henry Rolle said, forcing her to pull out of Wednesday’s 200m heats.
“We definitely won’t put her in a position to damage herself even further. So our season has [concluded], and rehab has started, and we look forward to 2026,” Rolle added.
Alfred ran the fastest 200m time of the year with a scorching 21.71 in London in July.
Kristie Edwards, Mia Gross and Torrie Lewis will go for Australia in the women’s 200m, with the heats getting underway on Wednesday at 8:30pm AEST.
54m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:06am
MEN’S MARATHON: Watch the epic finish
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59m agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 10:00am
MEN’S MARATHON: Was this the greatest race ever?
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Look, I may have jumped the gun a bit yesterday when I described the women’s marathon as one of the greatest ever.
Well, it was very impressive, featuring a sprint finish for the ages between Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia.
So why have I changed my mind?
Because the men’s race may have been even better.
Tanzania’s Alphonce Felix Simbu came from behind to overhaul Germany’s Amanal Petros in a desperate lunge for the line, Italy’s Iliass Aouani just five seconds back in third.
Read all about it here.
1h agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 9:53am
What happened yesterday?
Jess Hull eased her way into the final of the women’s 1,500m despite a “dodgem cars” style race that saw one of the competitors in her semifinal heat disqualified.
Linden Hall fell just short though, as did the majority of other Australians in action on a chastening day.
However there were some successes.
Reece Holder made the semifinals of the men’s 400m, and Yual Reath equalled his season’s best performance to make it into the men’s high jump final.
Read all about it and relive the action, here.
1h agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 9:40am
Gout Gout aims high in Tokyo
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Gout Gout will be the youngest entrant in the 200m in Tokyo as he makes his major senior international debut in the heats on Wednesday under a blaze of publicity.
And he is aiming very, very high.
Speaking at a media event with his sponsors in Tokyo on Monday, Queensland high school student Gout charmed and delighted the international media, while also outlining his hopes for what is his first senior world titles.
Gout would love to qualify for the world championships 200m final on Friday — a feat only achieved by three Australian men and none since 2005 — and run a PB in the process.
His current mark stands at 20.02 seconds, so there is a very real prospect of dipping under the magical 20-second barrier in the next few days.
“A PB, regardless of where I come, is definitely a big success,” Gout said at a function hosted by his major sponsor adidas.
“And if I can make it out of the semis then even better. Making it into the final is a big success.”
Seventeen men — headed by multiple Olympic and world champion Lyles with a time of 19.63 seconds — have run sub-20 this year.
Many of them of them will be on the start line in Tokyo.
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All of them are more hardened competitors and most of them are bigger and more powerful than Gout, although he’s grown a couple of centimetres this year and put some muscle on what is still a very lean frame.
“It’s about mentally telling myself that I deserve to be here, that I’m the same as everyone else,” he said.
“Obviously my first experience at this level so I’m trying not to put too much pressure on myself.
“But also putting on enough pressure so I can go out there and run very fast and have fun with it.”
Gout could almost certainly have qualified for the 100m in Tokyo too and been a part of the Australian 4x100m relay team.
But his coach Di Sheppard and manager James Templeton are mindful of not rushing things, especially as he balances school with life as a budding professional athlete.
“But it’s definitely both in the long term,” he said.
“The 200 is my baby as people like to say but definitely as I get stronger I’ll get more into the 100.”
1h agoMon 15 Sep 2025 at 9:39am
World Athletics Championships day three
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Hello folks and welcome to another night of action from the National Stadium in Tokyo, where the 2025 World Athletics Championships continue.
My name is Simon Smale and it is a pleasure to be here with you for another full night of action.
Yes, there are only three Australians in action tonight (four if you count a former junior star now representing France, but more on him later) but there’s still plenty to get excited about over the next few hours.
All the Australian attention will be on the field today in the pole vault and long jump competitions.
But on the track there’s still plenty happening.
Women’s 100m hurdles, Men’s 110m and 400m hurdles, Men’s 1,500m semis, the final of the 3,000m steeplechase as well as the women’s hammer.
So plenty to get our teeth into.
