World Athletics Championships 2025: Nader pips Wightman to 1500m world gold after Kerr injury – as it happened
Jake Wightman was leading for most of the end but Isaac Nader, of Portugal, saw the gap and pushed himself on the line from the outside,Reynold Cheruiyot wins the bronze,Neil Gourley finishes tenth and Josh Kerr ends the race last,Here’s a report on that stunning men’s 1500m final,And our report on Katie Moon’s third pole vault crown …That wraps up today’s action, but tomorrow there’s Sydney McLaughlin in the women’s 400m hurdles final, the men’s javelin medals will be decided … and Keely Hodgkinson returns to the global stage, as she begins her hunt for a first world championship gold in the women’s 800m.
Thanks for joining us today, and hopefully we’ll do it all again tomorrow!Jake Wightman speaks after winning silver in the men’s 1500m:I felt like I still had something in me,All I knew today was I was going to run to try to win and whether that got me the win, whether that got me second, third, however high up, I would have just been happy I walked away with it,But when you come that close to winning you can’t help but be like: ‘Oh, but if I tried a bit more’, but I left everything out there,Honestly it has been a very bleak couple of years for me,I think a lot of times I doubted myself even getting back to this level so for me making this team was the main thing.
I made some huge changes in my life this past year to try to get back to this point.It’s not just affect me, my fiancee, we relocated from London, which was our home for eight years, to Manchester to be close to therapy.I got a new coach and a new coaching setup because I felt that is what I needed at this point.Big changes that had a big impact on me and I hoped it was for the best.It took a while to believe those were the right decisions.
I believe that you get what you pay for in the end,I am so happy that all the persistence has been worth it,I felt like I had another gear all these Championships but I did not know what would happen,This silver is a gold for me and I am so relieved,Men’s 1500m final: BBC are reporting that Josh Kerr’s injury is significant enough that he could not even walk up the steps up to the media.
Medal count: Wightman may be a bit disappointed with the silver but he wins GB’s first medal of these championships.United States: 10Kenya: 7Jamaica: 6Italy: 5Ethiopia: 4Canada: 3China: 3Germany: 3New Zealand: 2The Netherlands: 2Sweden: 2Australia: 2France: 1Spain: 1Tanzania: 1Portugal: 1Switzerland: 1Nigeria: 1Morocco: 1Mexico: 1Brazil: 1Bahrain: 1Greece: 1South Korea: 1Colombia: 1Cuba: 1Japan: 1Saint Lucia: 1Belgium: 1Hungary: 1Slovenia: 1Ecuador: 1Uruguay: 1Czech Republic: 1Great Britain: 1Jake Wightman was leading for most of the end but Isaac Nader, of Portugal, saw the gap and pushed himself on the line from the outside.Reynold Cheruiyot wins the bronze.Neil Gourley finishes tenth and Josh Kerr ends the race last.Men’s 1500m final: Something has happened to Kerr! He is limping but he is still running even though he is so far back.
Not clear if he got clipped or if he was nursing an injury.Wightman goes to the front with 200m to go!Men’s 1500m final: Laros and Cheruiyot lead the pack with Wightman right behind them.Kerr is in fourth from last at the moment but he is stuck on the inside – this does not seem like a smart tactic from the defending champion …Men’s 1500m final: This is what the whole evening session has been building up to.Josh Kerr is looking to defend his title against 13 others.Italy’s Mattia Furlani, just 20 years old, has won gold with a jump of 8.
39m, pipping Tajay Gayle from Jamaica.A massive win in the early days of his career.Winfred Yavi lifts the pace but she stumbles in the water in the final moments and Kenya’s Faith Cherotich runs ahead upgrading her bronze from Paris and Budapest to comfortably win gold with a time of 8:51:59.Yavi takes silver and Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew wins bronze.Women’s 3000m steeplechase final: Chemutai stumbles and seems to have lost her confidence as she goes down to fourth and oh, no … she stumbles and is now lying down on the track.
Yavi now leads the pack.Men’s long jump final: Italy’s Furlani leaps to a massive 8.39m in the penultimate round and he slots ahead of Gayle in first.Wow!Women’s 3000m steeplechase final: Chemutai is well ahead of the pack and she is running at sub-world record pace.Can she keep it up?Women’s 3000m steeplechase final: Here we go! Winfred Yavi of Bahrain is looking to defend her title against Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai, who won Olympic gold here in Tokyo four years ago.
Sandi Morris, who cleared 5m back in 2016, cannot clear 4.95m, which hands the gold to Katie Moon.That is her third world title, a huge achievement after her silver medal in Paris last year.Women’s pole vault final: Close! Morris with a much better run but her chest hits the pole down at 4.90m.
She has one more attempt but her teammate Moon is up next,Because she forwent 4,85m after a failed first attempt she has to clear this or else she gets silver,Moon runs up, under huge pressure, and clears it! The pole wobbles but it stays and Morris can only clap,Pressure back on Morris! She chooses to skip 4.
90m and go straight to 4.95m.Men’s 400m hurdles: In the first semi-final, Norway’s Karsten Warholm, the three-time world champion in this event, finishes behind Abderrahman Samba of Qatar, who crosses the finish line at 47.63sec.Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel wins the second semi-final in 47.
47sec while Qatar’s Ismail Doudai Abakar takes second with 47,61sec,Rai Benjamin, one of the favourites for this event, speeds to first in the last semi-final with 47,95sec ahead of Alison Dos Santos, who hits a barrier early and manages 48,16sec.
Women’s pole vault final: Both Morris and Moon fail to clear 4,95m in their first attempt,Women’s pole vault final: Slovenia’s Tina Sutej takes bronze after she fails to clear 4,85m, opting to not even jump in her final attempt,Sandi Morris and Katie Moon are now waiting to start their attempts on 4.
90m.Women’s pole vault final: Sandi Morris puts huge pressure on Katie Moon, clearing 4.85m, a season best, in her first attempt.Which of the two will win gold?Men’s long jump final: Huge jump from China’s Yuhao Shi to take the lead with 8.33m.
He is straight-faced after the jump but cracks a cheeky smile just as the camera pans away from him,Miltiádis Tentóglou is under pressure as the defending champion,He has yet to clear what is needed and may not get all six jumps,Women’s 400m hurdles: Semi-finals here we are! The first two of each heat will qualify to the final alongside the two other fastest times,Gianna Woodruff wins the first semi-final in 52.
66sec, surprising the US’s Jasmine Jones, who takes a season best of 53.01sec.The defending champion Femke Bol wins the second semi-final in 52.31sec, jogging the final bit as Dalilah Muhammad takes second.And in the third, the Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell wins in 53.
28sec followed by Shiann Salmon with 54.03.Women’s pole vault final: Amanda Moll fails to clear 4.75m at her third attempt and that’s her session done.Nothing separates Tina Sutej from Amálie Svabikova, both cleared 4.
75m at their third attempt.The two American leaders Katie Moon and Sandi Morris cleared the height on their first attempt.Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track organisation has denied the former American sprinter has pocketed $2m from the series while his athletes have gone unpaid, calling the speculation “categorically false” – and claimed he was facing financial losses himself.Johnson is facing the prospect of legal action from athletes, agents and the suppliers who helped stage three GST meetings, with sources claiming they are owed as much as $19m (£13.9m).
It is understood that two athletes claim they had to withdraw from buying a house when prize money was not paid, and many privately believe they will never receive their money.Read the full story below.Men’s 200m: The final heat is met with massive cheers for Japan’s Towa Uzawa, who qualifies in third with 20.39.Letsile Tebogo of Botswana crosses the finish line in first, and he has a little dance in the last 20m ahead of the Netherlands’s Xavi Mo-Ajok.
Men’s long jump final: The defending champion and double Olympic champion Miltiádis Tentóglou from Greece starts with 7.83m which he is not happy with.It makes way for Tajay Gayle from Jamaica who lands at 8.33m on his first attempt.Fantastic jump – he gets so much height!Italy’s Mattia Furlani, only 20 years old, gets very far in the pit but his foot is over the block and it will not be measured.
He won bronze at the Olympics last year and won the indoor title earlier this year,Men’s 200m: Bryan Levell speeds out of the block and it is a perfect bend and the Jamaican hits an impressive 19,84sec finish, making it look easy,Gout Gout takes third with 20,23sec behind Makanakaishe Charamba of Zimbabwe.
Men’s 200m: Big cheers for Australia’s Gout Gout.Let’s see how the teenager handles the pressure.He has been likened to Usain Bolt, who is watching on in Tokyo.Men’s 200m: An absolute stacked fourth heat.Noah Lyles, GB’s Zharnel Hughes, Andre De Grasse.
The first two qualify respectively with 19,99sec and 20,07sec respectively,Christopher Taylor gets a personal best of 20,26sec.
Hughes keeps his interview short and sweet: “I’m ready, let’s go,That is all I got to say,Let’s go,”Women’s pole vault final: The Moll twins both fail to clear 4,75m
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