2025 World Athletics Championships

For the World Para Athletics Championships organsied by IPC, see 2025 World Para Athletics Championships.

World Athletics Championships
Tokyo 25

Host city	Tokyo
Country	Japan
Motto	Every Second, Sugoi
Organizers	World Athletics, JAAF
Edition	20th
Nations	198
Athletes	2202
Sport	Athletics
Events	49
Dates	13–21 September 2025
Opened by	Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
Closed by	World Athletics President Sebastian Coe
Main venue	National Stadium
Website	Tokyo25

The 2025 World Athletics Championships (Japanese: 2025年世界陸上競技選手権大会) are the twentieth edition of the World Athletics Championships, and are being held from 13 to 21 September 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.

The championships use the National Stadium, rebuilt for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and 2020 Summer Paralympic Games.

This is the third time that the championships are held in Japan, following the 1991 event in Tokyo at the former National Stadium, and the 2007 event in Osaka.

K, member of the Japanese boy band &TEAM, has been selected as the official supporter for 2025 World Athletics Championships.

Host selection and venue

• Nairobi, Kenya (Kasarani Stadium)
• Singapore (National Stadium)
• Tokyo, Japan (National Stadium)
• Chorzów, Poland (Silesian Stadium)

In October 2019, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe stated consideration of a direct choice for Kenya to host this championship.

Kenya confirmed its bid for the championships in October 2021.

In 2022, Japan and Singapore entered bids to host the championships. In July 2022, Tokyo was selected by World Athletics to host the 2025 event, after it scored the highest in the bid evaluation. The National Stadium in Tokyo became the first major spectator event for athletics after the 2020 Summer Olympics were held behind closed doors in response with the then-still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Coe welcomed the selection, but stated that his "ambition to see a World Championships in Africa ... is undiminished".

Qualification

World Athletics approved the timetable and qualification system for the 2025 World Athletics Championships on 31 July 2024.

Window

The qualifying window for the marathon and 35 km race walk was 5 November 2023 until 4 May 2025. For the 10,000 m, 20 km race walk, combined events and relays, the window ran from 25 February 2024 to 24 August 2025. For all other events, entry standards could be achieved from 1 August 2024 to 24 August 2025.

Entry standards

The qualification system for the championships was based on a combination of entry standards and world rankings. The entry standards were set with the aim of qualifying about 50% of the athletes.

The top five finishers at Platinum Label marathons and winners of individual events at area championships (except for the marathon), regardless of marks, were considered as having achieved the entry standard.

The top three athletes in the 2024–25 World Athletics Cross Country Tour – not qualified through entry standards or other ways – were deemed to be qualified for the 10,000 m.

The 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China were used as a qualifying event for the relays with the top 14 teams in each event securing their place at the World Championships.

Event	Men	Quota	Women	Quota
100 metres	10.00	48	11.07	48
200 metres	20.16	48	22.57	48
400 metres	44.85	48	50.75	48
800 metres	1:44.50	56	1:59.00	56
1500 metres / Mile	3:33.00 / 3:50.00	56	4:01.50 / 4:19.90	56
5000 metres	13:01.00	42	14:50.00	42
10,000 metres / 10 km road	27:00.00	27	30:20.00	27
Marathon	2:06:30	100	2:23:30	100
3000 metres steeplechase	8:15.00	36	9:18.00	36
110/100 metres hurdles	13.27	40	12.73	40
400 metres hurdles	48.50	40	54.65	40
High jump	2.33	36	1.97	36
Pole vault	5.82	36	4.73	36
Long jump	8.27	36	6.86	36
Triple jump	17.22	36	14.55	36
Shot put	21.50	36	18.80	36
Discus throw	67.50	36	64.50	36
Hammer throw	78.20	36	74.00	36
Javelin throw	85.50	36	64.00	36
Decathlon / Heptathlon	8550	24	6500	24
20 kilometres race walk	1:19:20	50	1:29:00	50
35 kilometres race walk	2:28:00	50	2:48:00	50
4 × 100 metres relay	Top 14 at the 2025 World Athletics Relays + 2 from Top Lists	16	Top 14 at the 2025 World Athletics Relays + 2 from Top Lists	16
4 × 400 metres relay	Top 14 at the 2025 World Athletics Relays + 2 from Top Lists	16	Top 14 at the 2025 World Athletics Relays + 2 from Top Lists	16
4 × 400 metres relay mixed	Top 14 at the 2025 World Athletics Relays + 2 from Top Lists	16	Top 14 at the 2025 World Athletics Relays + 2 from Top Lists	16

Event schedule

In August 2024, World Athletics released the timetable for the championships.

Legend

Key	P	Q	H	½	F
Value	Preliminary round	Qualifiers	Heats	Semifinals	Final

M = morning session, E = evening session

Men

Date	Sep 13		Sep 14			Sep 15		Sep 16		Sep 17	Sep 18	Sep 19	Sep 20		Sep 21
Event	M	E	M	E		M	E	E		E	E	E	M	E	M	E
100 m	P	H		½	F
200 m										H	½	F
400 m				H				½			F
800 m								H			½			F
1500 m			H				½			F
5000 m												H				F
10,000 m				F
Marathon						F
3000 m steeplechase		H					F
110 m hurdles							H	½	F
400 m hurdles							H			½		F
Decathlon													F
High jump				Q				F
Pole vault		Q					F
Long jump							Q			F
Triple jump										Q		F
Shot put	Q	F
Discus throw													Q			F
Hammer throw						Q		F
Javelin throw										Q	F
20 km walk													F
35 km walk	F
4 × 100 m relay														H		F
4 × 400 m relay														H		F

Women

Date	Sep 13		Sep 14			Sep 15			Sep 16	Sep 17	Sep 18	Sep 19	Sep 20		Sep 21
Event	M	E	M	E		M	E		E	E	E	E	M	E	M	E
100 m		H		½	F
200 m										H	½	F
400 m				H					½		F
800 m											H	½				F
1500 m		H		½					F
5000 m											H			F
10,000 m		F
Marathon			F
3000 m steeplechase						H				F
100 m hurdles			H				½	F
400 m hurdles						H				½		F
Heptathlon												F
High jump											Q					F
Pole vault						Q				F
Long jump		Q		F
Triple jump									Q		F
Shot put													Q	F
Discus throw	Q			F
Hammer throw			Q				F
Javelin throw												Q		F
20 km walk													F
35 km walk	F
4 × 100 m relay														H		F
4 × 400 m relay														H		F

Mixed

Date	Sep 13
Event	M	E
4 × 400 m relay	H	F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	11	3	3	17
2	Kenya	4	1	2	7
3	Canada	3	0	0	3
4	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
	Portugal	2	0	0	2
6	Jamaica	1	4	3	8
7	Italy	1	3	2	6
8	Netherlands	1	2	0	3
9	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	0	2
10	Cuba	1	0	2	3
11	Botswana	1	0	1	2
	Sweden	1	0	1	2
13	France	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
	Tanzania	1	0	0	1
17	Germany	0	3	0	3
18	Ethiopia	0	2	2	4
19	Brazil	0	2	0	2
	Great Britain & N.I.	0	2	0	2
21	China	0	1	2	3
22	Bahrain	0	1	1	2
23	Dominica	0	1	0	1
	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Grenada	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
31	Australia	0	0	2	2
32	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Japan*	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Saint Lucia	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (43 entries)		33	33	33	99

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Oblique Seville  Jamaica	9.77 PB	Kishane Thompson  Jamaica	9.82	Noah Lyles  United States	9.89 SB
200 metres	Noah Lyles  United States	19.52	Kenny Bednarek  United States	19.58 SB	Bryan Levell  Jamaica	19.64 PB
400 metres	Collen Kebinatshipi  Botswana	43.53 NR, WL	Jereem Richards  Trinidad and Tobago	43.72 NR	Bayapo Ndori  Botswana	44.20 SB
800 metres
1500 metres	Isaac Nader  Portugal	3:34.10	Jake Wightman  Great Britain and Northern Ireland	3:34.12	Reynold Cheruiyot  Kenya	3:34.25
5000 metres
10,000 metres	Jimmy Gressier  France	28:55.77 SB	Yomif Kejelcha  Ethiopia	28:55.83 SB	Andreas Almgren  Sweden	28:56.02
4 × 100 metres relay
4 × 400 metres relay
110 metres hurdles	Cordell Tinch  United States	12.99	Orlando Bennett  Jamaica	13.08 PB	Tyler Mason  Jamaica	13.12 =PB
400 metres hurdles	Rai Benjamin  United States	46.52 SB	Alison dos Santos  Brazil	46.84	Abderrahman Samba  Qatar	47.06 SB
3000 metres steeplechase	Geordie Beamish  New Zealand	8:33.88	Soufiane El Bakkali  Morocco	8:33.95	Edmund Serem  Kenya	8:34.56
Marathon	Alphonce Simbu  Tanzania	2:09:48 SB	Amanal Petros  Germany	2:09:48	Iliass Aouani  Italy	2:09:53
20 kilometres walk
35 kilometres walk	Evan Dunfee  Canada	2:28:22	Caio Bonfim  Brazil	2:28:55 SB	Hayato Katsuki  Japan	2:29:16
High jump	Hamish Kerr  New Zealand	2.36 m WL	Woo Sang-hyeok  South Korea	2.34 m =SB	Jan Štefela  Czech Republic	2.31 m
Pole vault	Armand Duplantis  Sweden	6.30 m WR	Emmanouil Karalis  Greece	6.00 m	Kurtis Marschall  Australia	5.95 m PB
Long jump	Mattia Furlani  Italy	8.39 m PB	Tajay Gayle  Jamaica	8.34 m = SB	Shi Yuhao  China	8.33 m SB
Triple jump	Pedro Pichardo  Portugal	17.91 m WL	Andrea Dallavalle  Italy	17.64 m PB	Lázaro Martínez  Cuba	17.49 m SB
Shot put	Ryan Crouser  United States	22.34 m SB	Uziel Muñoz  Mexico	21.97 m NR	Leonardo Fabbri  Italy	21.94 m
Discus throw
Javelin throw	Keshorn Walcott  Trinidad and Tobago	88.16 m SB	Anderson Peters  Grenada	87.38 m	Curtis Thompson  United States	86.67 m
Hammer throw	Ethan Katzberg  Canada	84.70 m CR, AR	Merlin Hummel  Germany	82.77 m PB	Bence Halász  Hungary	82.69 m
Decathlon
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Melissa Jefferson-Wooden  United States	10.61 CR	Tina Clayton  Jamaica	10.76 PB	Julien Alfred  Saint Lucia	10.84
200 metres	Melissa Jefferson-Wooden  United States	21.68 WL	Amy Hunt  Great Britain and Northern Ireland	22.14	Shericka Jackson  Jamaica	22.18
400 metres	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone  United States	47.78 CR, AR, WL	Marileidy Paulino  Dominican Republic	47.98 NR	Salwa Eid Naser  Bahrain	48.19 SB
800 metres
1500 metres	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	3:52.15	Dorcus Ewoi  Kenya	3:54.92 PB	Jessica Hull  Australia	3:55.16
5000 metres
10,000 metres	Beatrice Chebet  Kenya	30:37.61	Nadia Battocletti  Italy	30:38.23 NR	Gudaf Tsegay  Ethiopia	30:39.65 SB
4 × 100 metres relay
4 × 400 metres relay
100 metres hurdles	Ditaji Kambundji  Switzerland	12.24 NR	Tobi Amusan  Nigeria	12.29	Grace Stark  United States	12.34
400 metres hurdles	Femke Bol  Netherlands	51.54 WL	Jasmine Jones  United States	52.08 PB	Emma Zapletalová  Slovakia	53.00 NR
3000 metres steeplechase	Faith Cherotich  Kenya	8:51.59 CR	Winfred Yavi  Bahrain	8:56.46	Sembo Almayew  Ethiopia	8:58.86 PB
Marathon	Peres Jepchirchir  Kenya	2:24:43 SB	Tigst Assefa  Ethiopia	2:24:45	Julia Paternain  Uruguay	2:27:23
20 kilometres walk
35 kilometres walk	María Pérez  Spain	2:39:01	Antonella Palmisano  Italy	2:42:24	Paula Milena Torres  Ecuador	2:42:24 NR
High jump
Pole vault	Katie Moon  United States	4.90 m SB	Sandi Morris  United States	4.85 m SB	Tina Šutej  Slovenia	4.80 m SB
Long jump	Tara Davis-Woodhall  United States	7.13 m WL	Malaika Mihambo  Germany	6.99 m	Natalia Linares  Colombia	6.92 m =AU23R
Triple jump	Leyanis Pérez  Cuba	14.94 m WL	Thea LaFond  Dominica	14.89 m SB	Yulimar Rojas  Venezuela	14.76 m SB
Shot put
Discus throw	Valarie Allman  United States	69.48 m	Jorinde van Klinken  Netherlands	67.50 m SB	Silinda Morales  Cuba	67.25 m PB
Javelin throw
Hammer throw	Camryn Rogers  Canada	80.51 m AR, WL	Zhao Jie  China	77.60 m PB	Zhang Jiale  China	77.10 m
Heptathlon
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay	United States Bryce Deadmon Lynna Irby Jenoah McKiver Alexis Holmes	3:08.80 =CR	Netherlands Eugene Omalla Lieke Klaver Jonas Phijffers Femke Bol Eveline Saalberg*	3:09.96 SB	Belgium Dylan Borlée Imke Vervaet Alexander Doom Helena Ponette Jonathan Sacoor*	3:10.61

Participating nations

On 5 September 2025, World Athletics officially published the final entry lists to the championships. More than 2202 athletes from almost 198 teams intend to compete at the championships.

•  Athlete Refugee Team (6)
•  Afghanistan (1)
•  Albania (1)
•  Algeria (9)
•  American Samoa (1)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Angola (1)
•  Anguilla (1)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•  Argentina (5)
•  Armenia (2)
•  Australia (86)
•  Austria (10)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Bahamas (15)
•  Bahrain (8)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Barbados (3)
•  Belgium (47)
•  Belize (1)
•  Benin (2)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•  Botswana (12)
•  Brazil (47)
•  British Virgin Islands (6)
•  Brunei (1)
•  Bulgaria (4)
•  Burkina Faso (2)
•  Burundi (4)
•  Cambodia (1)
•  Cameroon (4)
•  Canada (59)
•  Cape Verde (1)
•  Cayman Islands (1)
•  Chad (1)
•  Chile (14)
•  China (73)
•  Colombia (18)
•  Comoros (1)
•  Republic of the Congo (1)
•  Cook Islands (1)
•  Costa Rica (3)
•  Croatia (8)
•  Cuba (17)
•  Cyprus (5)
•  Czech Republic (25)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
•  Denmark (9)
•  Djibouti (3)
•  Dominica (3)
•  Dominican Republic (4)
•  Ecuador (14)
•  Egypt (4)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Equatorial Guinea (1)
•  Eritrea (7)
•  Estonia (10)
•  Ethiopia (36)
•  Fiji (1)
•  Finland (29)
•  France (77)
•  French Polynesia (1)
•  Gabon (1)
•  The Gambia (1)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (83)
•  Ghana (8)
•  Gibraltar (1)
•  Great Britain and Northern Ireland (67)
•  Greece (19)
•  Grenada (4)
•  Guam (1)
•  Guatemala (3)
•  Guinea (2)
•  Guinea-Bissau (1)
•  Guyana (1)
•  Haiti (2)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Hungary (18)
•  Iceland (3)
•  India (19)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Iran (1)
•  Ireland (25)
•  Israel (9)
•  Italy (88)
•  Ivory Coast (5)
•  Jamaica (67)
•  Japan (80) (hosts)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (5)
•  Kenya (62)
•  Kiribati (1)
•  South Korea (6)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Laos (1)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Lesotho (1)
•  Liberia (3)
•  Lithuania (11)
•  Luxembourg (4)
•  Macau (1)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Malawi (1)
•  Malaysia (1)
•  Maldives (1)
•  Mali (1)
•  Malta (1)
•  Marshall Islands (1)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Mexico (19)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Mongolia (4)
•  Montenegro (1)
•  Montserrat (1)
•  Morocco (19)
•  Mozambique (1)
•  Myanmar (1)
•  Namibia (2)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Nauru (1)
•  Nepal (1)
•  Netherlands (53)
•  New Zealand (14)
•  Niger (2)
•  Nigeria (15)
•  North Macedonia (2)
•  Northern Mariana Islands (1)
•  Norway (28)
•  Oman (1)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Palau (1)
•  Palestine (1)
•  Panama (2)
•  Papua New Guinea (1)
•  Paraguay (2)
•  Philippines (2)
•  Peru (10)
•  Poland (59)
•  Portugal (32)
•  Puerto Rico (12)
•  Qatar (12)
•  Romania (9)
•  Rwanda (3)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
•  Saint Lucia (2)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
•  Samoa (1)
•  San Marino (1)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (5)
•  Senegal (4)
•  Serbia (6)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Singapore (2)
•  Slovakia (9)
•  Slovenia (10)
•  Solomon Islands (1)
•  South Africa (49)
•  South Sudan (1)
•  Spain (55)
•  Sri Lanka (3)
•  Sudan (1)
•  Suriname (1)
•  Sweden (35)
•  Syria (1)
•  Switzerland (31)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Tanzania (2)
•  Thailand (2)
•  Timor-Leste (1)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Togo (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (4)
•  Tunisia (4)
•  Turkey (20)
•  Turkmenistan (1)
•  Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
•  Uganda (21)
•  Ukraine (23)
•  United States (153)
•  Uruguay (9)
•  Uzbekistan (3)
•  Vanuatu (1)
•  Venezuela (4)
•  Vietnam (1)
•  Virgin Islands (2)
•  Zambia (6)
•  Zimbabwe (8)

Number of Athletes by National programs