2025 Tokyo World Championships: Parting Thoughts + Awards (Biggest Winners & Losers)

The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

CITIUS MAG

Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia hit some superlatives and awards for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo including:

- Best Race

- Best sprint performance

- Biggest breakthrough

- Best field event

- Biggest what if

- Biggest upset

- Best comeback

- Best sportsmanship

- Most disappointed to get silver (and happiest to get silver)

- World record most likely to be broken in 2026

- Fan favorite medal

+ More

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Hosts: Chris Chavez | ⁠⁠⁠@chris_j_chavez on Instagram⁠⁠ + Preet Majithia | @preet_athletics on Instagram

Produced by: Jasmine Fehr |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@jasminefehr on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Transcript

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0:00.0	All right. We're back. A little bit of a break.
0:09.7	But we have hopefully all gotten back to our normal time zones when it comes to sleep.
0:20.0	But the track season technically isn't over we still
0:23.2	got athos coming up in new york city next week not a whole lot of action taking place on the track
0:30.6	the past couple days uh road races and road and fall marathon season is just around the corner.
0:38.7	But as you have probably seen on the City of Mac podcasts,
0:43.2	I've been catching up with a bunch of the star athletes from this year's world championships in Tokyo,
0:50.4	including world championship gold medalist, Cole Hawker.
0:55.5	We've got more people lined up.
0:58.1	I will be recording with Jess Hall tomorrow.
1:01.0	That's an exciting one.
1:02.5	I believe we've also got Melissa Jefferson Wooden slated to come on sometime next week.
1:10.3	And yeah, more interviews along the way.
1:14.4	Nikki Hiltz, Angelina Napoleon, Sage heard of Klecker.
1:20.0	I think Josette Andrews is coming out tomorrow after you're listening to this.
1:25.6	So lots and lots on the horizon. You couldn't stop me.
1:31.7	I think I took like two days after you're getting back. And then I was like, you know what,
1:35.8	you got to get these interviews while they're still fresh in people's minds. So that's why I
1:41.0	immediately got back to work. And so still working on scheduling some more people, more international athletes, too.
1:48.8	I want to take a couple shots at landing maybe.
1:53.6	I want to see if I could get oblique Seville.
1:56.1	That'd be awesome.
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