Clayton Young After Taking 9th Place At The 2025 World Championships Marathon | Recap + Reflection
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Clayton Young is carving out a reputation for consistency on the sport’s biggest stages and was the top American marathoner at the World Championships in Tokyo.
Young fought through chaos — an early false start, a massive pack that stayed bunched past halfway, even a fall at 14 kilometers where he was clipped from behind and hit the pavement. He bounced right back, gave a thumbs up to the cameras, and rejoined the leaders. For nearly 40 kilometers he was right there, stride for stride with the world’s best, before the brutal late pace broke the field apart.
In the end, Tanzania’s Alphonce Simbu took gold in 2:09:48 in a photo finish, but Young battled through to take ninth in 2:10:43 — the same place he earned in Paris last summer.
He crossed the line, emptied the tank and showed once again why he’s among America’s most reliable marathoners in championship racing.
He spoke with Chris Chavez LIVE from the ASICS House in Tokyo.
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Host: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Clayton Young | @_clayton_young_ on Instagram
Produced by: Jasmine Fehr | @jasminefehr on Instagram
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| 0:29.6 | All right, we are here live from A6 House, Krush Chavez, with my buddy, Clayton Young, fresh off of a finish at the World |
| 0:40.5 | Championships marathon. We're both a little bit banged up. I've got my knee issue and |
| 0:44.7 | I think like also your knees are scraped up, your hand is a little swollen. Stitches or |
| 0:49.4 | no? No stitches, just put the skin back over and hope it heals. |
| 0:54.5 | All right. |
| 0:54.9 | So we got to talk about this marathon, the buildup, but let's start with, let's start |
| 1:00.6 | with the buildup. |
| 1:01.1 | How did this one compare to, I guess, trials, Olympics, Boston, New York? |
| 1:08.1 | Like, you've been stacking all of these. |
| 1:09.8 | Like, what made, I mean mean obviously preparing for the heat and |
| 1:12.2 | humidity we've seen it in the docu series is like that was like a core part of this whole entire thing |
| 1:17.1 | but what made this one feel different yeah this is the first build in what like four or five marathons |
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