TOKYO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 3 RECAP: GEORGE BEAMISH KICKS TO STEEPLECHASE GOLD + COLE HOCKER DQ’ED

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Join Chris Chavez, Eric Jenkins, Anderson Emerole, Mitch Dyer and Paul Hof-Mahoney as they recap all the highlights from Day 3 at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo. Some of today's highlights include:

Mondo Duplantis Breaks World Record (6.30m)

- Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis cleared 6.30m to set his 14th world record

- Secured his third straight world title

- Vault came on his third and final attempt, capping an electric evening

- Historic depth: First time seven men cleared 5.90m+ in a single competition

- 2nd: Emmanouil Karalis (GRE) – 6.00m

- 3rd: Kurtis Marschall (AUS) – 5.95m (=NR)

Beamish Ends El Bakkali’s Steeplechase Streak

- Geordie Beamish (NZL) wins in a tactical race, kicking late to defeat Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR)

- El Bakkali’s long championship win streak comes to an end

- 1st: Beamish – 8:33.88

- 2nd: El Bakkali – 8:33.95

- 3rd: Edmund Serem (KEN) – 8:34.56

Cole Hocker Disqualified from 1500m Final

- Hocker originally finished 2nd in his semifinal

- Disqualified for jostling in the final 100 meters

- Appeal by USA Track and Field was denied

- Disqualification shown on broadcast approximately one hour after the race

Ditaji Kambundji Stuns in 100m Hurdles

- Swiss hurdler sets a national record (12.24)

- Upsets top names including Tobi Amusan

- 1st: Kambundji (SUI) – 12.24 NR

- 2nd: Tobi Amusan (NGR) – 12.29

- 3rd: Grace Stark (USA) – 12.34

Simbu Wins Historic Marathon for Tanzania

- Alphonce Felix Simbu claims Tanzania’s first global gold in the marathon

- Outkicked Germany’s Amanal Petros by 0.03s

- 1st: Simbu – 2:09:48

- 2nd: Petros – 2:09:48

- 3rd: Iliass Aouani (ITA) – 2:09:53

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Comebao and welcome to Sidious Mag, live at the World Championships.
0:06.4	Night 3 is in the books.
0:10.4	And we are coming to you live just after midnight here in Tokyo.
0:17.8	It is another evening session just wrapped up. As you can see, I'm here with
0:24.5	no Eric Jenkins next to me because it may have taken a little bit too long getting back from
0:30.9	the stadium because... So he's asleep.
0:32.7	He takes this like 15 minutes ago. Yeah. You talk it to the mic so people can hear it.
0:39.2	That's impressive.
0:39.8	Mac is stepping in and double doing.
0:41.9	I'm trying to flip a camera around.
0:44.2	So what happened is George B.
0:47.4	Mitch was coming out of the stadium.
0:48.2	I'm here, by the way.
0:49.3	Mitch is here.
0:50.3	He's got his own camera and then we're flipping another camera to get Mac on camera as well.
0:57.0	So it's pardon our just disarray right now because we're still kind of getting our bearings.
1:04.1	A bit of a hectic day at the track.
1:06.3	Yeah, I mean the last 60 minutes of what happened at the track there's stuff happening off the track uh there's a
1:12.1	world record that fell then just obviously the shock of the three amazing 3k steeple race some shockers in the
1:20.1	women's 100 meter hurdles so like we're going to talk about all of that um but just wanted to address
1:25.7	the elephant in the room that our good friend Eric might be catching
1:28.8	a couple of these because it's kind of crazy.
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