WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 1 RECAP: BEATRICE CHEBET KICKS FOR GOLD, NOAH LYLES VS. JAMAICA IS ON, RYAN CROUSER EARNS HIS 10TH MEDAL

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 94 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 1 at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo.

Among the top stories:

🥇 Crouser Returns with Golden Comeback

- Ryan Crouser (USA), world record-holder and three-time Olympic champion, won his third world title in the men’s shot put.

- He threw 22.34m in his first competition in a year after an elbow injury.

- Uziel Munoz (MEX) took silver with a national record of 21.97m.

- Leonardo Fabbri (ITA) secured bronze (21.94m) over Tom Walsh (NZL) on countback.

🥇 Chebet Dominates 10,000m Final

- Beatrice Chebet (KEN) added a world title to her Olympic gold and world record in the women’s 10,000m.

- Chebet kicked away late to win in 30:37.61.

- Nadia Battocletti (ITA) claimed silver in an Italian record of 30:38.23.

- Gudaf Tsegay (ETH), the defending champion, settled for bronze (30:39.65).

🥇 USA Repeats in Mixed 4x400m Relay

- USA retained their mixed 4x400m title in 3:08.80, equaling the championship record.

- Femke Bol anchored The Netherlands to silver in 3:09.96, recovering from her infamous fall in Budapest 2023.

- Belgium took bronze in 3:10.61.

🚨 Heats and Early Round Action

🏃‍♂️ Men’s 100m Heats

- Gift Leotlela (RSA) topped the heats in 9.87 – 3rd-fastest ever in a global champs first round.

Other heat winners:

- Kishane Thompson (JAM) – 9.95 (easy effort)

- Noah Lyles (USA) – 9.95

- Kenny Bednarek – 10.01

- Letsile Tebogo, Akani Simbine, Israel Okon also advanced.

Women’s 100m Heats

- Julien Alfred (LCA) eased to a 10.93 win.

- Melissa Jefferson-Wooden (USA) and Daryll Neita (GBR) also dipped under 11.

- Other qualifiers: Sha’Carri Richardson, Shericka Jackson, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

🏃‍♂️ 3000m Steeplechase Drama

- Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR) cruised through.

- Lamecha Girma and Geordie Beamish both fell but still qualified.

- Kenneth Rooks (USA) missed out, finishing 11th in his heat.

- Ryuji Miura (JPN) progressed to the final for the home crowd.

🏃‍♀️ 1500m Heats

- Faith Kipyegon (KEN), chasing a fourth world title, won her heat with ease.

- Also advancing: Jess Hull, Nelly Chepchirchir, Freweyni Hailu.

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0:39.8	Champs. Welcome to Tokyo. I'm Chris Chavez. Good by Eric Jenkins, Mitch Dyer.
0:41.9	Champs Chat.
0:44.3	It's live from Tokyo.
0:45.5	Made it here.
0:51.0	This feels a little late for us because we're still getting used to the time.
0:52.3	But what a night of Dragon Field.
0:53.8	Day one in the books day one we got our first
0:56.1	taste of the national stadium and it was rocking tonight 80,000 people I think this is this
1:05.0	all right start from the top 80,000 80,000 oh all right 80,000? 80,000. Well, I believe in the right people have our shit. Oh, yeah.
1:11.6	All right.
1:12.6	80,000 people in the stands today for the evening session, and it was getting loud any time that they had one of their Japanese stars in races, which was like all throughout the night.
1:25.6	So lots to unpack. We're going to hit all of the
1:28.9	finals, the medals that were awarded in the evening session. But first impressions of the national
1:34.2	stadium, Eric, what you think? Fantastic. Crowd was, we've kind of been talking. It's like
1:42.2	we're the loud Americans anywhere we we go and i'm like trying
1:44.6	to keep my voice down and whisper and do things like that and you get into the stadium there it was
1:50.2	the energy was very high uh the women's 10k was electric and um i'm just thinking about any like
1:58.2	you mentioned anytime um a japanese athlete was on the, the crowd was going nuts, the men's steeple athlete bananas.
2:09.1	Yeah.
2:09.4	And yeah, I loved it.
2:11.6	It thought the energy was great tonight.
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