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Emillia Hawkins and Luke McLaughlin

World Athletics Championships 2025: heptathlon gold for Hall, Johnson-Thompson shares bronze; Wanyonyi wins men’s 800m – live

From left to right: heptathlon bronze-medal winner USA’s Taliyah Brooks, USA gold medallist Anna Hall, silver medalist Ireland's Kate O'Connor and the other bronze medallist, GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
From left to right: heptathlon bronze-medal winner USA’s Taliyah Brooks, USA gold medallist Anna Hall, silver medalist Ireland's Kate O'Connor and the other bronze medallist, GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP

Sean Ingle reports on Johnson-Thompson’s remarkable women’s heptathlon bronze medal:

And here is Jack Snape on Mackenzie Little’s javelin bronze:

Wanyonyi adds to Olympic gold with 800m victory

Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi delivered a superb gun-to-tape victory - just - to win the world 800 metres gold with a championship record, in a glorious follow up to his Olympic title last year.

The 21-year-old has been the form man in the event all season and, though he says he does not like front running, he did just that from the start.

He began to tire on the final straight but had just enough left in the legs to hold off Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati in a time of 1:41.86 seconds.

Sedjati took silver in 1:41.90, an upgrade from bronze in Paris, as Marco Arop, Canada’s defending champion and silver medallist at the Olympics, battled through strongly for bronze in 1:41.95.

Ireland’s Cian McPhillips was an impressive fourth in an Irish national record of 1:42.15. Reuters

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