Jefferson-Wooden, Seville blaze to glory

Oblique Seville scorched to the World 100m gold in a private finest 9.77 seconds on Sunday (September 14, 2025), main a Jamaican 1-2 forward of Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, who was second once more in 9.82. Defending champion Noah Lyles took bronze in 9.89 because the USA did not take the title for the primary time since 2015.

Seville had regarded the person to beat via the rounds in final yr’s Olympics however completed final within the ultimate. On Sunday (September 14, 2025), he was once more scorching in his semifinal however saved his focus to ship a unbelievable race in entrance of a watching Usain Bolt, the final Jamaican to take the title.

Letsile Tebogo, Botswana’s Olympic 200m champion and silver medallist on this planet 100m two years in the past, false-started and was disqualified within the ultimate.

Minutes earlier, American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden capped a dominant season by successful the ladies’s occasion in a championship file of 10.61s. Tina Clayton took silver for Jamaica in a private better of 10.76, whereas bronze went to Olympic champion Julien Alfred of St. Lucia in 10.84.

American double Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman lastly claimed the World title that has proved so elusive when she took gold with a throw of 69.48 metres. Allman, who had back-to-back bronzes within the Worlds, completed forward of Jorinde van Klinken of the Netherlands (67.50m) and Cuba’s Silinda Morales (67.25).

Frenchman Jimmy Gressier sprinted down the ultimate straight to win a shock gold medal within the males’s 10,000 metres and declare his first world title in 28 minutes, 55.77 seconds.

Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha, a silver medallist in Doha six years in the past, gained one other silver in 28.55.83 with Swede Andreas Almgren third in 28.56.02.

Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya gained the ladies’s marathon, clocking two hours, 24 minutes and 43 seconds in an exciting last-minute spurt that edged her previous Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa and Julia Paternain of Uruguay.

Sarvesh Anil Kushare on Sunday (September 14, 2025) turned the primary Indian to qualify for the excessive leap ultimate, whereas National file holder Gulveer Singh completed sixteenth within the 10,000m race with a below-par efficiency.

The 30-year-old Kushare, who made it to the showpiece on the thirty fourth spot amongst 36 competing athletes via the world rating quota, scaled 2.25m to complete joint seventh in Group B of the qualification spherical. He ended at joint ninth within the total rankings throughout two teams.