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The first evening session of the 2025 World Athletics Track and Field World Championships is here, and some of the biggest names in the world will take to the track for qualifying and preliminary rounds and finals in the men’s shot put, women’s 10,000m, and mixed 4x400m.
Earlier this morning (or late last night for US viewers), the host Japan won its first medal in the first event as Hayato Katsuki (who was only 30th in the ’21 Olympic 50K) took bronze behind first-time global champion Evan Dunfee of Canada in the 35km racewalk. Masatora Kawano was leading for much of the race but he visibly struggled in the humid conditions, clutching his chest mid-race as veteran Caio Bonfim of Brazil took silver with a well-timed surge.
In the women’s long walk, Spain’s defending champion Maria Perez didn’t leave any doubt as she split 2:39:02 to win by over three minutes — at times even keying off of Bonfim on the loop course. Her friend Antonella Palmisano of Italy, who won 20K gold three years ago at the Olympics in this city, was runner-up as Paula Milena Torres set an Ecuadorian record to win bronze. 49-time U.S. champ Maria Michta-Coffey was 22nd as compatriots Miranda Melville and Katie Burnett were 30th and 32nd respectively a half-hour behind Perez.
Also earlier, qualifying rounds were held in the women’s discus and men’s 100m, while more prescient semi-finals were contested in the men’s shot put and mixed 4x400m in preparation for their finals this session. Favorites advanced in the discus, with Val Allman qualifying on first throw while Gabi Jacobs and Shelby Frank were well short. The stars had a bye from the preliminary 100m rounds, but Haiti’s Christopher Borzor led qualifiers into the quarter-finals.
Things got more interesting in the shot put qualification, where this year’s Rabat and Silesia champ Payton Otterdahl, who was runner-up at USAs, could only manage 19.78m and didn’t advance. In his first official throw of 2025, Ryan Crouser qualified with ease, but was upstaged by Tripp Piperi who threw a decimeter farther with 21.47m to lead the qualifiers. U.S. champ Josh Awotunde also made it through with a 20.78m mark.
The mixed 4x400m rounds had athletes doing just enough, but with only one substitution allowed for the finals we got a good luck at what teams countries are fielding. The U.S. squad of Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah McKiver, and Alexis Holmes controlled their heat to win in 3:10.1, while Belgium won heat two as the formidable Dutch team advanced despite missing Femke Bol. Notably, Kenya overperformed to place runner-up behind Belgium but was later disqualified for a lane infringement, pushing host team Japan into the finals.
See who qualified to advance in their respective events, and who will take home the first global outdoor track medals of the year.
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