World Athletics Championships 2025: McLaughlin-Levrone wins women’s 400m, Kebinatshipi takes men’s title –as it happened
Collin Kebinatshipi of Botswana stormed to victory in the men’s 400m, while USA’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone looked unbeatable in taking the women’s event
Back on the track, Yamamoto leads from Tanaka, with Battocletti of Italy third and Chebet fourth.
Oli Goldman reminds me that, when reminiscing about the 1991 worlds, I neglected to mention the GB 4x400m quarter changing up their order and Kriss Akabusi taking out Antonio Pettigrew, the individual champion, in the final few strides. I was actually looking for and failing to find photos of the t-shirts made thereafter, featuring Roger Black’s post-race line, “We kicked their butts”, then got distracted.