2025 World Athletics Championships

The 2025 World Athletics Championships (Japanese: 2025年世界陸上競技選手権大会) were the twentieth edition of the World Athletics Championships, and were held from 13 to 21 September 2025 in Tokyo,^[1]Japan.

The championships used the National Stadium, rebuilt for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Full capacity attendances were permitted at a major sporting event in Japan for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic in the early 2020s (the most recent with full capacity had been the 2019 Rugby World Cup).^[2]

This was the third time that the championships were held in Japan, following the 1991 event in Tokyo at the former National Stadium, and the 2007 event in Osaka.^[2]

K, member of the Japanese boy band &TEAM, was selected as the official supporter for 2025 World Athletics Championships.

A total of 53 nations won medals at the championships, more than in any previous edition. Samoa, Saint Lucia and Uruguay won their first ever medals at the championships, while Tanzania won their first ever gold medal.^[3] The United States has won the most medals in the latest edition of World Athletics Championships, with over 450 total medals.^[4]

• Nairobi, Kenya (Kasarani Stadium)^[5]
• Singapore (National Stadium)^[6]
• Tokyo, Japan (National Stadium)^[7]
• Chorzów, Poland (Silesian Stadium)^[8]

In October 2019, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe stated consideration of a direct choice for Kenya to host this championship.^[9][10]

Kenya confirmed its bid for the championships in October 2021.^[5]

In 2022, Japan and Singapore entered bids to host the championships.^[6][7][11] In July 2022, Tokyo was selected by World Athletics to host the 2025 event,^[2] after it scored the highest in the bid evaluation. The National Stadium in Tokyo became the first major spectator event for athletics after the 2020 Summer Olympics were held behind closed doors in response with the then-still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.^[12][13] Coe welcomed the selection, but stated that his "ambition to see a World Championships in Africa... is undiminished".^[14]

World Athletics approved the timetable and qualification system for the 2025 World Athletics Championships on 31 July 2024.^[15]

In August 2024, World Athletics released the timetable for the championships.^[17][18]

M = morning session, E = evening session

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	16	5	5	26
2	Kenya	7	2	2	11
3	Canada	3	1	1	5
4	Netherlands	2	2	2	6
5	Botswana	2	0	1	3
	New Zealand	2	0	1	3
	Spain	2	0	1	3
	Sweden	2	0	1	3
9	Portugal	2	0	0	2
10	Jamaica	1	6	3	10
11	Italy	1	3	3	7
12	Germany	1	3	1	5
13	Brazil	1	2	0	3
14	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	0	2
15	Australia	1	0	3	4
16	Cuba	1	0	2	3
17	Ecuador	1	0	1	2
	France	1	0	1	2
19	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
	Tanzania	1	0	0	1
21	Great Britain & N.I.	0	3	2	5
22	China	0	2	2	4
	Ethiopia	0	2	2	4
24	Mexico	0	2	0	2
25	Bahrain	0	1	1	2
	Belgium	0	1	1	2
27	Algeria	0	1	0	1
	Dominica	0	1	0	1
	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Grenada	0	1	0	1
	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Puerto Rico	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
40	Japan*	0	0	2	2
41	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Saint Lucia	0	0	1	1
	Samoa	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (53 entries)		49	49	51	149

On 5 September 2025, World Athletics officially published the final entry lists to the championships.^[19][20][21] 2127 athletes from 196 competed at the championships.^[22][23]

Number of athletes by nation

Ranking	NOC	Athletes
1	United States	141
2	Australia	88
2	China	88
2	Italy	88
5	Germany	83
6	Japan	80
7	France	77
8	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	67
8	Jamaica	67
10	Kenya	62
11	Canada	59
11	Poland	59
13	Spain	55
14	Netherlands	53
15	South Africa	49
16	Brazil	47
17	Belgium	45
18	Ethiopia	36
19	Sweden	35
20	Portugal	32
21	Switzerland	31
22	Finland	29
23	Norway	28
24	Czech Republic	25
24	Ireland	25
26	Ukraine	23
27	Greece	21
27	Uganda	21
29	Turkey	20
30	India	19
30	Mexico	19
30	Morocco	19
33	Colombia	18
33	Hungary	18
35	Cuba	17
36	Bahamas	15
36	Nigeria	15
38	Chile	14
38	Ecuador	14
38	New Zealand	14
41	Botswana	12
41	Puerto Rico	12
41	Qatar	12
44	Lithuania	11
45	Algeria	10
45	Austria	10
45	Estonia	10
45	Peru	10
45	Slovenia	10
50	Denmark	9
50	Israel	9
50	Romania	9
50	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9
50	Uruguay	9
55	Bahrain	8
55	Croatia	8
55	Ghana	8
55	South Korea	8
55	Zimbabwe	8
60	Eritrea	7
61	Athlete Refugee Team	6
61	British Virgin Islands	6
61	Serbia	6
61	Zambia	6
65	Argentina	5
65	Cyprus	5
65	Ivory Coast	5
65	Saudi Arabia	5
69	Bulgaria	4
69	Burundi	4
69	Cambodia	4
69	Dominican Republic	4
69	Egypt	4
69	Grenada	4
69	Latvia	4
69	Luxembourg	4
69	Mongolia	4
69	Senegal	4
69	Trinidad and Tobago	4
69	Tunisia	4
69	Venezuela	4
82	Barbados	3
82	Costa Rica	3
82	Djibouti	3
82	Dominica	3
82	Guatemala	3
82	Iceland	3
82	Liberia	3
82	Rwanda	3
82	Sri Lanka	3
82	Uzbekistan	3
92	Armenia	2
92	Benin	2
92	Burkina Faso	2
92	Guinea	2
92	Haiti	2
92	North Macedonia	2
92	Namibia	2
92	Niger	2
92	Moldova	2
92	Panama	2
92	Paraguay	2
92	Philippines	2
92	Saint Lucia	2
92	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2
92	Singapore	2
92	Chinese Taipei	2
92	Tanzania	2
92	Thailand	2
92	Virgin Islands	2
92	Tuvalu	2
111	Afghanistan	1
111	Albania	1
111	American Samoa	1
111	Andorra	1
111	Angola	1
111	Anguilla	1
111	Antigua and Barbuda	1
111	Azerbaijan	1
111	Bangladesh	1
111	Belize	1
111	Bermuda	1
111	Bolivia	1
111	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
111	Brunei	1
111	Cambodia	1
111	Cape Verde	1
111	Cayman Islands	1
111	Chad	1
111	Comoros	1
111	Republic of the Congo	1
111	Cook Islands	1
111	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1
111	El Salvador	1
111	Equatorial Guinea	1
111	Fiji	1
111	French Polynesia	1
111	Gabon	1
111	The Gambia	1
111	Georgia	1
111	Gibraltar	1
111	Guam	1
111	Guinea-Bissau	1
111	Guyana	1
111	Honduras	1
111	Hong Kong	1
111	Indonesia	1
111	Iraq	1
111	Iran	1
111	Jordan	1
111	Kiribati	1
111	Kuwait	1
111	Kyrgyzstan	1
111	Laos	1
111	Lebanon	1
111	Lesotho	1
111	Macau	1
111	Madagascar	1
111	Malawi	1
111	Malaysia	1
111	Maldives	1
111	Mali	1
111	Malta	1
111	Marshall Islands	1
111	Mauritius	1
111	Federated States of Micronesia	1
111	Montenegro	1
111	Montserrat	1
111	Mozambique	1
111	Myanmar	1
111	Nicaragua	1
111	Nauru	1
111	Nepal	1
111	Northern Mariana Islands	1
111	Oman	1
111	Pakistan	1
111	Palau	1
111	Palestine	1
111	Papua New Guinea	1
111	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1
111	Samoa	1
111	San Marino	1
111	São Tomé and Príncipe	1
111	Seychelles	1
111	Solomon Islands	1
111	South Sudan	1
111	Sudan	1
111	Suriname	1
111	Syria	1
111	Tajikistan	1
111	Timor-Leste	1
111	Tonga	1
111	Togo	1
111	Turkmenistan	1
111	Turks and Caicos Islands	1
111	Vanuatu	1
111	Vietnam	1
196	Total	2,107

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