MEDIUMS OF THE DAY
“This winter I was preparing in Ukraine. I was a bit tired moving from one country to another. I wanted to stay home. We trained without electricity in really cold halls, but the sweet feeling of finally being able to be at home is much more important.” Yaroslava Mahuchich after winning the high jump title.
“I messed up the starting line. i placed my blocks at 200m instead of 400m. My mother shouted at me, but I couldn’t hear her. thought he was talking about the line number, not the starting line. I felt really relaxed at the end of the race. It was close, but I’m happy to get to the next round.” Henriette Yager after the 400m heat.
“I wanted to come here and complete a full collection of world hall of fame medals … I still think I could have thrown further. I’m not a big fan of indoor games, everyone knows that. This is my rest period. I probably won’t throw in again.” Chase Jackson after winning the world indoor championship title.
RESULT OF THE DAY
In the men’s 60m final, Jordan Anthony leads the world with 6.41 in his first world championships. For the other medals, Thompson (6.447), Bromell (6.448) and Azu (6.45) narrowly decided the race.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
18-year-old Tomasz Horak made the 400m final as the youngest in World Indoors history. His 45.89 in the heats is the second-fastest European U20 indoor time ever. Out in the 800m heats: Gouaned from Algeria, 1500m: Farken, Sisk, Hauser and Berg. Women’s 1500m: Gemma Ricky and Salome Afonso.
USA 2-0-1; UKR 1-1-0; IT 1-0-0; JAM 0-2-0
TITLE HOLDERS
Yes (1). A. DÃaz
No (3): Ollislagers, Miton, Azu
TOP MARKS
WL (3): 60m 6.42 Bromell, 6.41 Anthony, TJ 17.47 A. Diaz
AR: South America (1) – 400m 45.71 Lima
AGENTS (individual gold medals)
1- Aivar Karotamm, Eric Lilot, Robert Wagner, Mark Wetmore
TORUN NEWS:
TORUN (POL). Simon Ehammer leads the heptathlon after day one with 3,698 points, 38 ahead of Kyle Garland and 188 ahead of Heath Baldwin.
TORUN (POL). The fastest times in the heats were Eloisa Coiro (1:59.87) and Elliott Crestan (1:45.51) in the 800m, Birke Heilom (4:10.66) and Mariano Garcia (3:38.19) in the 1500m and Moriza Jaalejer (1:59.50) and Williams 500 m. (45.35) 400 m.
TORUN (PAUL): It is not the first time that 3 silver medals have been awarded in women’s high jump. The same thing happened in 2012, as Shawnte Lowe, who won at 198, was followed by Antonieta Di Martino, Anna Chicherova and Ebba Jungmark at 195.
TORUN (POL): Slovak 400m world medalist Emma Zapletalova did not run in the 400m semi-finals due to a health problem.
TORUN STATS (by Ken Nakamura and VA)
W-HJ: Mahucich becomes the seventh woman to win multiple high jump titles at the World Indoors and is now tied for second with Blanka Vlasic (2-1-1) behind Stefka Kostadinova (5-0-0); Ollislagers (2-1-0) tied Elena Slesarenko at No. 4; The 6cm difference between medalists and non-medalists tied for the highest margin at the World Indoors.
W-SP: Jackson becomes the second American winner of this title after Michelle Carter; he is 1-1-2 in his last four World Finals. Mitton, 2-1-0, moved into third behind Valerie Adams (3-1-1) and Svetlana Krivelyova (3-0-1); USA (2-3-4) dropped to 3rd behind Russia and NZL. SWE won the first medal.
M-60. Anthony Wins USA’s 11th World Indoors Title; his winning time of 6.41 was joint second fastest behind Christian Coleman’s championship record of 6.37. He is tied for 4th on the all-time world hitting list, alongside Andre Cason and Lamont Marcel Jacobs. Silver and bronze medalists Thompson and Bromell were separated by just 0.001. Azu ran 0.03 seconds faster than her 2025 gold medal time, but still finished fourth. This was by far the fastest time not to receive a medal (previously 6.52); Bromell’s 6.42 is the fastest time in the semifinals.
M-400. Morales Williams’ 45.51 and 45.35 in the semifinals are the fastest times in the respective qualifiers at the World Indoors.
M-1500. Malek’s 3:39.05 is the fastest non-qualifier in the final.
M-TJ: A. Diaz becomes only the third athlete to defend his world title after Mike Conley and Christian Olson, and the fourth with two titles (plus Will Clay); ITA went 3-0-0 behind USA for 2nd place, the first medal for JAM.
M-HEP: The 815 is the second-longest heptathlon throw by Ehammer at the World Indoors behind Ashton Easton (816).
