The women’s 60 m obstacles continue to be surprised or even confused by all of us.
Tracking and field has been a sport of acceptable margins. Passing to jumping, Milallibes and millimeters decided to fate and livelihood of individuals, they were the best weeping to do not do the podium or the event and could not believe that they lost them. At the end of the day, someone should win, regardless of circumstances.
Women’s Sprint barriers have never been to this competitive. Whether 60m is disturbed by the inside or 100 m outdoor, the error limit is razor, and the struggle for the chair is unpredictable. The beginning of the 2025 season has strengthened only that reality, making each race a mandatory event.
In 7.72 seconds, Devynne Charlton defended its 60m barrier in 7.72 seconds at the Closed Athletics Championships in Nanjing World. It is only impressive, but the time behind him told the real story. Ditaji Kambundji caught the silver in 7.73, Akkera Nugent took a bronze medal at 7.74, and more women who ended at around 780, never seen one race.
The first six were separated by only 0.04 seconds. For the context, 7.76 placed by Nadine Wisser to win the last 20 World World Championships. That’s how the event has developed. There is no place for a bad launch, an unjust obstacle or even a minor concentration.
Charlton, who entered the competition only on the eighth time of the season, reached the peak when it was the most important. He knew the challenge ahead and he handed it. “Women are always manifested,” he said after the race. “It’s really cool to leave these ladies.”
The tender level for the level of the competition was displayed until the final even starting. In the semi-final, he hit the last obstacle so hard that he knocked him. Somehow, he left on his feet, gave the final, and still won the bronze. The difference between the medal and frustration was measured by a thousandth of the second.
If the closed season was strong, outdoor 100 m obstacles would be more cruel. Twelve women ran 12.40 seconds last season, which was not enough for some to win, let me win. The World Recordaker Toby’s husband could not even reach the Olympic final. This has become a deep event.
The World Rating Table (12,24) managed the world rankings, followed by Masay Russell at 12:25. Kirenna Samba-Melay, Alaysha Johnson and Grace Stark, 12.31, and 2012 Olympic Champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn was only sixth in the season. Each main championship feels with a coin finger.
Skrzyszowska, Pol, Bronze, Apeldooren2025, Photo, Sona Maleterova
In the 12.30s, two European Stars Wisses and Pia Scrzszaka ran, proving that this is not only an American dominant event. Comes talent from each corner. One lush race can mean early exit no matter who you are.
This level of competition is a gift to sports. Unlike other events, where there have been dominant champions for years, women’s obstacles now feel weekly thriller. Fans just don’t follow who wins. They follow because they really don’t know who it is. It’s no longer any or two stars. Each race is a struggle between at least six or seven elite candidates.
This is both interesting and exhausting for athletes. Later there is no coastal road and later energy saving. Every warmth, semi-finals is a war. Time of small details – reaction, the rhythm between the obstacles, the power of the late race – everything.
The main page to the outdoor season, the question is who will rise. Will Charlon change his inner dominance to 100 m obstacles? Can Cambundi, Nuggent and Skriszzovska are outside their internal form? Does Amusan jump? Or will new names create things to shake again?
One thing is definitely. There are no more guarantees. And for sports that thrives on drama, it is exactly how it should be.
