TORUN 2026 DAY 3
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Once I noticed Molly stroll out and do her lap of honour, I assumed I’ve received to get the third Gold. I’m so pleased with the ladies. I believe ladies in sport within the UK proper now could be wonderful, and I’m pleased to be part of it. I felt actually good with the form I’m in, I had a clear winter with no interruptions and if somebody needs to beat me you must work onerous I by no means go down with no battle. Joyful to have completed it, lastly come to a Championship as favorite and end on prime as I haven’t executed that since Paris and my first world title as properly,” Keely Hodgkinson.
“I didn’t have the perfect begin. I stumbled a bit, however I attempted to repair it as quick as I may. I knew I had run the world file. I knew I had it after I crossed the end line. I do know I may have run a bit quicker, too, however not having the perfect begin, I’ll take it. Since Glasgow, I’ve been enhancing loads, and at the moment I’m actually proud to win my third world indoor title in a row,” Devynne Charlton.
Megan SIMMONDS, 60 Metres Hurdles Girls, JAM
Devynne CHARLTON, 60 Metres Hurdles Girls, BAH
Pia SKRZYSZOWSKA, 60 Metres Hurdles Girls, POL, picture by World Athletics
RESULT OF THE DAY
Devynne Charlton equalled her world indoor file of seven.65, set on the 2024 World Indoor Championships. Additionally, Keely Hodkginson gained 1:55.30 within the 800 m, and fewer than one hour after the quickest relay cut up, 50.10.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
Gerson Baldé improved his lifetime greatest by 14cm within the final sequence to 846, outperformed sturdy rivals and gained his first-ever worldwide title (and medal).
Gold: Gerson Baldé (POR) – 8.46m
Silver: Mattia Furlani (ITA) – 8.39m
Bronze: Bozhidar Sarâboyukov (BUL) – 8.31m, picture by World Athletics
Leonardo Fabbri, posting 22.50 this season (outdoor), achieved 20.92 solely and completed seventh.
Shocking defeats of world champions Anna Corridor to Sofie Dokter and Isaac Nader to Mariano García.
MEDALS (32 international locations)
USA 5-7-6; GBR 4-0-0; ITA 3-2-0; POR, UKR 2-1-0; ESP 1-2-2; NED 1-2-1; BEL 1-2-0; POL 1-1-2.
POINTS (50 international locations)
USA 164; NED 54; POL 53; JAM 52; GBR 49; ITA 47; AUS 43; ESP 39; SWE 36; FRA 31.
TITLE RETAINERS
Sure (6): A.Díaz, Duplantis, Pérez-Hernández, Walsh, Charlton, USA (2).
No (7): Olyslagers, Mitton, Azu, Woo, Hailu, Bonnin, Furlani.
Not competing (11): Bailey, Skotheim, Ingebrigtsen (2), Anning, Holloway, M. Kambundji, Bryant, Tsegay, Hoey, Sekgodiso.
TOP MARKS
WR (1+1): Hep 6670 Ehammer; 60mH 7.65 Charlton (equalled).
WB (2): Hep60mH 7.52 Ehammer, mix4x400m 3:15.60 Belgium, Pen800m 2:06.32 Corridor.
CR (6+1): 400m 44.76 Morales Williams, Hep 6670 Ehammer, PV 625 Duplantis, 800m 1:55.30 Hodgkinson; mix4x400m 3:15.60 Belgium (inaugural), M4x400m 3:01.52 USA; 60mH 7.65 Charlton (equalled).
WL (10+2): 60m 6.42 Bromell, 6.41 Anthony, TJ 17.47 A.Díaz, mix4x400m 3:15.60 Belgium, Hep 6670 Ehammer, 1500m 3:58.53 Hunter Bell, LJ 846 Baldé, Pen 4888 Dokter, 60mH 7.76 Skrzyszowska, 7.74 Charlton and seven.65 Charlton; TJ 14.95 Pérez-Hernández (equalled), 60mH 7.76 Kambundji (equalled).
AR: Africa (1) – 60mH 7.50 Le Roux; Europe (1) – Hep 6670 Ehammer; NACAC (1) – 60mH 7.65 Charlton (equalled); Oceania (2) – 1500m 3:59.45 Hull, 800m 1:45.14 Bol; South America (1) – 400m 45.71 Lima.
NR: in complete 46
AGENTS (particular person gold medals)
2 – Aivar Karotamm, Marcello Magnani, Bradl Yewer; 1 – Jorge Luis Aguilera, Luke Allen, Paul Doyle, Caroline Feith, Alfons Juck, Fabien Kaiser, Merhawi Keflezighi, Eric Lilot, Miguel Mostaza, Juan Pineda, John Regis, Henry Rolle, Marcin Rosengarten, Robert Wagner, Daniel Wessfeldt, Mark Wetmore; no official AR for Dokter and Ehammer.
TORUN NEWS
TORUN (POL): World Athletics President Sebastian Coe accepted historic donations on behalf of the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) from six world champions throughout a particular ceremony on the Toruń Plaza procuring centre. Six iconic athletes, Nelli Cooman, Noureddine Morceli, Daniel Komen, Adam Kszczot, Paweł Wojciechowski and Sebastian Chmara, took to the stage to personally hand over competitors objects from their careers to Coe. The ceremony took a poignant flip with the posthumous awarding of the World Athletics Heritage Plaque within the ‘Legend’ class to Janusz Kusociński.
TORUN (POL): Quickest splits from the lads’s 4x400m, 44.65 by Khaleb McRae, 45.16 by Chris Robinson and 45.38 by Julien Watrin.
TORUN (POL): Quickest splits from the ladies’s 4x400m, 50.10 by Keely Hodgkinson, 50.46 Emma Zapletalová (in heats) and 50.83 Rosey Effiong.
TORUN STATS (by Ken Nakamura and WA)
W-800: Hodgkinson runs the second quickest indoor 800m in historical past with 1:55.30, simply behind her personal WR and turns into the primary British winner of the ladies’s 800m at WI; each Hodgkinson and Werro had been underneath the earlier championship file of 1:56.90 set by Ludmila Formanova in 1999; 3.06 is the biggest 1-3 margin; first medal for SUI.
W-1500: Hunter Bell’s successful time of three:58.53 is the third quickest in World Indoor Championships historical past behind 2 instances of Gudaf Tsegay and turns into the primary Brit – male or feminine – to win a world indoor 1500m title; Hull is the one athlete to win two particular person medals in Torun; Guillemot turns into the primary athlete to interrupt the 4:00-barrier on the World Indoor Championships however not come away with a medal; greatest marks for locations 2-8; first medal for AUS.
W-60H: Charlton equals her world indoor file of seven.65 to grow to be the primary three-time winner of the ladies’s 60m hurdles on the World Indoor Championships; greatest marks for locations 2 (equalled) – 3 (equalled greatest total); BAH (3-0-1) moved to second behind USA (7-5-3); 7.91 by Taylor is the quickest non-qualifier for the ultimate changing 7.92 by Sally Pearson from 2018.
W-PV: Caudery turns into simply the third lady to win a number of world indoor pole vault titles after Yelena Isinbayeva and Sandi Morris; Sutej (SLO), who’s the oldest athlete registered for a person occasion in Torun, gained her third world indoor medal with silver at 37y/135d; greatest marks for locations 6 (equalled) – 9; GBR (2-0-1) moved to 3rd behind RUS and USA.
W-LJ: Second World Indoor title for POR after Naide Gomes, who gained the world indoor lengthy leap title in 2008; first ever medal at WI for COL.
W-4×400: The US gained the ladies’s 4x400m title on the World Indoor Championships for the sixth time and is now (6-5-5) behind RUS; Spain gained their first ever medal within the ladies’s 4x400m; greatest mark for locations 3-5; 0.23 is the second lowest 1-3 margin.
W-PEN: Dokter turns into the second Dutch winner of this title after Nadine Broersen in 2014, her 4888 factors was the fifth highest rating in WI historical past, her successful margin of 28 factors was the third smallest and 1-3 margin of 49 factors the second smallest, whereas the 3-4 margin of 270 factors is the biggest; Corridor closed with a championship greatest of two:06.32 within the 800m, taking virtually two seconds off Jessica Ennis-Hill’s earlier greatest of two:08.09 from Istanbul in 2012.
M-800: At 17y/93d, Lutkenhaus turns into the youngest ever gold medallist – and medallist of any color – at World Indoor Championships historical past, changing Mohamed Aman who gained in 2012 at 18y/61d; his successful time of 1:44.24 is the second quickest successful time in WI historical past behind Wilson Kipketer who gained gold in 1997 in 1:42.67; greatest marks for locations 2-6; with a 3rd successive medal (0-2-1), Crestan turns into simply the third three-time medallist after Wilson Kipketer and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi; the third successive US title confirmed their prime place (5-1-3).
M-1500: Garcia turns into the primary athlete in World Indoor Championships historical past to win titles at each 800m and 1500m and the primary Spaniard to win the 1500m.
M-LJ: Balde turns into the primary Portuguese winner of the lads’s lengthy leap title on the World Indoor Championships and completes a Portuguese double with de Sousa successful the ladies’s occasion, his successful leap of 8.46m was the equal fifth longest successful leap in WI historical past and the longest leap ever recorded on Polish soil; greatest mark for place 6; first medal for BUL.
M-SP: Walsh turns into probably the most bemedalled male athlete in World Indoor Championships historical past with a fourth gold and a seventh medal (4-1-2) in complete, overtaking Javier Sotomayor (4-1-1) and Chris Brown (1-2-3); USA has now 11th of September-4.
M-4×400: The US gained gold in a championship file of three:01.52, simply 0.01 shy of the world indoor file of three:01.51 which was set in 2019 (the quickest ever time set indoor is 3:00.77 from 2018 however was not ratified); this was the US’ twelfth gold medal from 19 championships; 0.06 is the second smallest 3-4 margin; JAM confirmed its second place (2-3-3), whereas BEL moved to 3rd (2-2-1) tied with POL.
