InPics | Highlights of 2025 World Athletics Championships on Sept. 17

TOKYO, Sept. 18, 2025 (Xinhua) –The World Athletics Championships delivered one other day of electrifying performances at Japan National Stadium on Wednesday, with America’s Katie Moon defending her girls’s pole vault title and Italy’s Mattia Furlani claiming the boys’s lengthy soar crown. Kenya’s Faith Cherotich surged to victory within the girls’s 3,000m steeplechase, constructing on her bronze medals from the 2023 Budapest worlds and 2024 Paris Olympics. After 5 days, the United States leads the medal tally with seven golds, one silver, and two bronzes, adopted by Kenya (4-1-2) and Canada (3-0-0).