2h agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 9:15amLive updates: Tokyo World Athletics Championships, day six
Results:
Jess Hull fell in her 800m heat, with Australian officials appealing to get her reinstated.Claudia Hollingsworth qualified automatically, with Abbey Caldwell also through as one of the fastest losers.Rose Davies and Linden Hall both race into the 5,000m final – the first time Australia has had two competitors reach the final at the world championships, while Georgia Griffith misses out.Cameron McEntyre finishes 12th in the javelin final
Aussies in action on day six:
Women’s high jump qualification (8:15pm AEST): Nicola Olyslagers (Group B), Eleanor Patterson (Group A), Emily Whelan (Group B)Men’s 200m semifinal (10.09pm AEST): Gout Gout (Heat 2, Lane 4)Women’s 200m semifinal (10:31pm AEST): Torrie Lewis (Heat 2, Lane 8)2m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:55amWOMEN’S 800M: Two Aussies through
As things stand, Australia will have two competitors in the semifinals.
Claudia Hollingsworth qualified automatically, with Abbey Caldwell also through as one of the fastest losers.
We’ll wait and see with Jess Hull.
3m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:54am
WOMEN’S 800M: Can Jess Hull get reinstated?
Jess Hull can be reinstated into the semifinals, if the officials deem that she was tripped by someone doing something wrong.
I looked at the replay but it’s hard to tell whether it was anything other than a tangle of legs because it bunched up.
It’s not a push as far as I can see.
She has a nasty spike cut on her leg.
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It will be interesting.
Hull did go down hard and slid on her front a fair way.
She’s still smiling though.
(Getty Images)8m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:49amWOMEN’S 800M: JESS HULL FALLS!
Oh no!
Jess Hull is out of this – she was fallen into and has gone down to the deck just 200m in!
The Australian officials will appeal this to get her into the semifinal but we’ll have to wait and see.
She will finish a long.
Prudence Sekgodiso has also fallen off the pace and stepped off track.
Hull finishes 11 seconds back.
9m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:48amIt’s raining in Tokyo
The rain has started falling and it’s made the track slick and shiny.
This could make things tricky off the blocks for the sprinters.
10m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:46am
JAVELIN FINAL: Keshorn Walcott wins gold in the rain
Tremendous stuff from Trinidad and Tobago’s only athlete at these championships.
That’s got to be close to a record, hasn’t it? A 100 per cent success rate in terms of gold medals per athlete.
Keshorn Walcott is the gold medallist with 88.16.
Anderson Peters of Grenada with a silver in 87.38, with USA’s Curtis Thomson winning bronze.
14m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:43am
It is, yes
That’s a picture of Jess Hull with Georgia Bell, not Claudia
– Jus’sayin
That was from the Olympics, when Georgia Bell finished in third behind Jess Hull in the 1,500m.
Hull is about to run now.
15m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:41am
WOMEN’S 800M: Here comes Jess Hull in heat seven
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Very interesting heat this one for the 1,500m bronze medallist at these championships, Jess Hull.
There are no genuine stars over two laps here, which could make this a real dogfight.
You know Hull will have an enormous target on her back here — medals weigh plenty both physically and metaphorically.
Prudence Sekgodiso of South Africa has run a 1:57.16 this year, against Hull’s 1:58.58.
But with Hull’s race craft and experience, I am interested to see how she turns this race to her advantage.
Keep an eye on Botswanna’s Oratile Nowe, who has a 1:56.76 to her name this season and veteran Jamaican Natoya Goule-Toppin.
The 34-year-old has a Commonwealth Games bronze in the 800m from the Gold Coast and a silver medal from Birmingham in the 4x400m, with a personal best of 1:55.96, set two years ago.
16m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:41amWOMEN’S 800M: Hollingsworth qualifies with brave, front-running race
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Claudia Hollingsworth went out like a steam train!
A brave move and it’s paid off with automatic qualification!
The 21-year-old took them out hard through the first 300m and goes through the first lap in 57.6.
They pack then bunched behind her – that was dangerous because she can get swamped.
Georgia Hunter-Bell came around the outside of the final bend, but then Hollingsworth covered it and stayed in contention.
Hollingsworth is in, and Abbey Caldwell is still there too as one of the three fastest losers with a heat to go.
21m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:36am
WOMEN’S 800M: Hopes, dreams and jellybeans for Claudia Hollingsworth
 No Australian woman has ever made the final in the 800m at the world championships.
But that’s something that 20-year-old Claudia Hollingsworth hopes to change, as you can see in this video.
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Or you can read all about her hopes and dreams for the LA and Brisbane Olympics, as well as the secret to her success, in this lovely piece from Damien Peck and Anthony Furchi.
22m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:35am
WOMEN’S 800M: Claudia Hollingsworth in heat six
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Time for the 20-year-old Aussie from Melbourne, Claudia Hollingsworth, with a season and personal best of 1:57.67.
Georgia Hunter-Bell of Great Britain, with a PB of 1:55.96, is the favourite from this heat — and has a great backstory.
A very good junior who won the English Schools title as an under 15 with the eighth-fastest time in British history.
She also won a British University title at 800m but gave it all up in 2017 after a stint at college in the States due to a body that was letting her down.
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In 2022, she got back into it, heading down to Bushy Park in west London to run a parkrun. Two years later she won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics in the 1,500, all the while working as a cyber security expert full time — although she did have a sabbatical for a few months as she trained for the Olympics.
She’s a full time runner now, and looking to challenge her training partner, Keely Hodgkinson, over two laps.
A real smokey for the gold medal for me, a tough person to come up against in the heat for Hollingsworth.
Top three go through automatically to the semis.
22m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:34amHIGH JUMP: Emily Whelan can’t repeat the trick and is out
That’s a shame for Emily Whelan, who kept us all on the edge of our seats there with successive final attempt clearances.
She has failed at her third attempt at 1.92 and will not make the final.
24m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:32am
HIGH JUMP: How living the Australian dream helped keep Olyslagers soaring
The last time Nicola Olyslagers competed in a major championships in Tokyo was the 2021 Olympics, after which she tied the knot with her partner Rhys.
She told Luke Pentony in April that living the home life for a while helped fuel her charge to silver in Paris – and now a world championship quest.
Read more here.
26m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:31am
HIGH JUMP: Easy does it for the Aussie favourites
Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers are over at 1.92 at the first attempt.
Remember, 1.97 is the automatic qualifying heat.
You’d never believe it, but Emily Whelan has failed twice. Again.
Can she pull it out of the bag with her final attempt? Again?
29m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:28amWOMEN’S 800M: Caldwell falls just short in quick heat
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That’s a shame for Abbey Caldwell.
She ran really well there but just got overhauled in the final stages.
Anna Wielgosz ran a personal best to pip Caldwell on the line for the third and final qualifying spot.
Caldwell’s 1:58.71 is currently the fastest of the losing times so she is in an OK position.
31m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:26am
WOMEN’S 800M: CHAOS IN THE HEAT!
CHAOS IN THE HEAT!
At 300m there was a touch and they scattered like pins in a bowling alley.
Caldwell was touched but managed to avoid any really damage.
Sarah Moraa got knocked off her pace though and has gone to the back of the pack.
34m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:23am
WOMEN’S 800M: Abbey Caldwell goes in heat four
Our first Australian in action in these 800m qualifying rounds and it’s Abbey Caldwell.
The 24-year-old from Melbourne is the third-highest ranked athlete in this heat but has the second-fastest time this year at 1:57.70, which is also a personal best.
The bronze medallist in the 1,500m at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games will face the biggest test from Swiss record holder Audrey Werro, who ran a 1:55.91 in Zurich this year.
The first three in each heat qualify for the semis regardless of time, as well as the three fastest losers.
34m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:22am
JAVELIN FINAL: Big men struggle
Why are all the javelin men struggling as the final continues? The heat? The closeness to the heats? It’s odd!!
– Steph in Melbourne
It’s an odd one isn’t it, Steph.
I assume we’ll be told by someone after they come through the mixed zone.
But Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem is out, finishing in 10th place.
Indian star Neeraj Chopra is in eighth.
Julian Weber, the combustible German, is fifth.
37m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:20am
WOMEN’S 800m: Nice hair, but not enough to qualify
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Shafiqua Maloney is a very striking sight on the track.
But in a bit of a surprise, the seventh-ranked runner from Saint Vincent is out, finishing last in her 800m heat.
That’s a surprise.
43m agoThu 18 Sep 2025 at 11:14amJAVELIN FINAL: Cameron McEntyre is out
Disappointment for Cameron McEntyre.
He improved slightly on his first round effort with a 75.65m in the second, but it’s not enough to move him up off the bottom of the table.
He then fouled his last effort in a last-ditch attempt to get enough to stay alive in the competition.
He finishes in 12th, exiting the competition after three rounds.