3h agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 9:28amLive updates: World Athletics Championships, day nine

Results:

Rain has suspended the high jump and discus finals, with Matt Denny slipping in the circle as he threw.Ky Robinson finishes a spectacular fourth in the 5,000m.
Jess Hull finishes eighth in the women’s 800m final.Eleanor Patterson misses out on a medal in the high jump.

Here’s the key timings you need to be aware of today:

High jump final (8:05pm AEST): Nicola Olyslagers, Eleanor PattersonMen’s discus final (9:10pm AEST): Matt DennyMen’s 4x100m relay final (10:20pm AEST): Australia

Just nowSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:29pm

HIGH JUMP FINAL: Olyslagers fails at 2.026m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:23pmMEN’S 4x100M RELAY FINAL: USA BEATS CANADA FOR GOLD!(Getty Images)

That was another brilliant race from the Americans.

Anchored by Noah Lyles, the USA ran a world leading 37.29.

There was a good battle with Canada for most of the race, finishing in 37.55.

Then it was the Dutch! A national record in 37.81!

From there, it was Ghana, Germany, Japan, France.

7m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:21pmMEN’S 4x100M RELAY FINAL: AUSTRALIA DROPS THE BATON!

Calab Law couldn’t catch up to Rohan Browning at the final change.

What a shame.

9m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:20pm

Good bye, and thank you, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I so wanted Shelly-Anne to go out with a gold.

– par

(Getty Images)13m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:16pmMEN’S 4x100M RELAY FINAL

Australia did so well to get into a final that is missing three huge teams after Jamaica, South Africa and Great Britain and Northern Ireland failed to get the baton around in their heats.

Here’s the full line up:

1.(EMPTY LANE)2.France3.Australia4.Japan5.Canada6.Ghana7.United States8.Netherlands9.Germany

The USA rested a couple of their big guns in the heats and come in as the overwhelming favourites for gold.

But you’ve got to get the baton around first…

14m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:15pm

It is so wet out there…

Splash, splash, splash

Here comes our golden girl Olyslagers.

– Sunny Days

19m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:10pm

WOMEN’S 4X100M: USA hangs on to win gold(Getty Images)

What a race!

The rain is torrential, but there didn’t seem to be any issues at the changeovers.

The USA won it in 41.75, Jamaica finish second just 0.04 seconds behind, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning her 17th world championships medal.

Germany did really well to finish third.

Great Britain and Northern Ireland came fourth, Spain fifth, France sixth, Canada seventh and Poland eighth.

Poland have, in fact, been disqualified for a bad change over.

23m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:06pm

GET THE COVERS ON!(Getty Images)

I like that the Japanese still have a super sopper for the track in athletics.

I don’t think there is a cover big enough for the whole track though…

They will need it ahead of the women’s 4x100m relay, or they’ll be swimming around the track.

27m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:01pmHIGH JUMP FINAL: Competition suspended due to weather

28m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 12:00pm

HIGH JUMP FINAL: And then there were three

Nicola Olyslagers and Maria Żodzik are the only two women to have cleared 2.00.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh passed after one failure.

Olyslagers has a guaranteed medal.

31m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:58am

DISCUS FINAL: The discus final will restart

poor Matt – I hope that he gets a re-throw for that. Very unfair!!!

– Steph in Melbourne

So that means all the previous marks have been erased and they’ll start again from the beginning.

So good news there.

32m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:56amHIGH JUMP FINAL: Eleanor Patterson out, misses medal

That’s bad news for the Aussie.

Eleanor Patterson has missed out on a medal in the high jump.

At the moment she is in fifth place on countback after her earlier failure at 1.97.

The 2022 champion is out.

34m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:55am

HIGH JUMP FINAL: What do the jumpers do when they are waiting?

There’s a lot of sitting around in a high jump competition.

So the athletes have to get quite good at staying calm between attempts.

We know that Nicola Olyslagers writes in her diary.

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But Yaroslava Mahuchikh has a nap.

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36m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:53am

HIGH JUMP FINAL: Final resumes

The high jumpers are back out in the stadium.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh has passed after her failure at 2.00m. She’ll have two attempts at 2.02, the next height.

Everyone else is persevering but Eleanor Patterson has failed with her second attempt.

Nicola Olyslagers is the only person to have cleared 2.00m

39m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:50am

DISCUS FINAL: Final set to restart

SBS have just reported to us that the discus competition will restart.

So Matt Denny’s no throw, as he fell over in the sodden circle, will not count and he’ll get a chance to throw again.

That’s a fair call.

46m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:43am

WOMEN’S 4X400M: USA win in a new championship record(Getty Images)

That ended up being very easy in the sodden conditions for the USA.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran a last lap in 47.82 to bring the race home in that new championship record time of 3:16.61.

Jamaica were on their own in second.

Femke Bol helped the Dutch to a bronze medal but was never a chance to chase down Nickisha Pryce.

After them it was Belgium, Poland, Norway, France and then Italy.

59m agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:29am

MEN’S 4X400M: Botswana wins thriller(Getty Images)

The USA have recovered from almost missing the final to win a silver medal.

Rai Benjamin was in the lead for the USA throughout the final straight.

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But Busang Collen Kebinatshipi surged in the final 20 metres to win it for Botswana in 2:57.76.

The USA tied with South Africa in time on 2:57.83, but when the time was taken to a thousandth of a second, the USA were 0.002 seconds ahead.

Remarkable.

Belgium fourth, Qatar fifth, Great Britain and Northern Ireland sixth, Jamaica seventh, Netherlands eighth and Portugal, who dropped the baton, in ninth.

1h agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:21am

MEN’S 4X400M: Why were Australia disqualified from the heats?

Need an explanation as to why Australia were disqualified from the heats of the 4x400m and rubbed out of the final?

Here it is.

If that’s still not clear, this photo shows it perfectly.

Yes, I added that yellow circle.

You can also see the Brazilian athlete at the top of the photo has his foot over the line too.

They were disqualified as well.

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You just can’t have your foot on that side of the blue line.

1h agoSun 21 Sep 2025 at 11:20am

RELAY RUN-OFF: USA get 4x400m reprieve, Italy miss 4x100m

– with Reuters

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Relays are chaotic. We know this.

But this morning the chaos went to a new level.

In short, there was a winner-takes all run off between the USA and Kenya for a spot in the 4x400m final.

And a solo race against the clock by Italy in a bid to make the 4x100m final.

In the 4x400m, the USA grasped their second chance to progress to the final of the men’s 4×400 metres relay after comfortably beating Kenya.

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South Africa though, were unable to do the same as they missed their target in their against-the-clock rerun in the 4×100 metres.

The USA and Kenya were given the opportunity to race for an additional place in the final later on Sunday after both were judged to have been impeded at a changeover as they failed to qualify from Saturday’s heats.

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In the strange atmosphere, with a scattered crowd watching the morning events of the decathlon, the teams ran in their original lanes – the USA in three and Kenya in seven.

Despite the quick turnaround and early start, the USA looked far more impressive than on Saturday, when they were already struggling near the back even before the obstruction.

The US have won nine of the last 10 world 4x400s and 12 of the 19 run and have never missed a final. However, they will be allowed to change only one runner for Sunday night’s final, piling on the pressure to keep up their run.

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In the 4x100m relay, South Africa had been impeded by the Italian team on Saturday and were given the chance to run a solo time trial, using the same four athletes in the same lane.

Their target was to match eighth-placed France’s time of 38.34 to proceed as a ninth team in the final, but they just missed out with 38.64.

In keeping with the chaos surrounding the relays, the stadium clock did not initially stop when Akani Simbine crossed the line, adding even more tension, before the time eventually appeared on the scoreboard.