{"id":142408,"date":"2025-09-14T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142408\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:01:15","slug":"live-updates-world-athletics-championships-2025-in-tokyo-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142408\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(Getty Images)<\/p>\n

– with AP<\/p>\n

The biggest news out of qualifying this morning was former Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen failing to advance out of the first round of the 1,500 meters<\/p>\n

The Norwegian finished eighth in his heat, which was won by Jake Wightman, the man who sensationally beat Ingebrigtsen to gold at the 2022 world champs.<\/p>\n

After winning at 1,500 and 3,000 meters at indoor worlds in March, Ingebrigtsen was beset by an Achilles injury. This was his first race since capturing those titles. Still, this came as a surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a first-time experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is, of course, very disappointing, but at the same time a reality check of how bad it is. The 15 is an event that’s very competitive and you need to prepare your best and unfortunately, I’m not there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he felt \u201ccloser,” fitness-wise, to being ready for the 5,000, where he is the reigning world and Olympic champion. Prelims for that race start next Friday.<\/p>\n

\"\"(AP Photo)<\/p>\n

For all his success at 5,000 meters, it is the 1,500 that is considered the marquee non-sprinting race, and Ingebrigtsen has been part of a years-long drama involving himself, Wightman, Josh Kerr (who beat him in 2023 and successfully qualified for the semis in Tokyo) and last year’s Olympic champion, Cole Hocker of the United States.<\/p>\n

The world championship gold is the only title eluding him at 1,500m<\/p>\n

Ingebrigtsen won the Olympic title at this distance in 2020. Just last year, he posted the fourth-best time in the history of the event.<\/p>\n

\"\"Josh Kerr steamed through (AP Photo)<\/p>\n

In the leadup to worlds this year, he said \u201cif I’m on the start line with a bib on my chest and spikes on my feet, I\u2019m going to do what I\u2019ve always done, and have obviously the same approach that I\u2019ve always had.\u201d<\/p>\n

He spent most of Sunday’s race, uncharacteristically, near the back. On the last lap, he moved inside and briefly worked his way into sixth place. But there was no closing kick.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo and yes,\u201d Ingebrigtsen said when asked if he was injury free for the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Achilles, I didn’t not feel it in this race. But what does that matter?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Getty Images) – with AP The biggest news out of qualifying this morning was former Olympic champion Jakob…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91548,64,63,7285,4125,6462,36928,85,96099,95194,89784,81437],"class_list":["post-142408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-100m","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blog","tag-live","tag-live-updates","tag-noah-lyles","tag-sports","tag-sprint","tag-tokyo-2025","tag-torrie-lewis","tag-world-athletics-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}