Athletics WA World Championships 2025

[copravolley 561]

3 hours ago, avlar said:

Olyslagers was really the best this season. Without questions

Machuchik, however, was a little disappointment for me: she winning only a bronze medal, ex aequo. She had a weak second half of the season. I don't know why? Injuries? Ukraine managed to salve that one bronze medal, and luckily, but a better performance from the entire team could have been expected. What do you think?

Edited September 21, 2025 by copravolley

[Grassmarket 4,101]

32 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Points table: 

 

 

Full detailed Points Table is here for all stats nerds.

 

https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/tokyo25/placingtable

 

 

[intoronto 6,599]

Italy and Canada with a combined one fourth place finish 

[copravolley 561]

6 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Italy and Canada with a combined one fourth place finish 

However, for Italy, 11th place in the medal table is quite low, but it was realistic, because with  only 1 gold medal, you can often be outside the top 10, but looking at where we were 8-10 years ago, there is great progress: In 2015 and 2017 we scored about 10 points in this classification.

Edited September 21, 2025 by copravolley

[Belle 1,038]

Correct me if I’m mistaken but Sweden  is the only Nordic country in the medal table in these championships. 

[copravolley 561]

1 minute ago, Belle said:

Correct me if I’m mistaken but Sweden  is the only Nordic country in the medal table in these championships. 

The Norwegian stars have disappointed probably first time for many years, and Finland has had problems for many years in summer sports: they only real chance here was in the women's hammer throw.

[Illya 590]

2 hours ago, copravolley said:

Machuchik, however, was a little disappointment for me: she winning only a bronze medal, ex aequo. She had a weak second half of the season. I don't know why? Injuries? Ukraine managed to salve that one bronze medal, and luckily, but a better performance from the entire team could have been expected. What do you think?

Yaroslava had very big transformation, she became quicker in the run-up what caused a lot of mistakes and misses of optimal point of jump. Plus she was third at the Olympics there so no big difference or downgrade for her

[clemsonbeav 248]

Some stats comparing Paris 2024 to Tokyo 2025:

 

Paris - 43 nations with medals

Tokyo - 53

 

6 nations that medalled in Paris, not Tokyo - Croatia, India, Norway, Pakistan, Uganda, Zambia

16 nations that medalled in Tokyo, not Paris - Colombia, Cuba, Ireland, Latvia, Mexico, Nigeria, Samoa, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela

 

Then for some math, the next two tables are the difference between how nations did at the Olympics vs. World Champs

 

How nations did at Paris vs. Tokyo, sorted by difference in total medals (positive number indicating you did better at Tokyo)

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So, Italy earned 4 more medals this year.  USA overall earned 8 fewer medals this year. 

 

How nations did at Paris vs. Tokyo, sorted by difference in gold medal count (positive number indicating you did better at Tokyo)

 

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So, Kenya earned 3 more gold medals this year than last.  Norway earned 2 fewer.

 

 

 

And finally, here's Paris vs. Tokyo medal table by nation (Tokyo is on left, sorry for weird formatting):

 

 

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Edited September 21, 2025 by clemsonbeav

[JoshMartini007 2,789]

Using the Team Points Table here are the Top 10 most improved nations

 

1.  +31

2.  +30

3.  +23

4.  +22

5.  +17

6.  +16

7.  +15

8.  +13

8.  +13

10.  +12

 

Interestingly enough, the United States had a drop of 3 medals relative to 2023, but their depth has increased quite a bit. Germany on the other hand, went from 0 medals in 2023 to 5 at this edition. 

 

 

 

The Top 10 biggest drops relative to 2023 are as follows:

 

1.  -42

2.  -41

3.  -36

4.  -26

5.  -20

6.  -17

7.  -11

8.  -10

8.  -10

10.  -8

10.  -8

10.  -8

 

Nations like Ethiopia, Great Britain, and Norway saw a sharp decline in medals while nations like Jamaica and Canada didn't see much change in medals, but lost a lot of depth.

[copravolley 561]

26 minutes ago, Illya said:

Yaroslava had very big transformation, she became quicker in the run-up what caused a lot of mistakes and misses of optimal point of jump. Plus she was third at the Olympics there so no big difference or downgrade for her

In 2021 she was probably also a favorite, even though she was much younger, but then the strong Russian girl competed. I don't remember what the gold medal result was back then?