Athletics WA World Championships 2025

[copravolley 563]

27 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

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.

Italy: +11 (62 vs 51), but compared to 2017: +53 (62 vs 9). We have been making great but systematically progress since 2017, but we are still a miss a little more of gold medals.

[heywoodu 16,140]

15 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

@Josh @heywoodu

 

first Pages tomorrow please 

 

congrats for 4x100 medals . Very nice 

I doubt today will be in any way special

 

Anyhow, from Saturday:

 

Spoiler

 

One of today, no idea where to find a bigger example  (F1 spoiler in there)

 

Spoiler

 

 

Like I said, it's not like we have sports newspapers. Most regular newspapers have a sports section, of course, but no idea where to find front pages of those. We don't really have a "front page culture" anyway  

[heywoodu 16,140]

But yeah, that 4x100m bronze, what the hell

 

Awesome young team as well (except for Burnet), I know they've been promising this season, but yeah, was of course not expecting this  

[Noorderling29 203]

Our fastest sprinter Rafael Bouju was even missing. He was inhuren (again) in the indoor season, and just recently made his comeback.
 

in the post race interview they said that they saw the rain as an advantage as they had trained in the rain to be prepared for what they called “Dutch Weather”. 

[Noorderling29 203]

36 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I doubt today will be in any way special

 

Anyhow, from Saturday:

 

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One of today, no idea where to find a bigger example  (F1 spoiler in there)

 

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Like I said, it's not like we have sports newspapers. Most regular newspapers have a sports section, of course, but no idea where to find front pages of those. We don't really have a "front page culture" anyway  

De Volkskrant has a picture of Xavi Mo-Ajok on the front page of its sport section. Good day yesterday, with two medals in the women’s TT at the world champs and our women’s under 23 3x3 team winning the world title.

[Noorderling29 203]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I doubt today will be in any way special

 

Anyhow, from Saturday:

 

  Hide contents

 

One of today, no idea where to find a bigger example  (F1 spoiler in there)

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

Like I said, it's not like we have sports newspapers. Most regular newspapers have a sports section, of course, but no idea where to find front pages of those. We don't really have a "front page culture" anyway  

De Volkskrant has a picture of Xavi Mo-Ajok on the front page of its sport section. Good day yesterday, with two medals in the women’s TT at the world champs and our women’s under 23 3x3 team winning the world title.

[Orangehair43 285]

19 hours ago, Olympicsnell said:

quick reminder that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, whinges when we don't take world ranking athletes, then whinges when we do and surprise surprise they don't make finals (because there's a reason we only took them on rankings)

Because they getting a lot of backlash in the media. And cutting how many they take to 2027 might be one way of saying Ed reinvesting money into fewer but spending more on them individually to improve their medal chances . 

[Belle 1,038]

It was only one WR in these championships, right? 

[Gianlu33 5,361]

1 hour ago, Belle said:

It was only one WR in these championships, right? 

Yup, only Mondo

[avlar 482]

On 9/21/2025 at 5:45 PM, 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?

Yes, she had minor injury but it rather looks like the lack of emotions after winning all last year.

We could expect medals from Kokhan (with this result he would win a medal at every previous WCH) and Doroshuk. They were close and it is not about weak performance. It is about high level of competitions.