Overview

• After four days at the World Championships in Tokyo, Germany has three silver medals, already surpassing the totals from Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023.
• Merlin Hummel won hammer silver with a personal best of 82.77 m, delivering Germany’s first Worlds hammer medal since 2005 behind champion Ethan Katzberg.
• Amanal Petros secured marathon silver in a photo finish and Malaika Mihambo added long jump silver to complete the early haul.
• World leader Julian Weber advanced to the javelin final with 87.21 m after a recent virus and will bid for his first global medal with a 2025 best of 91.51 m.
• Gesa Krause finished seventh in the steeplechase despite a late fall and Robert Farken took sixth at 1,500 m, as DLV officials hailed growing momentum.