Overview

• Team GB finished 21st in Tokyo with five medals, ending a World Championships without a gold for the first time since 2003.
• The women’s 4x100m placed fourth on closing night, confirming no relay podiums and marking a sharp contrast to the relay medal sweep at Paris 2024.
• Medallists were Jake Wightman (1500m silver), Amy Hunt (200m silver), Georgia Hunter Bell (800m silver), Keely Hodgkinson (800m bronze) and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (heptathlon bronze).
• Paula Dunn said standards are rising and she will speak to all coaches and athletes, noting injuries and disrupted line-ups but declining to make excuses.
• Hodgkinson returned after a 376-day layoff with only two outdoor races and competed while unwell, later calling her season a “sh**tshow.”