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María Pérez Completes Rare World Championships Double as Alegna González Claims Silver in Tokyo

The feat highlights Spanish race-walking supremacy in a meet dominated by record-chasing sprints.

Miriam Sánchez se instaló en las semifinales de 200 metros planos, la primera mexicana en lograrlo en un Campeonato Mundial de Atletismo.
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McLaughlin-Levrone se toma la cabeza después de bajar los 48 segundos y se acercó el récord de Marita Kock

Overview

  • One week after winning the 35 km, Pérez added the 20 km title to become the fourth athlete ever to repeat the same two individual world titles at consecutive championships.
  • Mexico’s Alegna González earned 20 km silver in 1:26:06, a national and continental record, converting prior fifth-place finishes into her first global medal.
  • Mexico secured its first women’s race-walk medal at a World Championships since 2017 as Japan’s Nanako Fujii took bronze with a national record.
  • Mexican sprinter Miriam Sánchez, 21, reached the women’s 200 m semifinals in 23.01 for a national milestone and finished 23rd overall.
  • Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won the 400 m in 47.78 for the second-fastest time ever, Noah Lyles secured a fourth straight 200 m crown in 19.52, and Cuba’s Leyanis Pérez ended Yulimar Rojas’s triple-jump reign.