Overview

• Pérez won the women’s 20 km in 1:25:54 a week after taking the 35 km, becoming the first woman to repeat the double at consecutive world championships.
• Mexico’s Alegna González took silver in 1:26:06 with a continental record, and Japan’s Nanako Fujii earned bronze in 1:26:18 with a national record.
• Peru’s Kimberly García finished fifth in 1:26:22, breaking the Peruvian record, with teammates Mary Luz Andía 10th (1:28:52) and Evelyn Inga 30th (1:33:29).
• Mexico finished with two silvers at Tokyo 2025, adding Uziel Muñoz’s shot-put podium to González’s race-walk medal.
• Spain placed fifth on the medals table, powered by Pérez’s two golds and Paul McGrath’s 35 km bronze, as Kenya logged track wins via Emmanuel Wanyonyi (800 m) and Beatrice Chebet (5,000 m) and Ecuador’s Juleisy Angulo won javelin.