At the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won 400m gold in 47.78, the 2nd fastest time in history and just off the world record of 47.60 which has now stood for over 40 years. Let's break down Sydney's legendary performance, the depth of the race behind her, as well as how and if the world record may actually be broken in the coming years.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:15 The 400m World Record
02:38 What the Tokyo 2025 final was so special
03:54 Why the 400m World Record has stood so long
05:54 How Sydney ran 47.78 in the 400m
10:23 400m Race Splits
10:36 Tokyo 400m Final Race Splits
11:07 Best 400m splits of 2025
11:55 All-time best 400m splits
13:30 Why the record WILL be broken in 2026
15:21 Why the record WONT be broken in 2026
16:10 Why the record WONT be broken anytime soon
19:31 Why the record WILL be broken sooner than we think
20:44 Summary
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At the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo Japan, Mondo Duplantis, Faith Kipyegon, and Ryan Crouser all won gold medals in their respective events, which gave them an unprecedented 5 consecutive gold medals at 5 consecutive global championships, in 5 consecutive years.
Let's breakdown how each of them won their gold medals and a bit of history of consecutive medalists at previous global championships.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 History of Olympic/World Championship Cycle
02:28 Five consecutive Global Champs
04:12 Athletes with 3 consecutive medals
04:52 Athletes with more than 3 consecutive medals
05:38 Athletes with 3 consecutive gold medals
06:06 Athletes with more than 3 consecutive gold medals
06:38 2021-2025 Championships
06:53 Contenders for 5 golds after 2022
07:24 What happened at Budapest 2023
08:23 What happened at Paris 2024
08:51 What happened at Tokyo 2025
09:10 How Mondo Duplants won 5 Golds
10:11 How Faith Kipyegon won 5 Golds
11:41 How Ryan Crouser won 5 Golds
14:26 5 consecutive medals of any color
15:11 2026 World Ultimate Championships
16:03 Summary
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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden's put together one of the greatest seasons for a sprinter in history afer going undefeated in the 100m, winning 3 gold medals at the World Championships, and becoming oner of the fastest women in history over 100m and 200m. But how does her year compare to some other amazing sprinters throughout history who also left their marks in previous years.
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Full History of the 100/200/4x100 Sprint Triple: https://youtu.be/oToo1YOQHYo?si=bH-Di1oDCgTUwqgG
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00:00 Intro
01:11 Entering the 2025 Season
02:06 NCAA Season at Coastal Carolina
03:24 Early 2025 - Grand Slam Track
04:58 Melissa’s 200m career
05:44 2025 Prefontaine Classic
06:49 2025 USA Champs
07:14 2025 Silesia Diamond League
08:14 2025 Brussels Diamond League
08:29 Melissa’s 2025 Season Before Worlds
08:56 Melissa’s previous Championship experience
11:00 2025 Tokyo World Champs
12:35 Summary of Melissa’s 2025 Season
13:07 Other Legendary Sprint Seasons in history
13:26 The 1940s-1970s
14:13 The 1980s
15:15 The 1990s
17:18 The 2000s
17:48 The 2010s
19:38 The 2020s
22:06 Certain Exclusions
23:03 Overview
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The 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan have finally arrived and the best athletes in the world will take to the track, all fighting for a spot on the podium in Tokyo. Let’s preview the Men’s & Women’s Jumps and Multi events and who will win the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in each event.
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The 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan have finally arrived and the best athletes in the world will take to the track, all fighting for a spot on the podium in Tokyo. Let’s preview the Men’s & Women’s Hurdle events breakdown who will win the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in each event.
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The 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan have finally arrived and the best athletes in the world will take to the track, all fighting for a spot on the podium in Tokyo.
Let’s preview the Women's & Men's 400m and breakdown who will win the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.
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The 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan have finally arrived and the best athletes in the world will take to the track, all fighting for a spot on the podium in Tokyo.
Let’s preview the Women's 200m and breakdown who will win the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.
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The 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan have finally arrived and the best athletes in the world will take to the track, all fighting for a spot on the podium in Tokyo.
Let’s preview the Men's 200m and breakdown who will win the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals
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The 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan have finally arrived and the best athletes in the world will take to the track, all fighting for a spot on the podium in Tokyo.
Let’s preview the Women's 100m and breakdown who will win the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals
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The 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan have finally arrived and the best athletes in the world will take to the track, all fighting for a spot on the podium in Tokyo.
Let’s preview the Men’s 100m and breakdown who will win the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals
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Full Zurich Results: https://zurich.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results/
Citius Mag Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/70eINNmXl67VqorbTsMOaH
The 2025 Zurich Diamond League served as the final meet on the calendar for the Diamond League Season. Athletes were chasing fast times, wild cards to worlds, or just a confidence booster to cap off their season. Lets go through some of the top performances on the Men's side including Noah Lyles' win over Letsile Tebogo in the 200m, Jacory Patterson and Cordell Tinch's dominant races in the 400m and 110mH, respectively, as well as some redemption for Christian Coleman in the 100m.
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Full Zurich Results: https://zurich.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results/
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The 2025 Zurich Diamond League served as the final meet on the calendar for the Diamond League Season. Athletes were chasing fast times, wild cards to worlds, or just a confidence booster to cap off their season. Lets go through some of the top performances on the Women's side including Julien Alfred's 10.76, Salwa Eid Naser's 48.70, Ackera Nugent's 12.30, among others.
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Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo and Kenny Bednarek will be contesting the 100/200 Double in Tokyo. But can guys like Bryan Levell or Alex Ogando who will be running the 200m fresh and well rested actually take them down?
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Brussels DL Results: https://brussels.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results/
The 2025 Brussels Diamond league is the last "regular" season diamond league before the Dimaond League Final in Zurich next week. Though the sprint and hurdle fields may have seemed lighter when compared to Lausanne and Silesia, we still saw some amazing performances, including Melissa Jefferson-Wooden further cementing herself 100m gold medal favorite, Jacory Patterson dominating the 400m, or Perez-Hernandez and Velasco trading the lead throughout the Triple Jump.
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Full Lausanne results: https://lausanne.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results/
Despite pouring rain and tough conditions, the 2025 Lausanne Diamond League still saw some of the top athletes in the world take to the track and to the field to compete in one of the final meets ahead of the Tokyo World Championships. From Oblique Seville vs Noah Lyles in the 100m, to Brittany Brown in the 200m, to Nadine Visser vs Masai Russell in the 100mH. Lausanne was a good marker for athletes just ahead of Brussels Dl on Friday and the Diamond League Final next week.
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There have been various stories that have arisen in the Track & Field world over the past week. From Fred Kerley's provisional suspension, to Kishane, Shericka and Julien pulling out of Diamond League meets, to Grand Slam Track confirming the struggle to pay athletes. Let's dive in and discuss all these topics over the past week.Fred Kerley Suspension: https://citiusmag.com/articles/fred-kerley-suspended-anti-doping-violation-athletics-integrity-unitKishane pulls out of Diamond Leagues: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6560340/2025/08/18/kishane-thompson-diamond-league-withdrawal/Julien Alfred Saint Lucia Times: https://stluciatimes.com/172305/2025/08/alfred-rubbishes-injury-reports/Grand Slam Track statement: https://x.com/GrandSlamTrack/status/1956355107718643912Michael Johnson on Ready Set Go: https://youtu.be/ZMFB8nb49s0?si=guyUTOLiXTiguinQ
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2025 NACAC Full Results: https://tiempo.trackscoreboard.com/meets/677/events
The 2025 NACAC Championships capped off this past weekend and though many top athletes in the world did not participate, there were a few athletes who were looking for world ranking points to secure their spot at the Tokyo World Championships next month.
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The 2025 Silesia Diamond League produced some of the most high quality match-ups and performances we have seen all year. From Olympic Champion Masai Russell running the 3rd fastest time in 100mH history, to Karsten Warholm running the 3rd fastest time in 400mH History, to Femke Bol continuing her dominant 2025 season. Lets go through each of the hurdle events at the Silesia Diamond League.
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The 2025 Silesia Diamond League produced some of the most high quality match-ups and performances we have seen all year. From Noah vs Kishane racing for the first time since the Paris Olympics, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden running another 10.6 performance, or Marileidy Paulino running down Salwa Eid Naser in the final meters. Lets go through each of the sprint events, as well as the women's Long Jump, at the Silesia Diamond League.
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Full Meet Results: https://gyulaimemorial.hu/en/
The 2025 Hungary Continental was a warm up of sorts for the August Diamond League season, with some of the top stars competing in Budapest. From Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Kishane Thompson, to Femke Bol and Nadine Visser, lets quickly breakdown some of the sprint, hurdle and jump results from this past Tuesday.
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