Global gold medallists maintain reign in Tokyo
19th September 2025Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Femke Bol and Pedro Pichardo timed their season peaks to perfection to get gold on day seven of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, while Noah Lyles and Rai Benjamin joined them in adding more honours to their collections.
Jefferson-Wooden completed a sprint double on Friday (19), adding the 200m title in a world-leading PB of 21.68 to her 100m win, while Bol and Lyles retained their 400m hurdles and 200m titles, respectively, and Benjamin added 400m hurdles gold to his Olympic crown.
Pichardo may not have been a reigning champion, but his triple jump triumph in front of a passionate crowd of more than 58,000 was a second global title win for him in Tokyo, following his Olympic gold from 2021.
Spectator figures on day seven:
Evening session: 58,643
News article: Mondotrack Ellipse Impulse: the sustainable athletics track of the future
Since 1987, Mondo and World Athletics have worked together to promote the growth of athletics through passion and innovation. Mondo’s position as an Official Supplier of World Athletics has allowed both organisations to share their experience and technical expertise with each other, leading to the creation of athletics tracks and equipment at the cutting edge of the sector.
From developing Sportflex™ in the early 1970s, the first fabricated surface for athletics tracks based on natural and synthetic rubber, to becoming one of the first companies to obtain the ‘World Athletics Certified Athletic Track Products’ certification in 1999, Mondo has now created Mondotrack® Ellipse Impulse, a new sustainable athletics track. The surface has been developed with particular attention to the elastic response of the surface, essential to guaranteeing maximum athletic performance.
The athletics track was used at the Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, where 14 Olympic records and 90 Paralympic records were broken. Mondo athletics tracks have now been used for 13 Olympic Games and 15 World Athletics Championships, most recently at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.