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After nine days of top-tier athletics, we wave goodbye to both the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the National Athletics Centre in Budapest. We’ve seen ups, downs, highs and lows as the best in the business have given their all in the name of sporting glory. For one last time at these championships, we take a look back at the day’s results and what a day it was.
Dutch delight rounds off the Championships
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The final event of the 2023 World Championship was the 4×400 women’s relay, which gave the crowd one final chance to see the fantastic Femke Bol, who just a few days earlier dazzled spectators with a breathtakingly dominant win in the women’s 400 metres hurdles.
The Dutch didn’t get off to the fastest start, and by the time that Femke Bol picked up the baton ahead of the final leg, she was left with lots of ground to make up on Great Britain’s Nicole Yeargin, who was some way off runaway leader Stacy Ann Williams, who appeared to be on her way to collecting the gold for Jamaica. Deep into the final 10o metres of the race, Bol continued to close the gap, passing Yeargin for the silver. The flying Dutch woman wasn’t content with that, though, oh no, and in the style of a true champion, she found more to run down the long-time leader in the final strides, securing the gold for her team. An astonishing comeback from an athlete who is rapidly on her way to becoming an all-time great. Jamaica settled for silver, while Great Britain & Northern Ireland picked up another bronze.
There was another medal for Team GB in the men’s 4×400, as Alex Haydock-Wilson, Charles Dobson, Lewis Davey and Rio Mitcham ran their hearts out to take third behind the French, who were just no match for a very, very strong USA team that contained Quincy Hall, Vernon Norwood, Justin Robinson and Rai Benjamin.
On a night of finals, Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson produced a superb effort to take silver in the women’s 800 metres. The Team GB athlete came with a late run up the inside and for a second, it looked as though she may hit the front, but down the outside came the strong-finishing Mary Moraa of Kenya, who proved just too good, forging ahead near the line. A fine effort nonetheless from the 21-year-old, who looks set for bigger and better things.
Results for day nine of the World Athletics Championships
Below are the results from the events which concluded on day eight. To avoid any confusion, these are the results from events where medals were awarded after a final took place on the final day of the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
Men’s marathon final
- Victor Kiplangat (Uganda)
- Marhu Teferi (Israel)
- Leul Gebresilase (Ethiopia)
Women’s high jump final
- Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine)
- Eleanor Patterson (Australia)
- Nicola Olyslagers (Australia)
Men’s javelin throw final
- Neeraj Chopra (India)
- Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan)
- Jakub Vadlejch (Czech Republic)
Men’s 5000 metres final
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway)
- Mohamed Katir (Spain)
- Jacob Krop (Kenya)
Women’s 800 metres final
- Mary Moraa (Kenya)
- Keely Hodgkinson (Great Britain)
- Athing Mu (USA)
Women’s 3000 metres steeplechase final
- Winfred Mutile Yavi (Bahrain)
- Beatrice Chepkoech (Kenya)
- Faith Cherotich (Kenya)
Men’s 4×400 metres relay final
- USA
- France
- Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Women’s 4×400 metres relay final
- Netherlands
- Jamaica
- Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Final medal table for the 2023 Athletics World Championships
Now that the competition is done and dusted, we know what the final medal table looks like. For some time, we’ve known that the US would be leaving Budapest with more medals than any other nation, as if so often the case as these major competitions, but who else thrived. Let’s take a look at the final medal table.
- USA – 29 Medals – 12 Gold, 8 Silver, 9 Bronze
- Canada – 6 Medals – 4 Gold, 2 Silver
- Spain – 5 Medals – 4 Gold, 1 Silver
- Jamaica – 12 Medals – 3 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze
- Kenya – 10 Medals – 3 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze
- Ethiopia – 9 Medals – 2 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze
- Great Britain & Northern Ireland – 10 Medals – 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 5 Bronze
- Netherlands – 5 Medals – 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze
- Norway – 4 Medals – 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
- Sweden – 3 Medals 2 Gold, 1 Silver
- Uganda – 2 Medals – 2 Golds
- Australia – 6 Medals – 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze
- Italy – 4 Medals – 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze
- Ukraine – 2 Medals – 1 Gold, 1 Silver
- Greece – 2 Medals – 1 Gold, 1 Bronze
- Japan – 2 Medals – 1 Gold, 1 Bronze
- Morocco – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- Burkina Faso – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- Bahrain – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- India – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- Serbia – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- Uganda – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- Venezuela – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- Dominican Republic – 1 Medal – 1 Gold
- Poland – 2 Medals – 2 Silvers
- Cuba – 3 Medals – 1 Silver, 2 Bronze
- Botswana – 2 Medal – 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
- Colombia – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- Slovenia – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- France – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- Israel – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- British Virgin Islands – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- Peru – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- Pakistan – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- Philippines – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- Puerto Rico – 1 Medal – 1 Silver
- Brazil – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Czech Republic – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- China – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Hungary – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Lithuania – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Romania – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Qatar – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Grenada – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Finland – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Japan – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
- Barbados – 1 Medal – 1 Bronze
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