2025 World Athletics Championships – Women's 10,000 metres
| Women's 10,000 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships | ||||||||||
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| Venue | National Stadium | |||||||||
| Location | Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||
| Dates | 13 September | |||||||||
| Competitors | 27 from 14 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 30:37.61 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The women's 10,000 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 13 September 2025.[1]
Summary
Gudaf Tsegay returned as the defending champion after leading a dramatic Ethiopian sweep when Sifan Hassan blew up on the home stretch. There was to be no Hassan factor in this Championships because she chose to focus her efforts winning the Sydney Marathon a couple of weeks earlier but after setting the world record last year, Beatrice Chebet's strength and speed might be more foreboding. Chebet didn't have a fast 10,000 on her record for 2025 but became the first woman to break 14 minutes in the 5000. The world leader was Janeth Chepngetich. 2023 bronze medalist Ejgayehu Taye returned, and Nadia Battocletti took silver at the Olympics behind Chebet after Hassan got stuck in traffic.
This was a championship race in the Tokyo heat and humidity, not a world record attempt, so they wouldn't be crushing it. Ririka Hironaka was given some camera time in front of the home crowd for the first eight laps with the major contenders watching from the front of the pack. Then Agnes Ngetich went to the front, dropping the pace from 74 second laps to 71's. The field strung out. In the next 3 laps the pack went from 24 to 7. Chebet even came to the front to push the 14th lap in 68. It was down to Ngetich, Chebet, Taye, Tsegay and Battocletti. Looing around the 16th lap slowed to a 73 anticipating the work to come. Then they went back to 68, Taye cranked the 18th lap in 66 but backed off. They settled for a few 69s, with the 22nd lap slowing to 77 as the competitors were sizing each other up. Three laps to go and no breakaway seemed to be handing the race to Chebet. With a kilometer to go, Tsegay came from the back of the group to push the pace, Taye couldn't hang on but the other three did. Tsegay pushed the next two laps, checking back but seeing she had achieved no separation. As soon as they crossed the 200 metre start line, Chebet took off. Only Battocletti went with her. Battocletti kept the gap to a metre through the turn, but then it became two and three. Chebet made it five by the finish line. Tsegay held on for bronze.[2][3][4]
Records
Before the competition records were as follows:[5]
| Record | Athlete & Nat. | Perf. | Location | Date |
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| World record |  Beatrice Chebet (KEN)
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28:54.14 | Eugene, United States | 25 May 2024 |
| Championship record |  Berhane Adere (ETH)
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30:04.18 | Saint-Denis, France | 23 August 2003 |
| World Leading | Janeth Chepngetich (KEN)
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30:27.02 | Nairobi, Kenya | 22 July 2025 |
| African Record | Beatrice Chebet (KEN)
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28:54.14 | Eugene, United States | 25 May 2024 |
| Asian Record |  Wang Junxia (CHN)
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29:31.78 | Beijing, China | 8 September 1993 |
| European Record |  Sifan Hassan (NED)
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29:06.82 | Hengelo, Netherlands | 6 June 2021 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record |  Alicia Monson (USA)
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30:03.82 | San Juan Capistrano, United States | 4 March 2023 |
| Oceanian record | .svg.png){kind=small} Rose Davies (AUS)
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30:34.11 | Oslo, Norway | 11 June 2025 |
| South American Record |  Florencia Borelli (ARG)
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31:33.07 | San Juan Capistrano, United States | 16 March 2024 |
Qualification standard
The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 30:20.00.[6]
Schedule
The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows:[1]
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| 13 September | 21:30 | Final |
Final
The final started on 13 September at 21:31.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Beatrice Chebet | Kenya |
30:37.61 | |
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Nadia Battocletti |  Italy |
30:38.23 | NR |
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Gudaf Tsegay | Ethiopia |
30:39.65 | SB |
| 4 | Agnes Jebet Ngetich | Kenya |
30:42.66 | |
| 5 | Ejgayehu Taye | Ethiopia |
30:55.52 | SB |
| 6 | Ririka Hironaka |  Japan |
31:09.62 | |
| 7 | Joy Cheptoyek |  Uganda |
31:15.03 | |
| 8 | Fotyen Tesfay | Ethiopia |
31:21.67 | SB |
| 9 | Lauren Ryan |  Australia |
31:27.78 | |
| 10 | Megan Keith |  Great Britain & N.I. |
31:33.85 | |
| 11 | Calli Thackery | Great Britain & N.I. |
31:37.81 | |
| 12 | Elise Cranny | United States |
31:40.07 | |
| 13 | Jana van Lent | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
31:44.05 | |
| 14 | Emily Infeld | United States |
31:47.65 | |
| 15 | Klara Lukan |  Slovenia |
31:49.76 | |
| 16 | Daisy Jepkemei |  Kazakhstan |
31:49.87 | |
| 17 | Isobel Batt-Doyle | Australia |
31:53.41 | |
| 18 | Taylor Roe | United States |
32:12.19 | |
| 19 | Elisa Palmero | Italy |
32:12.72 | |
| 20 | Mikuni Yada | Japan |
32:28.94 | |
| 21 | Tsigie Gebreselama | Ethiopia |
32:33.73 | SB |
| 22 | Francine Niyomukunzi |  Burundi |
32:52.59 | |
| 23 | Eva Dieterich |  Germany |
33:46.76 | |
| 24 | Núbia Silva |  Brazil |
36:00.21 | |
| — | Rebecca Chelangat | Uganda |
DNF | |
| Sarah Chelangat | Uganda |
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| Janeth Chepngetich | Kenya |
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References
- ^ a b "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - Women 10,000 Metres". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ^ https://worldathletics.org/results/world-athletics-championships/2025/world-athletics-championships-tokyo-2025-7190593/women/10000-metres/final/split
- ^ https://www.nbcolympics.com/videos/chebet-wins-10000m-track-and-field-world-title-tokyo
- ^ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250913-kenya-s-chebet-wins-10-000m-gold-to-set-up-tilt-at-world-double
- ^ "10,000 Metres Women − Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ^ "Women's 10,000 metres - Final results" (PDF). World Athletics. 13 September 2025.
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