USA
2025
Sixteen golds, a triple crown, a championship record in the flat 400 and a fourth straight 200 title — and one relay lost by seven hundredths.
The United States led the Tokyo 2025 World Championships with 26 medals — 16 golds, 5 silvers, 5 bronzes — more than double the total of second-placed Kenya, with Melissa Jefferson-Wooden taking three of them and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone running 47.78 in the flat 400, a championship and American record.
This is the season plotted on a stadium: eleven golds on the track, five in the infield, and one silver outside the oval — the men's 4×400, lost to Botswana by 0.07. Plus the Nike USA 2025 kit, one piece of which is in this archive.
Part of our Season Series — one year at a time. The full national story is in The History of Athletics in the USA. Jump to the 2025 kit or browse the collection.
- The championships
- Tokyo, 13–21 Sep 2025
- The haul
- 26 medals: 16 golds, 5 silvers, 5 bronzes — more than double second-placed Kenya
- The triple
- Jefferson-Wooden: 100 (10.61 CR), 200 (21.68) and the 4×100 — second woman ever, after Fraser-Pryce
- The 400
- McLaughlin-Levrone 47.78 — championship record (erasing 47.99 from 1983), American record, 2nd fastest ever
- The 200
- Lyles 19.52, a fourth straight world title — only Bolt had done it; bronze in the 100 (9.89)
- The comeback
- Hocker: disqualified in the 1500, then 5000 m champion (12:58.30) — first American since Lagat, 2007
- The relays
- 4 golds of 5; the men's 4×400 lost to Botswana by 0.07 — the first African title in the event
- Kit
- Nike — USATF's apparel sponsor under contract to 2040
Sixteen Golds, One Stadium
The United States left the Tokyo 2025 World Championships with 26 medals — 16 golds, 5 silvers, 5 bronzes — a gold count no American team had reached at these championships, and more than double the total of second-placed Kenya. Plotted on a stadium, eleven of those golds sit on the track and five in the infield.
Positions are editorial, not surveyed: track golds sit on the ring, field golds inside it. Hover or tab on a dot. Sources: Wikipedia, United States at the 2025 World Athletics Championships; World Athletics reports. Verified August 2026.
The sixteen golds (table)
| Event | Athlete / team | Mark |
|---|---|---|
| Shot put | Ryan Crouser | 22.34 |
| Discus | Valarie Allman | 69.48 |
| Long jump | Tara Davis-Woodhall | 7.13 |
| 100 m | Melissa Jefferson-Wooden | 10.61 CR |
| 110 m hurdles | Cordell Tinch | 12.99 |
| Pole vault | Katie Moon | 4.90 |
| 400 m | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone | 47.78 CR |
| 400 m hurdles | Rai Benjamin | 46.52 |
| 200 m (men) | Noah Lyles | 19.52 |
| 200 m (women) | Melissa Jefferson-Wooden | 21.68 |
| Heptathlon | Anna Hall | 6888 |
| 5000 m | Cole Hocker | 12:58.30 |
| 4×400 women | USA | 3:16.61 CR |
| 4×100 women | USA | 41.75 |
| 4×100 men | USA | 37.29 |
| 4×400 mixed | USA | 3:08.80 CR |
| The one that got away | 4×400 men — silver | 2:57.83, behind Botswana's 2:57.76 |
Three of them belong to one woman. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the 100 in a championship-record 10.61, the 200 in 21.68, and anchored the 4×100 to 41.75: the first American woman to do the world sprint double, and only the second woman ever to take all three in one championships, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Nobody else in Tokyo won three.
The Four That Will Be Remembered
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone stepped off the hurdles and won the flat 400 in the rain in 47.78 — a championship record that erased Jarmila Kratochvílová's 47.99 from 1983, an American record, and the second-fastest time in history, 0.18 from Marita Koch's 47.60. Marileidy Paulino ran 47.98 for silver and lost.
Noah Lyles ran 19.52 for a fourth consecutive world 200 metres title — only Usain Bolt had done that — after taking bronze in the 100 in 9.89. Cole Hocker was disqualified from the 1500 in mid-week and came back to win the 5000 in 12:58.30, the first American world champion at the distance since Bernard Lagat in 2007. And away from the championships, in June, Chase Jackson threw 20.95 for an American shot put record, the best mark in the world since 2013; in Tokyo she took silver, beaten by Jessica Schilder's last throw.
The relays gave four golds out of five, and the exception was historic in someone else's favour: the men's 4×400 lost to Botswana by 0.07, 2:57.76 to 2:57.83 — the first African world title in the event, with South Africa third in the same time as the Americans.
From this season · in the archiveNike USA Pro Elite 2025 Women Half Zip JerseyNike USA half-zip from the 2025 allocation — team issue from the championships that produced sixteen golds.200,00 €View piece →The Nike USATF Kit — Under Contract to 2040
The kit question here has an unusually long answer: Nike is USATF's exclusive apparel sponsor for World Championships and Olympic Games under an agreement announced in 2014 that runs to 2040. Whatever else changes in this sport, the American vest has a supplier locked in for another fourteen years.
Nike outfits USATF at global championships under a contract running to 2040. The archive's piece is from the 2025 allocation — the season of the sixteen golds.
The previous chapter of this same series — the Budapest team of two years earlier — is in our USA 2023 season page, and the full arc is in our history of athletics in the USA.
USA 2025
One piece from the American team's 2025 allocation — Nike team issue from the championships that produced sixteen golds, on a rail that runs back through 2019 and 2023.
How many medals did the USA win at the 2025 World Championships?
Twenty-six: 16 golds, 5 silvers and 5 bronzes — leading the table by more than double the total of second-placed Kenya.
Who was the star of the American team in Tokyo 2025?
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the only athlete with three golds: the 100 in a championship-record 10.61, the 200 in 21.68 and the 4×100. She is the first American woman to win the world sprint double and only the second woman, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, to take all three in one championships.
What did Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone run in the 400?
47.78 — a championship record that erased Jarmila Kratochvílová's 47.99 from 1983, an American record and the second-fastest time in history, 0.18 off Marita Koch's world record.
What kit does the USA team wear?
Nike, USATF's exclusive apparel sponsor for World Championships and Olympic Games under an agreement running to 2040. The USA collection holds pieces from the 2025 allocation.
Sources and References
- Wikipedia — United States at the 2025 World Championships — the medal table and all sixteen golds with marks
- World Athletics — Jefferson-Wooden’s triple — the three golds and the historical context
- CNN — McLaughlin-Levrone’s 47.78 — the championship record and the margin to Koch
- World Athletics — the men’s 4×400 report — Botswana’s 2:57.76 and the American silver
- LetsRun — the USATF–Nike agreement to 2040 — the apparel contract that runs to 2040