Drake Relays Alumni Boast 16 Complete Medals at 2025 World Athletics Championships

TOKYO, Japan – The 2025 World Athletics Championships lately wrapped competitors in Tokyo with over 60 Drake Relays alumni competing throughout a number of disciplines. The world influence of America’s Athletic Classic was showcased together with 16 whole medals and 6 golds. Team USA additionally included marathoner Reed Fischer, a Drake University alumnus.
Five-time Drake Relays champion and 2024 Relays Hall of Fame inductee Ryan Crouser claimed his third consecutive world title within the shot put. One of final yr’s Relays stars, lengthy soar champion and document holder Tara Davis-Woodhall, backed up her earlier Olympic gold with one other prime spot in Tokyo.
Katie Moon, the 2021 Drake Relays runner-up, received her third straight world championship within the pole vault, edging out silver medalist and fellow alumna Sandi Morris, a four-time Relays title winner.
Former Drake Relays standouts additionally chipped in on a pair of gold medal-winning relay groups as Kenny Bednarek and Courtney Lindsey, two junior faculty stars, powered Team USA to a 4×100 gold. Lee Eppie of Botswana, who earned a Relays flag in 2021, led his residence nation to a championship within the 4×400.
Bednarek additionally earned a silver medal within the males’s 200. American thrower Chase Jackson, a Relays champion in 2023, earned silver within the girls’s shot put whereas fellow Team USA consultant Vernon Norwood additionally helped his squad to a silver within the males’s 4×400 relay.
Canadian legend and 2018 Drake Relays alum Andre De Grasse anchored his nationwide relay crew to a second-place end within the 4×100. Hurdlers Alison dos Santos of Brazil, the Drake Relays document holder, and Tobi Amusan of Nigeria, a former Relays runner-up, took silver within the males’s 400 hurdles and girls’s 100 hurdles, respectively.
Curtis Thompson ended an 18-year American medal drought with a bronze within the javelin. Thompson took silver in the identical occasion on the a hundred and fifteenth Drake Relays in April. Fellow American Taliyah Brooks tied for the bronze within the heptathlon. She equaled Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson with 6,581 factors. 2017 Drake Relays collegiate champion Alex Rose additionally made historical past as the primary Samoan to medal in monitor and discipline with a bronze within the males’s discus.
Elsewhere, native Iowan and 2025 Drake Relays girls’s mile runner-up Shelby Houlihan completed fourth within the girls’s 5k for her finest world end. Nico Young positioned sixth within the males’s 5k. In the ladies’s 200m sprint, Americans Anavia Battle and Brittany Brown each superior to the ultimate, finally ending fourth and sixth, respectively. 400 hurdles alumnae Dalilah Muhammad, Anna Cockrell, Gianna Woodruff, and Shiann Salmon all reached the ladies’s last with Cockrell, the 2023 Drake Relays champion, ending fourth.
While not a medalist, Reed Fischer ran within the males’s marathon on the World Athletics Championships. Fischer, a former Bulldog student-athlete, final represented Team USA on the 2023 World Road Running Championships and posted a season beat time of two:15.17 to take twenty eighth place in Tokyo.