The 9th and last day of the ’25 Track & Field World Championships in Tokyo featured four Golazo-managed athletes, with all of them competing in their respective relay or individual event finals.
In the women’s 800m final, Mary Moraa set a very fast pace from the get-go, completing the first lap in under 56 seconds. In contrast, Sarah Moraa stayed in the back of the pack in 7th place until they hit the home stretch, at which point she started to move through the field, to ultimately finish 4th in a new personal best of 1:55.74. Mary Moraa finished 7th in a season best time of 1:57.10. While Sarah Moraa captured the 800m title at last year’s junior world championships, this was her first full season as a professional. Her new personal best time puts her in 4th on this season’s women’s 800m world performers chart, while she also moves to 3rd on the all-time Kenyan women’s 800m performers listing, behind Pamela Jelimo (1:54.01) and Tokyo winner Lilian Odiro (1:54.82).
In the women’s 4 x 400m relay final, held in pouring rain, Imke Vervaet (second leg) and Helena Ponette (anchor leg), again joined Naomi van den Broeck (first leg) and Camille Laus (third leg) to represent Belgium. The quartet finished in 4th place with a time of 3:22.15, just 0.03 sec off the national record, but once again demonstrating they belong among the world’s elite 4x400m relay teams. This was the third straight year that the Belgian women’s 4 x 400m relay team – with Vervaet and Ponette as members – competed in a global championship final (7th in the 2024 Paris OG 4 x 400m final; 5th in the 2023 Budapest WC 4 x 400m final).
Also competing on Day 9 was Marel Maes, who finished 10th in the women’s high jump final with a clearance of 193 cm. This was her first global championship final competition (she also competed in the 2023 world championships in Budapest) and her season best clearance of 197 cm puts her in 9th place on the 2025 high jump world performers chart.