The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 13 September 2025.
Records Before the competition, records were as follows:
Record Athlete & Location Date World record(Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon, Kaylyn Brown) 3:07.41 Paris, France 2 August 2024 Championship record (Justin Robinson, Rosey Effiong, Matthew Boling, Alexis Holmes) 3:08.80 Budapest, Hungary 19 August 2023 World leading (Maksymilian Szwed, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Daniel Sołtysiak, Natalia Bukowiecka) 3:09.43 Madrid, Spain 29 June 2025 African record (Zablon Ekhal Ekwam, Mary Moraa, Kelvin Sane Tauta, Mercy Chebet) 3:11.88 Nairobi, Kenya 15 June 2024 Asian record (Musa Isah, Aminat Jamal, Salwa Eid Naser, Abbas Abubakar Abbas) 3:11.82 Doha, Qatar 29 September 2019 European record (Eugene Omalla, Lieke Klaver, Isaya Klein Ikkink, Femke Bol) 3:07.43 Paris, France 3 August 2024 North, Central American and Caribbean record(Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon, Kaylyn Brown) 3:07.41 2 August 2024 South American record (Nicolás Salinas, Lina Licona, Daniel Balanta, Evelis Aguilar) 3:14.42 Bogotá, Colombia 5 April 2025 Oceanian record (Luke van Ratingen, Ellie Beer, Terrell Thorne, Carla Bull) 3:17.00 Guangzhou, China 11 May 2025
Qualification standard First fourteen placed teams at the 2025 World Athletics Relays and the next two highest placed team on year top list.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: Date Time Round13 September 11:40 Round 120:20 Final
Results Round 1 The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final.
+ Results of round 1 Place Heat Nation Athletes Notes 1 1 Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah McKiver, Alexis Holmes 3:10.18 2 1 Lewis Davey, Nicole Yeargin, Toby Harries, Yemi Mary John 3:10.22 3 2 Jonathan Sacoor, Imke Vervaet, Dylan Borlée, Helena Ponette 3:10.37 , 4 2 Eugene Omalla, Lieke Klaver, Jonas Phijffers, Eveline Saalberg 3:11.11 , 5 2 Maksymilian Szwed, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Kajetan Duszyński, Anna Gryc 3:11.15 6 1 Gardeo Isaacs, Miranda Coetzee, Leendert Koekemoer, Zenéy van der Walt 3:11.16 , 7 1 Edoardo Scotti, Anna Polinari, Vladimir Aceti, Alice Mangione 3:11.20 8 1 Kenki Imaizumi, Abigeirufuka Ido, Takuho Yoshizu, Nanako Matsumoto 3:12.08 , 9 2 Bernat Erta, Paula Sevilla, Julio Arenas, Blanca Hervás 3:12.57 10 2 Luke van Ratingen, Mia Gross, Thomas Reynolds, Carla Bull 3:13.46 11 1 Jack Raftery, Sophie Becker, Conor Kelly, Sharlene Mawdsley 3:13.59 12 1 Manuel Sanders, Johanna Martin, Emil Agyekum, 3:13.61 13 1 Jevaughn Powell, Dejanea Oakley, Zandrion Barnes, Leah Anderson 3:13.96 14 2 Liang Baotang, Mo Jiadie, Liu Kai, Liu Yinglan 3:13.96 15 2 Predea Manounou, Fanny Peltier, Téo Andant, Alexe Déau 3:14.02 16 1 Austin Cole, Jasneet Nijjar, , Alyssa Marsh 3:18.94 2 Brian Tinega, Mercy Oketch, Allan Kipyego, Mary Moraa
Final Gardeo Isaacs put South Africa in the lead after the first leg of the race, with the United States' Bryce Deadmon in second and Belgium's Dylan Borlée in third. During the second leg, the United States' Lynna Irby-Jackson moved into the lead. Poland's Natalia Bukowiecka was in second, and Belgium's Imke Vervaet and the Netherlands' Lieke Klaver were tied for third. During the third leg, Jenoah McKiver increased the United States' lead to over one second. Belgium's Alexander Doom was in second, Poland's Kajetan Duszyński was in third, and the Netherlands' Jonas Phijffers was in fourth."Results". worldathletics.org. 13 September 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2025. During the final leg, Alexis Holmes kept the lead, and the United States won the gold medal with a time of 3:08.80, equaling the championship record they set in 2023.Mulkeen, Jon. "USA retains world title with dominant mixed 4x400m display in Tokyo". worldathletics.org. 13 September 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2025. The Netherlands' Femke Bol passed Belgium's Helena Ponette and Poland's Justyna Święty-Ersetic, and the Dutch won silver at 3:09.96. Belgium won bronze at 3:10.61 after Ponette beat Święty-Ersetic to the finish line by two-hundredths of a second.
+ Results of the final Rank Lane Nation Athletes Notes 5 Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah McKiver, Alexis Holmes 3:08.80 =CR 7 Eugene Omalla, Lieke Klaver, Jonas Phijffers, Femke Bol 3:09.96 8 Dylan Borlée, Imke Vervaet, Alexander Doom, Helena Ponette 3:10.61 4 9 Maksymilian Szwed, Natalia Bukowiecka, Kajetan Duszyński, Justyna Święty-Ersetic 3:10.63 5 6 Lewis Davey, Emily Newnham, Toby Harries, Nicole Yeargin 3:10.84 6 4 Gardeo Isaacs, Shirley Nekhubui, Leendert Koekemoer, Zenéy van der Walt 3:11.89 7 2 Luca Sito, Anna Polinari, Vladimir Aceti, Alice Mangione 3:15.82 8 3 Takuho Yoshizu, Abigeirufuka Ido, Kenki Imaizumi, Nanako Matsumoto 3:17.53
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