On the Internationales Abendsportfest in Pfungstadt, Germany on Wednesday, Justin O’Toole, 23, ran 1:44.42 to win the lads’s 800m occasion, which is simply contained in the world qualifying normal of 1:44.50. This implies Canada might conceivably ship all 4 of its qualifying athletes to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo subsequent month, underneath a particular rule that enables nations to ship yet one more than the same old three.
Justin O’Toole lastly received the 800m world championship normal.
Which means all 4 Canadians is perhaps heading to Tokyo: Marco Arop (defending world champion), Abdullahi Hassan, Matti Erickson & now Justin O’Toole. https://t.co/GcuHEmwyaw
— Spot Athlete (@SpotAthlete) August 20, 2025
Canada’s Marco Arop has an computerized Wild Card entry, because the defending world 800m champion from 2023. Underneath World Athletics’ Qualification System and Entry Requirements for World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, having a Wild Card entry permits a nation to enter a fourth athlete in that occasion. (It additionally meant Arop didn’t should make the qualifying normal or win his nationwide championship, however he did each.)
With three different Canadian athletes having achieved the world normal (Arop’s coaching accomplice Abdullahi Hassan, Kootenay, B.C.’s Matti Erickson and now O’Toole), it’s potential these 4 Canadian males might all be named to Group Canada for Tokyo.
O’Toole, who was born in Montreal and attended Columbia Faculty (which is a part of Columbia College), completed second behind Arop on the Canadian Monitor and Discipline Championships in Ottawa earlier this month, closing arduous within the ultimate stretch and pushing Arop to the road.
Hassan hit the usual at NACAC within the Bahamas on the weekend, working 1:44.25, whereas Erickson squeaked underneath the usual with 1:44.49 on the Sound Working Sundown Tour in Los Angeles on July 14.
Arop additionally raced Wednesday, at Lausanne Diamond League, the place he completed fifth, in 1:43.91. The meet was tormented by downpours all through the day; see beneath for extra.
The qualification interval for the world championships closes on Aug. 24.
Keeley Hodgkinson will get assembly document at Lausanne Diamond League
Additionally at Lausanne Diamond League on Wednesday, British 800m runner Keely Hodgkinson solidified her comeback with a dominant win and assembly document, crossing the road in 1:55.69, only a few days after setting a commanding world lead of 1:54.74 at Silesia Diamond League. At Lausanne on Wednesday, she completed virtually two seconds forward of Switzerland’s Audrey Werro in second place (1:57.34) and Georgia Hunter Bell, additionally of the U.Okay., in third (1:57.55).
Jamaica’s Indirect Seville went sub-10 to upset Olympic gold medallist Noah Lyles, within the pouring rain; Indirect received the meet with 9.87, whereas Lyles ran 10.02. Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake was third, additionally in 10.02.
For outcomes from the Internationales Abendsportfest, click on right here. For outcomes from the Lausanne Diamond League, click on right here.
