On the worldwide night sports activities competition in Pfungstadt, Germany on Wednesday, Justin O’Toole, 23, ran 1:44.42 to win the boys’s 800m occasion, which is simply contained in the world qualifying commonplace 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, beneath a particular rule that permits international locations to ship another than the same old three.
Justin O’Toole lastly acquired the 800m world championship commonplace.
Which means all 4 Canadians could be 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 25having a Wild Card entry permits a nation to enter a fourth athlete in that occasion. (It additionally meant Arop didn’t need to make the qualifying commonplace or win his nationwide championship, however he did each.)
With three different Canadian athletes having achieved the world commonplace (Arop’s coaching accomplice Abdullahi Hassan, Kootenay, B.C.’s Matti Erickson and now O’Toole), it’s doable these 4 Canadian males might all be named to Group Canada for Tokyo.
O’Toolewho was born in Montreal and attended Columbia Faculty (which is a part of Columbia College), completed second behind Arop on the Canadian Observe and Discipline Championships in Ottawa earlier this month, closing exhausting within the last stretch and pushing Arop to the road.
Hassan hit the usual at NACAC within the Bahamas on the weekend, operating 1:44.25, whereas Erickson squeaked beneath the usual with 1:44.49 on the Sound Operating 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 qualification interval for the world championships closes on Aug. 24.
Keeley Hodgkinson will get assembly file 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 file, 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 nearly two seconds forward of Switzerland’s Audrey Werro in second place (1:57.34) and Georgia Hunter Belladditionally of the U.Ok., in third (1:57.55).
For outcomes from the Internationales Abendsportfest, click on right here. For outcomes from the Lausanne Diamond League, click on right here.
