Competing in the 200m, Dominican sprinter Alexander Ogando placed sixth in the final of the World Athletics Championship (Tokyo, Japan), clocking in at 20.01. His personal best is 19.86.
The final runners were:
Noah Lyles (USA) 19.52
Kenneth Bednarek (USA) 19.58
Bryan Levell (JAM) 19.64
Letsile Tebogo (BOT) 19.65
Zharnel Hughes (GRB) 19.78
Alexander Ogando (DOM) 20.01
Tapiwanashe Makarawu (ZIM) 20.12
Sinesipho Dambile (RSA) 20.23
They competed in the World Athletics Championships that gathered 1,992 athletes from 193 different countries and were held in Tokyo, Japan from 13-21 September 2025. The athletes competed to full crowds at the Olympic Stadium. It was the same Olympic Stadium built for the 2020 Olympic Games that because of the Covid-19 was empty for the track and field events when the Japanese Olympics were held in 2021.
Ogando had been ranked fourth in the event coming into the 200m race in Tokyo, with a shot at winning a medal.
Ogando is coached by the Dominican Republic’s two-time gold medal Olympian Felix Sanchez.
For the Dominican Republic, the best performance at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships was delivered by Paris Olympic Games winner Marileidy Paulino, who was the top-ranked athlete for the 400m race. Paulino ran one of the best 400m flat races ever, clocking in at 47.98 seconds, the third fastest time to date, and more than a full second faster than her winning time in Paris two years earlier.
Her 47.98 time was not enough to beat Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States who won the 400m in a time of 47.78 – the second-fastest time in history – to become the only athlete in World Championships history to win gold medals in the 400m (2025) and 400m hurdles (2022). The world record is held by East German Marita Koch at 47.60, set in 1985 at the World Cup.
A total of 619,288 fans attended the World Championships in Tokyo – more than the 581,462 who were there for the Tokyo 1991 World Championships – with sell-out evening sessions across the week.
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Noticias SIN
22 September 2025