Tokyo 2025: Pryce into women’s 400m final

Nickisha Pryce will be the only Jamaican competing for a medal in the women’s 400m finals at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

September 16, 2025

TOKYO, Japan — National champion and record holder Nickisha Pryce will be the only Jamaican in what is expected to be a scintillating women’s 400m final at the World Athletics Championships after advancing with a season’s best 49.46 seconds in the semi-finals in Tokyo, Japan.

It was Pryce’s fourth fastest time ever and third fastest of the round as she finished third in her semi-final, behind a phenomenal world-leading and American record 48.29 seconds from Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, while Great Britain’s Amber Anning ran 49.38 seconds and was second.

Dejanae Oakley ran 51.42 seconds for seventh in her semi-final and Stacey-An Williams ran 50.39 seconds for fifth in her semi-final, both failing to advance.

— Paul Reid

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