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World Athletics medal table – and what's on Wednesday?

Wednesday is day five of the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Great Britain could win their first medal of the championships, with defending champion Josh Kerr in action in the 1500m final alongside 2022 champion Jake Wightman and Neil Gourley.

Medals are also on the line in women's pole vault, men's long jump, and the women's 3,000m steeplechase.

Elsewhere, there's plenty of British names to look out for on the track.

Daryll Neita, Amy Hunt and Dina Asher-Smith are in action in the women's 200m heats while Zharnel Hughes and Toby Harries are competing in the men's equivalent.

The men's 400m hurdles semi-finals will feature Tyri Donovan and Alastair Chalmers while Emily Newnham is in the women's 400m hurdles semi-finals.

Cole Hocker breaks silence after being disqualified in 1500m at World Athletics Championships

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The Olympic champion will not compete in Wednesday’s 1500m final after being penalised for ‘jostling’ with Germany’s Robert Farken

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Cole Hocker admits he is “extremely disappointed” after the Olympic champion was disqualified in the 1500m at the World Athletics Championships.

The Team USA star was judged to have illegally pushed past Germany’s Robert Farken during the semi-finals on Monday, falling foul over “jostling” rules (TR17.1.2[J]).

Olympic champ Hocker DQ'd from 1,500 at worlds after squeeze through the pack is ruled 'jostling'

Kenya’s Reynold Cheruiyot competes with United States’ Cole Hocker, Spain’s Adrian Ben and other athletes in a men’s 1,500 meters semifinal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

TOKYO (AP) — Olympic champion Cole Hocker was disqualified from the semifinals of the 1,500 meters at world championships Monday after judges ruled he jostled other runners while making a late move on the inside.

Hocker was running near the inside edge of the track when he got boxed in and turned semi-sideways to squeeze past Germany’s Robert Farken.

Hocker finished second. Farken finished the race two spots out of a qualifying position but was advanced to the final because of the interference.

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