ATHLETICS – Bahrain's superstar sprinter Salwa Eid Naser has arrived in Tokyo, Japan, ahead of her gold medal bid at the World Athletics Championships 2025, which gets underway on Saturday.
Naser travelled with fellow-athletes Deborah Rodriguez from Uruguay and Liranyi Alonso from the Dominican Republic, along with Naser’s elite track and field coach Jose Ludwig Rubio.
Naser is set to run in the women’s 400 metres, for which she was the 2019 world champion and the Paris 2024 Olympics silver-medallist.
She is set to first hit the track on Saturday in her heats, while the semi-finals will take place on Monday and the final on Wednesday, both next week.
Naser did not compete in the previous edition of the world championships in 2023 in Budapest, Hungary, due to injury.
The 27-year-old is fresh from securing her third-ever Diamond Trophy last month in Zurich, Switzerland, at this athletics season’s Wanda Diamond League final, where she out-duelled reigning world and Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic.
Naser is part of an eight-athlete Bahrain national team in Tokyo.
The roster also includes reigning world and Olympic champion Winfred Yavi, 2016 world indoor champion Kemi Adekoya, Nelly Jepkosgei, former under-18 world champion Tigest Gashaw, Eunice Chumba, Shitaye Eshete, and Birhanu Balew, who is the kingdom’s lone competitor in men’s events.
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