South Africa’s middle distance star Prudence Sekgodiso kept her best for the 800m Women’s final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025, breaking the tape in a world leading 1.58.40 to win gold in China on Sunday

South Africa’s middle distance star Prudence Sekgodiso kept her best for the 800m Women’s final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025, bursting into the lead in the final straight to record a world leading 1.58.40 to win gold in Jiangsu Province, China, on Sunday, 23 March, 2025.

Sekgodiso has built up to earn her first global 800m title on a string of gold medals, including World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold wins in Serbia and Germany, and the Athletics SA Grand Prix 1 in Tshwane in 1:59.01 earlier this year, in March.

The Olympic finalist hid in the leading bunch of Ethiopia’s Nigist Getachew, Portugal’s Patricia Silva and Switzerland’s Audrey Werro over the opening 300 metres to move past Werro at the 400m halfway mark, bursting into the lead with her strong surge with a 100m to go, to break the tape in 1:58.40.

In confirmation of the top-class competition, the top five finishers all set indoor race times of their lives in Nanjing, with Sekgodiso setting the world leading mark, Silva setting an indoor national record for Portugal of 1:59.80, Werro doing the same for Switzerland in 1.59.81, and both Getachew and Wielgosz setting personal bests in their races.

800m Women’s Results at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025 on Sunday, 23 March, 2025

1. Prudence Sekgodiso (RSA) 1:58.40 WL
2. Nigist Getachew (ETH) 1:59.63 PB
3. Patricia Silva (POR) 1:59.80 NR
4. Audrey Werro (SUI) 1:59.81 NR
5. Anna Wielgosz (POL) 2:00.34 PB
6. Tsige Duguma (ETH) 2:04.76


Original Copy: World Athletics, with editing by gsport

Main Photo Caption: South Africa’s middle distance star Prudence Sekgodiso kept her best for the 800m Women’s final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025, breaking the tape in a world leading 1.58.40 to win gold in Jiangsu Province, China, on Sunday, 23 March, 2025. Photo: World Athletics / Getty Images 

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