If heartbreak were a post, it would definitely be this one. Gabby Thomas, the reigning 200m Olympic champion and the defending 200m World silver medalist, has shaken American track fans with an unfortunate update…
On September 2, 2025, Gabby Thomas announced that she’ll be missing the 2025 Tokyo World Championships due to an injury. This is the same Achilles pain that had been troubling Gabby since May, and was aggravated in July. Due to this, Thomas and her coach, Tonja Buford-Bailey, have now made the decision that she’ll have no option but to back out of the World Championships.
Although she would have been disheartened but Gabby Thomas realizes that this decision is the best for her timely recovery, “I understand that it will be disappointing for some track fans to hear this news, b