Africa won 5 medals (3 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze) at the World Indoor Championships, held from March 21 to 23, 2025, in Nanjing, China. Ethiopia took the lead with 2 Gold and 3 Silver. South Africa returned home with 1 Gold and 1 Bronze. Burkina Faso had to settle for the Bronze medal won by Hugues Fabrice Zango in the Triple Jump.
Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay improved her own championship record to 3:54.86 to win the 1500m title. Tsegay now has two world indoor titles in the 1500m. This latest winning time is the fourth-fastest women's indoor time in the history of the 1500m, behind her own world record of 3:53.09. She holds the four fastest performances of all time, including two in 2025. She beat her compatriot Diribe Welteji (3:59.30) and Great Britain's Georgia Hunter Bell (3:59.84).
Ethiopian Freweyni Hailu also distinguished herself by winning the 3000m in 8:37.21, beating American Shelby Houlihan and Australian Jessica Hull.
South Africa's Prudence Sekgodiso set a national indoor record in the 800m of 1:58.40, securing her country's only women's world indoor medal at the 25th World Indoor Athletics Championships in Nanjing, ahead of Ethiopia's Nigist Getachew and Portugal's Patricia Silva. They ran the indoor races of their lives, with Getachew running 1:59.63 and Silva setting a national indoor record of 1:59.80. South Africa's Akani Simbinel won the 60m bronze medal
