10 Champions & World Record Breakers to donate to MOWA in Tokyo

Dear friends of MOWA,
19 September 2025 – The ASICS gallery in the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) has been updated today to mark tomorrow’s opening of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.

The MOWA and the Heritage Department of World Athletics have been honoured since 2022 to host ASICS in our unique 3D online museum platform.

Today’s changes see the history of ASICS brought up to date, and the Tokyo apparel of the Japanese and the Netherlands teams added in 3D.

The entrance to ASICS’s gallery is immediately to the left as you enter the Entrance Hall of MOWA, or alternatively you can use the dropdown menu (top left of the screen), where you’ll find the access link at the foot of the list: “ASICS & Onitsuka Tiger”

MOWA Donation Ceremony, Tokyo 25

On Tuesday 16 September @ 1500h (3pm), World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, 1980 & 1984 Olympic 1500m champion, will host a donation ceremony at the MOWA Heritage Exhibition in Tokyo.

Eight world or Olympic champions, a Boston Marathon winner and a world record breaking race walker will donate their competition clothing, shoes and equipment to the collection of the Museum of World Athletics during the ceremony.

• Kenji Kimihara (winner Marathon Boston 1966),
• Don Quarrie (gold 200m OG 1976),
• Ellen van Langen (gold 800m OG 1992),
• Mizuki Noguchi (gold Marathon OG 2004),
• Joanna Hayes (gold 100m hurdles OG 2004),
• Ladji Doucouré (gold 110mH & 4×100 WCH 2005),
• Constantina Dita (gold Marathon OG 2008),
• Trey Hardee (gold Decathlon 2009 2011),
• Nicola Olyslagers (gold High Jump WIC 2024 2025),
• Evan Dunfee (World Record 35km Walk 2025

LOCATION:
MOWA Heritage Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building 1, North Tower, 2-8-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 163-8001.

INVITATION:
Please contact: MOWA@worldathletics.org
Chris Turner for World Athletics Heritage