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World Top 10 Athletes In 2025

1. Lando Norris (Britain, Formula 1) Norris seized his first Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship with seven wins, eight runner-up and three third-place finishes in 2025, ending Max Verstappen's four-year reign. The Briton also helped McLaren retain the constructors' championship. This file photo taken on Dec. 7, 2025 shows McLaren's British driver Lando Norris celebrating after the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Photo by Zhu Xingjian/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

Laura Lindemann, Beth Potter - during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

Laura Lindemann, Beth Potter - during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

Emma Lombardi - during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

Cassandre Beaugrand - during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

Emma Lombardi - during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - Mixed Relay Event Test

during the mixed relay of the test event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 20, 2023. German triathletes won the mixed relay reduced to a duathlon, namely deprived of swimming, on Sunday. Laura Lindemann gave victory to Briton Beth Potter. Photo by Lionel Urman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Xinhua Headlines: Chinese city of youth, Chengdu, bracing for World University Games

(230723) -- CHENGDU, July 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Briton Oliver Jones (2nd R) gives an English class to his neighbors at Tongzilin International Community Center in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 13, 2023. (Xinhua)

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Descendant of Briton killed in 1862 incident visits cemetery

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Michael Wace (L), great-grandson of the eldest sister of Charles Richardson, a Briton who was killed by a Satsuma-han samurai in the 1862 "Namamugi Incident," offers flowers with his wife (R) at the grave of Richardson at the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 6, 2012.

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Letters from Briton murdered in 1862

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows a letter written by Charles Richardson, a British man murdered by samurai in 1862 in the so-called Namamugi Incident. His letters were among items displayed in the Namamugi Incident exhibition that began at a museum in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 19, 2012.

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Letters from Briton murdered in 1862

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People view items in the Namamugi Incident exhibition that began at a museum in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 19, 2012. Among items on display are letters written by Charles Richardson, a British man murdered by samurai in 1862 in the so-called Namamugi Incident.

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Japanese tennis player Nishikori

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 19, 2011, shows Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori. Nishikori beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in the fourth round of the men's singles at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 23, 2012, advancing to the quarterfinals. He is scheduled to face Briton Andy Murray in his first Grand Slam singles quarterfinal match.

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Ex-Olympus CEO Woodford

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Michael Woodford, former chief executive officer and president of Olympus Corp. The Briton, who was ousted from the post, said Oct. 28, 2011, that he had spoken to the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the Japanese firm's questionable acquisition of a British medical equipment maker.

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Hawker family returns to Japan before verdict

NARITA, Japan - Bill Hawker, the father of slain British woman Lindsay Hawker, shows a photo of his daughter to the media at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on July 20, 2011. A verdict was expected to be handed down the following day in the trial of Tatsuya Ichihashi, who is accused of murdering the 22-year-old Briton in 2007.

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Briton murder trial in Japan

CHIBA, Japan - Photo shows a courtroom of the Chiba District Court in the city of Chiba where the first trial hearing was held for Tatsuya Ichihashi on July 4, 2011, on charges of killing language school teacher Lindsay Hawker from Britain in 2007 in Japan. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Parents of slain Briton Lindsay Hawker arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - William Hawker (R center) and his wife Julia (L center), the parents of slain British English teacher Lindsay Hawker, are surrounded by reporters at Narita international airport in Chiba Prefecture on July 3, 2011. The family traveled to Japan for the trial of Tatsuya Ichihashi, who is suspected of murdering their daughter, starting the following day at the Chiba District Court.

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Nadal makes it to Wimbledon semifinals

LONDON, Britain - Top seed Rafael Nadal hits back a shot by American Mardy Fish in a men's singles quarterfinals match of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in southwest London on June 29, 2011. Nadal won the match 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 and will meet Briton Andy Murray in the semifinals.

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Foreign teachers engage in volunteer work at shelter

TANOHATA, Japan - Two Americans and a Briton -- Victor Kochaphum (L), Kevin Blake (2nd from R) and Paul Dixon (R) -- clean up the kitchen at an evacuation center in the quake-hit village of Tanohata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 19, 2011. The three assistant English teachers have been helping out at the evacuation center, where some of their students are staying, despite their families' request to return to their home countries in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck the region March 11.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

NAHA, Japan - Photo, taken on Jan. 24, 2011, shows the remains of a furnace found inside a concrete building on the remote island of Oha in Okinawa in which Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan, is believed to have temporarily holed up during his 31-month fugitive life. Ichihashi will publish a book about his life as a fugitive on Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

NAHA, Japan - Photo, taken on Jan. 24, 2011, shows the inside of a concrete building on the remote island of Oha in Okinawa in which Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan, is believed to have temporarily holed up during his 31-month fugitive life. Ichihashi will publish a book about his life as a fugitive on Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

NAHA, Japan - Photo, taken on Jan. 24, 2011, shows a concrete building on the remote island of Oha in Okinawa in which Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan, is believed to have temporarily holed up during his 31-month fugitive life. Ichihashi will publish a book about his life as a fugitive on Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a book penned by Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan. The book, to be released Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan, is about how he spent his two-year-and-seven-month life as a fugitive up until his arrest in November 2009.

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Father of slain Briton thanks Japanese public

CHIBA, Japan - Bill Hawker (R), the father of murdered British woman Lindsey Hawker, speaks to reporters near the Gyotoku Police Station in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 9, 2009. Hawker thanked ''every single person in Japan'' for their cooperation that led to the arrest of suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi.

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Top seed Wozniacki into Japan Women's Open q'finals

OSAKA, Japan - Top seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark returns the ball to Briton Katie O'Brien during their match at the Japan Women's Open tennis tournament at Utsubo Tennis Center in Osaka on Oct. 15, 2009. Wozniacki won 6-0, 6-1 to move into the quarterfinals.

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Mother of slain Briton satisfied with life-term ruling

TOKYO, Japan - Jane Steare, the mother of slain British woman Lucie Blackman, reads out a statement at a press conference at the British Embassy in Tokyo on Dec. 16 after the Tokyo High Court sentenced businessman Joji Obara to life in prison after overturning a lower court ruling that acquitted him of all charges involving Blackman's death due to lack of evidence.

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Police apologize for not catching suspected killer of Briton

TOKYO, Japan - William Hawker tearfully looks at a photo of his slain daughter Lindsay during an interview with Kyodo News at a hotel in Tokyo on Sept. 17. Hawker said that an investigator of the Chiba prefectural police apologized to him for having been unable to apprehend Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect killer of his daughter.

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Briton deported after being acquitted of marijuana smuggling

NARITA, Japan - A 54-year-old British national (C) is deported from Japan on June 13, nearly a month and a half after he was cleared of charges of smuggling marijuana from South Africa to Japan in August 2007. The man, who was detained for nearly 10 months after his arrest, left Narita International Airport, outside Tokyo, for South Africa where he was residing.

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Kin of slain British woman arrive in Japan a year after murder

NARITA, Japan - William (L) and Julia (R) Hawker, the parents of Briton Lindsay Ann, who was slain in Japan in March 2007, talk to reporters at the terminal of Narita International Airport after their arrival in Japan. The couple are visiting Japan ahead of the first anniversary of their daughter's murder in Chiba Prefecture at age 22, hoping to seek information from the Japanese public that could lead to the arrest of the suspect in the case.

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Kin of murdered British woman call for Japanese help

TOKYO, Japan - William Hawker, the father of Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker who was murdered in Japan in March last year, holds a photo of his daughter after a press conference in Tokyo on March 24. Hawker and his wife arrived in Japan earlier in the day to seek information from the Japanese public that could lead to the arrest of the suspect in the case ahead of the first anniversary of Lindsay Ann Hawker's murder in Chiba Prefecture.

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Sugiyama glides to opening round victory at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England - Japanese No. 1 Ai Sugiyama returns a shot during a singles match against Briton Melanie South at the Wimbledon Championships on June 26. Sugiyama won the opening-round match in straight sets 6-3, 6-2.

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Sugiyama glides to opening round victory at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England - Japanese No. 1 Ai Sugiyama reacts after beating Briton Melanie South 6-3, 6-2 in the opening round of the women's singles competition at the Wimbledon Championships on June 26.

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Obara acquitted over Blackman's death, gets life for 9 other cases

TOKYO, Japan - Tim Blackman (R), father of Briton Lucie Blackman and her sister Sophie (L), speak during a news conference after the Tokyo District Court sentenced Joji Obara to life in prison on April 24 for drugging and raping nine women, one fatally, but acquitted him of involvement in the death of Lucie due to lack of evidence. The dismembered body of Lucie Blackman, who worked as a hostess in Tokyo before she went missing in early July 2000 about two months after arriving in Japan, was found in a cave in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in February 2001.

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World's fastest yachtswoman completes Asian voyage

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Ellen MacArthur, a Briton who completed a solo round-the-world voyage in a record-breaking 71 days last year, speaks about her voyage from Yokohama, Japan, to Singapore on May 12 after reaching Singapore's southern coast to finish an eight-week journey.

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Mother of slain Briton seeks life term for Obara

TOKYO, Japan - Jane Steare, mother of Lucie Blackman who died in Japan in 2000. speaks at a press conference in Tokyo after testifying at the Tokyo District Court on April 20. Steare sought life imprisonment for Joji Obara, who was indicted for raping and fatally drugging her daughter.

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Briton Clarke claims victory at Taiheiyo Masters

GOTEMBA, Japan - European Ryder Cup star Darren Clarke smiles with his cup in hands after winning the Mitsui-Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters at Taiheiyo Club in Shizuoka Prefecture on Nov. 14.

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(2)Briton in failed solo Pacific voyage arrives in Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard ship brings back to Shiogama port, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 16 the 7-meter-long rowboat of Mick Dawson, a British man, after rescuing Dawson the previous day. Dawson was trying to row solo from Japan to the United States and made a distress call off Miyagi because of a broken rudder.

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(1)Briton in failed solo Pacific voyage arrives in Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Mick Dawson, a British man who was attempting to row solo from Japan to the United States, arrives at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on June 16. Dawson was rescued the previous day after making a distress call off Miyagi because of a broken rudder.

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Blackman's father calls on Japanese police to give more info

TOKYO, Japan - Tim Blackman, father of Lucie Blackman, the murdered Briton whose body was recently found in a cave on a beach southwest of Tokyo, fields questions at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Feb. 26. He called on Japanese police to be more open in disclosing information to crime victims and their families.

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Autopsy on body parts believed to be Briton's to be performed

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators examine a cliff on Feb. 10 near a cave on a beach in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, where the head, torso, limbs and other dismembered parts of an unidentified woman's body were found the previous day. Police will perform an autopsy on them to examine whether they are those of missing British woman Lucie Blackman.

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Reward offered to locate missing Briton

TOKYO, Japan - Tim Blackman on Aug. 22 announces his offer of a 1.5 million yen reward for information leading to locating his 21-year-old daughter Lucie who has been missing for nearly two months. He made the announcement at a news conference at the British Embassy in Tokyo. Lucie reportedly went missing after leaving her apartment in Tokyo on July 1.