Day Two of the 2025 World Athletics Championships belonged to Jamaica, because the island’s sprinters stormed into the highlight with a glittering haul of 1 gold and two silver medals.
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A blinding one-two within the males’s 100 meters and a breakthrough podium end within the ladies’s equal had Jamaican followers contained in the Nationwide Stadium celebrating lengthy into the night.
Seville shocks the world, Thompson claims silver
The night time’s crescendo got here within the males’s 100m closing, the place Indirect Seville delivered the race of his life to seize gold in a blistering 9.77 seconds. The 24-year-old surged previous one and all to etch his identify alongside Jamaica’s sprinting greats.
Shut behind, teammate Kishane Thompson, the Olympic silver medalist, clocked 9.82 seconds for silver, guaranteeing Jamaica’s first one-two within the occasion ever.
Former champion Noah Lyles of the US was left with bronze in 9.89 seconds, whereas his compatriot Kenneth Bednarek completed fourth in 9.92 seconds. For Jamaica, it marked their first males’s 100m world title since Bolt’s farewell triumph in 2015.
Clayton’s breakthrough on world stage
If Seville lit the fuse, Tina Clayton ignited a brand new flame within the ladies’s 100m. The 2-time World Underneath-20 champion produced the run of her profession, securing silver in a personal-best 10.76 seconds.
The gold, nonetheless, belonged to Melissa Jefferson-Picket of the US, who powered to a Championship File 10.61 seconds to stamp her dominance because the world’s quickest lady.
Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia took bronze in 10.84 seconds, whereas Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson positioned fourth in 10.88 seconds.
In one of many night’s most poignant moments, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, working her closing particular person world championship race, completed sixth in 11.03 seconds. The gang rose in ovation, honoring a profession that has spanned practically twenty years of sprinting brilliance.
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Momentum on the medal desk
By night time’s finish, Jamaica sat with three medals—one gold and two silvers—a convincing begin to their marketing campaign and a transparent assertion that their sprinting legacy stays alive and potent.
Jamaican ladies dominate dash hurdle heats
Earlier within the day, Jamaica’s ladies cleared their first hurdles—actually—with commanding performances within the 100m hurdles.
Danielle Williams, the two-time world champion, clocked the quickest time of the spherical with 12.40 seconds, breezing via warmth two.
Ackera Nugent impressed with victory in warmth 4 in 12.54 seconds. Amoi Brown secured secure passage as effectively, inserting third in warmth 5 in 12.82 seconds.
Elsewhere, the Caribbean was effectively represented: Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas superior with 12.69 seconds in warmth six, ending behind Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan (12.53).
Cuba’s Greisys Roble certified with 12.84 seconds, whereas Saint Lucia’s Aasia Laurencin (13.03) and The Bahamas’ Denisha Cartwright (13.50) bowed out.
Jamaica’s Megan Tapper, nonetheless, was a non-starter after sustaining a hamstring damage.
Blended fortunes within the subject
Jamaica’s Nayoka Clunis completed twenty third total within the ladies’s hammer throw with 66.24m, whereas Samantha Corridor, the primary Jamaican ever to contest the ladies’s discus closing, positioned twelfth with 60.69m.
Within the males’s excessive bounce, Romaine Beckford scraped into the ultimate with a clearance of two.25m, incomes the thirteenth and closing qualifying spot. Teammate Raymond Richards fell quick, ending twenty second total, whereas Bahamian veteran Donald Thomas (2.21m) additionally missed the minimize.
Robust progress within the 400m
On the observe, Jamaica confirmed depth in each males’s and ladies’s 400m occasions:
Rusheen McDonald, the nationwide report holder, clocked a season’s finest 44.38 seconds to complete second in his warmth.
Bovel McPherson ran a private finest 44.51 seconds, whereas Delano Kennedy superior with 44.74 seconds.
Defending champion Antonio Watson, nonetheless, struggled badly, ending final in his warmth in 46.23 seconds and exiting the competitors.
The Caribbean’s pleasure prolonged additional: Grenada’s Kirani James (44.66) superior easily. Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards gained warmth one in 44.64 seconds.
On the ladies’s aspect:
Nickisha Pryce dominated her warmth with 49.91 seconds. Stacey-Ann Williams ran a private finest 49.59 seconds for second in hers, and Dejanae Oakley additionally progressed in 51.07 seconds.
Elsewhere, Wedeline Venlogh of Haiti shattered her nationwide report with 49.91 seconds, whereas the Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino topped her warmth in 49.85 seconds.
Waiting for Day Three
Day Three guarantees much more fireworks. Jamaica’s hurdlers—Danielle Williams, Ackera Nugent, and Amoi Brown—will chase medals within the 100m hurdles, with semi-finals at 8:05 a.m. EST and the ultimate set simply over an hour later.
The day will even function the beginning of the 400m hurdles for each women and men, and the lads’s lengthy bounce, providing Jamaica and the broader Caribbean extra probabilities to shine.
