Jamaica’s medal tally on the 2025 World Athletics Championships climbed once more on Tuesday as Orlando Bennett and Tyler Mason stormed to the rostrum within the males’s 110m hurdles closing at Japan’s Nationwide Stadium.
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The pair’s brilliance ensured Jamaica left the quick dash hurdles with two medals, whereas Demario Prince, heartbreakingly, missed a spot within the title race by simply two-thousandths of a second.
Bennett’s lifetime finest, Mason’s grit
In a showdown in opposition to the world’s finest, Bennett produced the race of his profession, clocking a lifetime better of 13.08 seconds to safe silver. Simply behind him, Mason—who had already matched his private finest within the semi-final over an hour earlier—repeated the mark with 13.12 seconds to grab bronze.
The gold went to America’s Cordell Tinch, the season’s most constant hurdler, who broke the 13-second barrier as soon as once more with 12.99 seconds.
Prince’s agonizing miss
For Prince, the day was bittersweet. He ran 13.22 seconds within the semi-final, the precise time as Italy’s Lorenzo Simonelli, however fell wanting advancing by the narrowest of margins. The 2 quickest non-automatic qualifiers emerged from the third semi-final—Ja’Kobe Tharp of the US (13.19) and France’s Simply Kwaou-Mathey, whose equivalent 13.22 was measured as two-thousandths of a second sooner than Prince.
That fraction left Prince because the odd man out, regardless of his valiant effort.
Medals mounting for Jamaica
With Bennett and Mason including silver and bronze, Jamaica’s total medal haul at these Championships now stands at 5—one gold, three silvers, and one bronze. The outcome reinforces the island’s dominance not simply in flat sprints, but in addition within the high-stakes hurdles enviornment.
