Jamaica’s Indirect Seville celebrates with a gold medal and Jamaica flag after successful the Males’s 100m Remaining on the World Athletics Championships on the Japan Nationwide Stadium, Tokyo, Japan on Sept. 14, 2025.
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Jamaican runner, Indirect Seville, captured his first senior males’s title within the 100 metres race on the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
The 24-year-old ran a lifetime better of 9.77 seconds to say the gold medal forward of compatriot Kishane Thompson (9.82) in second and the USA’s Noah Lyles (9.89) in third.
Seville grew to become the primary Jamaican man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to turn into a world champion within the occasion.
“I really feel actually wonderful and excited that the gold is coming house to Jamaica. I’ve proved that I am a real competitor, that I’ve the dedication of a champion,” an elated Seville stated after the race.
Within the males’s lengthy leap closing, Jamaica’s Tajay Gayle captured the silver medal with a season’s finest leap of 8.34 metres. He was overtaken by Italy’s 20-year-old, Mattia Furlani, who scored a private better of 8.39m to say the gold medal.
China’s Yuhao Shi took the bronze medal with a season’s better of 8.33m.
In the meantime, regardless of ending third within the girls’s 100 metres, Saint Lucia’s Olympic champion Julien Alfred stated she was happy along with her efficiency.
The USA’s Melissa Jefferson-Wood stormed to victory in a file time of 10.61 seconds, and Jamaica’s Tia Clayton grabbed the silver medal in a private finest time of 10.74 seconds. Alfred needed to accept bronze in 10.84 seconds.
Alfred pulls out of the 200m attributable to harm
As a consequence of harm, Saint Lucia’s dash queen, Julien Alfred, was pressured to withdraw from the ladies’s 200 metres.
Shortly after inserting third within the girls’s 100m, Alfred revealed that she had strained her hamstring within the lead-up to the race.
The Saint Lucia Athletics Affiliation (SLAA) subsequently confirmed that Alfred wouldn’t take part within the Championships after sustaining a Grade 1 hamstring pressure.
“On the recommendation of medical professionals and in session along with her administration workforce, our Olympic champion and 100m World Athletics Championships bronze medalist, Julien Alfred, has been withdrawn from the ladies’s 200m on the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo,” states the correspondence from the SLAA.
“Julien sustained a Grade 1 hamstring pressure. The choice to withdraw prioritises her well being and long-term profession.”
