Category: Hurdles News
Cordell Tinch won the world’s 110m hurdles gold in Tokyo
The winner of the 2025 Diamond League, Cordell Tinch, also won the world title in the 110m hurdles. The American athlete left the planetary gold in the USA after winning the final run in Tokyo with 12.99 sec (-0.3 m/s). Two Jamaican hurdlers completed the podium. Orlando Bennett recorded a personal best of 13.08 sec
Reigning world and Olympics champion Grant Holloway did not qualify for the 100m hurdles final in Tokyo
For the first time since 2019, a new world champion in the 110m hurdles will be crowned at the World Athletics Championships. The unexpected results in Tokyo continued on Tuesday night when reigning world and Olympic champion Grant Holloway, the second-fastest 110m hurdler in history, finished sixth in his semi-final in 13.52 sec. Having won
Ditaji Kambundji won the women’s 100m hurdles title in Tokyo
Ditaji Kambundji (Switzerland) won the world title in the 100m hurdles at the Tokyo Championships. The Swiss athlete broke her country’s national record for the gold medal, finishing in 12.24 sec (-0.1 m/s). World record holder Tobi Amusan (Nigeria) took silver this time in 12.29 sec, while Grace Stark (USA) won bronze in 12.34 sec.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone swapped the hurdles with the 400m run
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will make a dramatic change at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this month, swapping her crown event, the 400m hurdles, for the 400m. The 26-year-old American athlete has already achieved it all in the hurdles, with six world records, two Olympic titles and a world title. But this season she has given
Karsten Warholm and Femke Bol won 400m hurdles Diamond Trophies with new meeting records
Men’s 400m hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm and women’s European record holder Femke Bol were unstoppable on their way to the 2025 Diamond Trophies. Karsten Warholm won the men’s 400m hurdles in Zurich with a new meeting record of 46.70 sec. He bettered his own race record of 46.92 sec from 2019. Qatari’s Abderrahman
Pia Skrzyszowska ran a season’s best to win the 100m hurdles title at the Bydgoszcz Polish Championships
Pia Skrzyszowska ran a season’s best of 12.59 sec to win the 100m hurdles title at the Polish Championships in Bydgoszcz, beating recently crowned European U23 champion Alicja Sielska, who finished in 12.93 sec. Klaudia Wojtunik finished third, clocking 12.98 sec. The Top 5 were completed by Kaja Wesolowska and Monika Kiepura, who narrowly missed
Femke Bol and Karsten Warholm won 400m hurdles gold in Silesia Diamond League with world leading results
Femke Bol won 400m hurdles gold at the Diamond League’s Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, improving her world lead to 51.91 sec, warming up for the coming Tokyo World Athletics Championships in September. This is her seventh sub-52 second clocking of her career and her 29th Diamond League win. Femke Bol smashed the competition in the
Alexandra Stefania Uta won the European U20 title in 400m hurdles in Tampere
Alexandra Stefania Uta produced an outstanding final sprint to win the European U20 title in the women’s 400m hurdles in Tampere. The 17-year-old Romanian athletics talent beat the big favorite for the title, Meta Tumba of France, by 1 hundredth of a second. Alexandra Stefania Uta took gold with a new championship record of 55.55
Noah Lyles won the men’s 200m event at the Monaco Diamond League
American sprinter Noah Lyles won the men’s 200m event at the Monaco Diamond League, clocking at 19.88 sec. This was his first appearance in the event in nearly a year. Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana was second (19.97 sec), and Makanakaishe Charamba of Zimbabwe was third (19.99 sec). In women’s 100m sprint, Julien Alfred
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s coach strongly criticizes the cancellation of the Los Angeles Grand Slam meeting
Bob Kersee expressed his disappointment at the cancellation of the fourth round of the Michael Johnson Grand Slam of Athletics circuit. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was undoubtedly the face of the event, as the first announced athlete and star in all three editions to date. The world record holder in the 400m hurdles competed in the circuit’s