2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles

The men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships were held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 15 and 16 September 2025.

Summary Grant Holloway came back as the returning champion. And the champion before that. And the champion before that. He had his three and was going for four. He also had the Olympic title, the second fastest time in history and the indoor world record. The world leader was Olympic bronze medalist Rasheed Broadbell, but he cut himself on a hurdle practicing at the highly competitive Jamaican trials. He appealed for a medical exemption asked to displace Tyler Mason who had already made the qualifying standard, and it was ultimately denied. The Olympic silver medalist Daniel Roberts also did not get through the American trials. Japan had high hopes because Rachid Muratake was ranked #3 in the world.

Holloway did not come into the Championships with his usual string of victories. He was only ranked #13 in the world. When he finished a non-qualifying sixth in his semi-final, a new champion was going to be crowned.

In the final, nobody got an edge out of the blocks. Over the second hurdle, 6 men were within inches of each other. It wasn't until the fifth hurdle that it was clear Cordell Tinch was getting his foot down slightly faster than Orlando Bennett and Mason. Enrique Llopis lost a little ground in the middle of the race, rallied over the last three hurdles trying to catch Mason in the lane next to him. The order stayed true across the finish line; Tinch almost a metre up on Bennett and less than half a metre back Mason holding off Llopis and Muratake.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record 12.80 Brussels, Belgium 7 September 2012 Championship record 12.91 Stuttgart, Germany 20 August 1993 World Leading 12.87 Shaoxing, China 3 May 2025 African Record 13.11 Prague, Czech Republic 5 June 2017 Asian Record 12.88 Lausanne, Switzerland 11 July 2006 European Record 12.91 Stuttgart, Germany 20 August 1993 North, Central American and Caribbean record 12.80 Brussels, Belgium 7 September 2012 Oceanian record 13.29 Gothenburg, Sweden 11 August 1995 South American Record 13.17 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 23 June 2022

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 13.27.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), is as follows:

Date Time Round 15 September 20:23 Heats16 September 20:40 Semi-finals 22:20 Final

Results Heats The heats took place on 15 September. The first four athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next four fastest ( q ) qualified to the semi-finals.

Heat 1 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Dylan Beard 13.28 2 3 Chen Yuanjiang 13.39 3 6 Sasha Zhoya 13.43 , 4 5 Thiago Ornelas 13.52 5 7 Shunsuke Izumiya 13.52 6 9 John Adesola 13.57 7 8 Jakub Szymański 13.74 8 2 Manuel Mordi 14.25 Wind:

Heat 2 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 9 Jason Joseph 13.27 2 2 Wilhem Belocian 13.27 3 4 Ja'Kobe Tharp 13.28 4 5 Louis François Mendy 13.33 5 3 Michael Obasuyi 13.54 6 6 Mondray Barnard 13.57 7 7 Damian Czykier 13.58 8 8 Tade Ojora 13.90 Wind:

Heat 3 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 8 Orlando Bennett 13.20 2 4 Just Kwaou-Mathey 13.25 3 5 Lorenzo Simonelli 13.25 4 9 Shusei Nomoto 13.29 5 7 Gregory Minoue 13.50 6 6 Elie Bacari 13.55 7 2 Asier Martínez 13.63 8 3 Oumar Doudai Abakar 14.03 Wind:

Heat 4 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 1 Enrique Llopis 13.22 2 6 Xu Zhuoyi 13.28 3 5 Cordell Tinch 13.31 4 7 Demario Prince 13.31 5 4 Eduardo de Deus 13.45 6 3 Job Geerds 13.51 7 8 Amine Bouanani 13.75 8 2 Badamassi Saguirou 13.77 9 9 Richard Diawara 13.89 Wind:

Heat 5 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 1 Tyler Mason 13.17 , 2 7 Rachid Muratake 13.22 3 3 Liu Junxi 13.23 , 4 6 Grant Holloway 13.27 5 2 Enzo Diessl 13.37 6 4 Tejas Shirse 13.57 7 5 Antonio Alkana 13.64 8 9 Jérémie Lararaudeuse 13.70 9 8 Usumane Djumo 14.57 Wind:

Semi-finals The semi-finals took place on 16 September. The first two athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified to the final.

Heat 1 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 7 Orlando Bennett 13.27 2 6 Enrique Llopis 13.29 3 8 Shusei Nomoto 13.30 4 4 Dylan Beard 13.31 5 5 Liu Junxi 13.40 6 9 Gregory Minoue 13.56 7 2 Thiago Ornelas 13.58 3 Shunsuke Izumiya Wind:

Heat 2 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 3 Cordell Tinch 13.16 2 6 Jason Joseph 13.18 3 8 Demario Prince 13.22 4 5 Lorenzo Simonelli 13.22 5 7 Wilhem Belocian 13.31 6 4 Xu Zhuoyi 13.34 7 9 Enzo Diessl 13.64 8 2 Eduardo de Deus 13.91 Wind:

Heat 3 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 5 Tyler Mason 13.12 , 2 7 Rachid Muratake 13.19 3 3 Ja'Kobe Tharp 13.19 4 4 Just Kwaou-Mathey 13.22 5 6 Chen Yuanjiang 13.32 6 8 Grant Holloway 13.52 9 Louis François Mendy 2 Job Geerds Wind:

Final Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 7 Cordell Tinch 12.99 6 Orlando Bennett 13.08 4 Tyler Mason 13.12 = 4 3 Enrique Llopis 13.16 5 5 Rachid Muratake 13.18 6 9 Ja'Kobe Tharp 13.31 7 2 Just Kwaou-Mathey 13.42 8 Jason Joseph Wind:

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