Cordell Tinch won the 110m hurdles world championship in Tokyo, finishing in 12.99 seconds. Orlando Bennett took silver in a personal best 13.08, while Tyler Mason earned bronze in 13.12, matching his best. Tinch stepped away from elite sport for three years, worked as a cellphone salesman, installed cable and in a toilet paper factory, and returned to track at Pitt State in 2023. He turned professional last year but missed the Paris Olympic team after mid-season surgery and a narrow loss at US trials despite a time that would have medalled in Paris. Tinch dominated this season, running 12.87 in Shanghai to become joint-fourth fastest ever, while Grant Holloway's six-year world reign ended with a semi-final exit.
"Cordell Tinch took the long road to becoming a world-class athlete but capped a superb second season as a professional by winning the 110m hurdles at the world championships on another sweltering Tokyo night on Tuesday. The 25-year-old American was all control and pace as he blazed over the 10 hurdles and held off the fast finishers in the run-in to claim the title in 12.99 seconds."
"Tinch could not have imagined it would be him in late 2022 when he was a cellphone salesman in his home town Green Bay, having given up first a college football scholarship and then a shot at Division I athletics due to a combination of burnout and academic issues. During his three-year break from the track he also installed cable and worked in a toilet paper factory. I don't think that I make it to where I am now if I don't ever take that break to find myself, Tinch said before the world championships."
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