Tyler Mason
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| Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 November 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Elite Performance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Reynaldo Walcott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 60m hurdles: 7.65 (Fayetteville, 2024) 110m hurdles: 13.12 (Kingston, 2023) 100m: 10.15 (Kingston, 2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tyler Mason (born 15 November 1995) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 110m and 60m hurdles. He was the bronze medalist over 110 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]Junior career
[edit]At the 2014 ISSA Boys and Girls Championships, he finished second behind Jaheel Hyde in the Class one 110 metres hurdles.[2]
Mason was a silver medalist at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in the 110 metres hurdles in Eugene, Oregon. His time of 13.05 seconds beat the Jamaican national junior record of Omar McLeod set the previous year.[3]
In 2016, Mason won the bronze medal at the 2016 NACAC U23 Championships in Athletics in the 110 m hurdles, running 13.67 seconds to finish fourth on the day, later upgraded to a bronze medal after Puerto Rican race winner Will Barnes was disqualified due to a antidoping rules violation.[4][5]
Senior career
[edit]2017 - 2022
For most of his senior career thus far, he was beset with injuries that made him unable to perform or stalled his performance at competitions. However, both him and his coach continued to work on different training programs to attain maximum execution.[6][7]
2023
In July 2023, Mason finished fourth at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in Kingston in the 110 metres hurdles in 13.22 seconds. Shortly afterwards, he finished third at the Diamond League event in Silesia in 13.29 seconds.[8]
The following month, competing in Bern, Switzerland he ran a meet record 13.22 seconds to win the 110m hurdles event at the Citrus meeting at the Wankdorf Stadium.[9][10] He was named as an alternate for the Jamaican team which competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[11]
2024
In February 2024, he ran a new personal best 60m hurdles time of 7.65 seconds as he finished runner-up to compatriot Rasheed Broadbell in Fayetteville, Arkansas.[12] He was subsequently selected to run for Jamaica at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow where he did not qualify to the semifinals running 7.86 in the heats for 6th place.[13][14] In July 2024, he was officially selected as a reserve for the Jamaican team at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[15]
2025
Mason ran 13.22 seconds for the 100m hurdles to finish third overall at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in Kingston on 29 June 2025.[16] After being selected for the Jamaican team he won the bronze medal over 110 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, having equalled his personal best time of 13.12 seconds in both the semi-final and the final.[17][18]
2026
At the Velocity Fest 19 in Kingston on April 19, he clocked a personal best 10.15s (+1.4) in the 100 metres improving from 10.71s in 2023.[19]
Personal life
[edit]Mason grew up in Kingston, and he attended Jamaica College in Kingston.[20]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Tyler Mason". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ "2014 ISSA Boys & Girls Champs FINAL DAY round up admin March 30, 2014". Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ "Silver medal to Tyler Mason in 110m hurdles at World Junior Championships". Radio Jamaica News Online. July 24, 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ "Gordon breaks one of six records on Day 2 #NACACU23 Champs". Track Alerts. July 17, 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ Moff, Allen (1 September 2016). "Ex-KSU track star disqualified from 2016 Olympics". Record Courier. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ "Mason focused on making Jamaica's world Championship team". Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ "Decade long wait was worth it Mason Updated December 9 2025". Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ Levy, Leighton (July 16, 2023). "Tyler Mason takes third in 110m hurdles in Silesia". Sportsmax. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ "Mason clocks meet record 13.22 in 110m hurdles win". Jamaica Gleaner. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ Foster, Anthony (August 4, 2023). "Tyler Mason Sets New Mark, Amoi Brown Achieves PB, Rasheen McDonald Takes 2nd in 400m at Citius Meeting". Track Alerts. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ "Jamaica's Team for the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary". Athleticsja.org. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ "Broadbell, Clayton, Pryce among winners at Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville". SportsMax. 10 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ "60 metres hurdles men 02 march 2024 results". Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ "Ackeem Blake, Shashalee Forbes lead Jamaica's 19-member team to World Indoors". Sportsmax. February 23, 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ↑ Levy, Leighton (July 7, 2024). "JAAA announces star-studded team for 2024 Paris Olympic Games". Sportsmax.tv. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ↑ Levy, Leighton (30 June 2025). "Mixed Emotions for Bennett On Winning National Title After Broadbell's Injury Blow". Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ↑ "JAAA names 50-member World Champs team, Thomas-Dodd opts out". Jamaica Observer. 30 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 16 Sep 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
- ↑ "athlete profile personal bests progression". Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ "ATHLETICS: Tyler Mason goes in search of Jamaica's first medal at World Junior". Jamaica Gleaner. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
