Tinch's Diamond League Final win earns him USATF Athlete of the Week honors

INDIANAPOLIS -- Capping off the regular season with a convincing win in the Diamond League final, Cordell Tinch (Pittsburg, KS/USATF Missouri Valley) earned recognition as the 32nd USATF Athlete of the Week award winner for 2025.

Tinch, the runner-up in the men's 110 hurdles at the Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships, completed a run of three straight Diamond League wins with a 12.92 in the final at Zürich to equal the meet record as he notched his third wind-legal sub-13 second clocking of the season.

The leader on the world list this year with a 12.87 that won the Shaoxing Diamond League meet in May, Tinch also had a win at the Xiamen DL meet and a pair of runner-up efforts at Rome and Monaco. His time at Zürich tied the meet record set by Roger Kingdom in 1989 and put him .2 seconds ahead of his nearest challenger.

Other top performances from last week:

• Susannah Scaroni won the women's wheelchair elite division at the Sydney Marathon by more than eight minutes with a time of 1:44:52, breaking the course record of 1:54:10. 

• Valarie Allman won her fifth straight Diamond League title in the women's discus, throwing 69.18/227-0 to finish almost seven feet ahead of her nearest challenger.
• Noah Lyles won his fifth Diamond League title in the men's 200, edging Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo with a 19.74 in a -0.6 wind.
• Jacory Patterson won his first Diamond League title in the men's 400 with a lifetime best 43.85, the fastest time by an American in 2025.
• Brittany Brown won her second straight Diamond League title in the women's 200 with a season best 22.13.
• Joe Kovacs won his fourth career Diamond League title in the men's shot put with a best of 22.46/73-8.25 that put him more than a foot ahead of the runner-up.
• Katie Moon won her second Diamond League title in the women's pole vault with a clearance at 4.82/15-9.75.
• Christian Coleman won his third career Diamond League title in the men's 100 in 9.97.

Now in its 24th year, USATF’s Athlete of the Week program is designed to recognize outstanding performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names a new honoree each week when there are high-level competitions and features the athlete on USATF.org. Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous week. 

2025 Winners: January 15, Zariel Macchia; January 22, Conner Mantz; January 29, Katelyn Tuohy; February 5, Ethan Strand; February 12, Yared Nuguse; February 19, Grant Fisher; February 26, Josh Hoey; March 5, Heather MacLean; March 12, Cole Boone; March 19, Isabella Whittaker; March 26, Claire Bryant; April 2, Curtis Thompson; April 9, Taylor Roe; April 16, Valarie Allman; April 23, Jane Hedengren; April 30, Kaitlin Bounds; May 6, Masai Russell; May 13, Lynna Irby-Jackson; May 20, Jaydin Blackwell; May 27, Jonah Koech; June 3, Anna Hall; June 10, Jane Hedengren; June 17, Nico Young; June 24, Cooper Lutkenhaus; July 1, Chase Jackson; July 8, Rudy Winkler; July 15, Quincy Wilson; July 22, Sinclaire Johnson; August 5, Cooper Lutkenhaus; August 19, Curtis Thompson; August 26, Nikki Hiltz; September 2, Cordell Tinch.

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