diff --git a/handwritten/pubsub/src/publisher/message-queues.ts b/handwritten/pubsub/src/publisher/message-queues.ts
index 0227e585cec..ee61ae6f06e 100644
--- a/handwritten/pubsub/src/publisher/message-queues.ts
+++ b/handwritten/pubsub/src/publisher/message-queues.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import {logs as baseLogs, LoggingFunction} from '../logs';
  */
 export const logs = {
   publishBatch: baseLogs.pubsub.sublog('publish-batch') as LoggingFunction,
+  publishHedged: baseLogs.pubsub.sublog('publish-hedged') as LoggingFunction,
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/handwritten/pubsub/src/telemetry-tracing.ts b/handwritten/pubsub/src/telemetry-tracing.ts
index 77bc1588348..ece81c13a2f 100644
--- a/handwritten/pubsub/src/telemetry-tracing.ts
+++ b/handwritten/pubsub/src/telemetry-tracing.ts
@@ -676,6 +676,14 @@ export class PubsubEvents {
     PubsubEvents.addEvent('publish end', message);
   }
 
+  static publishStartHedged(message: MessageWithAttributes) {
+    PubsubEvents.addEvent('publish start (hedged)', message);
+  }
+
+  static publishEndHedged(message: MessageWithAttributes) {
+    PubsubEvents.addEvent('publish end (hedged)', message);
+  }
+
   static ackStart(message: MessageWithAttributes) {
     PubsubEvents.addEvent('ack start', message);
   }
diff --git a/handwritten/pubsub/test/telemetry-tracing.ts b/handwritten/pubsub/test/telemetry-tracing.ts
index cc33f25d723..243de4cc2eb 100644
--- a/handwritten/pubsub/test/telemetry-tracing.ts
+++ b/handwritten/pubsub/test/telemetry-tracing.ts
@@ -482,4 +482,34 @@ describe('OpenTelemetryTracer', () => {
       );
     });
   });
+
+  describe('PubsubEvents', () => {
+    it('adds publish start (hedged) and publish end (hedged) events to parentSpan', () => {
+      const message: PubsubMessage = {};
+      const topicName = 'projects/test/topics/topicfoo';
+      const span = otel.PubsubSpans.createPublisherSpan(
+        message,
+        topicName,
+        'test',
+      );
+      assert.ok(span);
+      message.parentSpan = span;
+
+      otel.PubsubEvents.publishStart(message);
+      otel.PubsubEvents.publishStartHedged(message);
+      otel.PubsubEvents.publishEndHedged(message);
+      span.end();
+
+      const spans = exporter.getFinishedSpans();
+      assert.strictEqual(spans.length, 1);
+      const finishedSpan = spans[0];
+      assert.ok(finishedSpan);
+      const eventNames = finishedSpan.events.map(e => e.name);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(eventNames, [
+        'publish start',
+        'publish start (hedged)',
+        'publish end (hedged)',
+      ]);
+    });
+  });
 });