Ja'Kobe Tharp Smashes 110m Hurdles World Record at NCAA Championships
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- Ja'Kobe Tharp set a new world record in the 110m hurdles with a time of 12.75 seconds at the NCAA championships in Eugene, Oregon.
- He broke Aries Merritt's previous record of 12.80 seconds and Grant Holloway's NCAA record of 12.98 seconds.
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Ja'Kobe Tharp, a 20-year-old athlete from Auburn University, competed in the NCAA collegiate athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon. He had a personal best of 13.01 seconds coming into the event.
Ja’Kobe Tharp clocked 12.75 seconds to smash the 110m hurdles world record during heats at the NCAA collegiate athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday.
Tharp wiped out the long-standing previous record of 12.80 seconds set by fellow American Aries Merritt in Brussels on September 7, 2012.
The record also pushed China’s Liu Xiang’s 12.88 seconds in 2006 down to the seventh-fastest of all time.
Run with a legal tailwind of one metre per second, the performance also shattered Grant Holloway’s NCAA collegiate record of 12.98 seconds set in 2019.
The 20-year-old Auburn University stand-out came into the meeting with a personal best of 13.01 seconds. He took more than a quarter of a second off that mark.
“I knew I had that in my legs,” Tharp said. “But it wasn’t on my bingo card before this meet, not at all.”
Offene Fragen
- Will Tharp continue to break records in future events?
- What is Tharp's training regimen?
- How will this record impact his career trajectory?
