
Dominant Holloway, breaks 60m hurdles record
Reading Time: 2min | Sat. 17.02.24. | 19:56
By running the fastest time in hurdling history on Friday 16, he also extended one of the sport’s longest stretches of dominance
On the first day of the US Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Grant Holloway ran 7.27 seconds in the heats to break his own 60m hurdles world record.
The feat saw the multiple world champion and Olympic silver medalist skip the final hours later because he was already assured of a berth on the US team bound for the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow next month.
The victory was Holloway’s 60th consecutive at the senior 60m hurdles, part of an astounding, decade-long streak that has left him still the only hurdler all time to dip under 7.30, a feat he has now achieved three times.
That longevity and speed ensure he will arrive at Glasgow the prohibitive favourite to win a second straight world indoor gold medal – what he called the “main goal” of this season.
“I knew it was going to be a good one after I got out of the blocks,” Holloway said. “My main thing was just to continue going through with my steps and my rhythm. I wasn’t too upset about it but, you know, 7.27 at a nice track is always a good thing.”
With Holloway a spectator for Friday’s final, Trey Cunningham’s comeback season continued with a personal best of 7.39 seconds to claim his first national indoor title.
The silver medalist at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, Cunningham was hobbled by an injured back and hamstring in 2023 but has returned to form.
Holloway’s world record run came only 20 minutes after another. Tia Jones equaled the women’s world record in the 60m hurdles by clocking 7.67 in the heats to match the mark set by Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas just five days earlier at the Millrose Games.
In the final more than two hours later, Jones nearly matched her record yet again. Her winning time of 7.68 was 0.10 ahead of Jasmine Jones.
🇺🇸Grant Holloway in the 60mH this season
— Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) February 17, 2024
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