Holloway Earns National Honor, SEC Weekly Award
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 | Track and Field
Grant Holloway tied the second-fastest 110-meter hurdles time in collegiate history last Friday
Holloway also garnered SEC Men's Runner of the Week honors for a second time in the last three weeks.
This is Holloway's third National Athlete of the Week accolade this season, as he also earned two indoors. The Chesapeake, Va., native nabbed the award with his 13.16-second run in the 110-meter hurdles—which tied the second-fastest time in collegiate history—at last Friday's Tom Jones Memorial.
THAT 1??3??.1??6?? FEELING!@Flaamingoo_ ties Renaldo Nehemiah and @DevonAllen13 for the 2nd-fastest time in @NCAATrackField HISTORY! pic.twitter.com/Sv2v96MQhx
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) April 13, 2018
*checks @USTFCCCA Collegiate Top 10*
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) April 13, 2018
1. Renaldo NEHEMIAH - 13.00 (1979)
2. NEHEMIAH - 13.16 (1979)@DevonAllen13 - 13.16 (2014)
Grant HOLLOWAY (@Flaamingoo_) - 13.16 (2018)
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Watch more Tom Jones Memorial action: https://t.co/B4Pi6qeUMg pic.twitter.com/N9ggcoiA58
The three-time NCAA champion also ran the third leg for Florida's 4x100 relay, which logged the fifth-fastest time in the nation (38.96). And he concluded the day as the second leg of the Gators' 4x400 relay, helping them to the second-fastest time in the nation last week (3:03.07).
.@mtimpsonjr ?? @ChantzSawyers ?? @Flaamingoo_ ?? @clarknation14 = 38.96
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) April 13, 2018
That makes us the No. 4? team in @NCAATrackField this season!
Watch more Tom Jones Memorial action: https://t.co/B4Pi6qeUMg pic.twitter.com/NDepKVLaDi
Paired with his 8.00-meter long jump from earlier this season, Holloway is the only man in outdoor track and field history to break 13.20 seconds and long jump at least 8.00 meters (both wind-legally) in the same season, according to athlete bios maintained by the IAAF. Moreover, Holloway and Maurice Wignall, a two-time Olympic finalist and three-time IAAF World Championships finalist, are the only men in outdoor track and field history with personal records under 13.20 seconds and of at least 8.00 meters, according to athlete bios maintained by the IAAF.
Holloway and the Gators continue their outdoor campaign next Friday and Saturday, when they travel to the National Relay Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.
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