Holloway Appears on Seventh The Bowerman Men’s Watch List
Thursday, May 17, 2018 | Track and Field
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Sophomore hurdler, jumper and sprinter Grant Holloway made his seventh The Bowerman Men's Watch List appearance in as many releases this season, the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association revealed Thursday afternoon.
Holloway—who garnered USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors Tuesday—once again turned in a history weekend, this time helping the Gators sweep the SEC Outdoor Championships.
Individually, Holloway scored 23 points, tied with Georgia's Denzel Comenentia for the highest total at this year's meet.
Most notably, Holloway became the first man in outdoor track and field history to break 13.20 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles and long jump at least 8.10 meters (both wind-legally), according to athlete bios maintained by the IAAF. And he did it in a 28-hour span. The Chesapeake, Va., native opened Saturday's long jump competition (more on the result momentarily) with a wind-legal 8.17-meter jump, then followed it up Sunday with the second-fastest 110 hurdles time in collegiate history (13.15 seconds).
Holloway won both the 110 hurdles and long jump titles, joining Alabama's Keith Talley (1986-87) as the only other man in history to win both those titles at any point in time. Like Holloway, Talley captured the two titles in a single SEC Outdoors, though he did it in 1986 and 1987.
Although Holloway's long jump mark of 8.17 meters (26 feet, 9.25 inches) moved him to No. 5 on Florida's All-Time Outdoor Top 10 list, his winning mark was a wind-aided 8.32 meters (27 feet, 3.75 inches). That mark ranks No. 2 in this year's national rankings.
Holloway also earned a pair of bronze medals running for Florida's 4x100 (third leg) and 4x400 (anchor) relays.
Here is a look at some other feats Holloway's achieved this year:
Holloway and the Gators continue their outdoor season next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the NCAA East Preliminary in Tampa, Fla. Qualifiers for the meet were announced by the NCAA earlier this afternoon.
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Holloway—who garnered USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors Tuesday—once again turned in a history weekend, this time helping the Gators sweep the SEC Outdoor Championships.
A look back (with highlights ?? and ???) at one of the two #SECTF ?? we won last weekend!
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) May 17, 2018
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Individually, Holloway scored 23 points, tied with Georgia's Denzel Comenentia for the highest total at this year's meet.
Only man in OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD HISTORY to break 13.20 / long jump 8.10+ meters ??????
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) May 15, 2018
Second man #SECTF Outdoors history to win 110 hurdles / long jump ????
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And @Flaamingoo_ did it all in a 28-hour stretch ?????????? pic.twitter.com/U1CU3Ad8Pe
Most notably, Holloway became the first man in outdoor track and field history to break 13.20 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles and long jump at least 8.10 meters (both wind-legally), according to athlete bios maintained by the IAAF. And he did it in a 28-hour span. The Chesapeake, Va., native opened Saturday's long jump competition (more on the result momentarily) with a wind-legal 8.17-meter jump, then followed it up Sunday with the second-fastest 110 hurdles time in collegiate history (13.15 seconds).
Holloway won both the 110 hurdles and long jump titles, joining Alabama's Keith Talley (1986-87) as the only other man in history to win both those titles at any point in time. Like Holloway, Talley captured the two titles in a single SEC Outdoors, though he did it in 1986 and 1987.
Although Holloway's long jump mark of 8.17 meters (26 feet, 9.25 inches) moved him to No. 5 on Florida's All-Time Outdoor Top 10 list, his winning mark was a wind-aided 8.32 meters (27 feet, 3.75 inches). That mark ranks No. 2 in this year's national rankings.
Holloway also earned a pair of bronze medals running for Florida's 4x100 (third leg) and 4x400 (anchor) relays.
Here is a look at some other feats Holloway's achieved this year:
- Only man in the last four seasons to earn multiple indoor and outdoor USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week Honors in the same year
- Scored 19.5 points at NCAA Indoor Championships
- First man in NCAA Indoor Championships history to post top-2 finishes in the 60-meter hurdles (champion), and long jump (runner-up)
- Fifth man in history to repeat as 60 hurdles national champion, third man in history to repeat as SEC 60 hurdles champion
- Split 44.91 seconds as second leg of the third-fastest 4x400 relay team in indoor track and field history (3:01.43)
- Only man in indoor track and field history to break 7.50 seconds and eclipse 8.00 meters in the same season (did so in 24 hours at NCAA Indoors)
- Joined American 60 hurdles record holder, seven-time world champion, and 1996 Olympic gold medalist Allen Johnson as the only other man in indoor track and field history to break 7.45 seconds and long jump at least 8.00 meters
- Broke Omar McLeod's collegiate record by 0.03 seconds (7.42 seconds) at Clemson's Tiger Paw Invitational (Feb. 9)
- That made him the No. 11-ranked American in history and tied him for No. 20 on the world all-time list
- Second man in history to run 7.42 or faster prior to turning 21 (Cuba's Dayron Robles)
- Only man currently on the collegiate all-time top 10 in the 60 hurdles and with a 4x400 relay team
- Also tied the third-fastest and fourth-fastest times in collegiate history (7.47 at NCAA Indoors; 7.49 Jan. 19 at Clemson)
- Only 60 hurdler in collegiate history to break 7.50 seconds three times
- Only man since at least 2001 to score in both the 60 hurdles (champion) and long jump (fourth) at SEC Indoor Championships, doing so this year and last season
- Split 45.12 seconds for Florida's 4x400 relay—which ran the fifth-fastest time in collegiate history and ninth-fastest time ever recorded (3:02.23)
- Split 45.67 seconds and anchored Florida's 4x400 relay to the eighth-fastest time in collegiate history in a runner-up finish at SEC Indoors
- Became first 60 hurdler in collegiate/ history to break 7.60 seconds six times in a career (six this season alone, eight for his career)
Holloway and the Gators continue their outdoor season next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the NCAA East Preliminary in Tampa, Fla. Qualifiers for the meet were announced by the NCAA earlier this afternoon.
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