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Holloway Wins World Title, Caps All-Time Great Hurdles Season
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 | Track and Field
DOHA, Qatar – Grant Holloway delivered a fitting ending to one of the greatest hurdle seasons of all time, as he won the 110-meter hurdles gold medal Wednesday night at the IAAF World Championships, beating the winners of the last three global championships to seize the throne.
Holloway, who turns 22 years old in November, is the first American 110 hurdler to win a global championship since David Oliver won gold at the 2013 World Championships. He also joins American Fred Kelly (20 years old, 1912 Olympics), China's Xiang Liu (21, 2004 Olympics), Barbados' Ryan Brathwaite (21, 2009 Worlds), Cuba's Dayron Robles (21, 2008 Olympics), and American Roger Kingdom (21, 1984 Olympics) as the only other men in history to win a 110 hurdles global title prior to turning 22 years old.
The Chesapeake, Va., native clocked a time of 13.10 seconds, putting him half a second ahead of Sergey Shubenkov, the 2015 World Championships gold medalist.
Holloway led right from the gun, but Omar McLeod, the defending World Championships and Olympic gold medalist, pressed at hurdle nine to challenge him. McLeod clipped the hurdle and tumbled to the ground, leaving no one within striking distance of Holloway as he came off the 10th and final hurdle.
Holloway entered this year's World Championships with the world-leading time (12.98 seconds), which he set as he became the first man in collegiate history to sweep the indoor and outdoor high hurdles NCAA titles three years in a row. That winning time at the NCAA Outdoor Championships this past June also broke Renaldo Nehemiah's 40-year-old collegiate record.
Some of Holloway's other achievements from the 2019 season, after which he turned professional, include:
What's next for Holloway? First, he will head to Orlando, Fla., this December for the presentation of The Bowerman, track and field's take on the Heisman Trophy. Looking further ahead, as long as Holloway emerges from the 2020 United States Olympic Trials this coming June, he should head to Tokyo as the Olympic favorite in the 110 hurdles.
Gators Great Kemal Mesic is the program's only representative at the World Championships Thursday, as he will compete in the men's shot put qualifying at 12:20 p.m. ET.
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— IAAFDoha2019 (@IAAFDoha2019) October 2, 2019
GOLD 🏅 for Grant Holloway in the Men's 110m Hurdles #WorldAthleticsChamps #TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/SO2GCIpA6u
😭😭😭😭#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/SHOncSPvz2
— IAAF (@iaaforg) October 2, 2019
Holloway, who turns 22 years old in November, is the first American 110 hurdler to win a global championship since David Oliver won gold at the 2013 World Championships. He also joins American Fred Kelly (20 years old, 1912 Olympics), China's Xiang Liu (21, 2004 Olympics), Barbados' Ryan Brathwaite (21, 2009 Worlds), Cuba's Dayron Robles (21, 2008 Olympics), and American Roger Kingdom (21, 1984 Olympics) as the only other men in history to win a 110 hurdles global title prior to turning 22 years old.
The Chesapeake, Va., native clocked a time of 13.10 seconds, putting him half a second ahead of Sergey Shubenkov, the 2015 World Championships gold medalist.
Holloway led right from the gun, but Omar McLeod, the defending World Championships and Olympic gold medalist, pressed at hurdle nine to challenge him. McLeod clipped the hurdle and tumbled to the ground, leaving no one within striking distance of Holloway as he came off the 10th and final hurdle.
SUPER SAIYAN @Flaamingoo_ 🗣️🗣️🗣️
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) October 2, 2019
What an ending to one of the greatest hurdle seasons of all time 🥇pic.twitter.com/2AjiUpXY44
Holloway entered this year's World Championships with the world-leading time (12.98 seconds), which he set as he became the first man in collegiate history to sweep the indoor and outdoor high hurdles NCAA titles three years in a row. That winning time at the NCAA Outdoor Championships this past June also broke Renaldo Nehemiah's 40-year-old collegiate record.
*tips cap to @RenaldoNehemiah*
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) June 8, 2019
1⃣2⃣.9⃣8⃣ 🗣️🗣️ @Flaamingoo_#GoGators 🐊 #LessSaid 🐊 #TheHolloWAYpic.twitter.com/fzv0vqZHM3
Some of Holloway's other achievements from the 2019 season, after which he turned professional, include:
- 2018-19 SEC Male Athlete of the Year
- 2019 The Bowerman finalist (second year in a row)
- 4-time NCAA Champion (60-meter hurdles; 110-meter hurdles; 60 meters; 4x100 relay)
- Broke 60 hurdles collegiate record and 32-year-old American record (7.35)
- Third leg for Florida's collegiate record-setting and national title-winning 4x100 relay (37.97)
- Third man in Division I history to complete the straightaway sweep (60-60H) at NCAA Indoor Championships
- Scored 27.5 points at NCAA Indoor Championships (half a point shy of meet record)
What's next for Holloway? First, he will head to Orlando, Fla., this December for the presentation of The Bowerman, track and field's take on the Heisman Trophy. Looking further ahead, as long as Holloway emerges from the 2020 United States Olympic Trials this coming June, he should head to Tokyo as the Olympic favorite in the 110 hurdles.
Gators Great Kemal Mesic is the program's only representative at the World Championships Thursday, as he will compete in the men's shot put qualifying at 12:20 p.m. ET.
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- Venue: Khalifa International Stadium (Doha, Qatar)
| Day 3 – Sunday, September 29th (only finals listed – see Medal Recap for details) | |
| Event | Place, Gators (Country) – Mark [Wind] | Notes |
| TJ (M) | 1. Christian Taylor (United States) – 17.92 meters [+0.9] | World Champion; season-best mark |
| 2. Will Claye (United States) – 17.74 meters [+0.9] | Silver medalist | |
| Day 4 – Monday, September 30th (only finals listed – see Day 4 Recap for details) | |
| Event | Place, Gators (Country) – Time / Mark [Wind] | Notes |
| 400mH (M) | 5. TJ Holmes (United States) – 48.20 | Topped personal record by 0.10 seconds |
| 3kSC (W) | 10. Genevieve Gregson (Australia) – 9:23.84 | Season-best time |
| Day 6 – Wednesday, October 2nd (^ - denotes semifinals; all other events are finals) | |
| Event | Place, Gators (Country) – Time [Wind] | Notes |
| 110mH (M) | 1. Grant Holloway – 13.10 [+0.6] | World Champion |
| 110mH (M) ^ | 2. Holloway – 13.10 [+1.1] | Advanced to final |
| Day 7 – Thursday, October 3rd | |
| Time | Gators (Country) – Event |
| 12:20 p.m. | Kemal Mesic (Bosnia) – Men's Shot Put [qualifying – Group A] |
| Day 8 – Friday, October 4th (bold italics denotes final) | |
| Time | Gators (Country) – Event |
| 2:05 p.m. | Raymond Ekevwo (Nigeria); Hakim Sani Brown (Japan) – Men's 4x100 relay [preliminary] |
| Day 9 – Saturday, October 5th (bold italics denotes final) | |
| Time | Gators (Country) – Event |
| 10:50 a.m. | Yanis David (France); Shara Proctor (Great Britain) – Women's Long Jump [qualifying] |
| 1:05 p.m. | Kemal Mesic (Bosnia) – Men's Shot Put |
| 3:15 p.m. | Raymond Ekevwo (Nigeria); Hakim Sani Brown (Japan) – Men's 4x100 relay |
| Day 10 – Sunday, October 6th (bold italics denotes final) | |
| Time | Gators (Country) – Event |
| 12:15 p.m. | Yanis David (France); Shara Proctor (Great Britain) – Women's Long Jump |
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