Ja’Kobe Tharp broke the 110m hurdles world record during heats at the American college championships on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old, from Auburn, Alabama, clocked 12.75 seconds at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) event in Eugene, Oregon.<\/p>\n
The previous record of 12.80 was set by fellow American Aries Merritt in Brussels in September 2012.<\/p>\n
Current Olympic champion Grant Holloway set the previous collegiate record of 12.98 in 2019. <\/p>\n
Tharp is the first athlete to set a world record at the NCAA championships in 50 years.<\/p>\n
His previous best was 13.01 and although he came into the meet expecting to beat that, he did not expect to take more than a quarter of a second off that mark and set a world record.<\/p>\n
“I knew I was ready to drop something crazy,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n
“I knew what I was capable of, but I didn’t know about that.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t on my bingo chart for this meet, not at all. I’m speechless, seriously.”<\/p>\n
Tharp will compete in the final on Friday, when he aims to become the first hurdler since Holloway in 2019 to win a second straight NCAA title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja’Kobe Tharp broke the 110m hurdles world record during heats at the American college championships on Wednesday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-494067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}