Tharp, 20, breaks 110m hurdles world record at NCAA championships
Ja’Kobe Tharp clocked 12.75sec to smash the 110m hurdles world record during heats at the NCAA collegiate athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday. Tharp wiped out the long-standing previous record of 12.80sec set by fellow American Aries Merritt in Brussels on September 7, 2012. The performance, run with a legal tailwind of one meter […] The post Tharp, 20, breaks 110m hurdles world record at NCAA championships appeared first on The Namibian .
Ja’Kobe Tharp clocked 12.75sec to smash the 110m hurdles world record during heats at the NCAA collegiate athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday.
Tharp wiped out the long-standing previous record of 12.80sec set by fellow American Aries Merritt in Brussels on September 7, 2012.
The performance, run with a legal tailwind of one meter per second sec, also shattered Grant Holloway’s NCAA collegiate record of 12.98sec set in 2019.