Ja'Kobe Tharp breaks 110m hurdles world record at NCAA championships
Twenty-year-old Auburn University athlete Ja'Kobe Tharp clocked 12.75 seconds in the 110m hurdles heats at the NCAA outdoor championships in Eugene, Oregon, breaking the previous world record of 12.80 set by Aries Merritt in 2012. The run, aided by a legal tailwind of 1.0m/s, also shattered Grant Holloway's NCAA record of 12.98 set in 2019. It is the first world record set at an NCAA championships in 50 years, and Tharp will compete in the final on Friday.
Ja'Kobe Tharp, a 20-year-old hurdler from Auburn University, broke the 110m hurdles world record on Wednesday during the heats of the NCAA outdoor track and field championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, clocking 12.75 seconds with a legal tailwind of 1.0m/s. The performance surpassed the previous world record of 12.80 seconds held by fellow American Aries Merritt, set in Brussels in September 2012, and demolished Grant Holloway's NCAA collegiate record of 12.98 from 2019. Tharp's personal best entering the meet was 13.01 seconds, meaning he improved by more than a quarter of a second in a single race. It marks the first world record set at an NCAA championships since Dwight Stones achieved a high jump record in 1976. Tharp, who is also an under-20s world champion and finished sixth at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, said he expected a strong performance but was genuinely surprised by the magnitude of the result. He will compete in Friday's final, where he aims to win a second consecutive NCAA title.
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