Chesapeake’s Grant Holloway gets the three-peat as he wins the 110 hurdles at the World Athletics Championships
Chesapeake’s Grant Holloway won the 110 hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Monday.
Holloway, a Grassfield High graduate, won the race in a season-best time of 12.96 seconds. Jamaican Hansle Parchment, who beat Holloway at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, won the silver in season-best 13.0. And American Daniel Roberts, who battled with Holloway in college, won the bronze in 13.09.
Holloway became just the second 110 hurdler ever to win three consecutive titles at the World Athletics Championships in 40 years. He also won titles in 2019 in Doha and last summer in Eugene, Oregon. He equaled American hurdler Greg Foster, who won the 110 hurdles in 1983, 1987 and 1991.
“I’m speechless right now. Nothing feels like the first one, but this is (one I’m) definitely going to cherish ” Holloway said after the race.
Holloway, running in lane five, got out with his trademark fast start and was never threatened as he dominated from start to finish.
Holloway, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist, is the second-fastest man in history of the event with a personal best of 12.81 seconds, set at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2021. He’s also the world record holder in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.29 set in 2021.
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