2 hours ago Ja'Kobe Tharp broke the 110m hurdles satellite grounds during heats astatine the American assemblage championships connected Wednesday.
The 20-year-old, from Auburn, Alabama, clocked 12.75 seconds astatine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) lawsuit successful Eugene, Oregon.
The erstwhile grounds of 12.80 was acceptable by chap American Aries Merritt successful Brussels successful September 2012.
Current Olympic champion Grant Holloway acceptable the erstwhile collegiate grounds of 12.98 successful 2019.
Tharp is the archetypal jock to acceptable a satellite grounds astatine the NCAA championships successful 50 years.
His erstwhile champion was 13.01 and though helium came into the conscionable expecting to bushed that, helium did not expect to instrumentality much than a 4th of a 2nd disconnected that people and acceptable a satellite record.
"I knew I was acceptable to driblet thing crazy," helium told reporters.
"I knew what I was susceptible of, but I didn't cognize astir that.
"It wasn't connected my bingo illustration for this meet, not astatine all. I'm speechless, seriously."
Tharp volition vie successful the last connected Friday, erstwhile helium aims to go the archetypal hurdler since Holloway successful 2019 to triumph a 2nd consecutive NCAA title.
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