Holloway Clocks NCAA 60m hurdles Championships Record of 7.44 seconds

Friday, 08 March 2019

University of Florida athlete Grant Holloway clocked an impressive personal best and new NCAA championships record of 7.44 seconds in the 60m hurdles to qualify for the finals on Friday in Birmingham, Alabama.

Holloway's 7.44 seconds in the hurdles in prelims was just 0.02 seconds off his own NCAA record.

After clocking a new NCAA meet record and new World lead in the 60m hurdles, Holloway also produced the fastest time in the 60m dash prelims with 6.53 seconds and took to take third place in the long jump final with a 7.95m leap.

After the 60m hurdles and 60m finals on Saturday, Holloway will also run the 4x400m relay for the Florida Gators.

60m hurdles qualification results

Place	Athlete		Affiliation	Time		Heat (pl)
1	Grant HOLLOWAY	JR	Florida	7.44	Q	1 (1)	FR MR
2	Trey CUNNINGHAM	SO	Florida State	7.55	Q	2 (1)
3	Daniel ROBERTS	JR	Kentucky	7.65	Q	2 (2)
4	Caleb PARKER	JR	Southern Miss	7.71	Q	1 (2)	PB
5	Amere LATTIN	SR	Houston	7.74	q	2 (3)
6	John BURT	JR	Texas	7.78	q	2 (4)
7	Chris DOUGLAS	SR	Iowa	7.79 (7.783)	q	1 (3)
8	Isaiah MOORE	SR	South Carolina	7.79 (7.784)	q	1 (4)

60m flat qualification results

Place	Athlete		Affiliation	Time		Heat (pl)
1	Grant HOLLOWAY	JR	Florida	6.53	Q	2 (1)
2	Hakim SANI BROWN	SO	Florida	6.54	Q	2 (2)	PB
3	Kasaun JAMES	JR	Florida State	6.55	q	2 (3)	PB
4	Mario BURKE	SR	Houston	6.57	Q	1 (1)
5	Divine ODUDURU	JR	Texas Tech	6.60 (6.596)	Q	1 (2)
6	Bryand RINCHER	FR	Florida State	6.60 (6.597)	q	2 (4)	=SB
7	Cravon GILLESPIE	SR	Oregon	6.61 (6.606)	q	1 (3)	=PB
8	Ryan CLARK	SR	Florida	6.61 (6.607)	q	2 (5)	PB

Long jump final top 8 results

Place	Athlete		Affiliation	Best Mark	Fl (Pl)
1	Rayvon GREY	JR	LSU	7.97m (26-1¾ )	1 (6)
2	Trumaine JEFFERSON	SR	Houston	7.96m (26-1½ )	1 (3)	PB
3	Grant HOLLOWAY	JR	Florida	7.95m (26-1 )	1 (1)
4	Jacob FINCHAM-DUKES	SR	Oklahoma State	7.94m (26-¾ )	1 (2)
5	Charles BROWN	SR	Texas Tech	7.91m (25-11½ )	1 (5)
6	Fabian EDOKI	JR	MTSU	7.86m (25-9½ )	1 (4)
7	Jordan LATIMER	SR	Akron	7.82m (25-8 )	1 (8)
8	Ja'Mari WARD	SO	Missouri	7.79m (25-6¾ )	1 (7)