Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Grant Holloway, the world 110 metres hurdles champion, will have a world record in his sights again as he competes tomorrow in the Polish venue of Torun in the fifth of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.
The 23-year-old from Chesapeake, Virginia came within 0.02sec of the world 60m hurdles record set in 1994 by Britain’s Colin Jackson when he clocked 7.32sec in winning at the third Gold meeting in the French city of Liévin last Tuesday (February 9).
Unlike many of his United States colleagues who shone at the fourth Gold meeting in New York City on Saturday (February 13), Holloway - who equalled his US record of 7.35 earlier this season - has shifted his field of operation to Europe, and the move is paying off, as he now owns the five fastest times in the world this year.