Team USA’s Grant Holloway wins Olympic gold in men’s 110 hurdles

SAINT-DENIS, France − Team USA’s Grant Holloway won a gold medal Thursday night in the 110-meter hurdles at the Paris Games’ Stade de France with a time of 12.99 seconds.
Other medal winners were Team USA’s Daniel Roberts (silver, 13.09) and Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica (bronze, 13.09).
Holloway left little wonder why he was ranked No. 1 in the world in the 110-meter hurdles. It was a redemptive moment after he won silver at the Tokyo Games in 2021, missing out on gold by 0.05 seconds, in his first Olympic appearance.
The men’s 110 hurdles has historically been dominated by Team USA, although Jamaica took gold in 2016 and 2021. Holloway, one of USA Track and Field’s two team captains in Paris, is the eighth American to win multiple medals in the event, all of whom hold two.
Team USA’s Freddie Crittenden, who took an odd path to qualification, recorded a 13.32 and finished sixth.
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Holloway entered the Paris Games with a personal best of 12.81 in the event, and a season best of 12.86. The Olympic record is 12.91, set by China’s Xiang Liu in 2004, while the world record belongs to American Aries Merritt (12.80).
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