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 12.96 seconds.
He 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. Allen Johnson also won three titles in 1995, 1997 and 2001.
Holloway, running in lane five, got out with his trademark fast start and never was threatened as he dominated the race.
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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