In the early morning of February 7, Beijing time, in the NEW BALANCE Grand Prix indoor tour held in New York, the American track and field star Holloway won the championship in the men's 60m hurdles event with a superb result of 7.37 seconds, this competition is Holloway's debut, to achieve such excellent results can be seen that Holloway has been in good shape recently, Holloway also created the world's best time of the year in this competition.
Holloway is a strong player in the hurdles event, he is also known as the first person in the post-Liu Xiang era, Holloway in the 2021 IAAF Indoors Madrid men's 60m hurdles event has run a stunning 7.29 seconds, a new 27 years of unbroken men's 60m hurdles world record, his performance is only one second away from the world record, the original record is the British star Colin Jackson in 1994 set a 7.30 seconds, it can be seen that this is already a very extreme result.
Holloway also has a very good performance in the 110m hurdles, he once created a stunning time of 12.81 seconds in the semi-finals of the men's 110m hurdles in the U.S. Athletics Trials, this record also broke Liu Xiang's 12.88 seconds, Holloway's 12.81 seconds and Merritt's world record of 12.80 seconds set at the 2012 London Olympic Games was only 0.01 seconds, which shows his strength, and Holloway is also known as the second person in history in the 110m hurdles.
Holloway started very fast, and often in the first three hurdles after the start of the race to lead the opponent a lot, but he was slightly uneven in the distribution of physical strength during the race, sometimes slightly slack when the race was close to the end, and was overtaken by other athletes, his performance at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games was like this, originally in the first half of the competition, everyone thought that Holloway could win the olympic men's 110m hurdles, but in the end he was overtaken by Jamaican Patchmont, regrettably only to get the silver medal. But in this year's Holoway debut game, it can be seen that he himself realized this, and began to average his strength across the entire schedule to win the championship.
Holloway is not only talented in hurdles, his high jump and long jump also have a high level, according to media reports, Holloway's high jump once reached 2.16 meters, the long jump once reached 8.17 meters, can be called an all-round sports genius. Holloway is not satisfied with his world record in the 60-meter hurdles.
He said he could still run faster, "I can't say it was a perfect race, but I ran a time of 7.32 seconds in the preliminaries, which tied my personal best, which usually means I will run faster in the final." And his goal now is to get back the gold medal he lost at Tokyo at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and to declare that he will break Merritt's world record in the 110m hurdles. Let's look forward to Holloway's performance in the next game.