Group USA’s Grant Holloway has topped off his excellent season with a long-awaited Olympic gold medal. The 26-year-old sprinter established unquestionable dominance over the dash occasion with a sub-13 second efficiency on Thursday, clocking 12.99 to win by one tenth of a second.
His teammate, Daniel Roberts, joined him on the rostrum in second place, beating out the bronze medal finisher, Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell, by simply three thousandths of a second.
Holloway had been the clear favorite heading into the Olympic closing in Tokyo in 2021, however was upset by Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment. The race devastated Holloway, whose private finest stood at 12.81, over three tenths of a second sooner than Parchment’s (on the time). With the American hungrier than ever for redemption in Paris, the reigning Olympic champion settled for eighth, whereas Holloway upgraded his silver medal to gold.
Holloway is only one hundredth of a second off the world file held by fellow American Aries Merritt since 2012; with three world championship titles and a recent Olympic title to his identify, breaking the world file is all that’s left on Holloway’s to-do checklist.
