Ja’Kobe Tharp breaks 110m hurdles world record at NCAA athletics championships

Ja’Kobe Tharp clocked 12.75 seconds to smash the 110m hurdles world record during heats at the NCAA collegiate athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday.
Tharp wiped out the long-standing previous record of 12.80 seconds set by fellow American Aries Merritt in Brussels on September 7, 2012.
The record also pushed China’s Liu Xiang’s 12.88 seconds in 2006 down to the seventh-fastest of all time.
Run with a legal tailwind of one metre per second, the performance also shattered Grant...