By Şevket F. ERBAY
Olympic champion hurdler Grant Holloway opened his campaign for nine consecutive indoor season. He is unbeaten yet and is pursuing one of the most impressive streaks in the sport.
The 1.88 tall beast Grant Holloway had been arrived on the international scene in 2019 when he got the high hurdling world title in Doha. Before that, he was actually a college phenom, but nobody knew of his dominative force in the speed hurdling.
Holloway has an exceptional physique even though he was in high school, where some college football scouts interested him to sign. Although he was a successful wide receiver of his high school football team, he chose athletics in college over a future NFL career.
Grant Holloway made a stunning progression under coach Mike Holloway's - no relation with himself - Florida Gator, where he got the NCAA title by clocking a cracky 12.98 in 2019 - a collegiate record held by Renaldo Nehemiah for 40 years. Then he concluded the long summer with a silver at the US Championships and a world title in Doha.
He continued his dominance in the professional level since then, with only one major defeat in Tokyo 2020 Olympics final where he lost to experienced Hansle Parchment of Jamaica. However, he was granted the missing Olympic title in Paris for showing a sub-13 (12.99) performance in cool conditions for the final.
He has three consecutive World outdoor titles and an Olympic gold, but today's subject is not about his (already) very successful career but the specific brilliance of indoor hurdling. Because the never-losing Grant Holloway is now rolling into the greatest-ever win streak ever. He has already collected 65 consecutive 60m hurdles wins from 2017 and has not lost a single race in his entire career so far. In the span of eight seasons (also finished as world number 1 in the last seven years), Holloway secured three NCAA titles, one US National title, two World Indoors gold and, of course, broke world records twice, 7.29 and 7.27.
Grant Holloway dragged Collin Jackson (7.30) into second place in all time and surpassed him about "most world indoor season lead for 60m hurdles". He entered the 2025 indoor season at the New Balance Indoor GP in Boston, the third leg of the World Indoor Tour. He easily pounded a reduced five-man final field to clock 7.42 after getting a warm-up of 7.47 heat.
Holloway is now eyeing a third consecutive World Indoor title in Nanjing's long-waited event, which will hosted in the high-tech The Cube Indoor Hall. If so, as you predicted, he will be the first man in athletics history to have both outdoor and indoor titles thrice.
There is "beast mode on" for history-making.
HOLLOWAY'S INDOOR WINS BY SEASONS
2017 – 10
2018 – 10
2019 – 8
2020 – 3
2021 – 10
2022 – 9
2023 – 5
2024 – 8
2025 – 2 (after Boston)
As Feb 3, 2025: 65 consecutive victory.
