At the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships men's 110 -meter hurdles preliminaries, a landmark in sprinting history was rewritten. The 20 -year-old American hurdler Ja'Kobe Tharp clocked 12.75 seconds（风速 +1.0 m/s）正式打破尘封了 14 年之久的男子 110 米栏世界纪录（2012 年梅里特跑出的 12 秒 80）。

This standout from Auburn University, Sapp, has already collected a string of major titles in his career, including gold at the 2024 U20 World Championships, the 2025 US Championships crown, and dual NCAA indoor 60m hurdles and outdoor 110m hurdles national championships. He has now been crowned the men's 110m hurdles world record holder — will he go on to rewrite more history?

Sapp’s breakthrough in the 110m hurdles sent countless track fans reeling back to 2006, when a 23-year-old Liu Xiang ran 12.88 to break Colin Jackson’s 13-year-old men's 110m hurdles world record — announcing to the world that athletes of Asian descent could stand at the pinnacle of sprint hurdling. That world record has now been rewritten three times.

Now that the world record has been broken again, it’s hard not to wonder: when will China’s new generation of men’s 110m hurdlers crack the 13.10-second barrier? When will they once again take the stage in the finals of top international competitions?