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Ja’Kobe Tharp (born 30 September 2005) is an American hurdler.[1]
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| Born | 30 September 2005 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 110m hurdles: 13.18 (2024) | ||||||||||||||
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He attended Rockvale High School in Tennessee.[2]
He finished runner-up at the NCAA Championships in June 2024, running for Auburn University. He finished the NCAA season with a 13.18 seconds personal best.[3] He achieved that in winning the Southeastern Conference in Gainesville, Florida. This time set a new national U20 record breaking the previous mark set by Renaldo Nehemiah in 1978.[4] Later that month, he won the 110m hurdle final at the USATF U20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon.[5]
He competed at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, qualifying for the final with a year world U20 leading time of 13.11 seconds.[6] He won the gold medal in the final with a 13.05 seconds (-0.5m/s) lifetime best time, and a national U20 record over the 99cm hurdles, as well as a 2024 world U20 leading time.[7][8]
Both his parents were basketball players, his father, Jimmie Ware, was a high school player and his mother, Aminda, played for Tennessee–Martin and Dyersburg State CC.[9]
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