Despite being a hurdler, he showed incredible versatility whilst competing for the University of Florida, by also doing the flat races, relays and long jump. His range was a driving force in Florida's team performances at the NCAA Championships. In the six NCAA Championships Holloway competed in between 2017 and 2018, Florida won three and finished second in the other three. As of February 2025, he had not lost an indoor sprint hurdles race since March 2014, when he was 16 years old.
Early life
Stanley Grant Holloway was born November 19, 1997, in Chesapeake, Virginia, to mother Latasha and father Stan.[12][13] Holloway was coached with his older brother Trey by their father Stan in track and field until high school as members of the Track 757 club.[14] Holloway continued to compete in track and field with his brother at Grassfield High School for the Grizzlies, as well as competing on the football team as a wide receiver.[15] He chose to compete for the University of Florida in the hurdles rather than the University of Georgia in football.
Career
High School
2013
As a freshman, Holloway competed indoors for Grassfield High School as a hurdler and jumper, and ran on relays as well. At the 2013 Virginia 3A Indoor State Championship, Holloway finished 4th in the 55 meters hurdles in 7.47 s, 2nd in the high jump in 6' 7", and ran legs on the 4th place 4x200 meters team and 5th place 4x400 meters team.
Outdoors, Holloway amassed season bests of 14.42 s in the 110m hurdles, 38.52 s in the 300m hurdles, 6' 11" in the high jump, and 21' 3.75" in the long jump; he did not compete at the state or national meet.[16]
2014
Holloway began to compete at national elite level as a hurdler in his sophomore year. Indoors, he won state championships in the 55 meters hurdles (7.54 s) and the high jump in 6' 10", and finished 3rd in the 300 meters (a race won by future Team USA teammate Noah Lyles), 4th in the long jump in 22' 0.25", and ran a leg on the 7th place 4x200 meters team. Holloway then competed at New Balance Indoor Nationals; he finished 3rd in the Emerging Elite 200m in 21.93 s and 2nd in the Championship 60 meters hurdles in 7.93 s behind Isiah Moore.[17]
Notably, Holloway won every 55 meters / 60 meters hurdles race he ran that year except for the aforementioned 60m hurdles final (as well as the semifinal) at the national meet. After those losses to Moore, Holloway began an ongoing undefeated streak in the 55m and 60m hurdles indoors.[17]
Outdoors, Holloway won state championships in the 110 meters hurdles (14.11 s) and high jump (7' 11'), finished 3rd in the 300 meters hurdles, 7th in the 200 meters in 22.13 s, and 9th in the long jump in 20' 5.5".[16]
2015
Holloway entered more short and long sprints while continuing both jumps as a junior. He repeated as state champion in the 55 meter hurdles (7.19 s) and added the long jump title (23' 6.25"), finished 2nd in the high jump in 6' 10", and finished 2nd behind Noah Lyles in the 300 meters (34.41 s) and 3rd behind Lyles and brother Josephus Lyles in the 55 meters (6.35 s). At New Balance Indoor Nationals, he won the Championship 60 meter hurdles in a photo finish over Chad Zallow in 7.59 s, the then all-time #2 mark, and finished 2nd in the Championship high jump in 6' 11".50, losing on misses.
Outdoors, Holloway amassed four state championships: he repeated in the 110 meter hurdles (13.61 s) and high jump (6' 8"), and added the 300 meter hurdles (36.73) and long jump (25' 8.75"), and also finished 5th in the 200 meters in 21.65 s. At New Balance Outdoor Nationals, Holloway false started in the Championship 110 meter hurdles final and finished 5th in the long jump with a 23' 10" mark.[16] At the US Junior Championships, Holloway made the semifinals of the 110 meter hurdles and finished 3rd in the long jump with 24' 8.75".
2016
As a senior Holloway continued to jump, added even more events, and set national records. Indoors, Holloway won three state championships: a third consecutive 55 meter hurdle title (7.14 s), his second consecutive long jump title, and the 500 meters title, which he won by a hundredth of a second in 1:03.35 over Josephus Lyles; Holloway also finished 3rd in the 55 meters behind the Lyles brothers for the second year in a row. At New Balance Indoor Nationals, Holloway competed in his first career pentathlon and set the 3rd best HS mark ever (4230 points); he also won a second consecutive national title and set the national record in the 60 meter hurdles (7.53).[16]
Outdoors, Holloway won three state championships: a third consecutive 110 meter hurdles title, a third consecutive high jump title (6' 6"), and repeated in the long jump (25' 5.75"); he also finished second in the 200 meter in 21.32 s and was disqualified in the 300 meters hurdles. At New Balance Outdoor Nationals, Holloway finished 3rd in the Championship 110m hurdles final in 13.51 s.[16] At the US Junior Championships, Holloway finished 6th in the Long Jump in 24' 10.75" and 3rd in the 110 m hurdles in 13.37 s.
Holloway ended his high school career with sixteen state championships (seven indoors, nine outdoor) and three indoor national championships.
Collegiate
2017
At the University of Florida, Holloway continued to show incredible range by competing in the long jump and the 4x400m relay, in addition to his hurdles specialty. He went undefeated in the 60m high hurdles, and won the NCAA Indoor Title in a collegiate-leading 7.58 seconds. He also finished 11th in the long jump and ran the second leg on Florida's 4x400m relay team that finished 2nd. Outdoors, he won the 110m hurdles, finished 2nd in the long jump and anchored Florida's 4x400m relay team to 4th place. He also ran the 3rd leg on their 4x100m team throughout the season. Holloway competed in the US Championships in the hopes of qualifying for the World Championships in London, but finished 4th and missed out by .05 seconds.
Holloway's 2018 season was a repeat of 2017. He continued his unbeaten streak in the 60m high hurdles, defending his NCAA title in a collegiate record-breaking and world leading 7.42 seconds. This year, he finished 2nd in the long jump and Florida finished 3rd in the 4x400m relay with his help on the second leg. Outdoors, he set a then-world-leading 13.15 seconds in the 110m hurdles at the SEC Championships, and defended his NCAA title 4 weeks later. He finished 9th in the long jump, ran the 2nd leg on the 4x100m team that finished 3rd, and anchored Florida to 4th place in the 4x400m. He once again went to the US Championships, this time finishing 2nd by thousandths of a second.
Prior to setting the NCAA and American record in the 60m hurdles, in February 2018 he set the NCAA record with a 7.42s clocking at the Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational, beating and taking the record away from Olympic champion in the 110m hurdles Omar McLeod.[7][18] Later that year he clocked 13.15s in the 110m hurdles at the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championships, winning the meet in the second fastest time in NCAA history.[19][20] This became the third fastest time a year later at the same meet when Holloway ran 13.07s, just 0.07s slower than Renaldo Nehemiah's NCAA record.[21]
2019 was Holloway's breakthrough year. Despite finding strong challenge from Daniel Roberts of the University of Kentucky, he went unbeaten in the 60m high hurdles and won his 3rd consecutive NCAA title in the event, becoming the first to do so. He also smashed his own collegiate record with 7.35 seconds, also an American record.
He was one of the most versatile athletes in the NCAA, setting personal bests of 6.50s in the 60 m dash, 12.98s in the 110m hurdles, 8.17m in the long jump, and a 43.75s split in the 4 × 400 m relay while competing for the Florida Gators. He holds the NCAA and American record in the 60 mhurdles with a time of 7.35s, set at the NCAA DivisionI Indoor Championships. This mark also made him the third-fastest man in the event in history.[9][22][10] His NCAA record of 12.98s in the 110m hurdles, set at the NCAA DivisionI Championships, broke 40-year-old record held by former world record holder Renaldo Nehemiah.[23] He was a member of the championship and record breaking 4 × 100 m relay team at this championships, which clocked the first sub-38 relay in NCAA history with a time of 37.97s.[24]
Holloway was NCAA champion in both the 60m hurdles and the 110m hurdles from 2017 to 2019, champion in both the 60m dash and 60m hurdles in 2019, and had multiple podium finishes in the long jump, 4 × 100 m relay, and 4 × 400 m relay in the same years. His performances were critical in helping the Florida Gators win the team titles at the 2017 NCAA DivisionI Championships, the 2018 NCAA DivisionI Indoor Championships, and the 2019 NCAA DivisionI Indoor Championships.
Professional
Holloway set the 60m hurdles world record on February 24, 2021, at the conclusion of the World Athletics Indoor Tour in Madrid, beating Colin Jackson's 27-year old world record of 7.30s by one hundredth of a second.[25] Holloway had previously matched his American record of 7.32s in the heats, already the #2 all-time performance going into the meet, before winning the final in 7.29s.[26] His victory in the final also made him the overall winner of the 2021 World Indoor Tour in the 60m hurdles.[27]
He made his outdoor pro debut at the Miramar Invitational in Miramar, Florida on April 10, winning the 110m hurdles final in a windy (+2.2m/s) 13.04s, his fastest opening performance in the event.[28] He finished second in the finals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Awards and recognition
Holloway was one of three men's finalists in 2018 for The Bowerman—an annual American collegiate track and field award—and was the fan favorite by vote.[29][30] The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) awarded him The Bowerman in 2019, and additionally named him both the Men's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and the Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year.[31][32][33]Track & Field News awarded him both the U.S. Collegiate Men's Indoor Athlete Of The Year and the U.S. Collegiate Men's Outdoor Athlete Of The Year titles in 2019.[34][35]
After setting the world record in the 60m hurdles and having an undefeated indoor season in which he won the 2021 World Indoor Tour title, Holloway was runner-up for the Indoor Men's Athlete Of The Year title by Track & Field News.[36]
1 2 Shared with Kunle Fasasi, Chantz Sawyers, and Benjamin Lobo Vedel for the Florida Gators. Holloway was the second carrier, after Fasasi and before Sawyers.
↑ Qualified for the final but did not start (DNS).[41]
↑ Devon Allen also finished with a (rounded-up) time of 13.46s, but placed first ahead of Holloway because Allen finished in 13.452s to Holloway's 13.454s.[46][47]
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