Ja'Kobe Tharp

Personal information
Born	(2005-09-30)30 September 2005 (age 20)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personalbest(s)	60m hurdles 7.45 (2025) 110m hurdles: 13.01 (2025)
Medal record Men'sathletics Representing United States World U20 Championships 2024 Lima 110m hurdles

Ja’Kobe Tharp (born 30 September 2005) is an Americanhurdler. He won the110 metres hurdles at the2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the2024 World U20 Championships. He was a finalist at the2025 World Championships.

In 2025, he won both theNCAA Outdoor Championships over 110 metres hurdles and theNCAA Indoor Championships over60 metres hurdles.^[1]

He attendedRockvale High School inTennessee.^[2]

He finished runner-up at the NCAA Championships in June 2024, running forAuburn University. He finished the NCAA season with a 13.18 seconds personal best.^[3] He achieved that in winning the Southeastern Conference inGainesville, Florida. This time set a new national U20 record breaking the previous mark set byRenaldo Nehemiah in 1978.^[4] Later that month, he won the 110m hurdle final at the USATF U20 Championships inEugene, Oregon.^[5]

He competed at the2024 World Athletics U20 Championships inLima, 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]

He ran 7.45 seconds to win the2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach on 15 March 2025.^[9] He ran 13.15 seconds for the 110m hurdles to finish second at the 2025 SEC Championships, a time which moved him to fifth on the NCAA all-time list.^[10] In June 2025, he also won the2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships 110 metres hurdles title inEugene, Oregon, in a personal best time of 13.05 seconds.^[11][12] He ran 13.17 seconds to place third at the2025 Herculis event in Monaco on hisDiamond League debut on 11 July 2025.^[13]

On 3 August 2025, he ran a personal best 13.01 seconds to win the2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon ahead ofCordell Tinch.^[14] He was a finalist competing at the2025 World Athletics Championships in themen's 110 metres hurdles inTokyo, Japan, in September 2025, placing sixth overall.^[15][16]

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.^[17]

• 2005 births
• Living people
• American men hurdlers
• Auburn Tigers men's track and field athletes
• Track and field athletes from Tennessee
• World Athletics U20 Championships winners
• 21st-century American sportsmen
• World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States

• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata