110 Meter Hurdle For Men at Olympics
110 meter Hurdle for Men at Olympics: The hurdling events are the running events which involve running over hurdles set on the track. The 110 meter hurdle race for men is the standard sprint hurdle held in the international competitions.
The hurdle races are generally held only in the Olympics. The event is also known as the high hurdle race.
In the 110 meter hurdle event, ten hurdles are placed along the track. The standard height of the hurdles used in the men's event is 1.067 meter or 3 ½ feet. The distance between the starting point and the first hurdle is 13.72 meter. For the next nine hurdles, there is a gap of 9.14 meters between two consecutive hurdles. The finishing line is 14.02 meter away from the last hurdle. The hurdles are set in such a manner that, if any runner comes into contact with them during the race, the hurdles will fall over. If the hurdles are knocked down unintentionally, that is not counted as an offence.
The 110 meter hurdle event is very technical race to win. The event demands excellent speed along with fine technique on the part of the athletes. A fully skilled hurdler seems to be running through the hurdles. Their jumps over the hurdles looks as if they are running with their body lifted in the air for a little longer time. Generally, the hurdlers use their same lead leg while going over each hurdle.
110 meter Hurdle for Men in Summer Olympics: The 110 meter hurdle event for men was introduced to the Olympic competition in the 1896 Athens Summer Games. Since then, the event has been contested regularly at every Summer Games. American athletes have been dominating the event throughout the history of the event.
Rules for 110 meter Hurdle for Men at Olympics: The International Association of Athletics Federations or IAAF has set rules to be followed in the track and field athletics competitions at the international level. The rules relevant for the 110 meter hurdle event at the international competitions are-
- The hurdles are generally made of metal. Wood is used to make the top bar of the hurdle.
- The hurdles are adjustable in different height for different events.
- The length and width of each hurdle is determined by the IAAF. The top bar of each hurdle is painted white and black in color.
- Runners are not allowed to leave or change their respective lanes.
- An athlete is disqualified from the competition if he knocks down the hurdles intentionally. However, if the hurdles are overturned accidentally, then that is not considered to be punishable.
- An athlete cannot obstruct his competitors' way during the race. If found, an athlete can be disqualified from the competition. A re-run of the event can also be arranged.
- If an athlete steps out of the track during the race, he is not allowed to join his competitors.
- The athlete not finishing the race is not given any credit.
- Only the automatic timing device approved by the IAAF can be used for measuring the time during the races.
Medal Winners in the 110 meter Hurdle for Men: The American athletes have been leading the domain of the 110 meter hurdle event since the time it was included in the Olympic schedule. Liu Xiang, Anier Garcia, Allen Johnson, Mark McKoy, Roger Kingdom, Thomas Munkelt, Guy Drut, Rodney Milburn, Willie Davenport, Hayes Jones, Lee Calhoun, Harrison Dillard, William Porter, Forrest Towns, George Saling, Sydney Atkinson, Daniel Kinsey, Earl Thomson, Frederick Kelly, Forrest Smithson, Robert Leavitt, Frederick Schule, Alvin Kraenzlein and Thomas Curtis are some leading athletes who has won medals in the 110 meter hurdle event.
Trivia: In the 1896 Athens Summer Games, the final in the 110 meter event was held between only two athletes. The other two competitors, who had qualified for the final backed out from the competition.
Lee Calhoun and Roger Kingdom of the United States of America are the only athletes to win the Olympic title in the 110 meter hurdle event more than once.
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Olympic history: Men’s 110m hurdles
by Steve Smythe May 25, 2016
A look back at the men’s 110m hurdles as Steve Smythe reflects on the history of events at the Olympics
This looks like being an open event in Rio and there are some doubts as to who might be there as surprise world champion Sergey Shubenkov’s appearance depends on the IAAF’s decision on the Russian doping scandal. Knowing which three Americans will be in Brazil isn’t easy either.
The most competitive race of the year may well be at the US Olympic trials – six athletes ran 13.25 or faster in 2015. Defending champion Aries Merritt is recovering from a kidney operation but pre op showed he was in form with a third place finish in Beijing.
The 2013 world champion David Oliver was the fastest American in 2015 with four marks at 13.08 or faster but lacks consistency in major events.
Aleec Harris, former world champion and Olympic bronze medallist Jason Richardson and Ronnie Ash look the other most likely challengers based on 2015 form.
Jamaica should also have a strong team headed by Olympic and world silver medallist Hansle Parchment and 12.97 performer Omer McCleod.
Cuban world leader Orlando Ortega and France’s enigmatic Pascal Martinot-Lagarde look the best of the rest.
Britain could well provide a finalist through either Andy Pozzi, Will Sharman or 2012 fourth-placer Lawrence Clarke or possibly even European under-23 champion David Omoregie.
1896-2012
The inaugural Olympic final in Athens in 1896 had just two starters. American Thomas Curtis took the lead after the final hurdle to edge victory in 17.6. One of the original finalists decided to focus on the pole vault and another to assist a marathoner which was at the same time!
American domination continued as they won the next five Olympics, the best of which was a clean sweep of the medals in London in 1908 led by Forest Smithson’s world record in 15.0. USA had all four finalists in London and had five of the six finalists in Stockholm in 1912.
Post World War I in Antwerp in 1920 saw the first non-American win though Earl Thomson had lived in California since the age of eight. He won gold for his country of birth Canada in what was recognised as a world record 14.8, though he had run a superior time of 14.4 for the very slightly shorter 120 yards.
In Paris in 1924, Sydney Atkinson should have won but clipped the last hurdle and was pipped by American Dan Kinsey.
Four years later in Amsterdam, Atkinson’s South African team-mate George Weightman-Smith set a 14.6 world record in the semi-finals but could only finish fifth in the final as Atkinson made up for his loss with a narrow win in 14.8.
USA was back in command in Los Angeles in 1932. George Sailing won in 14.6 after a 14.4 semi-final. They also won in 1936 in Berlin as Forest Towns won in a time of 14.2 after equalling his own world record of 14.1 in his semi-final.
After the war, American dominance was maintained. They won the next seven finals.
William Porter got the Olympic record below 14 seconds with a 13.9 world record in London in 1948 as America took the medals. World record-holder Harrison Dillard went out in the US hurdles trials but he did win the Olympic 100m before returning four years later to win gold in Helsinki in 13.7 but was helped by his main rival Jack Davis hitting the ninth hurdle and the pair shared an Olympic record 13.5.
In Melbourne in 1956, Davis again shared the Olympic record and the winning time but this time his 13.5 fell short of team-mate Lee Calhoun. Calhoun also won in Rome in 1960.
Hayes Jones was third in Italy but he won gold in Tokyo in the fastest electrical time yet of 13.67. After four clean sweeps in the last four Games, this was only a USA one-two as US trial winner Willie Davenport injured himself in the semi-finals.
Davenport was fully fit in Mexico City in 1968 and won in a fast 13.33 which at the time was given as 13.3 and equaling Ervin Hall’s semi-final time. Hall finished second.
Davenport finished fourth in 1972 in Munich as Rod Milburn powered to a world record equaling 13.2 (13.24 electrical).
France’s Guy Drut finished a metre back in second and in Montreal in 1976 he became the first non-English speaking winner. In his fourth Olympics, Davenport finished third and also competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
There were no Americans in Moscow in 1980 due to the boycott over the Russian invasion of Afghanistan which almost certainly cost world record-holder Renaldo Nehemiah the gold medal and a US clean- sweep. In their absence East Germany’s Thomas Munkelt won gold in the slowest time since 1964.
Americans were back but East Germany were absent in Los Angeles in 1984. Roger Kingdom surprised inaugural World champion Greg Foster and won in an Olympic record 13.20 to Foster’s 13.23.
Kingdom was the favourite in 1988 in Seoul after dominating his event that year and took gold with the biggest margin in 68 years as he reduced the Olympic record to below 13 seconds with victory in 12.98.
Mark McKoy had finished fourth in 1984 and seventh in 1988 and fled Seoul after Ben Johnson failed a drugs test, fearing testing having admitted to drugs use himself. He was actually banned by the Canadian authorities for two years for not being available for the relay team there. He trained in Britain in 1991 and 1992 with British hope Colin Jackson and ultimately won comfortably in Barcelona.
In 1996 in Atlanta, world champion Allen Johnson reduced the Olympic record to 12.95 despite knocking down eight hurdles.
Johnson was favourite to defend in Sydney but knocked down all ten hurdles to finish fourth as gold decisively went to Anier Garcia in exactly 13.00.
USA also lost out on gold in both 2004 (see memorable Olympics below) and 2008.
In the latter Games, Dayron Robles, who had set a world record of 12.87 earlier in the year, won Olympic gold in 12.93.
There was a similar time in London in 2012 with Aries Merritt winning comfortably in 12.92 to give USA their 20th gold medal as Robles pulled up injured. Merritt set a still-standing world record of 12.80 shortly after the Games.
Most memorable Olympic 110m hurdles: Athens 2004
Liu Xiang first came to global prominence with a third place in the 2003 World Championships.
Defending champion and four-time world champion Allen Johnson was eliminated in the quarter finals when falling.
After a 13.06 semi final win many thought Ladji Doucoure looked favourite but in the final it was Liu and American Terrence Trammell who were clear leaders. After halfway, Liu went well clear and pulled away to win easily by almost three metres. He was shocked to see it was not only a still standing Olympic record but he also equalled Jackson’s world record with a 12.91 clocking.
He became China’s first ever Olympic track gold medallist. In 2006 Liu improved the world record to 12.88 in Lausanne and won the 2007 world title. Under huge pressure in Beijing in 2008 as China’s biggest star he succumbed to injury.
In Athens Trammell finished second for the second Games after Doucoure, who had passed him clattered the last two hurdles and finished a tailed off last. Doucoure did go on to win the 2005 world title.
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Athens, 7 Apr 1896 |
(Competitors: 9; Countries: 6; Finalists: 2) |
Final
Place | Athlete | Time |
1 |
Thomas Curtis (USA) |
17.6 s |
2 |
Grantley Goulding (GBR) |
17.6 s |
– |
William Hoyt (USA) |
DNS |
Frantz Reichel (FRA) |
DNS |
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The heats were won by Goulding in 18.4 from Alajos Szokolyi (HUN), and by Curtis (18.0) from William Hoyt (USA). The Slovak-born Hungarian (aka Alojz Szokol) didn’t appear for the final, and Hoyt decided to concentrate on the pole vault, which he won. Curtis started faster than Goulding and was quicker between the hurdles, but Goulding’s better technique over the very solid barriers got him to the 10th hurdle in the lead. Curtis’s speed told on the run-in, and he got to the line just under half a metre ahead. |
Paris, 14 Jul 1900 |
(Competitors: 9; Countries: 3; Finalists: 5) |
Final
Place | Athlete | Time |
1 |
Alvin Kraenzlein (USA) |
15.4 s WR |
2 |
John McLean (USA) |
(15.5) |
3 |
Frederick Moloney (USA) |
(15.6) |
4 |
Jean Lécuyer (FRA) |
Unknown |
— |
Norman Pritchard (IND) |
DNF |
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Kraenzlein improved the Olympic record to 15.6 in his heat – a world best over the metric distance. Behind him, Moloney (16.0e) and McLean (16.0e) were much quicker than Pritchard, winner of the other heat in 16.6. Lécuyer made the final without having to run, as his opposition didn’t turn up. Moloney and McLean then won repechage heats to qualify. McLean got a flying start in the final, and led by 4m at the first hurdle. However, Kraenzlein was the finest hurdler of his era, the first to use the single arm thrust technique used by all the modern top hurdlers, and the first to run over the hurdles rather than jump. He caught McLean by the eighth hurdle, and crossed the line 2.5m ahead. Again, it was a world’s best for 110m hurdles, though his best over the slightly shorter 120y (109.73m) was 15.2. |
St. Louis, 3 Sep 1904 |
(Competitors: 6; Countries: 2; Finalists: 4) |
Final
Place | Athlete | Time |
1 |
Fred Schule (USA) |
16.0 |
2 |
Thaddeus Shideler (USA) |
16.3 |
3 |
Lesley Ashburner (USA) |
16.4 |
4 |
Frank Castleman (USA) |
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Schule, the 1903 US Champion, and Castleman, the 1904 US Champion won the heats in 16.2. In the final Schule and Shideler ran together for half the race, and then Schule drew away to win handily from Shideler, with Ashburner a metre in third place. The slow times were due to a headwind. |
Athens, 1 May 1906 |
(Competitors: 15; Countries: 8; Finalists: 5) |
1 |
(2) |
Robert Leavitt |
USA |
16.2 |
2 |
(4) |
Alfred Healey |
GBR |
16.2e |
3 |
(3) |
Vincent Duncker |
RSA |
16.3e |
4 |
(1) |
Hugo Friend |
USA |
16.4e |
5 |
(5) |
Henri Molinié |
FRA |
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Healey and Leavitt won their heats in 16.5, with Friend, the US Champion winning his heat in 16.5. Duncker, a South African who had trained in Germany and arrived in Athens with the German team, won the repechage heat in 17.4. Friend hit the first hurdle, and could not get back on terms with Leavitt and Healey, who raced neck and neck the whole way. Healey led at the last hurdle, but Leavitt got ahead by 30cm on the run-in. |
London, 25 Jul 1908 |
(Competitors: 26; Countries: 11; Finalists: 4) |
Final
Smithson pulled away from his countrymen at every set of hurdles to win by five meters and set a new world record.
Place | Name | Nation | Time |
1 |
Forrest Smithson |
United States |
15.0 seconds WR |
2 |
John Garrels |
United States |
(15.7 seconds) |
3 |
Arthur Shaw |
United States |
(15.8 seconds) |
4 |
William Rand |
United States |
(16.0 seconds) |
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Smithson, Rand, Garrels and Alfred Healey (GBR) all ran 15.8 in their heats, the fastest of the 14 first round races. Shaw ran 15.6 in the first semi-final, and was followed by Smithson, who equalled the Olympic record. The third race saw Rand win the closest semi-final in 15.8 from Healey (15.9). The Briton was three tenths faster than Garrels who won the last semi-final in an eased-up 16.2. Smithson got a fine start in the final, and increased his lead on the grass course in the centre of the stadium throughout the race, winning by almost seven yards. Photos showing Smithson, a deeply religious man, carrying a bible while running over a hurdle, were taken after the race. |
Stockholm, 12 Jul 1912 |
(Competitors: 21; Countries: 9; Finalists: 6) |
Final
The final was held on Friday, July 12, 1912. Nicholson fell at the eighth hurdle, leaving Kelly to hold on and win by a narrow margin over Wendell.
Place | Athlete | Time |
1 |
Fred Kelly (USA) |
15.1 |
2 |
James Wendell (USA) |
15.2 |
3 |
Martin Hawkins (USA) |
15.3 |
4 |
John Case (USA) |
15.3 |
5 |
Kenneth Powell (GBR) |
15.5 |
— |
John Nicholson (USA) |
DNF |
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The first two in each heat qualified for the second round, and George Chisholm (USA) was the fastest man in round 1 with 15.3. Chisholm placed second in his second round race, and so missed the final, as Wendell got home 2m ahead in 15.5, after Gerard Anderson (GBR) led by 2m until falling at the eighth hurdle. Case and Nicholson were the fastest of the round with 15.4 clockings. The final got under way at the third time of asking, with Nicholson and Powell slowest away. By the eighth hurdle Nicholson had caught Wendell and Kelly, but fell at that barrier, leaving Kelly to get home first with his last few strides, missing the Olympic Record by just one tenth of a second. |
Antwerp, 18 Aug 1920 |
(Competitors: 24; Countries: 15; Finalists: 6) |
Final
The final was held on Wednesday, August 18, 1920.
Place | Athlete | Time |
1 |
Earl Thomson (CAN) |
14.8 WR |
2 |
Harold Barron (USA) |
15.1 |
3 |
Feg Murray (USA) |
15.1 |
4 |
Harry Wilson (NZL) |
15.2 |
5 |
Walker Smith (USA) |
15.3 |
6 |
Carl-Axel Christiernsson (SWE) |
15.3 |
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Thomson had won the IC4A title in May in a world record 14.4, and was a clear favourite, but was beaten by Barron by 2m in 15.2 in the first round. The two men then won their semi-finals in 15.0, equalling the Olympic record. In the final Barron was drawn in lane 1 with Thomson in the outside lane. Thomson, using his double arm shift whereby both arms were thrust forward as he crossed the hurdle, was the first man to rise at the first obstacle, inches ahead of Wilson and Barron. He was threatened by the American for the first half of the race, and then the strength of the big (1.90/84Kg) Canadian began to tell. He won by just under 2m in a metric world record of 14.8, with Barron an equal distance clear of Murray and Wilson. Though a world record, this time was 0.4 seconds slower than his best over 120 yards (109.73m). |
Paris, 9 Jul 1924 |
(Competitors: 28; Countries: 15; Finalists: 6) |
Final
The final was held on Wednesday, July 9, 1924. George Guthrie finished third, but was disqualified for knocking over three hurdles, which was not in accordance with the rules in force at that time.
Place | Athlete | Time |
1 |
Daniel Kinsey (USA) |
15.0 |
2 |
Sydney Atkinson (RSA) |
15.0 |
3 |
Sten Pettersson (SWE) |
15.4 |
4 |
Carl-Axel Christiernsson (SWE) |
15.5 |
5 |
Karl Anderson (USA) |
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— |
George Guthrie (USA) |
DSQ |
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Atkinson was the fastest in the first round, winning the eighth and last heat in 15.2. He repeated that time in the semi-finals, though on this occasion was just beaten by Guthrie, who also ran 15.2. In the final Kinsey was leading at the first hurdle, just ahead of Atkinson and Anderson, with Guthrie just behind. These four were clear of their Swedish opposition approaching the last barrier, when Anderson fell after hitting the ninth hurdle hard. Kinsey was still just ahead of Atkinson and managed to stay 30cm ahead of the South African’s charge, though Atkinson was off balance from hitting the last hurdle. Guthrie was just behind these two, but subsequently disqualified (under the rules of the day) for knocking over three hurdles. A time of 15.9 credited to Anderson was clearly incorrect as photos show him still behind the last hurdle prostrate as the winner finished. |
Amsterdam, 1 Aug 1928 |
(Competitors: 41; Countries: 24; Finalists: 6) |
Final
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Sydney Atkinson |
South Africa |
14.8 |
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Steve Anderson |
United States |
14.8 |
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John Collier |
United States |
14.9 |
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4 |
Leighton Dye |
United States |
14.9 |
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5 |
George Weightman-Smith |
South Africa |
15.0 |
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6 |
Fred Gaby |
Great Britain |
15.2 |
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Weightman-Smith was fastest in the first round with 14.8, while six others ran 15.0, and he was again quickest in the semis, this time running a world record 14.6. The first two heats saw Dye and Anderson clock 14.8, with Sweden’s teenager Eric Wennström just eliminated behind Gaby as both ran 14.9 behind Dye. Another Swede, former world record holder Sten Pettersson also missed the final by one place. Collier was fastest off the blocks in the final, with Atkinson just behind him. Atkinson and Anderson soon went clear of Collier, while Weightman-Smith was hindered by smacking a hurdle hard. In a desperately close finish Atkinson edged Anderson by less than six inches, with Dye a similarly slim margin clear of Weightman-Smith for fourth place. |
Los Angeles, 3 Aug 1932 |
(Competitors: 17; Countries: 10; Finalists: 6) |
Final
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George Saling |
United States |
14.57 |
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Percy Beard |
United States |
14.69 |
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Don Finlay |
Great Britain |
14.74 |
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4 |
Jack Keller |
United States |
14.81 |
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5 |
Lord Burghley |
Great Britain |
14.83 |
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- |
Willi Welscher |
Germany |
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DQ |
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Beard (14.7), Finlay (14.8), Welscher (14.8) and Keller (14.9) were the heat winners, and Keller then won the first semi-final in 14.5, one tenth ahead of Lord Burghley and Finlay, while Saling equalled the world record of 14.4 ahead of Beard (14.6) in the other semi-final. The final got under way at 15:45 with Keller on the outside fastest away, Beard on the inside closed up on Keller, catching him when he hit the fifth hurdle. Beard caught the sixth barrier, and Saling went into the lead. Saling hit the 10th and stumbled, but was well in the lead by then and won by more than a metre from Beard. Finlay prevented a USA clean sweep, catching Keller with a driving finish. Welscher was disqualified for knocking over three hurdles, a harsh rule in view of the hindering effect of hitting the old fashioned barriers. |
Berlin, 6 Aug 1936 |
(Competitors: 31; Countries: 20; Finalists: 6) |
Final
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Forrest Towns |
United States |
14.2 |
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Don Finlay |
Great Britain |
14.4 |
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Fritz Pollard |
United States |
14.4 |
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4 |
Håkan Lidman |
Sweden |
14.4 |
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5 |
John Thornton |
Great Britain |
14.7 |
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6 |
Larry O'Connor |
Canada |
14.8 |
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Towns, who had run 14.1 four times before the Games, and Fritz Pollard, the first world class black hurdler, were favourites for the gold and silver. Towns was fastest in both preliminary rounds, clocking 14.5 and then 14.1 to equal his world record. Lidman ran 14.5 behind Towns, a time emulated by Finlay in winning the other semi, just ahead of Pollard after the American had led for most of the race. In the final Pollard got a superb start and led Towns by half a metre at the second hurdle, which he hit. Towns caught him at the third hurdle, and went clear for good. Pollard was still second at the 10th hurdle, but hit it, and lost the silver to Finlay on the run-in, with Lidman inches behind in fourth place. Towns went on to run 13.7 three weeks later. |
London, 4 Aug 1948 |
(Competitors: 28; Countries: 18; Finalists: 6) |
Final
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William Porter |
United States |
13.9 |
OR |
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Clyde Scott |
United States |
14.1 |
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Craig Dixon |
United States |
14.1 |
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4 |
Alberto Triulzi |
Argentina |
14.6 |
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5 |
Peter Gardner |
Australia |
14.7 |
Est |
6 |
Håkan Lidman |
Sweden |
14.8 |
Est |
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Harrison Dillard was holder of the world record, but he fell in the US Trials, won by Bill Porter in an electrically-timed 13.90. The three selected Americans were clearly the class of the field, and Dixon (14.2) and Porter (14.3) were 0.3 faster than anyone else in the heats. The same differential remained in the semi-finals, as Dixon ran 14.2 ahead of Gardner’s 14.5, and was followed by Porter, edging Scott, 14.1 to 14.2, some 0.4 ahead of Triulzi. The biggest event in round 1 for the home crowd was the demise of Finlay. The British veteran, who first ran internationally in 1929, was leading in heat 5 by a metre when he fell at the final hurdle. In the final, the burly (1.83/82Kg) Scott was off the fastest and led until the third hurdle, when Dixon took over. He led until the eighth hurdle, when Porter surged past. Scott finished quickly, but Porter held on in a frenzied finish. The official winning margin of 0.2 was clearly incorrect, as less than one tenth of a second separated the first three men. |
Helsinki, 24 Jul 1952 |
(Competitors: 30; Countries: 20; Finalists: 6) |
Final
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Harrison Dillard |
United States |
13.91 |
OR |
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Jack Davis |
United States |
14.00 |
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Arthur Barnard |
United States |
14.40 |
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4 |
Yevhen Bulanchyk |
Soviet Union |
14.73 |
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5 |
Ken Doubleday |
Australia |
14.82 |
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6 |
Ray Weinberg |
Australia |
15.15 |
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Dillard equalled Porter’s Olympic record of 13.9 in the first round, an auto-timed 14.01, with Davis clocking 14.0 (14.23) in his heat, almost four tenths quicker than the next best in the field. Dillard then won his semi-final in 14.0 (14.14) 3m ahead of Barnard – 14.2 (14.44). Davis won the other semi, easing up in 14.4 (14.62) after an atrocious start. Davis had a false start in the final, and while he ran well at the second attempt, he was a yard behind Dillard, a superb starter, by the first hurdle. Davis closed on Dillard, almost catching him, but Dillard was technically faultless. Davis’s rush was affected by hitting the seventh and ninth hurdles. Dillard won by three-quarters of a metre, looking entirely unruffled by the pressure he had been under, with Barnard 4m behind, well clear of Bulanchik for third. |
Melbourne, 26 Nov 1956 |
(Competitors: 24; Countries: 15; Finalists: 6) |
Final classification
RANK | NAME ATHLETE | HEAT | SEMI | FINAL |
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Lee Calhoun (USA) |
14.1 |
14.0 |
13.5 |
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Jack Davis (USA) |
14.0 |
14.0 |
13.5 |
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Joel Shankle (USA) |
14.0 |
14.0 |
14.1 |
4. |
Martin Lauer (EUA) |
14.2 |
14.4 |
14.5 |
5. |
Stanko Lorger (YUG) |
14.6 |
14.6 |
14.5 |
6. |
Boris Stolyarov (URS) |
11.4 |
14.5 |
14.6 |
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In 1952 Dillard and Davis had been in a different class from the opposition, and in Melbourne the superiority of the top two was even more emphatic. Davis ran an unratified 13.3y just before the Games, and had set a world record of 13.4 in the US Championships, but was only just favoured over Calhoun, with whom he had tied for first in the US Olympic Trials. The rivalry between the two men was bitter after Davis had stated that Calhoun was “a flash in the pan” and wouldn’t be able to go the distance outdoors. In the heats Davis and US third string Shankle ran 14.0, while Calhoun and the talented Lauer ran 14.1. All three Americans ran 14.0 in the semi-finals, with Lauer next fastest (14.4). Calhoun and Lorger were fastest off the blocks in the final, and by the second hurdle it was clearly a duel between the two star Americans. The margin scarcely varied from the 30cm Calhoun took at the start and Davis was never able to get closer. The two men flashed across the line in 13.70 and 13.73 respectively, remarkable running on a soft cinder surface into a strong headwind. Experts considered that on a good hard surface and with no wind, the time would have been three or four tenths faster. |
Rome, 5 Sep 1960 |
(Competitors: 36; Countries: 21; Finalists: 6) |
Final
wind = 0.1 m/s.
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Lee Calhoun |
United States |
13.98 |
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Willie May |
United States |
13.99 |
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Hayes Jones |
United States |
14.17 |
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4 |
Martin Lauer |
Germany |
14.20 |
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5 |
Keith Gardner |
British West Indies |
14.55 |
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6 |
Valentin Chistyakov |
Soviet Union |
14.71 |
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Calhoun, who had equalled the Lauer’s world record of 13.2 two weeks earlier, was favourite, but May was fastest in the first two rounds, clocking 14.0 then 13.8. He was pushed by Anatoliy Mikhailov (URS) in the second round, the Russian running 13.9. Lauer also ran 13.9 in his heat. May won the first semi handily from Jones, 13.7 (13.87) to 14.1 (14.22). Calhoun had a similar victory over Lauer in the second semi 13.7 (13.87) to 14.0 (14.15), while Mikhailov failed to finish. As in 1956, Calhoun took a metre advantage by the first hurdle in the final, and his principal opponent then tried to cut away the deficit. May was perhaps six inches behind at the last hurdle and closed to within three inches as both lunged desperately for the tape, Calhoun falling past the line in his efforts. The battle for third was similarly close, with Jones beating Lauer off the last hurdle by 30cm. The slow time is explained by the strong crosswind, which hindered the balance of the runners. |
Tokyo, 18 Oct 1964 |
(Competitors: 37; Countries: 24; Finalists: 8) |
Final
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
1 |
Hayes Jones |
United States |
13.67 |
2 |
Blaine Lindgren |
United States |
13.74 |
3 |
Anatoly Mikhailov |
Soviet Union |
13.78 |
4 |
Eddy Ottoz |
Italy |
13.84 |
5 |
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa |
India |
14.09 |
6 |
Marcel Duriez |
France |
14.09 |
7 |
Giovanni Cornacchia |
Italy |
14.12 |
8 |
Giorgio Mazza |
Italy |
14.17 |
|
The first round saw no-one run faster than 14.1. On the next day, in the wet and cold (14°C), Mikhailov won the first semi in 13.9w, with Willie Davenport the US Trials winner back in seventh, impeded by an injured thigh. Lindgren won the other semi-final, also in 13.9, with Jones easing through in 14.0, and Ottoz the slowest qualifier for the final with 14.1 (14.12). As in the three previous finals, the gold was won at the start. Jones, reputed to be the fastest starter in the world, was almost a metre clear at the first hurdle. Lindgren closed all the way, and was fractionally ahead coming off the last hurdle. But Jones’s speed (9.4 for 100y) was too much for Lindgren, who lost a little ground by leaning for the line too early. Behind him Mikhailov and Ottoz closed rapidly, with the Italian – for once without his trademark sunglasses – finishing fastest of all for fourth, a metre behind Lindgren. For Jones, it was the final outdoor race of his career. |
Mexico City, 17 Oct 1968 |
(Competitors: 33; Countries: 24; Finalists: 8) |
Final
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|
Willie Davenport |
United States |
13.3 |
|
|
Ervin Hall |
United States |
13.4 |
|
|
Eddy Ottoz |
Italy |
13.4 |
|
4 |
Leon Coleman |
United States |
13.6 |
|
5 |
Werner Trzmiel |
West Germany |
13.6 |
|
6 |
Bo Forssander |
Sweden |
13.7 |
|
7 |
Marcel Duriez |
France |
13.7 |
|
8 |
Pierre Schoebel |
France |
14.0 |
|
|
Ottoz equalled the Olympic record in the heats, running 13.5 – an Olympic best of 13.61 on electric timing. The three Americans – Davenport 13.6 (13.65), Hall 13.7 (13.75) and Coleman 13.7 (13.77) – were the next fastest. Taking advantage of a near-maximum legal wind (1.8), Hall ran a lifetime best of 13.3 (13.38) to smash the Olympic record, leading Ottoz – 13.5 (13.53) home in the first semi-final. In the other heat Davenport duplicated Ottoz’s time in windless conditions with Coleman right next to him in second with 13.5 (13.54). Davenport blasted the start in the final, and was never threatened, flowing to victory in 13.3, which on electric timing was 13.33, the fastest ever run. Behind him Hall and Coleman battled for second, with Ottoz in fourth after a dismal start. Coleman hit the sixth hurdle, and Ottoz went past. He gained on Hall all the way to the finish, losing silver by 30cm. |
Munich, 7 Sep 1972 |
(Competitors: 39; Countries: 27; Finalists: 8) |
Final
|
Rod Milburn |
United States |
13.24 |
WR |
|
Guy Drut |
France |
13.34 |
|
|
Tom Hill |
United States |
13.48 |
|
4 |
Willie Davenport |
United States |
13.50 |
|
5 |
Frank Siebeck |
East Germany |
13.71 |
|
6 |
Leszek Wodzyński |
Poland |
13.72 |
|
7 |
Lubomír Nádeníček |
Czechoslovakia |
13.76 |
|
8 |
Petr Čech |
Czechoslovakia |
13.86 |
|
|
Milburn and Hill were the fastest in the heats with 13.57 and 13.62, and confirmed their form with semi-final wins of 13.44 and 13.47 respectively. Hill displayed a dreadful start and great fluidity over the hurdles in edging Drut (13.49), while Milburn also came from behind in beating Siebeck (13.58). Milburn, the world record holder and favourite, shot out of the blocks in the final, and ripped to a 2m lead by the sixth hurdle, main- taining half of that lead to the tape, reached in a new world record time of 13.24. Behind him, Hill was second early on, but Drut caught him at the fourth barrier and the Frenchman showed a powerful finish in cutting back Milburn’s lead. Hill edged Davenport for third, though the reigning champion was in silver medal position until the eighth hurdle. |
Montreal, 28 Jul 1976 |
(Competitors: 24; Countries: 17; Finalists: 8) |
Final
RANK | FINAL | TIME |
|
Guy Drut (FRA) |
13.30 |
|
Alejandro Casañas (CUB) |
13.33 |
|
Willie Davenport (USA) |
13.38 |
4. |
Charles W. Foster (USA) |
13.41 |
5. |
Thomas Munkelt (GDR) |
13.44 |
6. |
James Owens (USA) |
13.73 |
7. |
Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS) |
13.93 |
8. |
Viktor Myasnikov (URS) |
13.94 |
|
With five to qualify from each of the three first round heats, there was little pressure on the favourites. Drut (14.04) eased through his race, while Foster ran the fastest of the day with 13.68. After Foster won the first semi-final in 13.45 from Munkelt (13.48), Casañas then ran 13.34, well clear of Drut (13.49) and Davenport (13.55). Drut got an electrifying start in the final, and was slightly ahead of the rest, led by Davenport, by the first hurdle, with Casañas recovering from a poor start. The top five were all in with a chance of gold until the eighth hurdle, where Drut got away from Davenport, and Casañas went past Munkelt, then Foster, before catching Davenport at the 10th hurdle. Drut led by half a metre at the 10th, and held 30cm of that lead at the finish. France had expected Drut to win, and he performed brilliantly under that pressure, as did Davenport, competing in his fourth straight Olympics, a remarkable record. |
Moscow, 27 Jul 1980 |
(Competitors: 23; Countries: 16; Finalists: 8) |
Final
Rank | Final | Time |
|
Thomas Munkelt (GDR) |
13.39 |
|
Alejandro Casañas (CUB) |
13.40 |
|
Aleksandr Puchkov (URS) |
13.44 |
4. |
Andrey Prokofyev (URS) |
13.49 |
5. |
Jan Pusty (POL) |
13.68 |
6. |
Arto Bryggare (FIN) |
13.76 |
7. |
Javier Moracho (ESP) |
13.78 |
8. |
Yuriy Chervanyov (URS) |
15.80 |
|
This was one of the worst hit events of the Moscow Games, as the world’s top two men – Greg Foster and world record holder Renaldo Nehemiah, who between them ran 14 of the 15 fastest times of 1980 – were missing because of the boycott. Casañas and Munkelt were the fastest in the first two rounds, with 13.46 and 13.55 in the heats, succeeded by 13.44 and 13.49 in the semi-finals. In the final Casañas led the field to the first hurdle, which he hit hard, and when he did the same at the second, Munkelt was in the lead. Casañas gained all the way from the third hurdle, and at the 10th was just behind, with Puchkov 20cm back, and Prokofyev fourth half a metre behind the East German. Puchkov hit the last hurdle so hard that it smashed, looking as fragile as balsa wood. The Russian bumped Munkelt and both lost ground to Casañas, who finished centimetres behind Munkelt, with Puchkov outleaning Prokofyev for third. |
Los Angeles, 6 Aug 1984 |
(Competitors: 26; Countries: 17; Finalists: 8) |
Final
RANK | FINAL | TIME |
|
Roger Kingdom (USA) |
13.20 |
|
Greg Foster (USA) |
13.23 |
|
Arto Bryggare (FIN) |
13.40 |
4. |
Mark McKoy (CAN) |
13.45 |
5. |
Tonie Campbell (USA) |
13.55 |
6. |
Stéphane Caristan (FRA) |
13.71 |
7. |
Carlos Sala (ESP) |
13.80 |
8. |
Jeff Glass (CAN) |
14.15 |
|
Foster, the World Champion and favourite, ran an Olympic record 13.24 in the first round, after Bryggare had impressed with 13.35 in the first heat. Kingdom then equalled Foster’s 13.24 in the first semi-final, and Foster himself again ran 13.24 to edge fast-starting Mark McKoy’s 13.30. The Canadian started fastest in the final, but hit the first hurdle, and Foster took the lead, with Bryggare third and Kingdom fourth. Despite hitting six hurdles, Kingdom gained all the way on Foster, and off the last hurdle was inches behind. Foster looked across from lane 1 to Kingdom out in lane 8, and lost the race to Kingdom’s closing charge. Behind them Bryggare held off McKoy, and Campbell hit five hurdles to preclude any possibility of a medal. Kingdom was unaware that he’d won until he saw the video replay, while Foster was characteristically philosophical about second place; “I don’t know if glancing across at Roger cost me the race … I’m happy it’s over.” |
Seoul, 28 Sep 1988 |
(Competitors: 41; Countries: 31; Finalists: 8) |
Final
RANK | FINAL | TIME |
|
Roger Kingdom (USA) |
12.98(OR) |
|
Colin Jackson (GBR) |
13.28 |
|
Tonie Campbell (USA) |
13.38 |
4. |
Vladimir Shishkin (URS) |
13.51 |
5. |
Jonathan Ridgeon (GBR) |
13.52 |
6. |
Tony Jarrett (GBR) |
13.54 |
7. |
Mark McKoy (CAN) |
13.61 |
8. |
Arthur Blake (USA) |
13.96 |
|
Campbell, an Olympian for the third time, was the fastest in the first round, running 13.45, but the favourite, Kingdom was biding his time. In the second round Kingdom clocked 13.17, the fastest quarter-final ever. Kingdom ran a toned down 13.37 in his semi-final, 0.15 ahead of Blake, while the other semi-final was won surprisingly by Shishkin in 13.46, just ahead of Campbell (13.47). In the final Blake got a superb start, too superb as it happened, as he reacted in 0.056 seconds, rather quicker than the 0.100 proscribed legal level. Blake and McKoy were three-quarters of a metre ahead of Kingdom at the first hurdle, but Blake quickly fell apart, and McKoy started hitting hurdles, with the result that Kingdom caught him at the fourth barrier. From that point on Kingdom was at least three hundreths faster between each hurdle than the rest of the field, and he powered through the finish a full three tenths ahead, the biggest margin of victory other than Smithson’s 1908 win. Only Nehemiah (12.93) and Kingdom himself (12.97A) had ever dipped below 13 seconds prior to Kingdom’s Olympic run. Jackson outran Campbell over the last four hurdles to take silver, while Shishkin won the race for fourth, just holding off the powerful closing rushes of Ridgeon and Jarrett. |
Barcelona, 3 Aug 1992 |
(Competitors: 39; Countries: 27; Finalists: 8) |
Final
RANK | FINAL | TIME |
|
Mark McKoy (CAN) |
13.12 |
|
Tony Dees (USA) |
13.24 |
|
Jack Pierce (USA) |
13.26 |
4. |
Tony Jarrett (GBR) |
13.26 |
5. |
Florian Schwarthoff (GER) |
13.29 |
6. |
Emilio Valle (CUB) |
13.41 |
7. |
Colin Jackson (GBR) |
13.46 |
8. |
Hugh Teape (GBR) |
14.00 |
|
Jackson ran the fastest time of the Games – 13.10 – in winning the first heat, but injured his ribs in the next round, and was below par after that. His training partner, McKoy, was the second quickest in the first round with 13.26, and won his next race in 13.27. The following heat in round 2 was won by Pierce, who beat Jackson by four tenths in 13.17. Pierce (13.21) and McKoy (13.12) were the winners in the semi-finals, with the tall (2.01m) Schwarthoff impressive in the first heat with 13.23 ahead of Jarrett (13.29). Jackson was still able to run 13.19 behind McKoy. In the final, the Canadian rocketed off the blocks, leading to the first hurdle, and only smacked the last hurdle en route to his second 13.12 of the day. Dees held second throughout the race, although he was only 0.02 clear of Pierce and Jarrett at the finish. |
Atlanta, 29 Jul 1996 |
(Competitors: 62; Countries: 39; Finalists: 8) |
Final
RANK | FINAL | TIME | LANE |
|
Allen Johnson (USA) |
12.95 |
6 |
|
Mark Crear (USA) |
13.09 |
8 |
|
Florian Schwarthoff (GER) |
13.17 |
3 |
4. |
Colin Jackson (GBR) |
13.19 |
5 |
5. |
Emilio Valle (CUB) |
13.20 |
7 |
6. |
Eugene Swift (USA) |
13.23 |
4 |
7. |
Kyle Vander-Kuyp (AUS) |
13.40 |
2 |
8. |
Erik Batte (CUB) |
13.43 |
1 |
|
Jackson (13.36) and Vander-Kuyp (13.32w) were the fastest in round 1. Crear ran the fastest ever quarter-final with 13.14. Two-time finalist Jarrett had a desperate time, falling after cramping and accidentally hindering Germany’s Eric Kaiser, which resulted in the Briton’s disqualification. Reigning champion McKoy, now running for Austria, went out with 13.64 in a heat won by Jackson in 13.33, while race favourite Johnson won the final heat in 13.27. Johnson returned the next day to win the first semi-final in 13.10, despite a sluggish reaction time (0.194), with Jackson (13.17) and Valle (13.18) impressive behind him. In the other semi, 13.26 was necessary to make the final, with Schwarthoff very impressive in running 13.13, while Crear duplicated Johnson’s reaction time and struggled to run 13.22 behind Swift (13.21). Crear matched Johnson in the final until the fourth hurdle, when the US Trials winner (in a US record 12.92) drew clear to win in 12.95. Crear finished a metre clear of Schwarthoff, Jackson and Valle. |
Sydney, 25 Sep 2000 |
(Competitors: 44; Countries: 35; Finalists: 8) |
Final
Heat 1 of 1 Date: Monday 25 September 2000 |
Place | Athlete | Nation | Lane | Reaction | Time | Record |
1 |
Anier García |
Cuba |
3 |
0.172 s |
13.00 s |
NR |
2 |
Terrence Trammell |
United States |
4 |
0.221 s |
13.22 s |
PB |
3 |
Mark Crear |
United States |
6 |
0.214 s |
13.22 s |
|
4 |
Allen Johnson |
United States |
5 |
0.182 s |
13.23 s |
|
5 |
Colin Jackson |
Great Britain |
1 |
0.139 s |
13.28 s |
|
6 |
Florian Schwarthoff |
Germany |
7 |
0.184 s |
13.42 s |
|
7 |
Dudley Dorival |
Haiti |
2 |
0.161 s |
13.49 s |
|
8 |
Robert Kronberg |
Sweden |
8 |
0.244 s |
13.61 s |
|
|
Reigning champion Johnson and Anier García were the favourites, the only men under 13.10 prior to the Games. Dorival (13.33) and World Champion Jackson (13.28) were the fastest in the first two rounds. García was an easy winner of the first semi-final from Crear 13.16 to 13.23. Trammell won a close race in the other heat in 13.32 from Johnson (13.33) and Jackson (13.34). García was the smoothest in the final and won easily from Trammell, with both running lifetime bests. Crear repeated his solid semi-final, overtaking Johnson on the run-in for the bronze. Jackson – in his fourth consecutive final – hit too many barriers to have any medal chances. |
Athens, 27 Aug 2004 |
(Competitors: 47; Countries: 34; Finalists: 8) |
Final
Wind: +0.3 m/s
|
4 |
Liu Xiang |
China |
0.139 |
12.91 |
=WR |
|
6 |
Terrence Trammell |
United States |
0.154 |
13.18 |
|
|
7 |
Anier García |
Cuba |
0.169 |
13.20 |
SB |
4 |
5 |
Maurice Wignall |
Jamaica |
0.164 |
13.21 |
|
5 |
2 |
Staņislavs Olijars |
Latvia |
0.174 |
13.21 |
|
6 |
1 |
Charles Allen |
Canada |
0.139 |
13.48 |
|
7 |
8 |
Matheus Inocêncio |
Brazil |
0.169 |
13.49 |
|
8 |
3 |
Ladji Doucouré |
France |
0.204 |
13.76 |
|
|
Conditions were perfect for the heats, with temperatures of 27° and with largely favourable following winds. Doucouré opened proceedings by setting a French record of 13.18. Reigning champion García was next quickest with 13.24. Doucouré (13.23) was again fastest in the first heat of the next round, but the big shock came in the second race, won by Olijar (13.26) ahead of Garcia (13.28), but which saw the demise of Allen Johnson. The favourite to regain the title won in 1996 hit three hurdles hard, finally falling at the ninth. In more than a decade of international hurdling Johnson had only once previously fallen. Wignall won the first semi-final ahead of Liu, 13.17 to 13.18, with Duane Ross (USA) eliminated despite running 13.30. Doucouré again improved in the other race with a magnificent 13.06, ahead of Trammell’s 13.17. Liu and Trammell led at the first hurdle in the final, with Doucouré lagging after a very slow reaction to the gun. Liu escaped from Trammell at the fourth hurdle, when the Chinese athlete’s cleaner hurdle clearances began to tell. García closed in on the American, and Doucouré’s quickness came to the fore, as he moved into second place by the eighth. The Frenchman hit the ninth, skewed the 10th and slipped to last place after losing his balance. Liu flowed onwards oblivious to the events behind him, and reached the line in the photo-cell time of 12.94, a time which was unusually amended to a world record equaling 12.91. Trammell won the battle for silver, and García edged Wignall and Olijar for bronze. |
Beijing, 21 Aug 2008 |
(Competitors: 42; Countries: 32; Finalists: 8) |
Final
|
6 |
Dayron Robles |
Cuba |
12.93 |
|
0.183 |
|
5 |
David Payne |
United States |
13.17 |
SB |
0.175 |
|
7 |
David Oliver |
United States |
13.18 |
PB |
0.158 |
4 |
8 |
Ladji Doucouré |
France |
13.24 |
|
0.170 |
5 |
4 |
Artur Noga |
Poland |
13.36 |
|
0.169 |
6 |
2 |
Maurice Wignall |
Jamaica |
13.46 |
|
0.163 |
7 |
3 |
Richard Phillips |
Jamaica |
13.60 |
|
0.154 |
8 |
9 |
Jackson Quiñónez |
Spain |
13.69 |
|
0.187 |
|
The favourite was Robles, who in June had lowered the world record to 12.87. Reigning champion Liu Xiang and 12.95 performer Oliver were regarded as the most likely to beat the Cuban. The last two heats were dramatic as first Terrence Trammell – silver medallist in Atlanta and Athens – pulled out injured after one hurdle. Then in the final heat, Liu appeared incomfortable as he practised his starts. He was clearly nursing a foot injury, but settled down to race. After the first start there was a recall and after that point Liu withdrew, shocking the 91,000 crowd. His coach later appeared in tears on Chinese television which also showed behind-the-scenes coverage of Liu before the heat when he could be seen kicking a wall in frustration. Oliver (13.30) was the fastest in the first round, and the next day ran 13.16 in the last quarter-final, after Payne (13.24), Robles (13.19) and Wignall (13.36) had won the other heats. Robles looked very easy winning his semi-final in 13.13, ahead of Payne (13.21) and a resurging Doucouré (13.22), while Oliver won the other semi in 13.31 ahead of Poland’s rising star Noga (13.34). Robles had the winning of the final by the time he reached the first hurdle, taking just seven strides compared with eight by all the other finalists. He flowed majestically away from the field barely touching two of the hurdles, and won by 2½ metres. Payne was second from start to finish, and just held off the charge of Oliver. |
London, 8 Aug 2012 |
(Competitors: 44; Countries: 29, Finalists: 8) |
Final
|
Aries Merritt |
United States |
12.92 |
WL, PB |
|
Jason Richardson |
United States |
13.04 |
|
|
Hansle Parchment |
Jamaica |
13.12 |
NR |
4 |
Lawrence Clarke |
Great Britain |
13.39 |
|
5 |
Ryan Brathwaite |
Barbados |
13.40 |
|
6 |
Orlando Ortega |
Cuba |
13.43 |
|
7 |
Lehann Fourie |
South Africa |
13.53 |
|
N/A |
Dayron Robles |
Cuba |
N/A |
DNF |
|
Merritt had ducked under 13 seconds no less than five times prior to the Games, but lost to 2004 champion Liu Xiang 12.87w to 12.96 earlier in the season. The American was appreciably quicker than anyone else in the first round, but Liu hit the first hurdle hard and fell with a damaged Achilles. For the second successive Games, he failed to complete one race. Merritt, whose emergence at high world class in 2012 was attributed to his conversion from eight to seven strides at the start of his race, zipped to the fastest ever semi-final time of 12.94. The other races in that round were taken by Richardson (13.13) and the sharp looking Robles (13.10) ahead of Parchment’s Jamaican record of 13.14. In the final Robles and Merritt were fastest away with the Cuban slightly ahead until the third hurdle, when Merritt took charge. Richardson passed Robles at the fourth, but was never able to get close to Merritt, who won in 12.92, more than a metre ahead of Richardson and Parchment – the first Jamaican medallist in the event. Robles pulled up with a leg injury at the eighth hurdle and crossed the line in 42.86, but was disqualified for deliberately knocking over a hurdle. Merritt’s performance capped a series of runs among the best ever seen in the event, with his fastest 10 races up to the Olympic final averaging 12.971.
|
Rio de Janeiro, 16 Aug 2016 |
(Competitors: 40; Countries: 27, Finalists: 8) |
Final
|
5 |
Omar McLeod |
Jamaica |
13.05 |
|
|
7 |
Orlando Ortega |
Spain |
13.17 |
|
|
6 |
Dimitri Bascou |
France |
13.24 |
|
4 |
4 |
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde |
France |
13.29 |
|
5 |
3 |
Devon Allen |
United States |
13.31 |
|
6 |
2 |
Johnathan Cabral |
Canada |
13.40 |
|
7 |
8 |
Milan Trajkovic |
Cyprus |
13.41 |
|
– |
9 |
Ronnie Ash |
United States |
DQ |
R168.7 |
|
Wind: +0.2 m/s |
|
|
The 2012 Olympic champion Aries Merritt did not return after failing at the American Olympic Trials primarily due to a congenital kidney issue diagnosed in 2013 and undergoing kidney transplant in 2015. Olympic medallists David Oliver and Jason Richardson also did not compete. With Sergey Shubenkov absent due to the Russian team's doping ban and an injury to Hansle Parchment, none of the 2012 Olympic or 2015 World Championships podium athletes was present. The top entrant was Omar McLeod, who held the season-leading time of 12.98 seconds and won 60 m hurdles gold at the 2016 World Indoor Championships. Devon Allen, an American college football player, was his nation's trials winner and ranked second globally on 13.03 seconds, just ahead of Cuban-Spaniard Orlando Ortega. France and the United States provided the next fastest entrants in Dimitri Bascou, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, Ronnie Ash and Jeff Porter.
The final started with all eight competitors reaching the first hurdle virtually at the same time. In the center of the track Omar McLeod touching down fractionally ahead of Dimitri Bascou and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde the two Frenchmen who sandwiched him and Milan Trajkovic in lane 8. Going into the second hurdle Bascou gained the fractional edge, but the three in the center of the track ran almost in synchronization for five hurdles, pulling away from the rest of the field. By the sixth hurdle, McLeod had again gained the fractional edge. McLeod continued smoothly but Martinot-Lagarde hit the sixth hurdle and Bascou was awkward going into the seventh hurdle giving McLeod the break away. Over the next two hurdles, McLeod extended his lead as Orlando Ortega and Ronnie Ash began to emerge ahead of the row of hurdlers across the track. Ash hit the ninth hurdle so badly when he arrived at the tenth hurdle he was short, his lead foot hitting the barrier at toe level, knocking the hurdle over and knocking Ash off balance, still in third place but falling. McLeod continued to finish with more than a metre lead over Ortega. Bascou had the lead over his teammate Martinot-Lagarde and American footballer Devon Allen. Ash took several awkward steps and somersaulted over the finish line in last, only to be disqualified for not properly clearing the hurdle.
The following evening the medals were presented by Richard Peterkin, IOC member, Saint Lucia and Bernard Amsalem, Council Member of the IAAF.
|
|
Men |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110 metres high hurdles |
18,4 |
|
h1 |
|
|
Grantley Goulding |
|
GBR |
Athens |
1896 |
18 |
|
h2 |
|
|
Tom Curtis |
|
USA |
Athens |
1896 |
17,6 |
|
1 |
|
|
Tom Curtis |
|
USA |
Athens |
1896 |
15,6 |
|
h1 |
|
|
Alvin Kraenzlein |
|
USA |
Paris |
1900 |
15,4 |
|
1 |
|
|
Alvin Kraenzlein |
|
USA |
Paris |
1900 |
15,4 |
|
s2 |
|
|
Forrest Smithson |
|
USA |
London |
1908 |
15 |
|
1 |
|
WR |
Forrest Smithson |
|
USA |
London |
1908 |
15 |
|
s1 |
|
|
Hal Barron |
|
USA |
Antwerp |
1920 |
15 |
|
s2 |
|
|
Earl Thomson |
|
CAN |
Antwerp |
1920 |
14,8 |
|
1 |
|
WR |
Earl Thomson |
|
CAN |
Antwerp |
1920 |
14,8 |
|
h3 |
|
=WR |
George Weightman-Smith |
|
RSA |
Amsterdam |
1928 |
14,8 |
|
s1 |
|
=WR |
Leighton Dye |
|
USA |
Amsterdam |
1928 |
14,8 |
|
s2 |
|
=WR |
Steve Anderson |
|
USA |
Amsterdam |
1928 |
14,6 |
|
s3 |
|
WR |
George Weightman-Smith |
|
RSA |
Amsterdam |
1928 |
14,5 |
14,63 |
s1 |
|
|
Jack Keller |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1932 |
14,4 |
14,55 |
s2 |
|
=WR |
George Saling |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1932 |
14,1 |
|
s1 |
|
=WR |
Forrest Towns |
|
USA |
Berlin |
1936 |
14,1 |
|
s2 |
|
|
Bill Porter |
|
USA |
London |
1948 |
13,9 |
|
1 |
|
|
Bill Porter |
|
USA |
London |
1948 |
13,9 |
14,03 |
h1 |
<2.0 |
|
Harrison Dillard |
|
USA |
Helsinki |
1952 |
13,7 |
13,91 |
1 |
<2.0 |
|
Harrison Dillard |
|
USA |
Helsinki |
1952 |
13,7 |
14.00 |
2 |
<2.0 |
|
Jack Davis |
|
USA |
Helsinki |
1952 |
13,5 |
13.70 |
1 |
-1,9 |
|
Lee Calhoun |
|
USA |
Melbourne |
1956 |
13,5 |
[13.73] |
2 |
-1,9 |
|
Jack Davis |
|
USA |
Melbourne |
1956 |
[13.6] |
13,67 |
1 |
+2.0 |
|
Hayes Jones |
|
USA |
Tokyo |
1964 |
13.5A |
13.61A |
h3 |
+1.7 |
|
Eddy Ottoz |
|
ITA |
Mexico City |
1968 |
13.3A |
13.38A |
s1 |
+1.8 |
|
Erv Hall |
|
USA |
Mexico City |
1968 |
13.3A |
13.33A |
1 |
0 |
|
Willie Davenport |
|
USA |
Mexico City |
1968 |
|
13,24 |
1 |
+0.3 |
WR |
Rod Milburn |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,24 |
h4 |
+1.7 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s1 |
+0.7 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s2 |
-1,1 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13.20 |
1 |
-0,4 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,17 |
q2 |
+0.6 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,98 |
1 |
+1.5 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,95 |
1 |
+0.6 |
|
Allen Johnson |
|
USA |
Atlanta |
1996 |
|
12,91 |
1 |
+0.3 |
|
Liu Xiang |
|
CHN |
Athens |
2004 |
Low-Altitude Progression |
13,5 |
13.70 |
1 |
-1,9 |
|
Lee Calhoun |
|
USA |
Melbourne |
1956 |
13,5 |
[13.73] |
2 |
-1,9 |
|
Jack Davis |
|
USA |
Melbourne |
1956 |
|
13,47 |
s1 |
+1.3 |
|
Thomas Hill |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,44 |
s2 |
0 |
|
Rod Milburn |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,24 |
1 |
+0.3 |
WR |
Rod Milburn |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,24 |
h4 |
+1.7 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s1 |
+0.7 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s2 |
-1,1 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13.20 |
1 |
-0,4 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,17 |
q2 |
+0.6 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,98 |
1 |
+1.5 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,95 |
1 |
+0.6 |
|
Allen Johnson |
|
USA |
Atlanta |
1996 |
|
12,91 |
1 |
+0.3 |
|
Liu Xiang |
|
CHN |
Athens |
2004 |
Automatic Timing Progression |
|
14.80 |
h1 |
|
WRa |
Percy Beard |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1932 |
|
14,63 |
s1 |
|
WRa |
Jack Keller |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1932 |
|
14,55 |
s2 |
|
WRa |
George Saling |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1932 |
|
14,03 |
h1 |
<2.0 |
WRa |
Harrison Dillard |
|
USA |
Helsinki |
1952 |
|
13,91 |
1 |
<2.0 |
WRa |
Harrison Dillard |
|
USA |
Helsinki |
1952 |
|
13.70 |
1 |
-1,9 |
WRa |
Lee Calhoun |
|
USA |
Melbourne |
1956 |
|
13,67 |
1 |
|
|
Hayes Jones |
|
USA |
Tokyo |
1964 |
|
13.65A |
h2 |
+1.0 |
|
Willie Davenport |
|
USA |
Mexico City |
1968 |
|
13.61A |
h3 |
+1.7 |
|
Eddy Ottoz |
|
ITA |
Mexico City |
1968 |
|
13.38A |
s1 |
+1.8 |
WRa |
Erv Hall |
|
USA |
Mexico City |
1968 |
|
13.33A |
1 |
0 |
WRa |
Willie Davenport |
|
USA |
Mexico City |
1968 |
|
13,24 |
1 |
+0.3 |
WRa |
Rod Milburn |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,24 |
h4 |
+1.7 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s1 |
+0.7 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s2 |
-1,1 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13.20 |
1 |
-0,4 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,17 |
q2 |
+0.6 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,98 |
1 |
+1.5 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,95 |
1 |
+0.6 |
|
Allen Johnson |
|
USA |
Atlanta |
1996 |
|
12,91 |
1 |
+0.3 |
|
Liu Xiang |
|
CHN |
Athens |
2004 |
Low-Altitude Automatic Timing Progression |
|
13,67 |
1 |
|
|
Hayes Jones |
|
USA |
Tokyo |
1964 |
|
13,47 |
s1 |
+1.3 |
|
Thomas Hill |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,44 |
s2 |
0 |
|
Rod Milburn |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,24 |
1 |
+0.3 |
WRa |
Rod Milburn |
|
USA |
Munich |
1972 |
|
13,24 |
h4 |
+1.7 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s1 |
+0.7 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,24 |
s2 |
-1,1 |
|
Greg Foster |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13.20 |
1 |
-0,4 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Los Angeles |
1984 |
|
13,17 |
q2 |
+0.6 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,98 |
1 |
+1.5 |
|
Roger Kingdom |
|
USA |
Seoul |
1988 |
|
12,95 |
1 |
+0.6 |
|
Allen Johnson |
|
USA |
Atlanta |
1996 |
|
12,91 |
1 |
+0.3 |
|
Liu Xiang |
|
CHN |
Athens |
2004 |
|