European Athletics Championships 2002/110 m hurdles for men

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	33 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (preliminary) August 10th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Colin Jackson ( GBR )   Staņislavs Olijars ( LAT )   Artur Kohutek ( POL )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 2002 European Athletics Championships took place on August 9 and 10, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

The Briton Colin Jackson , including two-time world champion ( 1993 / 1999 ) and Olympic silver medalist in 1988 , was the fourth and last time European champion. He won ahead of the Latvian Staņislavs Olijars . Bronze went to Artur Kohutek from Poland .

Existing records

World record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 20, 1993
European record
Championship record	13.02 s		EM Budapest , Hungary	August 22, 1998

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 9, 2002

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.41
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.53
3	Emiliano Pizzoli	Italy	13.83
4th	Felipe Vivancos	Spain	13.84
5	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.88
6th	Zoran Miljuš	Croatia	13.99
7th	Luís Sá	Portugal	14.16

Forward 2

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.49
2	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.57
3	Matti Niemi	Finland	13.89
4th	Damien Greaves	Great Britain	13.90
5	Dimítrios Piétris	Greece	13.92
6th	Jurica Grabušić	Croatia	14.04
DNF	David Ilariani	Georgia

Forward 3

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrea Giaconi	Italy	13.55
2	Cédric Lavanne	France	13.58
3	Ivan Bitzi	Switzerland	13.72
4th	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	13.82
5	Leonard Hudec	Austria	13.85
6th	Jan Schindzielorz	Germany	13.93
7th	Elton Bitincka	Albania	14.95

Forward 4

Levente Csillag missed the semi-finals by one place

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.50
2	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.63
3	Levente Csillag	Hungary	13.88
4th	Marko Ritola	Finland	13.90
5	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.96
6th	Nenad Loncar	Yugoslavia	14.19
DNF	Philip Nossmy	Sweden

Forward 5

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Zhivko Widenow	Bulgaria	13.52
2	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.53
3	Denis Favaro	Italy	13.65
4th	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.66
5	Andrei Kislych	Russia	13.76
6th	Ladislav Burdel	Czech Republic	14.04

Semifinals

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  Elmar Lichtenegger's fifth place in the first semi-final race was not quite enough for a participation in the final

• 

  Gregory Sedoc did not reach the goal in the semifinals

August 10, 2002

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.44
2	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.44
3	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.52
4th	Denis Favaro	Italy	13.66
5	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.70
6th	Andrei Kislych	Russia	13.89
DNF	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands
DSQ	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain

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  Emiliano Pizzoli was six hundredths of a second short of being in the final

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  In eighth place, Andrea Giaconi had no chance in the semi-finals and was eliminated

Run 2

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.21
2	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.44
3	Zhivko Widenow	Bulgaria	13.45
4th	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.53
5	Emiliano Pizzoli	Italy	13.59
6th	Cédric Lavanne	France	13.68
7th	Ivan Bitzi	Switzerland	13.76
8th	Andrea Giaconi	Italy	13.81

final

European champion for the fourth time: Colin Jackson. previously among others, two-time world
champion ( 1993 / 1999 ) and 1988 Olympic silver medalist

August 10, 2002

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.11
2	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.22
3	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.33
4th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.37
5	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.39
6th	Denis Favaro	Italy	13.59
7th	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.63
8th	Zhivko Widenow	Bulgaria	13.67

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  Vice European Champion Staņislavs Olijars

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  Bronze medalist Artur Kohutek

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  Robert Kronberg came in seventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Men 110m_Hurdles European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m_Hurdles European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 482 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 27, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 27, 2019

Video

• Colin Jackson: .4XEuropean Champion (1990-2002) 110m.hurdles on youtube.com (English), accessed October 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed October 27, 2019