European Athletics Championships 2012/110 m hurdles of men

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 30th (preliminary) July 1st (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Sergei Schubenkow ( RUS )   Garfield Darien ( FRA )   Artur Noga ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 2012 European Athletics Championships took place on June 30 and July 1, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the Russian Sergei Schubenkow . As in 2010, the Frenchman Garfield Darien took second place . Bronze went to Artur Noga from Poland .

Existing records

World record	12.87 s	Dayron Robles	Ostrava , Czech Republic	June 12, 2008
European record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 20, 1993
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

June 30, 2012

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

Forward 1

Dominik Bochenek retired as eighth of his preliminary run

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Philip Nossmy	Sweden	13.56
2	Matthias Bühler	Germany	13.93
3	Dario De Borger	Belgium	13.95
4th	Ladji Doucouré	France	13.96
5	Francisco Javier López	Spain	14.03
6th	Dominik Bochenek	Poland	14.15

Forward 2

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Artur Noga	Poland	13.49
2	Alexander John	Germany	13.50
3	João Almeida	Portugal	13.63
4th	Vladimir Vukićević	Norway	13.65 NU23R
5	Maksim Lynsha	Belarus	13.75
6th	David Ilariani	Georgia	13.85

Forward 3

His seventh place was not enough for Jackson Quiñónez to advance

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Konstadínos Douvalídis	Greece	13.57
2	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	13.59
3	Emanuele Abate	Italy	13.61
4th	Dániel Kiss	Hungary	13.62
5	Adrien Deghelt	Belgium	13.66
6th	Gianni Frankis	Great Britain	13.71
7th	Jackson Quiñónez	Spain	13.97

Forward 4

Wind: –2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Garfield Darien	France	13.46
2	William Sharman	Great Britain	13.63
3	Paolo Dal Molin	Italy	13.68
4th	Gregor Traber	Germany	13.83
5	Joona-Ville Heinä	Finland	14.21
6th	Martin Arnaudov	Bulgaria	14.32

Forward 5

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergei Schubenkow	Russia	13.28
2	Balázs Baji	Hungary	13.50
3	Samuel Coco-Viloin	France	13.72
4th	Rasul Dabó	Portugal	14.00
5	Richard Alleyne	Great Britain	14.02
6th	Mantas Silkauskas	Lithuania	14.11
7th	Alexandros Stavrides	Cyprus	14.14

Semifinals

July 1, 2012

From each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

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  Matthias Bühler was missing four hundredths of a second to make it into the final

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  William Sharman finished fourth in his semi-final race, which was not enough for the final

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Artur Noga	Poland	13.42
2	Philip Nossmy	Sweden	13.47
3	Matthias Bühler	Germany	13.52
4th	William Sharman	Great Britain	13.55
5	Maksim Lynsha	Belarus	13.58
6th	Dániel Kiss	Hungary	13.59
7th	Ladji Doucouré	France	13.66
8th	Dario De Borger	Belgium	13.81

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  Dániel Kiss retired as fifth in his semi-final race

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  Ladji Doucouré failed in seventh place in his semi-final race and was therefore not in the final

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  Dario De Borger was the last of his race to fail in the semifinals

Run 2

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  His fifth place in the second semifinals was not enough for Balázs Baji to participate in the final

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  Paolo Dal Molin (second from right) failed in fourth of his race in the semi-finals

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  Adrien Deghelt did not reach the finish in his semi-final run

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergei Schubenkow	Russia	13.09 NO
2	Alexander John	Germany	13.43
3	Samuel Coco-Viloin	France	13.50
4th	João Almeida	Portugal	13.56 NO
5	Balázs Baji	Hungary	13.68
6th	Paolo Dal Molin	Italy	13.85
7th	David Ilariani	Georgia	13.88
DNF	Adrien Deghelt	Belgium

Run 3

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  Fifth place in his semifinal race was not enough for Gregor Traber to be in the final

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  For Rasul Dabó (left) the competition was over after finishing seventh in the third semifinals

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Garfield Darien	France	13.15
2	Konstadínos Douvalídis	Greece	13.37 NO
3	Emanuele Abate	Italy	13.39
4th	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	13.48
5	Gregor Traber	Germany	13.62
6th	Gianni Frankis	Great Britain	13.68
7th	Rasul Dabó	Portugal	13.73
8th	Vladimir Vukićević	Norway	13.76

final

European champion Sergei Schubenkow - he was subsequently able to celebrate numerous other medals at world and European championships

July 1, 2012, 6:11 pm

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergei Schubenkow	Russia	13.16
2	Garfield Darien	France	13.20
3	Artur Noga	Poland	13.27
4th	Alexander John	Germany	13.38
5	Emanuele Abate	Italy	13.43
6th	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	13.45
7th	Philip Nossmy	Sweden	13.59
8th	Konstadínos Douvalídis	Greece	13.59

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  As in 2010, Garfield Darien became vice European champion

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  Bronze medalist Artur Noga

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  Alexander John finished fourth

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  The fifth placed Emanuele Abate (blue jersey)

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  Gregory Sedoc reached number six

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  Konstadínos Douvalídis (left) finished eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 11, 2020
• Men 110m_Hurdles European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 11, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 11, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m_Hurdles European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 511 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 11, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 11, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 11, 2020

Video

• DARIEN Garfield - 110m Haies - Homme - Finale - Championnat d'Europe d'Athlétisme 2012 (Helsinki) on youtube.com (French), accessed on January 11, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed January 11, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 110 m Hurdles Men , Spanish / English, p. 17 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 11, 2020