European Athletics Championships 2018/110 m hurdles of men

discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2018 (preliminary) August 10, 2018 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde ( FRA )
silver	Sergei Schubenkow ( ANA )
bronze	Orlando Ortega ( ESP )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place on August 9th and 10th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The winner was Pascal Martinot-Lagarde from France. The Russian Sergei Schubenkow , who started under a neutral flag, became vice European champion. Bronze went to the Spaniard Orlando Ortega .

Records

World record	Aries Merritt	12.80 s	Brussels , Belgium	September 7, 2012
European record	Colin Jackson	12.91 s	Stuttgart , Germany	August 20, 1993
Championship record		13.02 s	EM in Budapest , Hungary	August 22, 1998

Conducting the competition

The twelve fastest hurdlers on the year's best list - marked with a ‡ in the semi-final results - did not have to compete in the preliminary runs. They were automatically qualified for the semi-finals and only then intervened in the competition.

Prelims

From the two preliminary runs, the first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

First prerun ( from left to right )
Hassane Fofana, Koen Smet, Paolo Dal Molin, Michael Obasuyi

August 9, 2018, 10:55 a.m. CEST
Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Paolo Dal Molin	Italy	13.40 PB
2	8th	Hassane Fofana	Italy	13.50 PB
3	7th	Koen Smet	Netherlands	13.61
4th	2	Garfield Darien	France	13.62
5	4th	Vladimir Vukicevic	Norway	13.67
6th	3	Alexander John	Germany	13.69
7th	5	Michael Obasuyi	Belgium	13.78
8th	1	Artem Shamatryn	Ukraine	14.02

Run 2

August 9, 2018, 11:02 a.m. CEST
Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	5	Erik Balnuweit	Germany	13.55
2	3	David King	Great Britain	13.65
3	2	Lorenzo Perini	Italy	13.65
4th	1	Konstαndinos Douvalidis	Greece	13.68
5	8th	Artur Noga	Poland	13.71
6th	6th	Elmo Lakka	Finland	13.75
7th	7th	Bálint Szeles	Hungary	14.07
8th	4th	Brahian Peña	Switzerland	14.50

Semifinals

Artur Noga from Poland was eliminated in sixth place in his semi-final run

Second prerun ( from left to right ) Orlando Ortega, Koen Smet, Milan Traikovitz

The German Erik Balnuweit did not reach the final as seventh of his semi-final run

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The twelve fastest of the year - marked with ‡, who were automatically qualified for the semi-finals, now intervened in the action.

Run 1

August 10, 2018, 7:10 p.m. CEST
Wind: ± 0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	3	Sergei Schubenkow ‡	Authorized Neutral Athletes	13.24
2	4th	Gregor Traber ‡	Germany	13.26 SB
3	5	Aurel Manga ‡	France	13.45
4th	8th	Hassane Fofana	Italy	13.52
5	7th	Konstαndinos Douvalidis	Greece	13.56
6th	2	Artur Noga	Poland	13.66
7th	6th	Wital Parachonka ‡	Belarus	13.69
8th	1	Michael Obasuyi	Belgium	13.78

Run 2

August 10, 2018, 7:17 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Orlando Ortega ‡	Spain	13.21
2	3	Andrew Pozzi ‡	Great Britain	13.28 SB
3	7th	Garfield Darien	France	13.46
4th	4th	Milan Traikovitz ‡	Cyprus	13.57
5	1	Elmo Lakka	Finland	13.60 PB
6th	2	Paolo Dal Molin	Italy	13.61
7th	5	Koen Smet	Netherlands	13.71
DSQ	8th	Alexander John	Germany	IAAF Rule 168.7 - incorrect hurdle crossing

Run 3

August 10, 2018, 7:24 p.m. CEST
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	3	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde ‡	France	13.32
2	6th	Balázs Baji ‡	Hungary	13.41
3	5	Damian Czykier ‡	Poland	13.45
4th	7th	Lorenzo Perini	Italy	13.50
5	4th	Jason Joseph ‡	Switzerland	13.53
6th	2	David King	Great Britain	13.55 SB
7th	8th	Erik Balnuweit	Germany	13.59
8th	1	Vladimir Vukicevic	Norway	13.71

final

August 10, 2018, 9:35 p.m. CEST
Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

The favorite in this race was Sergei Schubenkow, who started under a neutral flag. He was the world champion of 2015 / vice world champion of 2017 and had the second fastest time in the semifinals. But there was serious competition for him. The Spaniard Orlando Ortega was seventh in the 2017 World Cup and was the fastest semi-finalist with 13.21 seconds. The Frenchman Pascal Martinot-Lagarde entered the 2015 World Cup fourth, but had not yet shown his capabilities in the semifinals. The Hungarian Vice European Champion from 2016 Balázs Baji did not convince in the semifinals either, which was also the case for the Polish EM fourth from 2016 Damian Czykier. The French World Cup fourth from 2017 Garfield Darien was eliminated in the semi-finals and defending champion Dimitri Bascou from France was not here in Berlin . The German Gregor Traber had the third fastest time in the semi-finals, but was more of an outsider.

Immediately after the start, Martinot-Lagarde was leading by a narrow margin. Halfway through the race, Schubenkow moved up and seemed to pass the French, but the latter held back again. With the naked eye it was impossible to spot a winner at the finish. Ultimately, the finish photo resulted in the success for Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, who was two thousandths of a second faster than Sergei Schubenkow. The end time for both was shown as 13.17 s - 13.163 s for Martinot-Lagarde / 13.165 s for Schubenkow. Well behind was Orlando Ortega third. His distance to the winner was seventeen hundredths of a second. Damian Czykier came fourth ahead of Gregor Traber.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	4th	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde	France	13,163 SB
	5	Sergei Schubenkow	Authorized Neutral Athletes	13.165
	3	Orlando Ortega	Spain	13.34
4th	1	Damian Czykier	Poland	13.38
5	6th	Gregor Traber	Germany	13.46
6th	8th	Andrew Pozzi	Great Britain	13.48
7th	2	Aurel Manga	France	13.51
8th	7th	Balázs Baji	Hungary	13.55

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  European champion Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, France

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  Vice European Champion Sergei Schubenkow, athlete under a neutral flag

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  Bronze medalist Orlando Ortega, Spain

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  Damian Cykier from Poland finished fourth

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  The German Gregor Traber came in fifth place

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  Sixth place for the Briton Andrew Pozzi

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  Aurel Manga ( center ), the second Frenchman in this final, took seventh place

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  The Hungarian Balázs Baji reached eighth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 3, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 3, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 3, 2019

Video

• 110 m hurdles final, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on August 10, 2018, accessed on January 3, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 93 (PDF), accessed on January 3, 2019