World Athletics Championships 1991/110 m hurdles of men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalist Greg Foster ( USA )   Jack Pierce ( USA )   Tony Jarrett ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 was held on August 27 and 29, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The US hurdles came in this competition to a double victory. The 1984 Olympic runner-up Greg Foster won his third consecutive world title . Jack Pierce took second place with the same time just behind them . The British Vice European Champion from 1990 Tony Jarrett won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	12.92 s	Roger Kingdom	Zurich , Switzerland	August 16, 1989
World championship record	13.20 s	Greg Foster	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987

Record improvement

The US world champion Greg Foster improved his own world championship record in the final on August 29 by fourteen hundredths of a second to 13.06 seconds. His second-placed compatriot Jack Pierce achieved the same time, so that both runners were now holders of the world championship record.

Preliminary round

August 27, 1991, 10:00 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the fastest runner, were earmarked for qualification for the semi-finals. But in the end it didn't come to that. In the second preliminary run, two participants with the identical time of 13.72 s took third place, who had thus acquired the right to participate in the semi-finals through their placements. The fourth fastest with 13.47 s, Pole Piotr Wojcik from the fourth heat, fell by the wayside.

Forward 1

Tomasz Nagórka did not reach the finish line in his run-up

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas J. Kearns	Ireland	13.71
2	Jiří Hudec	Czechoslovakia	13.72
3	Liviu Giurgian	Romania	13.84
4th	Sébastian Thibault	France	13.92
5	Nguyễn Văn Linh	Vietnam	14.74
DNF	Tomasz Nagórka	Poland
	Ruhan Işım	Turkey
DNS	Renaldo Nehemiah	United States

Forward 2

Wind: +2.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Greg Foster	United States	13.32
2	Dan Philibert	France	13.34
3	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.70
	Igor Kováč	Czechoslovakia
5	Joilto Bonfim	Brazil	13.72
6th	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.78
7th	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.88

Forward 3

Wind: +2.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Li Tong	People's Republic of China	13.34
2	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.40
3	Alexis Sánchez	Cuba	13.58
4th	Dietmar Koszewski	Germany	13.67
5	Mircea Oaida	Brazil	13.68
6th	Gennady Daksevich	Soviet Union	13.69
7th	Georgi Georgiev	Bulgaria	14.19
8th	Judex Lefou	Mauritius	14.26

Forward 4

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jack Pierce	United States	13.23
2	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.39
3	David Nelson	Great Britain	13.42
4th	Piotr Wojcik	Poland	13.47
5	Herwig Röttl	Austria	13.66
6th	John Caliguri	Australia	13.77
7th	Zeiad Al Kheder	Kuwait	14.48
DNF	Rashid-Shabani Al-Abdulla	Qatar

Forward 5

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.25
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.39
3	Vladimir Shishkin	Soviet Union	13.51
4th	Toshihiko Iwasaki	Japan	13.58
5	Kai Kyllönen	Finland	13.60
6th	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.73
7th	Elvis Cedeño	Venezuela	13.85

Semifinals

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

Colin Jackson (here in 2012) did not compete in his semi-final race

August 27, 1991, 5:00 p.m.

Semi-final run 1

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jack Pierce	United States	13.36
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.41
3	Li Tong	People's Republic of China	13.50
4th	Vladimir Shishkin	Soviet Union	13.52
5	Alexis Sánchez	Cuba	13.81
6th	Igor Kováč	Czechoslovakia	13.89
7th	Thomas J. Kearns	Ireland	14.02
DNS	Colin Jackson	Great Britain

Jiří Hudec (right) was eliminated in the semi-finals as eighth of his race

Semi-final run 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.23
2	Greg Foster	United States	13.23
3	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.28
4th	Dan Philibert	France	13.38
5	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.65
6th	David Nelson	Great Britain	13.67
7th	Liviu Giurgian	Romania	13.82
8th	Jiří Hudec	Czechoslovakia	13.95

final

Florian Schwarthoff (left, in 2016) came in seventh place - on the far right Colin Jackson, who did not appear in the semifinals

August 29, 1991, 6:30 p.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Greg Foster	United States	13.06 CR
2	Jack Pierce	United States	13.06 CR
3	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.25
4th	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.30
5	Dan Philibert	France	13.33
6th	Vladimir Shishkin	Soviet Union	13.39
7th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.41
8th	Li Tong	People's Republic of China	13.46

Video

• 3565 World Track & Field 1991 110m Hurdles Greg Foster's third consecutive World Championship win, video posted on youtube.com July 22, 2016, accessed April 20, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 20, 2020
• Men 110m Hurdles Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed April 20, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 110m Hurdles, Tokyo 1991, p. 147 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 20, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 20, 2020