World Athletics Championships 1997/110 m hurdles of men

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	46 athletes from 31 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (preliminary / quarter-finals) August 6th (semi-finals) August 7th (final)
Medalist Allen Johnson ( USA )   Colin Jackson ( GBR )   Igor Kováč ( SVK )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held from August 5th to 7th, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

World champion was the US defending champion and 1996 Olympic champion Allen Johnson . He won in front of the British World Champion in 1993 , World Cup -third of 1987 , Olympic II of 1988 and two-time European champion ( 1990 / 1994 ) Colin Jackson . Bronze went to the Slovak Igor Kováč .

Existing records

World record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson	World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	August 20, 1993
World championship record

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships. However, the US world champion Allen Johnson missed this world championship record and thus also the world record in the final by only two hundredths of a second.

Two new national records were set:

• Jovesa Naivalu , Fiji - 13.82 s, 6th advance
• Artur Kohutek , Poland - 13.27s , 2nd quarter-final

Preliminary round

August 5, 1997, 5:35 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Forward 1

August 5, 1997, 9:15 a.m.

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dan Philibert	France	13.43
2	Allen Johnson	United States	13.52
3	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.70
4th	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.80
5	Gaute Gundersen	Norway	13.83
6th	Stamátios Mágos	Greece	13.92
DSQ	Zhivko Videnov	Bulgaria	IAAF Rule 162.8 - false start

Forward 2

August 5, 1997, 9:23 a.m.

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.37
2	Anier García	Cuba	13.46
3	Andrew Tulloch	Great Britain	13.69
4th	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.70
5	Hubert Grossard	Belgium	13.74
6th	Terry Reese	United States	13.79
7th	Wagner Marseille	Haiti	14.52
DNS	Andrey Sklyarenko	Kazakhstan

Forward 3

August 5, 1997, 9:31 a.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.36
2	Sébastien Thibault	France	13.50
3	Tomasz Ścigaczewski	Poland	13.61
4th	Andrey Kislykh	Russia	13.67
5	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.79
6th	Li Tong	People's Republic of China	13.89
7th	Avele Tanielu	Samoa	14.59
DNF	Emilio Valle	Cuba

Forward 4

August 5, 1997, 9:39 a.m.

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.35
2	Vincent Clarico	France	13.51
3	Ronald Mehlich	Poland	13.65
4th	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.67
5	Sven Pieters	Belgium	13.67
6th	Hisanobu Konae	Japan	14.02
7th	Slavoljub Nikolic	Yugoslavia	14.26
8th	Min Min Do	Myanmar	15.58

Forward 5

August 5, 1997, 9:47 am

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.44
2	Reggie Torian	United States	13.51
3	Kyle Vander-Kuyp	Australia	13.61
4th	Guntis Peders	Latvia	13.73
5	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	13.93
6th	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.94
7th	William Erese	Nigeria	13.95
8th	Simohammed Boukrouna	Morocco	14.22

Forward 6

Levente Csilla (Photo: 2014) was eliminated in the preliminary round with 13.96 s

August 5, 1997, 9:55 a.m.

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.19
2	Mark Crear	United States	13.46
3	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.53
4th	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.75
5	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.78
6th	Jovesa Naivalu	Fiji	13.82 NO
7th	Levente Csillag	Hungary	13.96
8th	Blaz Korent	Slovenia	14.20

Quarter finals

From each of the four quarter-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Quarter-finals 1

August 5, 1997, 6:40 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark Crear	United States	13.15
2	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.19
3	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.44
4th	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.50
5	Ronald Mehlich	Poland	13.51
6th	Sven Pieters	Belgium	13.55
7th	Sébastien Thibault	France	13.62
8th	Jovesa Naivalu	Fiji	14.04

Quarter-finals 2

Staņislavs Olijars did not reach the semi-finals with his 13.62 s

August 5, 1997, 6:49 pm

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.22
2	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.27 NO
3	Dan Philibert	France	13.33
4th	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.37
5	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.50
6th	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.62
7th	Andrew Tulloch	Great Britain	13.63
8th	Gaute Gundersen	Norway	13.91

Quarter-finals 3

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  Robert Kronberg's sixth place in his quarter-final run in 13.73 s was too little to make it into the semifinals

August 5, 1997, 6:58 p.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.27
2	Anier García	Cuba	13.46
3	Kyle Vander-Kuyp	Australia	13.53
4th	Reggie Torian	United States	13.64
5	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.72
6th	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.73
7th	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	13.86
8th	Hubert Grossard	Belgium	14.01

Quarter-finals 4

Elmar Lichtenegger (here in 2013) failed with 13.70 seconds in the quarterfinals

August 5, 1997, 7:07 pm

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.23
2	Terry Reese	United States	13.30
3	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.30
4th	Vincent Clarico	France	13.41
5	Andrey Kislykh	Russia	13.43
6th	Guntis Peders	Latvia	13.55
7th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.70
8th	Tomasz Ścigaczewski	Poland	13.73

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

Falk Balzer (left) retired in the semifinals with 14.06 seconds, which is well below the value

August 6, 1997, 6:00 p.m.

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.24
2	Allen Johnson	United States	13.31
3	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.38
4th	Terry Reese	United States	13.45
5	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.51
6th	Vincent Clarico	France	13.53
7th	Andrey Kislykh	Russia	13.78
8th	Falk Balzer	Germany	14.06

Semi-final run 2

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  Anier García had qualified for the semi-finals, but could not compete there

August 6, 1997, 6:05 pm

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.29
2	Dan Philibert	France	13.30
3	Mark Crear	United States	13.35
4th	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.39
5	Kyle Vander-Kuyp	Australia	13.49
6th	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.50
7th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.58
DNS	Anier García	Cuba

final

Allen Johnson, 1996 Olympic champion, became world champion for the second year in a row

August 7, 1997, 9:15 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Allen Johnson	United States	12.93 WL
2	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.05
3	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.18
4th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.20
5	Dan Philibert	France	13.26
6th	Terry Reese	United States	13.30
7th	Mark Crear	United States	13.55
DNS	Artur Kohutek	Poland

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  Colin Jackson, 1993 world champion, 1987 World Cup -Dritter, 1988 Olympic silver medalist and two-time European champion ( 1990 / 1994 ), added to his collection another silver medal added

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  Florian Schwarthoff (far left, in 2014) , Vice European Champion in 1994 and Olympic Knight in 1996, was fourth and only missed a medal by two hundredths of a second (far right in the photo: Colin Jackson)

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  Artur Kohutek, who ran a Polish record with 13.27 s in the quarterfinals, could not make it to the final

Video

• 110m High Hurdles, 1997 World Championships , video posted on youtube.com May 8, 2006, accessed June 18, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 4, 2020
• Men 110m Hurdles Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 110m Hurdles, Athens 1997, p. 148f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 18, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 17, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 86f (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on June 18, 2020