World Athletics Championships 1999/110 m hurdles for men

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 23 (preliminary / quarter-finals) August 24 (semi-finals) August 25 (final)
Medalist Colin Jackson ( GBR )   Anier García ( CUB )   Duane Ross ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held from 23 to 25 August 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The winner of the British World Champion in 1993 , runner-up of 1997 , World Championship -Third of 1987 , Olympic silver medalist from 1988 , three-time European Champion ( 1990 / 1994 / 1998 ) and world record holder Colin Jackson . The Cuban Anier García won his first silver medal at a major international event. Bronze went to the American Duane Ross .

Existing records

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

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

The following five national records were recorded:

• 13.42 s - Dudley Dorival ( Haiti ), 1st heat (23 August)
• 13.42 s - Dudley Dorival (Haiti), 2nd quarter-finals (23 August, record equalized)
• 15.74 s - Arlindo Pinheiro ( São Tomé and Príncipe ), 4th advance (23 August)
• 13.58s - Satoru Tanigawa ( Japan ), 1st quarter-finals (23 August)
• 13.07 s - Anier García ( Cuba ), final (August 24)

Preliminary round

August 5, 1999, 5:35 p.m.

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

Forward 1

August 23, 1999, 7:16 pm

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Duane Ross	United States	13.39
2	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.42 NO
3	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.50
4th	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.62
5	Hipólito Montesinos	Spain	13.74
6th	Márcio Simão de Souza	Brazil	13.83
7th	Paul Sehzue	Liberia	14.68

Forward 2

August 23, 1999, 7:08 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark Crear	United States	13.30
2	Tomasz Ścigaczewski	Poland	13.54
3	Chen Yanhao	People's Republic of China	13.55
4th	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.64
5	Luiz André Balcers	Brazil	13.84
6th	Adrian Woodley	Canada	13.95
7th	Ken-ichi Sakurai	Japan	14.01

Forward 3

August 23, 1999, 7:16 pm

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.46
2	Dan Philibert	France	13.53
3	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.53
4th	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.63
5	Steve Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	13.67
6th	William Erese	Nigeria	13.76
7th	Victor Houston	Barbados	13.86

Forward 4

Emiliano Pizzoli was eliminated in 13.79 s as sixth of his run

August 23, 1999, 7:24 p.m.

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.34
2	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.44
3	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.45
4th	Satoru Tanigawa	Japan	13.65
5	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.65
6th	Emiliano Pizzoli	Italy	13.79
7th	Arlindo Pinheiro	Sao Tome and Principe	15.74 NO

Forward 5

August 23, 1999, 7:32 pm

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.19
2	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.28
3	Tony Dees	United States	13.57
4th	Erik Batte	Cuba	13.62
5	Jean-Marc Grava	France	13.64
6th	Jeffrey Jackson	American Virgin Islands	13.64
7th	Andrey Kislykh	Russia	13.83

Forward 6

August 23, 1999, 7:40 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anier García	Cuba	13.40
2	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.50
3	Kyle Vander-Kuyp	Australia	13.55
4th	Ralf Leberer	Germany	13.65
5	Matti Niemi	Finland	13.66
6th	Andrea Giaconi	Italy	13.71
DNS	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

August 23, 1999, 9:35 p.m.

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Duane Ross	United States	13.13
2	Anier García	Cuba	13.20
3	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.30
4th	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.37
5	Tomasz Ścigaczewski	Poland	13.54
6th	Satoru Tanigawa	Japan	13.58 NO
7th	Steve Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	13.62
8th	Matti Niemi	Finland	14.17

Quarter-finals 2

August 23, 1999, 9:43 pm

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.21
2	Tony Dees	United States	13.29
3	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.37
4th	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.42 NRe
5	Chen Yanhao	People's Republic of China	13.53
6th	Ralf Leberer	Germany	13.54
7th	Kyle Vander-Kuyp	Australia	13.56
8th	William Erese	Nigeria	13.65

Quarter-finals 3

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  Robert Kronberg missed the semifinals by just one place as fifth of his quarter-final run in 13.56 s

August 23, 1999, 9:51 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.30
2	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.43
3	Erik Batte	Cuba	13.48
4th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.50
5	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.56
6th	Jean-Marc Grava	France	13.63
7th	Hipólito Montesinos	Spain	13.68
DSQ	Mark Crear	United States	IAAF Rule 162.8 - false start

Quarter-finals 4

Andrea Giaconis 13.61 s were only enough to finish sixth in the fourth quarter-finals - so he was eliminated

August 23, 1999, 9:59 pm

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.35
2	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.38
3	Dan Philibert	France	13.47
4th	Allen Johnson	United States	13.48
5	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.56
6th	Andrea Giaconi	Italy	13.61
7th	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.74
8th	Jeffrey Jackson	American Virgin Islands	14.43

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

Elmar Lichtenegger (Photo: 2013) reached the semi-finals and failed there in 13.52 seconds as eighth of his race

August 24, 1999, 7:35 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Duane Ross	United States	13.14
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.30
3	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.32
4th	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.32
5	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.35
6th	Erik Batte	Cuba	13.40
7th	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.45
8th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.52

Semi-final run 2

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  Staņislavs Olijar's sixth place in the second semi-final in 13.70 s was too little to make it into the final

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  Defending champion Allen Johnson did not play for the semifinals

August 24, 1999, 7:43 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anier García	Cuba	13.18
2	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.19
3	Tony Dees	United States	13.30
4th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.47
5	Dan Philibert	France	13.49
6th	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.70
7th	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.86
DNS	Allen Johnson	United States

final

Colin Jackson, who has been extremely successful on the international stage since 1987, became world champion for the second time

August 25, 1999, 8:25 pm

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.04
2	Anier García	Cuba	13.07 NO
3	Duane Ross	United States	13.12
4th	Tony Dees	United States	13.22
5	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.26
6th	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.30
7th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.39
8th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.54

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  Vice World Champion Anier García - next year  Olympic champion

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  Falk Balzer (left) took fifth place

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  Florian Schwarthoff (far left) , Olympic Knight in 1996 and Vice European Champion in 1994 , came in seventh place (far right in the photo: World Champion Colin Jackson)

Video

• Men's 110m Hurdles Final World Athletics Champs Seville 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 14, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 14, 2020
• Men 110m Hurdles Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 14, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 110m Hurdles, Seville 1999, p. 149 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 14, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 14, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 86f (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on July 14, 2020