World Athletics Championships 2001/110 m hurdles of men

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 31 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 9th (final)
Medalist Allen Johnson ( USA )   Anier García ( CUB )   Inge Exner ( HAI )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The 110-meter hurdles of the men at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was from 7 to 9 August 2001 Commonwealth Stadium the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

The American Olympic champion from 1996 Allen Johnson won his third World Championship title after 1995 and 1997 . As in 1999 , the Cuban Anier García became vice world champion. He had won Olympic gold the previous year . Bronze went to the Haitian Dudley Dorival , who, like at the 1999 World Championships, set two national records.

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.

There was a world record for the year and four national records.

• World annual best:
  • 13.04 s - Allen Johnson ( USA ), final (August 9) with a 0.3 m / s headwind

• National records:
  • 13.61 s - Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja ( Madagascar ), 2nd advance (August 7th) at 0.6 m / s headwind
  • 13.33 s - Dudley Dorival ( Haiti ), 6th advance (7th August) with a tailwind of 1.9 m / s
  • 13.25 s - Dudley Dorival (Haiti), final (August 9) with a 0.3 m / s headwind
  • 13.72 s - Mubarak Ata Mubarak ( Saudi Arabia ), 6th advance (August 7th) with a tailwind of 1.9 m / s

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

August 7, 2001, 6:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.59
2	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.63
3	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.64
4th	Masato Naito	Japan	13.80
5	Gabriel Burnett	Barbados	13.93
6th	Andrey Sklyarenko	Kazakhstan	14.02
7th	Hendrey Ah-Tchoy	French Polynesia	16.34

Forward 2

August 7, 2001, 6:07 pm

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yuniel Hernández	Cuba	13.56
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.58
3	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.59
4th	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja	Madagascar	13.61 NO
5	Paulo Villar	Colombia	13.82
6th	Paul Gray	Great Britain	13.96
7th	Sadros Sánchez	Panama	14.34

Forward 3

August 7, 2001, 6:14 p.m.

Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anier García	Cuba	13.21
2	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.46
3	Zhivko Videnov	Bulgaria	13.59
4th	Stephen Jones	Barbados	13.72
5	Satoru Tanigawa	Japan	13.85
6th	David Ilariani	Georgia	14.08
DSQ	Damien Greaves	Great Britain	IAAF Rule 162.8 - false start

Forward 4

Damjan Zlatnar retired with 13.97 s in the fourth heat

August 7, 2001, 6:21 pm

Wind: +2.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dawane Wallace	United States	13.28
2	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.54
3	Liu Xiang	People's Republic of China	13.60
4th	Jérôme Crews	Germany	13.60
5	Jarno Jokihaara	Finland	13.89
6th	Damjan Zlatnar	Slovenia	13.97

Forward 5

August 7, 2001, 6:28 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Terrence Trammell	United States	13.40
2	Yevgeny Pechonkin	Russia	13.58
3	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.74
4th	Felipe Vivancos	Spain	13.84
5	Márcio Simão de Souza	Brazil	13.88
6th	Sultan Tucker	Liberia	13.92
7th	Raie Khraisat	Jordan	15.01

Forward 6

13.88 s were not enough for Maurice Wignall to progress

August 7, 2001, 6:35 p.m.

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.33 NO
2	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.38
3	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.39
4th	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.57
5	Mubarak Ata Mubarak	Saudi Arabia	13.72 NO
6th	Maurice Wignall	Jamaica	13.88
7th	Omar Abdullah Al-Rawahi	United Arab Emirates	19.01

Semifinals

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.

Semi-final run 1

• 

  Elmar Lichtenegger (here in 2013) was eliminated in the semifinals with his 13.42 seconds

• 

  Florian Schwarthoff (far left in the photo from 2016) did not reach the finish line in his semifinals

August 8, 2001, 8:55 pm

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anier García	Cuba	13.19
2	Allen Johnson	United States	13.27
3	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.29
4th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.42
5	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.61
6th	Masato Naito	Japan	13.73
7th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.89
DNF	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany

Semi-final run 2

August 8, 2001, 9:03 pm

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgeny Pechonkin	Russia	13.38
2	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.38
3	Dawane Wallace	United States	13.41
4th	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.49
5	Yuniel Hernández	Cuba	13.56
6th	Stephen Jones	Barbados	13.71
7th	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja	Madagascar	13.77
DSQ	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain

Semi-final run 3

• 

  Terrence Trammell was a bit of a surprise in the semi-finals

• 

  Liu Xiang hadn't reached the final here - he still had his career highlights ahead of him

• 

  Artur Kohutek - seventh in his semi-finals and eliminated

August 8, 2001, 9:11 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.33
2	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.43
3	Terrence Trammell	United States	13.44
4th	Liu Xiang	People's Republic of China	13.51
5	Zhivko Videnov	Bulgaria	13.55
6th	Jérôme Crews	Germany	13.55
7th	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.60
8th	Mubarak Ata Mubarak	Saudi Arabia	13.98

final

World Championship title number three for Allen Johnson, also Olympic champion in 1996

August 9, 2001, 9:15 pm

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.04 WL
2	Anier García	Cuba	13.07
3	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.25 NO
4th	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.30
5	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.51
6th	Yevgeny Pechonkin	Russia	13.52
7th	Dawane Wallace	United States	13.76
8th	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.84

• 

  As in 1999 , there was World Cup silver for Anier García, the current Olympic champion

• 

  The fifth placed Robert Kronberg

Video

• 110m final IAAF World Championships 2001 Allen Johnson 04/13 on youtube.com, accessed August 7, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 7, 2020
• Men 110m Hurdles Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 7, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 110 m Hurdles, Edmonton 2001, p. 149 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 7, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 9, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 86f (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on August 9, 2020