World Athletics Championships 2017/110 m hurdles of men

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	41 athletes from 28 countries
Competition phase	August 6, 2017 (preliminary / semi-finals) August 7, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Omar McLeod ( JAM )
silver	Sergei Schubenkow ( ANA )
bronze	Balázs Baji ( HUN )

Crossing the finish line over
110 meter hurdles

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , on August 6-7, 2017 .

World champion was the Jamaican Omar McLeod . The Russian Sergei Schubenkow , starting under a neutral flag, won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Hungarian Balázs Baji .

Records

World record	Aries Merritt	12.80 s	Brussels , Belgium	September 7, 2012
Championship record	Colin Jackson	12.91 s	World Cup in Stuttgart , Germany	August 20, 1993

Prelims

The Japanese Shunya Takayama was eliminated with his seventh place in the first heat

Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel did not reach the next round as fifth in his prelim

The Indian Siddhanth Thingalaya failed as seventh in his preliminary round

The Frenchman Aurel Manga was fifth in the third heat and was eliminated

The Jamaican Ronald Levy did not reach the finish line in his lead

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

Note: If the same time is in the range of hundredths of a second, thousandths of a second are also listed.

Run 1

August 6, 2017, 1:15 p.m. local time (2:15 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	1	Omar McLeod	Jamaica	13.23
2	3	Balázs Baji	Hungary	13.35
3	5	Eddie Lovett	American Virgin Islands	13.41 SB
4th	9	Aleec Harris	United States	13.50
5	2	Yordan O'Farrill	Cuba	13,552
6th	6th	David Omoregie	Great Britain	13.59
7th	7th	Shunya Takayama	Japan	13.65
8th	4th	Ahmad Hazer	Lebanon	14.51
9	8th	Xaysa Anousone	Laos	14.55

Run 2

August 6, 2017, 1:23 p.m. local time (2:23 p.m. CEST )
wind: +1.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Devon Allen	United States	13.26
2	4th	Garfield Darien	France	13.36
3	9	Damian Czykier	Poland	13,528
4th	3	Genta Masuno	Japan	13,573
5	8th	Abdulaziz al-Mandeel	Kuwait	13.621
6th	2	Ruebin Walters	Trinidad and Tobago	13.630
7th	6th	Siddhanth Thingalaya	India	13.64
8th	5	David King	Great Britain	13.67

Run 3

August 6, 2017, 1:31 p.m. local time (2:31 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Aries Merritt	United States	13.16
2	5	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	13.39
3	6th	Antonio Alkana	South Africa	13.43
4th	4th	Éder Antônio Souza	Brazil	13,560
5	9	Aurel Manga	France	13,573
6th	3	Konstandinos Douvalidis	Greece	13.62
7th	7th	Hideki Omuro	Japan	13.771
8th	2	Kim Byoung-jun	South Korea	13.81

Run 4

August 6, 2017, 1:39 p.m. local time (2:39 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Andrew Pozzi	Great Britain	13.28
2	8th	Xie Wenjun	People's Republic of China	13.34
3	3	Milan Traikovitz	Cyprus	13.38
4th	2	Yidiel Contreras	Spain	13.40 SB
5	6th	Roger Iribarne	Cuba	13.48
6th	5	Matthias Bühler	Germany	13.52
7th	4th	Yaqoub Mohamed al-Youha	Kuwait	13,551
DNF	9	Ronald Levy	Jamaica

Run 5

August 6, 2017, 1:47 p.m. local time (2:47 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	2	Orlando Ortega	Spain	13.37
2	5	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica	13.42
3	7th	Sergei Schubenkow	Authorized Neutral Athletes	13.47
4th	6th	Johnathan Cabral	Canada	13,530
5	9	Nicholas Hough	Australia	13.61
6th	4th	Jeffrey Julmis	Haiti	13.780
7th	3	Mikel Thomas	Trinidad and Tobago	13.98
DSQ	8th	Milan Ristić	Serbia	IAAF Rule 168.7b - Deliberately knocking over a hurdle

Semifinals

The American Aleec Harris was eliminated in the semifinals as sixth of the first run

The Briton Andrew Pozzi was fourth place in the second semi-final race not enough for the final

The Chinese Xie Wenjun finished fourth in the third semifinal and was eliminated

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.

Note: If the same time is in the range of hundredths of a second, thousandths of a second are also listed.

Run 1

August 6, 2017, 8:10 p.m. local time (9:10 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Omar McLeod	Jamaica	13.10
2	6th	Garfield Darien	France	13.17
3	9	Sergei Schubenkow	Authorized Neutral Athletes	13.22
4th	4th	Orlando Ortega	Spain	13.224
5	5	Milan Traikovitz	Cyprus	13.32
6th	8th	Aleec Harris	United States	13.40
7th	2	Genta Masuno	Japan	13.784
DNF	3	Yaqoub Mohamed al-Youha	Kuwait

Run 2

August 6, 2017, 8:18 p.m. local time (9:18 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	13.26 SB
2	7th	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica	13,262
3	4th	Devon Allen	United States	13.265
4th	6th	Andrew Pozzi	Great Britain	13.28
5	9	Damian Czykier	Poland	13.42
6th	3	Roger Iribarne	Cuba	13.43
7th	8th	Yidiel Contreras	Spain	13.65
8th	2	Matthias Bühler	Germany	13.78

Run 3

August 6, 2017, 8:26 p.m. local time (9:26 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Balázs Baji	Hungary	13.228
2	7th	Aries Merritt	United States	13.25
3	4th	Xie Wenjun	People's Republic of China	13.36
4th	9	Antonio Alkana	South Africa	13.59
5	6th	Eddie Lovett	American Virgin Islands	13.67
6th	3	Éder Antônio Souza	Brazil	13.70
7th	8th	Johnathan Cabral	Canada	14.98
DNF	2	Yordan O'Farrill	Cuba

final

August 7, 2017, 9:30 p.m. local time (10:30 p.m. CEST )
Wind : ± 0.0 m / s

Note: If the same time is in the range of hundredths of a second, thousandths of a second are also listed.

The 2015 world champion Sergei Schubenkow was one of the favorites again - at the start under a neutral flag. He was also runner-up in 2013 and European champion in 2014 . Other medal candidates and contenders for victory were the Jamaican Olympic champion of 2016 Omar McLeod, his compatriot Hansle Parchment as vice world champion in 2015 and Olympic third in 2012 , the Spanish Olympic runner-up in 2016 Orlando Ortega and the Hungarian vice European champion in 2016 Balázs Baji. The US Olympic champion of 2012 and world record holder Aries Merrit had also qualified for this final, but no longer had the full potential of his strong years.

Apart from Parchment, the finalists all got off their starting blocks well and were still very close together on the first two hurdles. Then a duel developed between Olympic champion McLeod and defending champion Schubenkow. At the last two hurdles, Omar McLeod finally prevailed and became the new world champion. Sergei Schubenkow came second a tenth of a second behind. The battle for bronze was extremely close until the end. In the end, Balázs Baji won the medal. Two hundredths of a second behind him, Frenchman Garfield Darien finished fifth. Aries Merritt and Shane Brathwaite from Barbados followed only one hundredth of a second back. Orlando Ortega was seventh four hundredths of a second behind, ahead of Hansle Parchment. The seventh and eighth were only four thousandths of a second apart.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	4th	Omar McLeod	Jamaica	13.04
	2	Sergei Schubenkow	Authorized Neutral Athletes	13.14
	5	Balázs Baji	Hungary	13.28
4th	6th	Garfield Darien	France	13.30
5	9	Aries Merritt	United States	13.31
6th	7th	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	13.32
7th	3	Orlando Ortega	Spain	13,361
8th	8th	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica	13,365

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  World Champion Omar McLeod, Jamaica

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  Vice world champion Sergej Schubenkow - as a neutral athlete at the start

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  Bronze medalist Balázs Baji from Hungary

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  Frenchman Garfield Darien came in fourth

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  Fifth place for the 2012 Olympic Champion Aries Merritt, USA

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  Shane Brathwaite from Barbados finished sixth

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  The Spaniard Orlando Ortega finished seventh

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  The vice world champion of 2015 Hansle Parchment from Jamaica had to be content with eighth place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 110 m hurdles men on the IAAF website (English), accessed on November 26, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 26, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 26, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - 110M Hurdles - Men - Final - Omar McLeod wins on youtube.com, published August 8, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 93 (PDF), accessed on November 25, 2018