1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 110 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 31 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympiastadion Berlin | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 5, 1936 (preliminary) August 6, 1936 (semifinals / finals) |
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Winning time | 14.2 s | ||||||||
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The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 5 and 6, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 31 athletes took part.
The American Forrest Towns was Olympic champion ahead of Don Finlay from Britain . Bronze went to the US athlete Fritz Pollard Jr. .
Existing records
- World record : 14.1 s - Forrest Towns ( USA ), Chicago , June 19, 1936
- Olympic record : 14.4s - George Saling ( USA ), Los Angeles semi-finals , August 3, 1932
Conducting the competition
The runners competed in six heats on August 5th. The two best athletes in each case qualified for the semi-finals on August 6th, from which the first three athletes came to the final on the same day.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Prelims
August 5, 1936, 4.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, 17 ° C, tail wind at 2.8 m / s. Wind diagonally from behind.
Not all times have been passed down.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tom Lavery | South African Union | 15.0 s | |
2 | Larry O'Connor | Canada | 15.1 s | |
3 | Christos mantikas | Greece | 15.2 s | |
4th | Svend Aage Thomsen | Denmark | 15.3 s | |
5 | Juul Bosmans | Belgium | k. A. | |
5 | Yasuharu Furuta | Japan |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Fritz Pollard Jr. | United States | 14.7 s | |
2 | John Thornton | Great Britain | 15.0 s | |
3 | Johann Langmayr | Austria | 15.1 s | |
4th | Willi Welscher | German Empire | 15.2 s | |
5 | Huang Yingjie | China | k. A. |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Don Finlay | Great Britain | 14.7 s | |
2 | Tadashi Murakami | Japan | 15.3 s | |
3 | James Worrall | Canada | 15.6 s | |
4th | Darcy Guimarães | Brazil | k. A. | |
5 | Ludvík Kománek | Czechoslovakia |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Roy Staley | United States | 15.0 s | |
2 | Juan Lavenás | Argentina | 15.1 s | |
3 | Ashleigh Pilbrow | Great Britain | 15.5 s | |
4th | Ioannis Skiadas | Greece | k. A. | |
5 | Lin Shaozhou | China |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Forrest Towns | United States | 14.5 s | |
2 | Erwin Wegner | German Empire | 15.1 s | |
3 | Ernst Leitner | Austria | 15.3 s | |
4th | René Kunz | Switzerland | k. A. | |
5 | Kotaro Shimizu | Japan |
Forward 6
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Håkan Lidman | Sweden | 14.9 s | |
2 | Vane Ivanović | Yugoslavia | 15.1 s | |
3 | Gianni Caldana | Italy | 15.1 s | |
4th | Alf Watson | Australia | 15.1 s | |
5 | Miguel White | Philippines | k. A. |
Semifinals
August 6, 1936, 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, 18 ° C, slightly windy.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Forrest Towns | United States | 14.1 s | WRe / OR |
2 | Håkan Lidman | Sweden | 14.5 s | |
3 | John Thornton | Great Britain | 14.7 s | |
4th | Roy Staley | United States | 14.8 s | |
5 | Murakami Tadashi | Japan | 15.1 s | |
6th | Juan Lavenás | Argentina | 15.6 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Don Finlay | Great Britain | 14.5 s | |
2 | Fritz Pollard Jr. | United States | 14.6 s | |
3 | Larry O'Connor | Canada | 15.0 s | |
4th | Vane Ivanović | Yugoslavia | 15.2 s | |
5 | Erwin Wegner | German Empire | 15.3 s | |
6th | Tom Lavery | South African Union | 15.6 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Forrest Towns | United States | 14.2 s | |
2 | Don Finlay | Great Britain | 14.4 s | |
3 | Fritz Pollard Jr. | United States | 14.4 s | |
4th | Håkan Lidman | Sweden | 14.4 s | |
5 | John Thornton | Great Britain | 14.7 s | |
6th | Larry O'Connor | Canada | 14.8 s |
August 6, 1936, 5.45 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 18 ° C, slightly windy.
In the interim, Forrest Towns set his own existing world record with 14.1 s . This Forrest Towns had actually wanted to be a high jumper and had built a high jump facility in the garden at home. At the age of 19 he jumped 1.83 m, which earned him a scholarship. However, the track and field coach at college persuaded him to switch to hurdles , where Towns improved to 14.4 s within two years by 1935. Before the games he even ran a new world record with 14.1 seconds. This made him the favorite in Berlin .
In the final his compatriot Pollard had the better start, but Towns was clearly the best hurdle sprinter with his excellent hurdles technique. With a lead of two tenths of a second, he won ahead of the British Donald Finlay and Pollard, who had to let Finlay pass when he broke a hurdle. The winner missed his own world record, which Towns had set again in the interim, by just a tenth of a second.
Forrest Towns won the eighth gold medal for the USA in the tenth Olympic final.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 281-283
Web links
- SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed September 19, 2017
- Official report pp. 651–652, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 19, 2017
- 1936, 110mH, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin , published on August 12, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 19, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 553 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Official report p. 651, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ a b Official report p. 652, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ Official report ( Memento of the original dated January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 605, engl. (PDF)