1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 110 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 36 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadio Olimpico | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 3, 1960 (heats / quarter-finals) September 5, 1960 (semi-finals / finals) |
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The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome took place on September 3 and 5, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 36 athletes took part.
The US team celebrated a triple success. Lee Calhoun won the gold medal, silver to Willie May and bronze to Hayes Jones .
Martin Lauer , Karl-Ernst Schottes and Klaus Gerbig started for Germany . Schottes and Gerbig failed in their quarterfinals. Lauer was able to qualify for the final and finished fourth there. Runners from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 13.2 s |
Martin Lauer ( FR Germany )
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Zurich , Switzerland | July 7, 1959 |
Lee Calhoun ( USA )
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Bern , Switzerland | August 21, 1960 | ||
Olympic record | 13.5 s |
Lee Calhoun ( USA )
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Melbourne finals , Australia | November 28, 1956 |
Jack Davis ( USA )
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Conducting the competition
The runners started six heats on September 3rd. The four best runners each qualified for the quarter-finals on the same day on which the three best runners reached the semifinals. The two semi-finals and the final took place on September 5th. From the preliminary decisions, the first three came to the final.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
September 3, 9:00 a.m .: Preliminaries
September 3, 6:10 p.m .: Quarter-finals
September 5, 3:15 p.m .: Semi-finals
September 5, 4:45 p.m .: Final
Prelims
Date: September 3, 1960, from 9:00 a.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Martin Lauer |
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14.3 s | 14.45 s | |
2 | Jean Baptiste Okello |
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14.4 s | 14.59 s | |
3 | Giovanni Cornacchia |
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14.6 s | 14.77 s | |
4th | Marcel Duriez |
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14.7 s | 14.90 s | |
5 | Seraphino Antao |
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15.0 s | 15.13 s | |
6th | Çetin Şahiner |
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15.6 s | 15.75 s |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Hayes Jones |
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14.2 s | 14.32 s | |
2 | Mikola Berezuzki |
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14.3 s | 14.50 s | |
3 | Milad Petrušić |
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14.6 s | 14.74 s | |
4th | Paolo Zamboni |
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14.7 s | 14.82 s | |
5 | John Chittick |
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14.7 s | 14.86 s | |
DNF | Abdul Wardak |
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Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Willie May |
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14.0 s | 14.16 s | |
2 | Valentin Chistyakov |
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14.3 s | 14.45 s | |
3 | Bob Birrell |
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14.7 s | 14.82 s | |
4th | Klaus Gerbig |
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14.7 s | 14.87 s | |
5 | Saka Oloko |
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14.9 s | 15.04 s | |
6th | Nazzar Al-Jamali |
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15.8 s | 15.99 s |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Lee Calhoun |
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14.3 s | 14.37 s | |
2 | Edmond Roudnitska |
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14.4 s | 14.53 s | |
3 | Ghulam Raziq |
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14.6 s | 14.68 s | |
4th | Peter Hildreth |
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14.8 s | 14.90 s | |
5 | Georgios Marsellos |
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14.8 s | 14.92 s | |
6th | Pétur Rögnvaldsson |
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15.2 s | 15.38 s | |
DNF | Isaac Elie |
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Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Keith Gardner |
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14.3 s | 14.46 s | |
2 | Stanko Lorger |
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14.4 s | 14.56 s | |
3 | Nereo Svara |
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14.9 s | 15.03 s | |
4th | Vic Matthews |
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14.9 s | 15.07 s | |
5 | Jagmohan Singh |
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15.2 s | 15.34 s | |
6th | Abdul Malik |
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15.4 s | 15.52 s |
Forward 6
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Anatoly Mikhailov |
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14.4 s | 14.53 s | |
2 | Karl-Ernst Schottes |
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14.8 s | 14.90 s | |
3 | Roman Muzyk |
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14.8 s | 14.94 s | |
4th | Aggrey Awori |
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15.2 s | 15.36 s | |
5 | Jacques Déprez |
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17.1 s | 17.24 s |
Quarter finals
Date: September 3, 1960, from 6.10 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Lee Calhoun |
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14.1 s | 14.16 s | |
2 | Jean Baptiste Okello |
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14.3 s | 14.48 s | |
3 | Mikola Berezuzki |
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14.4 s | 14.57 s | |
4th | Giovanni Cornacchia |
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14.5 s | 14.68 s | |
5 | Peter Hildreth |
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14.6 s | 14.78 s | |
6th | Karl-Ernst Schottes |
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14.6 s | 14.81 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Martin Lauer |
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13.9 s | 14.06 s | |
2 | Keith Gardner |
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14.3 s | 14.45 s | |
3 | Ghulam Raziq |
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14.4 s | 14.51 s | |
4th | Edmond Roudnitska |
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14.5 s | 14.66 s | |
5 | Milad Petrušić |
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14.6 s | 14.71 s | |
6th | Paolo Zamboni |
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14.9 s | 15.02 s |
Run 3
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Willie May |
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13.8 s | 13.92 s | |
2 | Anatoly Mikhailov |
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13.9 s | 14.02 s | |
3 | Stanko Lorger |
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14.4 s | 14.56 s | |
4th | Aggrey Awori |
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14.8 s | 14.94 s | |
5 | Klaus Gerbig |
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14.8 s | 14.97 s | |
6th | Vic Matthews |
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15.0 s | 15.12 s |
Run 4
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Hayes Jones |
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14.1 s | 14.19 s | |
2 | Valentin Chistyakov |
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14.3 s | 14.51 s | |
3 | Nereo Svara |
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14.4 s | 14.59 s | |
4th | Roman Muzyk |
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14.5 s | 14.68 s | |
5 | Bob Birrell |
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14.6 s | 14.78 s | |
6th | Marcel Duriez |
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15.0 s | 15.19 s |
Semifinals
Date: September 5, 1960, from 3:15 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Willie May |
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13.7 s | 13.87 s | |
2 | Hayes Jones |
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14.1 s | 14.22 s | |
3 | Keith Gardner |
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14.2 s | 14.32 s | |
4th | Nereo Svara |
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14.3 s | 14.50 s | |
5 | Jean Baptiste Okello |
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14.4 s | 14.59 s | |
6th | Mikola Berezuzki |
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14.6 s | 14.69 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Lee Calhoun |
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13.7 s | 13.88 s | |
2 | Martin Lauer |
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14.0 s | 14.13 s | |
3 | Valentin Chistyakov |
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14.3 s | 14.46 s | |
4th | Ghulam Raziq |
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14.3 s | 14.49 s | |
5 | Stanko Lorger |
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14.5 s | 14.83 s | |
DNF | Anatoly Mikhailov |
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final
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Lee Calhoun |
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13.8 s | 13.98 s | |
2 | Willie May |
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13.8 s | 13.99 s | |
3 | Hayes Jones |
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14.0 s | 14.17 s | |
4th | Martin Lauer |
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14.0 s | 14.20 s | |
5 | Keith Gardner |
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14.4 s | 14.55 s | |
6th | Valentin Chistyakov |
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14.6 s | 14.71 s |
Date: September 5, 1960, 4:45 p.m.
Defending champion Lee Calhoun, who set Martin Lauer's world record shortly before the games, was seen as the favorite . Lauer, European champion from 1958 , was considered his greatest competitor, but he no longer had the shape from his world record year 1959.
The fastest from the starting blocks in the final came Calhoun, who was very thin over the entire distance. His compatriot Willie May, however, was right on his heels. Calhoun threw himself into the target, which brought him the Olympic victory. May was only a hundredth of a second behind. Hayes Jones completed the US team's triple success, Lauer finished fourth.
In the 14th Olympic final, Lee Calhoun achieved the twelfth victory of a US runner. It was also the sixth US win in a row. Calhoun himself repeated his Olympic victory in 1956 after being banned for a year in 1958 because he had accepted gifts on a television program on the occasion of his wedding.
So far, the USA has recorded eight triple successes over 110 meter hurdles , the last four in a row.
Of the 41 medals awarded so far - in 1896 there was only a first and a second place - US runners won 34.
The times achieved seem disappointing at first. However, the runners faced a pretty strong headwind. In other disciplines, too, the wind information was obviously only accurate and correct with a tailwind, but always showed a value of 0.000 m / s with a headwind.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 195–197
Web links
- SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed October 12, 2017
- Official report pp. 107–110, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
- 1960 Olympics 110M Hurdles; Willie May versus Lee Calhoun , published March 28, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed October 12, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on www.rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on October 12, 2017
- ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63f (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
- ^ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 107f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 109 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 110 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 196
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 196f