1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 17, 1964 (prelims) October 18, 1964 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist Hayes Jones ( USA )   Blaine Lindgren ( USA )   Anatoly Mikhailov ( URS )

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo took place on October 17 and 18, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 37 athletes took part.

The American Hayes Jones became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Blaine Lindgren and Anatoly Michailow from the Soviet Union.

Three Germans started. Athletes from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. While Christian Voigt and Werner Trzmiel were eliminated in the preliminary stages, Hinrich John was able to qualify for the semifinals. Here he retired as fifth of his run.

Existing records

World record	13.2 s	Martin Lauer ( FR Germany )	Zurich , Switzerland	July 7, 1959
		Lee Calhoun ( USA )	Bern , Switzerland	August 21, 1960
Olympic record	13.5 s	Lee Calhoun ( USA )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 28, 1956
		Jack Davis ( USA )

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of five heats on October 17th. The three best starters as well as the following fastest qualified for the semifinals on October 18th. From this, the four best runners reached the finals on the same day.

Time schedule

October 17, 2 p.m .: Preliminary
October 18, 2 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 18, 3:50 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The athletes directly qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue, those who have qualified over time are highlighted in light green.

Prelims

Date: October 17, 1964, from 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 23 ° C, humidity approx. 66%

Forward 1

Hirokazu Yasuda (l.) And Giorgio Mazza (r.) In the lead. Mazza reached the final and was eighth, Yasuda was eliminated in the semifinals

Wind: −1.74 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.2 s	14.26 s
2	Willie Davenport	United States	14.2 s	14.44 s
3	Hirokazu Yasuda	Japan	14.5 s	14.53 s
4th	Folu Erinle	Nigeria	14.5 s	14.57 s
5	Aggrey Awori	Uganda	14.6 s	14.68 s
6th	Arnaldo Bristol	Puerto Rico	14.6 s	14.69 s
7th	Wallie Babb	Northern Rhodesia	14.7 s	14.80 s

Forward 2

Wind: −0.40 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Blaine Lindgren	United States	14.2 s	14.20 s
2	Alexander Kontarew	Soviet Union	14.2 s	14.26 s
3	Hinrich John	Germany	14.3 s	14.39 s
4th	Laurie Taitt	Great Britain	14.5 s	14.52 s
5	Ghulam Raziq	Pakistan	14.7 s	14.76 s
6th	Heriberto Cruz	Puerto Rico	14.9 s	14.93 s
7th	Juan Carlos Dyrzka	Argentina	15.2 s	k. A.
8th	Simbara Maki	Ivory Coast	15.3 s

Forward 3

Wind: +0.64 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	14.1 s	14.13 s
2	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.2 s	14.25 s
3	Bo Forssander	Sweden	14.3 s	14.35 s
4th	Cliff Nuttall	Canada	14.8 s	14.82 s
5	Bernard Fournet	France	14.8 s	14.83 s
6th	Çetin Şahiner	Turkey	15.1 s	15.12 s
7th	Virgil Okiring	Uganda	15.5 s	k. A.

Forward 4

The Cuban Lázaro Betancourt (in the foreground at a sports festival in 1961) failed in the semifinals

Wind: −2.17 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Eddy Ottoz	Italy	14.6 s	14.63 s
2	Lázaro Aristides Betancourt	Cuba	14.6 s	14.67 s
3	Valentin Chistyakov	Soviet Union	14.7 s	14.75 s
4th	Léopold Marien	Belgium	14.9 s	14.93 s
5	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	14.9 s	14.97 s
6th	Kuda Ditta	Malaysia	15.1 s	15.17 s
7th	Christian Voigt	Germany	15.1 s	15.19 s
8th	Samir Vincent	Iraq	16.2 s	k. A.

Forward 5

Wind: −1.86 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Marcel Duriez	France	14.2 s	14.22 s
2	Hayes Jones	United States	14.2 s	14.24 s
3	Mike Parker	Great Britain	14.2 s	14.26 s
4th	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa	India	14.3 s	14.37 s
5	Werner Trzmiel	Germany	14.3 s	14.38 s
6th	Akira Tanaka	Japan	14.5 s	14.58 s
7th	Edward Akika	Nigeria	14.7 s	14.70 s

Semifinals

Date: October 18, 1964, from 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 14 ° C, humidity approx. 97%

Run 1

Wind: +2.70 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	13.9 s	13.90 s
2	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa	India	14.0 s	14.04 s
3	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.0 s	14.06 s
4th	Marcel Duriez	France	14.0 s	14.10 s
5	Hinrich John	Germany	14.1 s	14.14 s
6th	Lázaro Aristides Betancourt	Cuba	14.2 s	14.23 s
7th	Willie Davenport	United States	14.2 s	14.28 s
DSQ	Valentin Chistyakov	Soviet Union

Run 2

Wind: +0.28 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Blaine Lindgren	United States	13.9 s	13.95 s
2	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.0 s	14.06 s
3	Hayes Jones	United States	14.0 s	14.06 s
4th	Eddy Ottoz	Italy	14.1 s	14.12 s
5	Bo Forssander	Sweden	14.2 s	14.21 s
6th	Alexander Kontarew	Soviet Union	14.2 s	14.27 s
7th	Hirokazu Yasuda	Japan	14.3 s	14.30 s
8th	Mike Parker	Great Britain	14.6 s	14.65 s

final

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Hayes Jones	United States	13.6 s	13.67 s
2	Blaine Lindgren	United States	13.7 s	13.74 s
3	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	13.7 s	13.78 s
4th	Eddy Ottoz	Italy	13.8 s	13.84 s
5	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa	India	14.0 s	14.09 s
6th	Marcel Duriez	France	14.0 s	14.09 s
7th	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.1 s	14.12 s
8th	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.1 s	14.17 s

Date: October 18, 1964, 3:50 p.m.

Wind: +2.00 m / s

Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 13 ° C, humidity approx. 97%

The two US runners Blaine Lindgren and Hayes Jones were considered favorites for this race. A thigh injury prevented Willie Davenport from achieving a fifth successive triple success for the USA, who was eliminated in the semifinals.

Hayes, who was considered the fastest starter, was in the lead from the start in the final. Lindgren was able to catch up almost to the last hurdle, but Jones pulled on the last few meters and was Olympic champion with a tenth of a second ahead of Lindgren. The bronze medal was won by the Soviet hurdler Anatoly Michailow, who finished the race at the same time - electronically only four hundredths of a difference - with Lindgren. Better times were not possible given the difficult conditions with constant rain and cool temperatures.

Anatoly Mikhailov won the first Soviet medal in this discipline.

In the 15th Olympic final there was the 13th US victory. It was also the tenth US double success.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 266f

Video

• Hayes Jones 1964 Gold Medal , published October 31, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed October 26, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed October 26, 2017
• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 pp. 34–36 engl. (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110m hurdles men , accessed on October 26, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. 34f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. 35f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017 
5. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. 36 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017 
6. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 26, 2017