1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 3, 1972 (preliminary) September 4, 1972 (semi-finals) September 7, 1972 (final)
Medalist Rod Milburn ( USA )   Guy Drut ( FRA )   Thomas Hill ( USA )

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich took place on September 3, 4 and 7, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 39 athletes took part.

The US American Rod Milburn , who set a new world record in the final , became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Frenchman Guy Drut and Thomas Hill from the USA.

Eckart Berkes , Günther Nickel and Manfred Schumann , who later won a silver and a bronze medal in bobsleigh at the Innsbruck Winter Games in 1976 , started for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany . Berkes and Schumann were eliminated in the preliminary run, Nickel in the semifinals.
The GDR was represented by Frank Siebeck , who came in fifth in the final.
The Swiss Beat Pfister was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	13.2 s	Martin Lauer ( FR Germany )	Zurich , Switzerland	July 7, 1959
		Lee Calhoun ( USA )	Bern , Switzerland	August 21, 1960
		Earl McCullouch ( USA )	Minneapolis , USA	July 16, 1967
		Willie Davenport ( USA )	Zurich , Switzerland	4th July 1969
Olympic record	13.5 s	Ervin Hall ( USA )	Mexico City semi-finals , Mexico	October 16, 1968
		Willie Davenport ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	17th October 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of five heats on September 3rd. The three best runners as well as the following fastest reached the semi-finals on September 4th. This is where the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on September 7th.

Time schedule

September 3, 10 a.m .: Preliminaries
September 4, 2.30 p.m .: Semi-finals
September 7, 4 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: September 3, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Frank Siebeck	GDR	13.83 s
2	Willie Davenport	United States	13.97 s
3	Leszek Wodzyński	Poland	14.03 s
4th	Eckart Berkes	BR Germany	14.14 s
5	Adeola Aboyade-Cole	Nigeria	14.16 s
6th	Arnaldo Bristol	Puerto Rico	14.61 s
7th	Ishtiaq Mubarak	Malaysia	14.78 s
8th	Muhammad Ahmed Bashir	Pakistan	15.38 s

Forward 2

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Thomas Hill	United States	13.62 s
2	Berwyn Price	Great Britain	13.94 s
3	Günther Nickel	BR Germany	13.95 s
4th	Mirosław Wodzyński	Poland	14.02 s
5	Viktor Myasnikov	Soviet Union	14.13 s
6th	Bo Forssander	Sweden	14.56 s
7th	Alberto Matos	Portugal	14.74 s
8th	Lee Chung-ping	Taiwan	14.98 s

Forward 3

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Rod Milburn	United States	13.57 s
2	Lubomír Nádeníček	Czechoslovakia	13.93 s
3	Richard McDonald	Canada	14.36 s
4th	Danny Smith	Bahamas	14.46 s
5	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	14.50 s
6th	Mal Baird	Australia	14.55 s
7th	Simbara Maki	Ivory Coast	14.59 s
DSQ	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy

Forward 4

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Marco Acerbi	Italy	13.99 s
2	Marek Jóźwik	Poland	14.06 s
3	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	14.08 s
4th	Abdoulaye Sarr	Senegal	14.12 s
5	Manfred Schumann	BR Germany	14.13 s
6th	Beat Pfister	Switzerland	14.33 s
7th	Moreldin Mohamed Hamdi	Sudan	15.80 s
DNF	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba

Forward 5

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Guy Drut	France	13.78 s
2	Sergio Liani	Italy	13.95 s
3	Petr Čech	Czechoslovakia	14.04 s
4th	Godfrey Murray	Jamaica	14.16 s
5	Loránd Milassin	Hungary	14.21 s
6th	David Wilson	Great Britain	14.31 s
7th	Tony Nelson	Canada	14.73 s

Semifinals

Date: September 4, 1972, from 2.30 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Thomas Hill	United States	13.47 s
2	Guy Drut	France	13.49 s
3	Leszek Wodzyński	Poland	13.81 s
4th	Petr Čech	Czechoslovakia	13.82 s
5	Sergio Liani	Italy	13.90 s
6th	Richard McDonald	Canada	14.22 s
7th	Berwyn Price	Great Britain	14.37 s
8th	Mirosław Wodzyński	Poland	14.63 s

Run 2

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Rod Milburn	United States	13.44 s
2	Frank Siebeck	GDR	13.58 s
3	Willie Davenport	United States	13.73 s
4th	Lubomír Nádeníček	Czechoslovakia	13.89 s
5	Marek Jóźwik	Poland	14.06 s
6th	Günther Nickel	BR Germany	14.23 s
7th	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	14.24 s
8th	Marco Acerbi	Italy	14.45 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Rod Milburn	United States	13.24 s	WR
2	Guy Drut	France	13.34 s
3	Thomas Hill	United States	13.48 s
4th	Willie Davenport	United States	13.50 s
5	Frank Siebeck	GDR	13.71 s
6th	Leszek Wodzyński	Poland	13.72 s
7th	Lubomír Nádeníček	Czechoslovakia	13.76 s
8th	Petr Čech	Czechoslovakia	13.86 s

Date: September 7, 1972, 4 p.m.

Wind: +0.3 m / s

The US runner Rod Milburn was the top favorite. The US champion was undefeated until the Olympic elimination since 1971 and had won 27 consecutive finals. In the US Trials, however, he only just qualified for Munich - in third place behind Thomas Hill and Willie Davenport.

Rod Milburn, who had regained his strength here, won the final with the first official electronically stopped world record in this discipline. The 1968 Olympic champion , Willie Davenport, was on the silver medal course up to the eighth hurdle, but was intercepted by Frenchman Guy Drut and his compatriot Thomas Hill.

The hand-stopped records were kept in the official lists until the end of 1976. After that Rod Milburn had set the existing world record with 13.2 s. He was the fifth hurdler to reach that time.

In the 17th Olympic final, Rod Milburn achieved his 15th US victory. It was the ninth success for the USA and, together with Thomas Hill's bronze medal, the 39th of 50 medals - in 1896 there was no third place.

Guy Drut was the first French medalist in this discipline.

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 34

Web links

• SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed November 22, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 53f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on November 22, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017 
3. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 53, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 54, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017 
5. ↑ Richard Hymans (ATFS): History of the Olympic Trials, p. 157 , accessed on November 22, 2017
6. ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 22, 2017
7. ↑ IAAF World Records in Athletics , accessed on November 22, 2017