1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1976 (preliminary round) July 28, 1976 (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Guy Drut ( FRA )   Alejandro Casañas ( CUB )   Willie Davenport ( USA )

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 26 and 28, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 24 athletes took part.

The French Guy Drut became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Cuban Alejandro Casañas and the American Willie Davenport .

Thomas Munkelt and Frank Siebeck started for the GDR. Siebeck was eliminated in the semi-finals, Munkelt made it to the final and finished fifth there.
Runners from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

Note on the records:
In the 1976 Olympic year, the official records were still held in tenths of a second, which had an impact on the short distances in particular and led to records that differed from one another. The official lists consisted of a mixture of hand-timed and rounded electronically determined times. Since the times measured by hand timing turned out to be one to two tenths of a second better due to the reaction times of the referees, they also began to keep separate, purely electronically determined record overviews. That is why overviews of both readings are listed here.

Records - official times, hand-stopped or determined electronically and rounded to tenths of a second

World record	13.0 s	Guy Drut ( France )	Berlin , Federal Republic of Germany	22nd August 1975
Olympic record	13.2 s	Rod Milburn ( USA )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	7th September 1972

Records - determined purely electronically and rounded to hundredths of a second

World record	13.24 s	Rod Milburn ( USA )	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	7th September 1972
Olympic record			Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in three heats on July 26th. The five running prayers and the fastest after that reached the semi-finals on July 28th. From this, the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

July 26, 10:00 a.m .: Preliminary
July 28, 2:30 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 28, 5:50 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

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

Preliminary round

Date: July 26, 1976, from 10 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Charles Foster	United States	13.68 s
2	Berwyn Price	Great Britain	13.82 s
3	Vyacheslav Kulebjakin	Soviet Union	13.99 s
4th	Jean-Pierre Corval	France	14.00 s
5	Frank Siebeck	GDR	14.01 s
6th	Gianni Ronconi	Italy	14.10 s
7th	Abdoulaye Sarr	Senegal	14.20 s
8th	Conrad Mainwaring	Antigua and Barbuda	15.54 s

Forward 2

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Willie Davenport	United States	13.70 s
2	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.73 s
3	Guy Drut	France	14.04 s
4th	Arnaldo Bristol	Puerto Rico	14.04 s
5	Ishtiaq Mubarak	Malaysia	14.27 s
6th	Stratos Vasileiou	Greece	14.33 s
7th	José Cartas	Mexico	14.56 s
DNF	Max Binnington	Australia

Forward 3

Thomas Munkelt from the GDR, pictured on the right at the GDR championships in 1977

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.69 s
2	Viktor Myasnikov	Soviet Union	13.81 s
3	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.88 s
4th	Warren Parr	Australia	14.02 s
5	James Owens	United States	14.03 s
6th	Danny Smith	Bahamas	14.13 s
7th	Daniel Taillon	Canada	14.23 s
8th	Saleh Faraj	Kuwait	15.97 s

Semifinals

Date: July 28, 1976, from 2.30 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Charles Foster	United States	13.45 s
2	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.48 s
3	Viktor Myasnikov	Soviet Union	13.70 s
4th	James Owens	United States	13.76 s
5	Berwyn Price	Great Britain	13.78 s
6th	Warren Parr	Australia	13.88 s
7th	Jean-Pierre Corval	France	13.97 s
8th	Gianni Ronconi	Italy	13.97 s

Run 2

Wind: +0.02 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.34 s
2	Guy Drut	France	13.49 s
3	Willie Davenport	United States	13.55 s
4th	Vyacheslav Kulebjakin	Soviet Union	13.59 s
5	Frank Siebeck	GDR	13.74 s
6th	Arnaldo Bristol	Puerto Rico	13.98 s
7th	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	14.06 s
8th	Ishtiaq Mubarak	Malaysia	14.21 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Guy Drut	France	13.30 s
2	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.33 s
3	Willie Davenport	United States	13.38 s
4th	Charles Foster	United States	13.41 s
5	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.44 s
6th	James Owens	United States	13.73 s
7th	Vyacheslav Kulebjakin	Soviet Union	13.93 s
8th	Viktor Myasnikov	Soviet Union	13.94 s

Wind: 0.00 m / s Date: July 28, 1976, 5:50 p.m.

For the first time, the role of favorite was not a US runner. The Frenchman Guy Drut, European champion in 1974 and silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Games , was considered the candidate for the Olympic victory . The Cuban Casañas was initially seen as the main challenger. The two met in the preliminary round as well as in the semifinals. In the preliminary round, which both did not approach with full commitment, Casañas took second place behind the later bronze medalist Willie Davenport, Drut was third here. The semi-finals also saw all three later medal winners in one run. This time Casañas won ahead of Drut and Davenport. After this development, Davenport had to be seen again as a candidate for a medal. He had already participated in the Olympic Games in 1964 , but was eliminated there in the semi-finals. In 1968 he was an Olympic Champion and in 1972 he was an Olympic Champion . In the other semifinals, Davenport's compatriot Charles Foster and GDR runner Thomas Munkelt had convinced them so that they could also be considered as medal contenders.

In the final, Foster had the best start. However, it was extremely tight. Davenport was just behind him. Drut got better and better and now had a clear lead. Casañas came up again dangerously at the end, but Guy Drut brought a lead of three hundredths of a second to the finish and was Olympic champion ahead of Alejandro Casañas. Drut did not come close to the electronic world and Olympic record of the American Rod Milburn . Willie Davenport won another five hundredths of a second back bronze. He took part in the Olympic Games here for the fourth time. A fifth participation took place in 1980 at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid , when Davenport started in the US four-man USA I.

After nine US victories in a row - there were a total of 15 - with Guy Drut a Frenchman won the 110 meter hurdles for the first time and for the first time ever a European .

Alejandro Casañas won the first Cuban medal in this discipline.

So far, US runners have been able to win at least one medal in every Olympic final. Davenport won the 40th US medal in the discipline.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 231

Video

• 1976 Montreal olympic 110hs final , published December 26, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed December 14, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed December 14, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 58f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on December 14, 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 14, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 59, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 14, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 14, 2017