1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 110 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 26 athletes from 17 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 5, 1984 (preliminary) August 6, 1984 (semi-finals and finals) |
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The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 5 and 6, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 26 athletes took part.
The American Roger Kingdom became Olympic champion . He won in front of his compatriot Greg Foster and the Finn Arto Bryggare .
Runners from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1980 |
Thomas Munkelt ( GDR )
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13.39 s | Moscow 1980 |
World Champion 1983 |
Greg Foster ( USA )
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13.42 s | Helsinki 1983 |
European Champion 1982 |
Thomas Munkelt ( GDR )
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13.41 s | Athens 1982 |
Pan American Champion 1983 |
Roger Kingdom ( USA )
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13.44 s | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983 |
Alejandro Casañas ( Cuba )
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13.61 s | Havana 1983 |
South America Champion 1983 | Pedro Chiamulera ( Brazil )
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14.3 s | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian champion 1983 | Wu Chin-ling ( Chinese Taipei )
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13.90 s | Kuwait City 1983 |
African champions 1982 | Philip Sang ( Kenya )
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13.8 s | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 12.93 s |
Renaldo Nehemiah ( USA )
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Zurich , Switzerland | 19th August 1981 |
Olympic record | 13.24 s |
Rod Milburn ( USA )
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Final of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany ) | 7th September 1972 |
Preliminary round
Date: August 5, 1984
In the preliminary round, the 26 participants were drawn in four runs. The first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the semi-finals.
William Fong in run 4 was the first athlete to compete for the Pacific island nation of Samoa - here with the name Western Samoa - at the Olympic Games.
Greg Foster (USA) ran the fastest lead time with 13.24 s and set the Olympic record . The slowest time an athlete could take to qualify for the semifinals was 14.29s, which Chinese Li Jieqiang achieved in Run 3.
Forward 1
Wind: +2.0 m / s, temperature: 29 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Arto Bryggare |
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13.35 s | |
2 | Mark McKoy |
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13.58 s | |
3 | Daniele Fontecchio |
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13.75 s | |
4th | Yu Zhicheng |
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14.20 s | |
5 | Mohamed Ryad Ben Haddad |
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14.44 s | |
6th | Nicolas Chapparo |
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15.51 s | |
DSQ | Mark Holtom |
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Forward 2
Wind: −0.5 m / s, temperature: 29 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tonie Campbell |
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13.53 s | |
2 | Carlos Sala |
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14.02 s | |
3 | Wilbert Greaves |
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14.04 s | |
4th | Jeff Glass |
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14.07 s | |
5 | Franck Chevallier |
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14.32 s | |
6th | Hisham Mekin |
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14.67 s |
Forward 3
Wind: −0.5 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Roger Kingdom |
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13.53 s | |
2 | Javier Moracho |
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14.05 s | |
3 | Nigel Walker |
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14.07 s | |
4th | Li Jieqiang |
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14.29 s | |
5 | Naji Abdullah Mubarak |
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14.65 s | |
6th | Eric Spence |
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14.93 s |
Forward 4
Wind: +1.7 m / s, temperature: 29 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Greg Foster |
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13.24 s | ORe |
2 | Stéphane Caristan |
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13.45 s | |
3 | Wu Chin-ling |
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13.91 s | |
4th | Don Wright |
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14.00 s | |
5 | Modesto Castillo |
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14.05 s | |
6th | Mohamed Helal Ali |
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15.75 s | |
DNF | William Fong |
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Semifinals
Date: August 6, 1984
In each of the two semi-finals, the first four (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.
Both Roger Kingdom in run 1 and Greg Foster in run 2 set the Olympic record with 13.24 s .
Run 1
Wind: +0.7 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Roger Kingdom |
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13.24 s | ORe |
2 | Tonie Campbell |
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13.56 s | |
3 | Stéphane Caristan |
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13.62 s | |
4th | Jeff Glass |
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13.88 s | |
5 | Javier Moracho |
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13.89 s | |
6th | Wu Chin-ling |
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14.21 s | |
7th | Yu Zhicheng |
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14.26 s | |
DNS | Nigel Walker |
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Run 2
Wind: −1.1 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Greg Foster |
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13.24 s | ORe |
2 | Mark McKoy |
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13.30 s | |
3 | Arto Bryggare |
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13.52 s | |
4th | Carlos Sala |
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13.85 s | |
5 | Wilbert Greaves |
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13.86 s | |
6th | Daniele Fontecchio |
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13.86 s | |
7th | Don Wright |
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13.93 s | |
8th | Li Jieqiang |
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14.15 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Roger Kingdom |
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13.20 s | OR |
2 | Greg Foster |
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13.23 s | |
3 | Arto Bryggare |
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13.40 s | |
4th | Mark McKoy |
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13.45 s | |
5 | Tonie Campbell |
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13.55 s | |
6th | Stéphane Caristan |
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13.71 s | |
7th | Carlos Sala |
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13.80 s | |
8th | Jeff Glass |
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14.15 s |
Date: August 6, 1984
Wind: −0.4 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C
Three Americans, two Canadians, a Finn, a French and a Spaniard had qualified for the final.
Due to the Olympic boycott, the 1980 Olympic champion and 1982 European champion Thomas Munkelt from the GDR was not there. The 1983 world champion Greg Foster from the USA was the favorite .
Arto Bryggare from Finland and Mark McKoy from Canada got the fastest start in the final . McKoy hit the first hurdle and fell back. Foster took the lead on the second hurdle, Bryggare was almost tied. Foster's teammate Roger Kingdom came up and pulled past Bryggare. Kingdom had caught up with Foster at the last hurdle and was able to win the gold medal with a new Olympic record in the final meters . Behind Foster, Bryggare held third, ahead of McKoy.
In the 20th Olympic final, Roger Kingdom ran for the 16th US victory. At the same time it was the 12th double victory for the USA in this discipline.
Arto Bryggare won the first Finnish medal in the 110 meter hurdles .
literature
- Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 22
Web links
- SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed January 7, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 280f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
Video
- Men's 110m Hurdles Final at LA Olympics in 1984 , published on 10Men's 110m Hurdles Final at LA Olympics in 1984. June 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 7, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675
- ↑ a b Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 280, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
- ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 281, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference 110 m hurdles , accessed January 7, 2018