1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

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)
Medalist Roger Kingdom ( USA )   Greg Foster ( USA )   Arto Bryggare ( FIN )

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 )	13.39 s	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Greg Foster ( USA )	13.42 s	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Thomas Munkelt ( GDR )	13.41 s	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Roger Kingdom ( USA )	13.44 s	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Alejandro Casañas ( Cuba )	13.61 s	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Pedro Chiamulera ( Brazil )	14.3 s	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Wu Chin-ling ( Chinese Taipei )	13.90 s	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Philip Sang ( Kenya )	13.8 s	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	12.93 s	Renaldo Nehemiah ( USA )	Zurich , Switzerland	19th August 1981
Olympic record	13.24 s	Rod Milburn ( USA )	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
1	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.35 s
2	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.58 s
3	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy	13.75 s
4th	Yu Zhicheng	People's Republic of China	14.20 s
5	Mohamed Ryad Ben Haddad	Algeria	14.44 s
6th	Nicolas Chapparo	Paraguay	15.51 s
DSQ	Mark Holtom	Great Britain

Forward 2

Wind: −0.5 m / s, temperature: 29 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tonie Campbell	United States	13.53 s
2	Carlos Sala	Spain	14.02 s
3	Wilbert Greaves	Great Britain	14.04 s
4th	Jeff Glass	Canada	14.07 s
5	Franck Chevallier	France	14.32 s
6th	Hisham Mekin	Egypt	14.67 s

Forward 3

Wind: −0.5 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Roger Kingdom	Canada	13.53 s
2	Javier Moracho	Spain	14.05 s
3	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	14.07 s
4th	Li Jieqiang	People's Republic of China	14.29 s
5	Naji Abdullah Mubarak	Kuwait	14.65 s
6th	Eric Spence	Canada	14.93 s

Forward 4

Wind: +1.7 m / s, temperature: 29 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Greg Foster	United States	13.24 s	ORe
2	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.45 s
3	Wu Chin-ling	Chinese Taipei	13.91 s
4th	Don Wright	Australia	14.00 s
5	Modesto Castillo	Dominican Republic	14.05 s
6th	Mohamed Helal Ali	United Arab Emirates	15.75 s
DNF	William Fong	Western Samoa

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
1	Roger Kingdom	United States	13.24 s	ORe
2	Tonie Campbell	United States	13.56 s
3	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.62 s
4th	Jeff Glass	Canada	13.88 s
5	Javier Moracho	Spain	13.89 s
6th	Wu Chin-ling	Chinese Taipei	14.21 s
7th	Yu Zhicheng	People's Republic of China	14.26 s
DNS	Nigel Walker	Great Britain

Run 2

Wind: −1.1 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Greg Foster	United States	13.24 s	ORe
2	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.30 s
3	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.52 s
4th	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.85 s
5	Wilbert Greaves	Great Britain	13.86 s
6th	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy	13.86 s
7th	Don Wright	Australia	13.93 s
8th	Li Jieqiang	People's Republic of China	14.15 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Roger Kingdom	United States	13.20 s	OR
2	Greg Foster	United States	13.23 s
3	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.40 s
4th	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.45 s
5	Tonie Campbell	United States	13.55 s
6th	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.71 s
7th	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.80 s
8th	Jeff Glass	Canada	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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 280, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
3. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 281, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference 110 m hurdles , accessed January 7, 2018