1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	62 athletes from 40 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 28, 1996 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 29, 1996 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Allen Johnson ( USA )   Mark Crear ( USA )   Florian Schwarthoff ( GER )

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 28 and 29, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 62 athletes took part.

The American Allen Johnson became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Mark Crear and the German Florian Schwarthoff .

In addition to medalists Schwarthoff, Claude Edorh and Eric Kaiser started for Germany. Edorh was eliminated in the quarter-finals, Kaiser made it to the semi-finals. Elmar Lichtenegger and Herwig Röttl took part
for Austria . The Olympic champion from Barcelona , the Canadian Mark McKoy , also started here for Austria. Lichtenegger and Röttl failed in the preliminary round, McKoy in the quarter-finals. Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Mark McKoy ( Canada )	13.12 s	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Allen Johnson ( USA )	13.00 s	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Colin Jackson ( Great Britain )	13.08 s	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Roger Kingdom ( USA )	13.39 s	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Erik Batte ( Cuba )	13.49 s	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Joilto Bonfim ( Brazil )	13.92 s	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Chen Yanhao ( People's Republic of China )	13.65 s	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	William Erese ( Nigeria )	13.7 s	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Nick Bolton ( New Zealand )	14.67 s	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson ( Great Britain )	Stuttgart , Germany	August 20, 1993
Olympic record	12.98 s	Roger Kingdom ( USA )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 26, 1988

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

Preliminary round

July 28, 1996, from 10:45 am

The athletes started a total of eight heats. The first three hurdles qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the eight fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

The Czech Tomáš Dvořák - here in a decathlon, his actual main discipline - was eliminated in sixth place in his heat

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.62
2	Mark McKoy	Austria	13.70
3	Andrei Kislych	Russia	13.74
4th	Claude Edorh	Germany	13.74
5	Chen Yanhao	People's Republic of China	13.76
6th	Tomáš Dvořák	Czech Republic	13.78
7th	Miguel Soto	Puerto Rico	13.94
8th	Judex Lefou	Mauritius	14.69

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.39
2	Erik Batte	Cuba	13.47
3	Andrew Tulloch	Great Britain	13.56
4th	Johan Lisabeth	Belgium	13.72
5	Claes Albihn	Sweden	13.79
6th	Moses Oyiki	Nigeria	14.04
7th	Seán Cahill	Ireland	14.28
8th	Yuri Aristov	Uzbekistan	15.04

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Mark Crear	United States	13.44
2	Anier García	Cuba	13.56
3	Sven Pieters	Belgium	13.56
4th	Gheorghe Boroi	Romania	13.66
5	Emerson Perín	Brazil	13.76
6th	Wagner Marseille	Haiti	13.95
7th	Herwig Röttl	Austria	14.08
8th	Fawaz Ismail Johar	Bahrain	14.32

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.36
2	Eric Kaiser	Germany	13.64
3	Guntis Peders	Latvia	13.72
4th	Frank Mensah	Ghana	13.87
5	William Erese	Nigeria	13.98
6th	Joe Naivalu	Fiji	14.23
DNS	Herman Majid	Malaysia
	Curt Young	Panama

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.66
2	Krzysztof Mehlich	Poland	13.81
3	Walmes de Souza	Brazil	13.82
4th	Stelios Bisbas	Greece	13.85
5	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.90
6th	Miguel de los Santos	Spain	14.01
7th	Steve Adegbite	Nigeria	14.06
DNF	Henry Andrade	Cape Verde

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.47
2	Vincent Clarico	France	13.52
3	Thomas Kearns	Ireland	13.67
4th	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	13.70
5	Yevgeny Pechonkin	Russia	13.86
6th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	14.03
7th	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	14.34
8th	Hakim Mazou	Republic of the Congo	14.52

Forward 7

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	13.32
2	Emilio Valle	Cuba	13.35
3	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.61
4th	Igors Kazanovs	Latvia	13.74
5	Timothy Kroeker	Canada	13.74
6th	Jesús Font	Spain	13.90
7th	Mahesh Perera	Sri Lanka	14.24
8th	José Riesco	Peru	14.29

Forward 8

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Eugene Swift	United States	13.36
2	Li Tong	People's Republic of China	13.57
3	Robert Foster	Jamaica	13.58
4th	Levente Csillag	Hungary	13.64
5	Emmanuel Romary	France	13.68
6th	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.94
7th	Jenija Schorochow	Kyrgyzstan	14.29
8th	Paul Tucker	Guyana	14.65

Quarter finals

July 28, 1996, from 6:30 p.m.

In each of the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes qualified for the semi-finals (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Eugene Swift	United States	13.37
2	Robert Foster	Jamaica	13.51
3	Johan Lisabeth	Belgium	13.53
4th	Vincent Clarico	France	13.57
5	Guntis Peders	Latvia	13.59
6th	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	13.77
DNF	Eric Kaiser	Germany
DSQ	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain

Eric Kaiser from Germany was unable to finish his race due to a handicap from the British Tony Jarrett. Jarrett was disqualified, Kaiser could start with a wildcard in the semifinals (highlighted in light green).

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Mark Crear	United States	13.14
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.27
3	Igors Kazanovs	Latvia	13.42
4th	Li Tong	People's Republic of China	13.43
5	Thomas Kearns	Ireland	13.55
6th	Anier García	Cuba	13.58
7th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.63
8th	Emmanuel Romary	France	13.81

Run 3

The Hungarian Levente Csillag - here in 2014 - was eliminated in fifth in his quarter-finals

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.33
2	Sven Pieters	Belgium	13.36
3	Erik Batte	Cuba	13.46
4th	Gheorghe Boroi	Romania	13.56
5	Mark McKoy	Austria	13.64
6th	Claude Edorh	Germany	13.64
7th	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.70
8th	Andrei Kislych	Russia	13.74

Run 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.27
2	Emilio Valle	Cuba	13.29
3	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	13.49
4th	Krzysztof Mehlich	Poland	13.51
5	Levente Csillag	Hungary	13.61
6th	Andrew Tulloch	Great Britain	13.68
7th	Walmes de Souza	Brazil	14.12
8th	Timothy Kroeker	Canada	14.14

Semifinals

July 29, 1996

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

The Belgian Sven Pieters - here in 2007 - made it to the semi-finals and was eliminated in seventh place in his run

The British world record holder Colin Jackson finished in the Olympics

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.10
2	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.17
3	Emilio Valle	Cuba	13.18
4th	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	13.38
5	Krzysztof Mehlich	Poland	13.55
6th	Gheorghe Boroi	Romania	13.57
7th	Sven Pieters	Belgium	13.59
8th	Eric Kaiser	Germany	13.59
9	Li Tong	People's Republic of China	13.60

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.13
2	Eugene Swift	United States	13.21
3	Mark Crear	United States	13.22
4th	Erik Batte	Cuba	13.26
5	Vincent Clarico	France	13.43
6th	Robert Foster	Jamaica	13.49
7th	Igors Kazanovs	Latvia	14.13
DNF	Johan Lisabeth	Belgium

final

Olympic champion Allen Johnson from the USA

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allen Johnson	United States	12.95	OR
2	Mark Crear	United States	13.09
3	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.17
4th	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.19
5	Emilio Valle	Cuba	13.20
6th	Eugene Swift	United States	13.23
7th	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	13.40
8th	Erik Batte	Cuba	13.43

July 29, 1996

All three Americans and two Cubans had qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Australia, Germany and Great Britain.

American world champion Allen Johnson and European champion Colin Jackson from Great Britain, who also held the world record , were considered favorites . Also contenders for top positions were the British Vice World Champion Tony Jarrett and the German Vice European Champion Florian Schwarthoff. Of them, however, Jarrett had already been disqualified in the quarterfinals due to a disability and thus eliminated.

Johnson got off the blocks very quickly. He took the hurdles impressively quickly and flawlessly. At the fourth hurdle his compatriot Mark Crear was closest to him. Jackson couldn't keep up and was clearly behind. Schwarthoff, on the other hand, did not start so well, but got better and better into the race and won the bronze medal behind Olympic champion Allen Johnson and second Mark Crear. Johnson improved Roger Kingdom's Olympic record by three hundredths of a second. Jackson came in fourth, two hundredths of a second behind Schwarthoff, ahead of Cuban Emilio Valle and American Eugene Swift.

In the 23rd Olympic final, Allen Johnson ran the 110 meter hurdles for the 18th US victory . It was also the 13th double victory for US athletes in this discipline.

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 28, 30f

Web links

• SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed March 1, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 82, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 1, 2018

Video

• Men's 110m Hurdles Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , posted June 20, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 1, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on March 1, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 82, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 1, 2018