2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	60 athletes from 31 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 24, 2000 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) September 25, 2000 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Anier García ( CUB )   Terrence Trammell ( USA )   Mark Crear ( USA )

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 24 and 25, 2000 at Stadium Australia . Sixty athletes took part.

The Cuban Anier García became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the two Americans Terrence Trammell and Mark Crear .

Falk Balzer , Ralf Leberer and Florian Schwarthoff started for Germany . Leberer was eliminated in the quarter-finals, Balzer in the semifinals. Schwarthoff reached the final and finished sixth.
Elmar Lichtenegger from Austria failed in the semi-finals.
The two Swiss Raphaël Monachon and Paolo Della Santa were eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Allen Johnson ( USA )	12.95 s	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Colin Jackson ( Great Britain )	13.04 s	Seville 1999
European champion 1998		13.02 s	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Anier García ( Cuba )	13.17 s	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Steve Brown ( Trinidad and Tobago )	13.44 s	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Luiz André Balcers ( Brazil )	13.76 s	Bogotá 1999
Asian most 2000	Mubarak Ata Mubarak ( Saudi Arabia )	14.02 s	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja ( Madagascar )	13.99 s	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Joseph Rodan ( Fiji )	14.91 s	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson ( Great Britain )	Stuttgart , Germany	August 20, 1993
Olympic record	12.95 s	Allen Johnson ( USA )	Atlanta Final , USA	July 29, 1996

Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).

Preliminary round

A total of six preliminary runs were completed. The first four athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the eight fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

September 24, 2000, 10:00 a.m.

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Mark Crear	United States	13.44
2	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.56
3	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	13.67
4th	Paul Sehzue	Liberia	14.18
5	Charles Allen	Guyana	14.21
6th	Ralf Leberer	Germany	56.74	Wildcard due to Disability by Tony Jarrett
DNF	Marcin Kuszewski	Poland
DSQ	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain		DSQ according to IAAF Rule 163.3, crossing the lane boundary

Forward 2

September 24, 2000, 10:08 am

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Dudley Dorival	Poland	13.33	NO
2	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.53
3	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.53
4th	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.67
5	Steve Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	13.92
6th	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	14.03
7th	Robert Foster	Jamaica	14.33
DSQ	Mubarak Ata Mubarak	Saudi Arabia		DSQ according to IAAF Rule 168.8, illegal crossing of the hurdle

Forward 3

September 24, 2000, 10:16 am

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Anier García	Cuba	13.60
2	Andrei Kislych	Russia	13.77
3	Balázs Kovács	Hungary	13.83
4th	Jean-Marc Grava	France	14.01
5	Gabriel Burnett	Barbados	14.23
6th	Raphaël Monachon	Switzerland	14.80
DNF	Zhivko Widenow	Bulgaria

Forward 4

September 24, 2000, 10:24 a.m.

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.55
2	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.58
3	Terrence Trammell	United States	13.59
4th	Emiliano Pizzoli	Italy	13.65
5	Márcio Simão de Souza	Brazil	13.70
6th	Jeffrey Jackson	American Virgin Islands	14.05
7th	Victor Houston	Barbados	14.06
8th	Paolo della Santa	Switzerland	14.12

Forward 5

September 24, 2000, 10:32 a.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allen Johnson	United States	13.50
2	Yevgeny Pechonkin	Russia	13.56
3	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.57
4th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.65
5	Levente Csillag	Hungary	13.66
6th	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja	Madagascar	13.86
7th	Damien Greaves	Great Britain	14.01

Forward 6

September 24, 2000, 10:40 a.m.

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.38
2	Tomasz Ścigaczewski	Poland	13.53
3	Andrea Giaconi	Italy	13.62
4th	Adrian Woodley	Canada	13.71
5	Satoru Tanigawa	Japan	13.74
6th	Arlindo Pinheiro	Sao Tome and Principe	15.65	NO
DNS	Robin Korving	Netherlands
	Igor Kováč	Slovakia

Quarter finals

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

Run 1

September 24, 2000, 8:20 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Anier García	Cuba	10.13.53
2	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.59
3	Mark Crear	United States	13.60
4th	Yevgeny Pechonkin	Russia	13.63
5	Emiliano Pizzoli	Italy	13.69
6th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.73
7th	Satoru Tanigawa	Japan	13.94
8th	Damien Greaves	Great Britain	14.08

Run 2

The Hungarian Levente Csillag reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated there in sixth of his run

Andrea Giaconi from Italy was eliminated in seventh place in his quarter-finals

September 24, 2000, 8:28 pm

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.49
2	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.54
3	Tomasz Ścigaczewski	Poland	13.60
4th	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	13.62
5	Ralf Leberer	Germany	13.73
6th	Levente Csillag	Hungary	13.75
7th	Andrea Giaconi	Italy	13.93
8th	Jeffrey Jackson	American Virgin Islands	14.17
9	Paul Sehzue	Liberia	14.37

Run 3

September 24, 2000, 8:36 pm

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.54
2	Allen Johnson	United States	13.55
3	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.56
4th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.73
5	Andrei Kislych	Russia	14.03
6th	Adrian Woodley	Canada	14.04
7th	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja	Madagascar	14.07
8th	Steve Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	14.12

Run 4

September 24, 2000, 8:44 p.m.

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.27
2	Terrence Trammell	United States	13.29
3	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.34
4th	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.40
5	Márcio Simão de Souza	Brazil	13.71
6th	Balázs Kovács	Hungary	13.78
7th	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	13.86
8th	Jean-Marc Grava	France	14.47

Semifinals

The first four runners in each of the two races (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Run 1

September 25, 2000, 6:40 p.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Anier García	Cuba	13.16
2	Mark Crear	United States	13.23
3	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.35
4th	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.39
5	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	13.41
6th	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.59
7th	Yevgeny Pechonkin	Russia	13.62
8th	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	13.62

Run 2

The Latvian Staņislavs Olijars was eliminated in sixth place in his semi-final run

September 25, 2000, 6:48 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Terrence Trammell	United States	13.32
2	Allen Johnson	United States	13.33
3	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.34
4th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.39
5	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	13.41
6th	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.50
7th	Tomasz Ścigaczewski	Poland	13.51
8th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.59

final

Finish of the finals:
Lane 1: Colin Jackson / B. 2: Dudley Dorival / B. 3: Anier García / B. 4: Terrence Trammell / B. 5: Allen Johnson / B. 6: Mark Crear / B. 7: Florian Schwarthoff / B. 8: Robert Kronberg

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Anier García	Cuba	13.00	NO
2	Terrence Trammell	United States	13.16
3	Mark Crear	United States	13.22
4th	Allen Johnson	United States	13.23
5	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.28
6th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.42
7th	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	13.49
8th	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.61

September 25, 2000, 8:40 p.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

All three Americans had qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Germany, Haiti, Cuba, Sweden and Great Britain.

A select field was gathered here in the final. The world champions of the last four years met, the US runner Allen Johnson - 1996 Olympic champion - and the British Colin Jackson - reigning world champion , vice world champion Anier García from Cuba, the silver medalist from 1996 Mark Crear from the USA and the bronze medalist from 1996 Florian Schwarthoff from Germany. The third American Terrence Trammell was one of the favorites.

Up to the halfway point it was extremely close in this final. The runner field was almost on a line. But then García broke away from his competitors and won the race in 13.00 s. His lead over silver medalist Terrence Trammell was pretty comfortable at 16 hundredths of a second. Mark Crear won bronze and was able to relegate Johnson to fourth place by a hundredth of a second. Colin Jackson, who knocked over several hurdles in his race, was fifth ahead of Florian Schwarthoff.

Anier García was the first Cuban Olympic champion in this discipline.

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  Silver medalist
  Terrence Trammell, USA

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  The American Olympic gold medalist Allen Johnson (USA)

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  The British Colin Jackson finished fifth in the final

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 68f

Web links

• SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed March 21, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 21, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 21, 2018

Video

• 2000 Olympics Men's 110m Hurdles , posted November 30, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed March 21, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on March 21, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on March 21, 2018
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 93 , accessed on March 21, 2018