2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)
 
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| sport | athletics |
| discipline | 110 meter hurdles |
| gender | Men |
| place | Beijing National Stadium |
| Attendees | 43 athletes from 33 countries |
| Competition phase | August 18-21, 2008 |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Dayron Robles ( CUB )
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 silver |
David Payne ( USA )
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 bronze |
David Oliver ( USA )
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The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing took place from August 18 to 21, 2008 in the Beijing National Stadium. 43 athletes took part.
The Cuban Dayron Robles became Olympic champion . The other medals went to athletes from the United States. David Payne won the silver, David Oliver the bronze.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 2004 |
Liu Xiang ( People's Republic of China )
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12.91 s | Athens 2004 |
| World Champion 2007 |
Liu Xiang ( People's Republic of China )
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12.95 s | Osaka 2007 |
| European champion 2006 |
Staņislavs Olijars ( Latvia )
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13.24 s | Gothenburg 2006 |
| Pan American Champion 2007 |
Dayron Robles ( Cuba )
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13.25 s | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 2008 | Shamar Sands ( Bahamas )
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13.32 s | Cali 2008 |
| South America Champion 2007 | Anselmo da Silva ( Brazil )
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13.56 s | São Paulo 2007 |
| Asian champion 2007 | Tasuku Tanonaka ( Japan )
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13.51 s | Amman 2007 |
| Africa Champion 2008 | Hennie Kotze ( South Africa )
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13.05 s | Addis Ababa 2008 |
| Oceania Champion 2008 | Toriki Urar II ( French Polynesia )
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15.11 s | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
| World record | 12.87 s |
Dayron Robles ( Cuba )
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Ostrava , Czech Republic | June 12, 2008 |
| Olympic record | 12.91 s |
Liu Xiang ( People's Republic of China )
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Athens Final , Greece | August 27, 2004 |
Prelims
There were six preliminary runs. The first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the eight fastest athletes - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.
Forward 1
August 18, 2008 , 11:10 a.m. / wind: +0.3 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dayron Robles |
Cuba
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13.39 s | |
| 2 | Andrew Turner |
 Great Britain
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13.56 s | |
| 3 | Ji Wei |
People's Republic of China
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13.57 s | |
| 4th | Richard Phillips |
 Jamaica
|
13.60 s | |
| 5 | Yevgeny Borisov |
 Russia
|
13.90 s | |
| 6th | Oleg Normatov |
 Uzbekistan
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14.00 s | |
| 7th | Jurica Grabušić |
 Croatia
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14.18 s |
Forward 2
August 18, 2008 , 11:18 a.m. / wind: +0.1 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Oliver |
United States
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13.30 s | |
| 2 | Jackson Quiñónez |
 Spain
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13.41 s | |
| 3 | Shamar Sands |
Bahamas
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13.45 s | |
| 4th | Gregory Sedoc |
 Netherlands
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13.50 s | |
| 5 | Lee Jung-joon |
 South Korea
|
13.65 s | |
| 6th | Mikel Thomas |
 Trinidad and Tobago
|
13.69 s | PB |
| 7th | Damjan Zlatnar |
 Slovenia
|
13.84 s |
Forward 3
August 18, 2008 , 11:26 a.m. / wind: +0.2 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paulo Villar |
 Colombia
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13.37 s | |
| 2 | Ryan Brathwaite |
 Barbados
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13.38 s | NO |
| 3 | Petr Svoboda |
 Czech Republic
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13.43 s | |
| 4th | Shi Dongpeng |
People's Republic of China
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13.53 s | |
| 5 | Ronald Forbes |
 Cayman Islands
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13.59 s | NO |
| 6th | Hector Cotto |
 Puerto Rico
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13.72 s | |
| 7th | Dudley Dorival |
 Haiti
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13.78 s | |
| 8th | Abdul Rashid |
 Pakistan
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14.52 s |
Forward 4
August 18, 2008 , 11:34 a.m. / wind: −1.1 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Payne |
United States
|
13.42 s | |
| 2 | Ladji Doucouré |
 France
|
13.52 s | |
| 3 | Selim Nurudeen |
 Nigeria
|
13.58 s | PB |
| 4th | Maurice Wignall |
Jamaica
|
13.61 s | |
| 5 | Maxim Linscha |
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|
13.86 s | |
| 6th | Stanislav Sajdok |
Czech Republic
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13.89 s | |
| 7th | Masato Naito |
Japan
|
13.96 s |
Forward 5
August 18, 2008 , 11:42 a.m. / wind: −0.1 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artur Noga |
 Poland
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13.53 s | |
| 2 | Igor Peremota |
Russia
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13.59 s | |
| 3 | Dániel Kiss |
 Hungary
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13.61 s | |
| 4th | Anselmo da Silva |
Brazil
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13.81 s | |
| 5 | Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja |
 Madagascar
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13.91 s | |
| DNF | Terrence Trammell |
United States
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Forward 6
August 18, 2008 , 11:50 a.m. / wind: −0.1 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Konstandinos Douvalidis |
 Greece
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13.49 s | NO |
| 2 | Marcel van der Westen |
Netherlands
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13.54 s | |
| 3 | Allan Scott |
Great Britain
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13.56 s | |
| 4th | Samuel Coco-Viloin |
France
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13.60 s | |
| 5 | Mohamed Issa Al-Thawadi |
 Qatar
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13.64 s | |
| 6th | Dawit Ilariani |
 Georgia
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13.75 s | |
| DNF | Liu Xiang |
People's Republic of China
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Quarter finals
From the quarter-finals, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.
Run 1
August 18, 2008 , 8:45 p.m. / wind: +0.1 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Payne |
United States
|
13.24 s | |
| 2 | Petr Svoboda |
Czech Republic
|
13.41 s | |
| 3 | Shi Dongpeng |
People's Republic of China
|
13.42 s | |
| 4th | Konstandinos Douvalidis |
Greece
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13.46 s | NO |
| 5 | Richard Phillips |
Jamaica
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13.48 s | |
| 6th | Mikel Thomas |
Trinidad and Tobago
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13.62 s | PB |
| 7th | Igor Peremota |
Russia
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13.70 s | |
| 8th | Hector Cotto |
Puerto Rico
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13.73 s |
Run 2
August 18, 2008 , 8:53 p.m. / wind: 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dayron Robles |
Cuba
|
13.19 s | |
| 2 | Artur Noga |
Poland
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13.36 s | PB |
| 3 | Gregory Sedoc |
Netherlands
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13.43 s | |
| 4th | Samuel Coco-Viloin |
France
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13.51 s | |
| 5 | Andrew Turner |
Great Britain
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13.53 s | |
| 6th | Lee Jung-joon |
South Korea
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13.55 s | NO |
| 7th | Shamar Sands |
Bahamas
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13.55 s | |
| 8th | Dawit Ilariani |
Georgia
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13.74 s |
Run 3
August 18, 2008 , 9:02 p.m. / wind: 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maurice Wignall |
Jamaica
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13.36 s | |
| 2 | Ryan Brathwaite |
Barbados
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13.44 s | |
| 3 | Paulo Villar |
Colombia
|
13.46 s | |
| 4th | Marcel van der Westen |
Netherlands
|
13.48 s | |
| 5 | Dániel Kiss |
Hungary
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13.43 s | |
| 6th | Allan Scott |
Great Britain
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13.66 s | |
| 7th | Dudley Dorival |
Haiti
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13.71 s | |
| DSQ | Mohamed Issa Al-Thawadi |
Qatar
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False start |
Run 4
August 18, 2008 , 9:10 p.m. / wind: +0.1 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Oliver |
United States
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13.16 s | |
| 2 | Ladji Doucouré |
France
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13.39 s | |
| 3 | Jackson Quiñónez |
Spain
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13.47 s | |
| 4th | Selim Nurudeen |
Nigeria
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13.66 s | |
| 5 | Ronald Forbes |
Cayman Islands
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13.72 s | |
| 6th | Ji Wei |
People's Republic of China
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13.80 s | |
| 7th | Anselmo da Silva |
Brazil
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13.84 s | |
| DNS | Damjan Zlatnar |
Slovenia
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Semifinals
The semifinals were held in two runs, in which the four best sprinters - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Run 1
August 20, 2008 , 9:30 p.m. / wind: −0.4 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dayron Robles |
Cuba
|
13.12 s | |
| 2 | David Payne |
United States
|
13.21 s | |
| 3 | Ladji Doucouré |
France
|
13.22 s | |
| 4th | Richard Phillips |
Jamaica
|
13.43 s | |
| 5 | Konstadinos Douvalidis |
Greece
|
13.55 s | |
| 6th | Gregory Sedoc |
Netherlands
|
13.60 s | |
| 7th | Petr Svoboda |
Czech Republic
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13.60 s | |
| 8th | Paulo Villar |
Colombia
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13.85 s |
Run 2
August 20, 2008 , 9:39 pm / wind: −0.4 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Oliver |
United States
|
13.31 s | |
| 2 | Artur Noga |
Poland
|
13.34 s | PB |
| 3 | Jackson Quiñónez |
Spain
|
13.40 s | |
| 4th | Maurice Wignall |
Jamaica
|
13.40 s | |
| 5 | Shi Dongpeng |
People's Republic of China
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13.42 s | |
| 6th | Marcel van der Westen |
Netherlands
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13.45 s | |
| 7th | Ryan Brathwaite |
Barbados
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13.59 s | |
| 8th | Samuel Coco-Viloin |
France
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13.65 s |
Out in the semifinals: Gregory Sedoc, Netherlands
The Czech Petr Svoboda also fails in the semifinals
The second Dutchman Marcel van der Westen also fails
final
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dayron Robles |
Cuba
|
12.93 s | |
| 2 | David Payne |
United States
|
13.17 s | |
| 3 | David Oliver |
United States
|
13.18 s | PB |
| 4th | Ladji Doucouré |
France
|
13.24 s | |
| 5 | Artur Noga |
Poland
|
13.36 s | |
| 6th | Maurice Wignall |
Jamaica
|
13.46 s | |
| 7th | Richard Phillips |
Jamaica
|
13.60 s | |
| 8th | Jackson Quiñónez |
Spain
|
13.69 s |
August 21, 2008 , 9:40 p.m. / wind: +0.1 m / s
The Cuban Dayron Robles had set a new world record in June . The fourth of the last world championships was one of the two top favorites for this race. The other one here in his own country was the 2004 Olympic champion , 2007 world champion and 2005 vice world champion Liu Xiang. But the Chinese started off badly. Despite his injury, he tried, but failed without a chance in his run. The strongest opponents for Robles were the US vice world champion Terrence Trammell, his compatriot David Payne in third place in the 2007 World Cup and the French world champion in 2005 Ladji Doucouré. Like Liu, however, Trammell was eliminated in the run-up due to injury.
The final was contested by two Jamaicans and two Americans as well as one hurdle sprinter from France, Cuba, Poland and Spain.
From the start, the Cuban world record holder was in front in the final. Payne ran the entire race well behind him, just ahead of the rest of the field in second place, Doucouré was initially third, but was soon ousted by David Oliver, the second US American in this final. At the finish, Dayron Robles was more than two tenths of a second ahead of his Olympic victory. He missed Liu's Olympic record by just two hundredths of a second. By throwing his chest up at the right moment, David Payne managed to save his silver medal against the strong rising David Oliver, who won bronze. A hundredth of a second passed between the two runners. Six more hundredths of a second back, Ladji Doucouré was fourth ahead of Artur Noga from Poland and Maurice Wignall from Jamaica.
Eight years after the Olympic victory of his compatriot Anier García in Sydney , Dayron Robles won the second gold medal for Cuba over the 110 meter hurdles .
The two US-Americans David Payne and David Oliver won medals 52 and 53 for the USA in the Olympic history of this discipline out of 77 so far awarded.
Olympic champion Dayron Robles from Cuba
Silver medal for the American David Payne
Bronze medal for David Oliver from the USA
The French Ladji Doucouré finished fourth
5th place for the Pole Artur Noga
The Spaniard Jackson Quiñónez comes in eighth
Web links
- SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed June 1, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 kB), accessed on June 1, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Men's 110M Hurdles - Final and Victory Ceremony - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 22, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 1, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 1, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 1, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 kB), accessed June 1, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 kB), accessed on June 1, 2018
- ↑ IAAF 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 1, 2018
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