Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	7–8 August
Competitors	53 from 33 nations
Winning time	12.92
Medalists
Aries Merritt   United States   Jason Richardson   United States   Hansle Parchment   Jamaica

Official Video

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
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Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Men's 110 metres hurdles competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 7–8 August.^[1]

The qualifying round was notable for who was eliminated. In heat 3, Shamar Sands was in the lead until he hit the sixth hurdle, crashing into the next hurdle and somersaulting into a heap, making him one of three athletes in that heat not to make it to the finish line. In the fifth heat, Aries Merritt ran the fastest qualifying time by far with a 13.07. In the final heat, 2004 gold medalist Liu Xiang reminded viewers of his 2008 performance, failing to clear the first hurdle, and injuring his right achilles. After a minute on the track, Liu got up onto his left leg and hopped off the track. Refusing a wheelchair assist and medical attention, he returned to the track and hopped all the way to the final hurdle. Returning to his assigned lane 4, Liu kissed the top of the tenth hurdle, perhaps signifying the end of his Olympic career. He then hopped across the finish line, where he was assisted off the track by heat winner Andy Turner, Balázs Baji and Jackson Quiñónez.

The semi final round was again dominated by Merritt running a 12.94. World record holder and defending champion Dayron Robles led Hansle Parchment to the Jamaican national record in 13.14. 13.31 qualified on time.

In the final, Robles and Merritt got the fastest starts but Merritt pulled ahead at hurdle 3, by hurdle 5 Robles was wincing in pain, pushing over the sixth hurdle and holding his leg. Merritt continued to a personal best 12.92 and a .12 win over reigning world champion Jason Richardson. Parchment took another .02 off his national record for the bronze, the rest of the field was not even close, more than a quarter of a second behind.^[2]

Merritt moves past Renaldo Nehemiah to become the #7 hurdler of all time.^[3]

Competition format

The Men's 110m Hurdles competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final.^[4] The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Semifinals along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the available spaces in the Semifinals.^[5]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Dayron Robles (CUB)	12.87	Ostrava, Czech Republic	12 June 2008
Olympic record	Liu Xiang (CHN)	12.91	Athens, Greece	27 August 2004
2012 World leading	Aries Merritt (USA)	12.93	Eugene, OR, United States	30 June 2012
			London, (CP), United Kingdom	13 July 2012
			Monaco, Monaco	20 July 2012
Broken records during the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012 World leading	Aries Merritt (USA)	12.92	London, United Kingdom	8 August 2012

The following National record was set during this competition.

Jamaica National Record

Hansle Parchment (JAM)

13.12 s

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Official Video of the First Round

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sergey Shubenkov	Russia	13.26	Q
2	Konstadínos Douvalídis	Greece	13.40	Q
3	Adrien Deghelt	Belgium	13.52	Q
4	Garfield Darien	France	13.54	q
5	Paulo Villar	Colombia	13.55	q, SB
6	Matthias Bühler	Germany	13.68
7	Shi Dongpeng	China	13.78
8	David Ilariani	Georgia	13.90

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Jason Richardson	United States	13.33	Q
2	Lawrence Clarke	Great Britain	13.42	Q
3	Maksim Lynsha	Belarus	13.47	Q, SB
4	Wayne Davis	Trinidad and Tobago	13.52	q
5	Andrew Riley	Jamaica	13.59
6	João Carlos Almeida	Portugal	13.69
7	Rouhollah Askari	Iran	13.97
8	Ronald Forbes	Cayman Islands	14.21
N/A	Enrique Llanos	Puerto Rico	N/A	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Orlando Ortega	Cuba	13.26	Q
2	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica	13.32	Q
3	Konstantin Shabanov	Russia	13.63	Q
4	Ladji Doucouré	France	13.67
5	Mikel Thomas	Trinidad and Tobago	13.74
6	Erik Balnuweit	Germany	13.77
N/A	Andrew Pozzi	Great Britain	N/A	DNF
N/A	Shamar Sands	Bahamas	N/A	DQ
N/A	Ali Kamé	Madagascar	N/A	DQ

• Ali Kamé was disqualified for false starting.
• Both Andrew Pozzi and Shamar Sands failed to finish the race.

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Dayron Robles	Cuba	13.33	Q
2	Lehann Fourie	South Africa	13.49	Q, SB
3	Jeff Porter	United States	13.53	Q
4	Dimitri Bascou	France	13.57	q
5	Greggmar Swift	Barbados	13.62
6	Alexander John	Germany	13.67
7	Fawaz Al-Shammari	Kuwait	14.00
8	Héctor Cotto	Puerto Rico	14.08
9	Ahmad Hazer	Lebanon	14.82

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aries Merritt	United States	13.07	Q
2	Ryan Brathwaite	Barbados	13.23	Q, SB
3	Xie Wenjun	China	13.43	Q
4	Emanuele Abate	Italy	13.46	q
5	Richard Phillips	Jamaica	13.47	q
6	Dániel Kiss	Hungary	13.62
7	Aleksey Dremin	Russia	13.75	SB
8	Jeffrey Julmis	Haiti	13.87
9	Ronald Bennett	Honduras	14.45

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Andy Turner	Great Britain	13.42	Q
2	Selim Nurudeen	Nigeria	13.51	Q, PB
3	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	13.52	Q
4	Balázs Baji	Hungary	13.76
5	Jackson Quiñónez	Spain	13.76	SB
N/A	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	N/A	DNF
N/A	Liu Xiang	China	N/A	DNF
N/A	Artur Noga	Poland	N/A	DNF
N/A	Moussa Dembélé	Senegal	N/A	DQ

Official Video of the Semifinal Round

Semi Finals

Qual. rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Wind: Heat 1: -0.5 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Jason Richardson	United States	13.13	Q
2	Orlando Ortega	Cuba	13.26	Q
3	Lawrence Clarke	Great Britain	13.31	q, PB
4	Adrien Deghelt	Belgium	13.42	PB
5	Garfield Darien	France	13.48
6	Wayne Davis	Trinidad and Tobago	13.49
7	Konstadínos Douvalídis	Greece	13.77
N/A	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	N/A	DNF

Heat 2

Wind: Heat 2: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aries Merritt	United States	12.94	Q
2	Ryan Brathwaite	Barbados	13.23	Q, SB
3	Xie Wenjun	China	13.34	PB
4	Andy Turner	Great Britain	13.42
5	Selim Nurudeen	Nigeria	13.55
6	Dimitri Bascou	France	13.55
7	Paulo Villar	Colombia	13.63
8	Konstantin Shabanov	Russia	13.65
N/A	Richard Phillips	Jamaica	N/A	DNF

Heat 3

Wind: Heat 3: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Dayron Robles	Cuba	13.10	Q, SB
2	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica	13.14	Q, NR
3	Lehann Fourie	South Africa	13.28	q, PB
4	Emanuele Abate	Italy	13.35
5	Jeff Porter	United States	13.41
6	Sergey Shubenkov	Russia	13.41
7	Maksim Lynsha	Belarus	13.45	PB
8	Ladji Doucouré	France	13.74

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
01 !	Aries Merritt	United States	12.92	WL, PB
02 !	Jason Richardson	United States	13.04
03 !	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica	13.12	NR
4	Lawrence Clarke	Great Britain	13.39
5	Ryan Brathwaite	Barbados	13.40
6	Orlando Ortega	Cuba	13.43
7	Lehann Fourie	South Africa	13.53
N/A	Dayron Robles	Cuba	N/A	DNF

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