Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
The men's 110 metres hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 3 and September 5.Results
Heats
The fastest four hurdlers in each of the six heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Martin Lauer | | 14.45 | |
| 2 | Jean Baptiste Okello | | 14.59 | |
| 3 | Giovanni Cornacchia | | 14.77 | |
| 4 | Marcel Duriez | | 14.90 | |
| 5 | Seraphino Antao | | 15.13 | |
| 6 | Çetin Şahiner | | 15.75 | |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Hayes Jones | | 14.32 | |
| 2 | Mykola Berezutskiy | | 14.50 | |
| 3 | Milad Petrušić | | 14.74 | |
| 4 | Paolo Zamboni | | 14.82 | |
| 5 | John Chittick | | 14.86 | |
| - | Abdul Wardak | | | DNF |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Willie May | | 14.16 | |
| 2 | Valentin Chistyakov | | 14.45 | |
| 3 | Bob Birrell | | 14.82 | |
| 4 | Klaus Gerbig | | 14.87 | |
| 5 | Saka Oloko | | 15.04 | |
| 6 | Nazzar Al-Jamali | | 15.99 | |
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Lee Calhoun | | 14.37 | |
| 2 | Edmond Roudnitska | | 14.53 | |
| 3 | Ghulam Raziq | | 14.68 | |
| 4 | Peter Hildreth | | 14.90 | |
| 5 | Georgios Marsellos | | 14.92 | |
| 6 | Pétur Rögnvaldsson | | 15.38 | |
| - | Isaac Elie | | | DNF |
Heat five
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Keith Gardner | | 14.46 | |
| 2 | Stanko Lorger | | 14.56 | |
| 3 | Nereo Svara | | 15.03 | |
| 4 | Vic Matthews | | 15.07 | |
| 5 | Jagmohan Singh | | 15.34 | |
| 6 | Abdul Malik | | 15.52 | |
Heat six
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Anatoly Mikhaylov | | 14.53 | |
| 2 | Karl-Ernst Schottes | | 14.90 | |
| 3 | Roman Muzyk | | 14.94 | |
| 4 | Aggrey Awori | | 15.36 | |
| 5 | Jacques Déprez | | 17.24 | |
Quarterfinals
The fastest three hurdlers in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Lee Calhoun | | 14.16 | |
| 2 | Jean Baptiste Okello | | 14.48 | NR |
| 3 | Nikolay Berezutsky | | 14.57 | |
| 4 | Giovanni Cornacchia | | 14.68 | |
| 5 | Peter Hildreth | | 14.78 | |
| 6 | Karl-Ernst Schottes | | 14.81 | |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Martin Lauer | | 14.06 | |
| 2 | Keith Gardner | | 14.45 | |
| 3 | Ghulam Raziq | | 14.51 | |
| 4 | Edmond Roudnitska | | 14.66 | |
| 5 | Milad Petrušić | | 14.71 | |
| 6 | Paolo Zamboni | | 15.02 | |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Willie May | | 13.92 | |
| 2 | Anatoly Mikhaylov | | 14.02 | |
| 3 | Stanko Lorger | | 14.56 | |
| 4 | Aggrey Awori | | 14.94 | |
| 5 | Klaus Gerbig | | 14.97 | |
| 6 | Vic Matthews | | 15.12 | |
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Hayes Jones | | 14.19 | |
| 2 | Valentin Chistyakov | | 14.51 | |
| 3 | Nereo Svara | | 14.59 | |
| 4 | Roman Muzyk | | 14.68 | |
| 5 | Bob Birrell | | 14.78 | |
| 6 | Marcel Duriez | | 15.19 | |
Semifinals
The fastest three hurdlers in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Willie May | | 13.87 | |
| 2 | Hayes Jones | | 14.22 | |
| 3 | Keith Gardner | | 14.32 | |
| 4 | Nereo Svara | | 14.50 | |
| 5 | Jean Baptiste Okello | | 14.59 | |
| 6 | Nikolay Berezutsky | | 14.69 | |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Lee Calhoun | | 13.88 | |
| 2 | Martin Lauer | | 14.13 | |
| 3 | Valentin Chistyakov | | 14.46 | |
| 4 | Ghulam Raziq | | 14.49 | |
| 5 | Stanko Lorger | | 14.83 | |
| - | Anatoly Mikhaylov | | | DNF |
Final
= 0.1 m/s.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Lee Calhoun | | 13.98 | |
| Willie May | | 13.99 | |
| Hayes Jones | | 14.17 | |
| 4 | Martin Lauer | | 14.20 | |
| 5 | Keith Gardner | | 14.55 | |
| 6 | Valentin Chistyakov | | 14.71 | |
Key: DNF = did not finish
